My tenant died and her bum son is still living in the property.

[Clinton Davis]

A couple weeks ago I had a post here asking about whether to sell a property or not and I appreciate all the feedback.  Here is an entirely new situation to deal with.  As the title says, here is the deal.  

FYI- property is in North Mississippi not Memphis, TN as BP only has Jackson and gulf coast as selections under MS.  So Memphis is closest. But this is a MS property.  anyway....

I have a property that is filthy (I bought this property as a packaged deal with another property from a tired landlord, I inherited these tenants) The lease is month to month but only the 2 older ladies were on the lease.  One of the ladies died from health complications a couple weeks ago and so the other lady moved out already as she informed me she wouldn't be able to afford the rent by herself.  I said fine.  However, her bum son who was also there living has decided he doesn't want to move out.  He has told his mother he wants to continue living there because he has nowhere else to go.  He has no job and has been mooching off the deceased ladies disability.  Now that she's dead her family has cut off the electricity and gas to the house.  The water is under my name.  To make things worse, the living conditions in this house are the worst I've ever seen.  There is around 5-9 cats (he is obsessed with cats and let's them breed in the house) their litter box is just the bathroom vanity cabinet.  There is feces and urine all over the floors and you can imagine the smell.  I need to go over there and get him to move out.  The rent has been paid this month but he needs to be gone by March.  I have yet to go over there since the old woman died but I plan on going today after work.  What are my rights as a landlord and what if any do I owe him as a occupier?  He is not on the lease so I basically see him as a squatter.  The old woman's sister went over there to get her deceased sister's stuff and she said he was hostile towards her and she warned him that she was gonna turn off the power and gas.  What should I do?  Do I need to serve him with some papers to evacuate property?  Should I call the police and tell them the situation?  This is new to me as my other properties are my picked tenants and are all great tenants.  

[John Underwood]

Call code enforcement.  They can temporarily condemn the house since it has no electricity and is therefore uninhabitable.

Then they should be able to remove him in 24 hours.

I just did this here in SC.

Sheriff gave the person 15 minutes to get there stuff and get out.