Potentially Dangerous Eviction

[Matthew Masoud]

I inherited a tenant that was playing loud music at all hours of the night and having friends over where they would have weird screaming parties (drugs maybe?) 

Anyway, I send him a 30-day notice to leave the premises and he calls me going ballistic. "This is ********". "We are going to have real problems" "You don't know who you're talking to" "I'm a real ni**a.

Naturally, I hire an eviction attorney but I'm lowkey worried about going to the property. It's a 3 unit in which one unit I'm still getting rent ready. I don't know what to do. I'm going there tomorrow to meet with a plumber but I'm concerned he could get aggressive. 

Thoughts?

[Jay Hinrichs]

Originally posted by @Jim K.:

@Matthew Masoud

According to your profile, you're in property management. If you're going to be dealing with tenants who feel free to call you up to insist you can't evict them peacefully, sooner or later, you're going to come up against an unpleasant truth they don't tell you in the real estate classes: irrational and violent habitual losers with little to lose act like irrational and violent habitual losers with nothing to lose once in a while. Nine times out of ten, they sleep it off and come to their senses. But that last time -- anything could happen.

You need to carry around pepper spray and a gun if you're worried about any sort of physical confrontation with this kind of trash. Do not have the faith of a priest in Christ in high-minded notions about law and order saving you in a bad situation. Practice the Mozambique drill instead.

YUp i had a squatter at a house in PDX who was threatening me and the neighbors .. called the cops  waiting 4 hours never showed up.

had my boys come over and escort the guy out and take his crap to the dump.. sometimes you just have to handle it.