Rental Property Investor · Union City NJ · Member since 2019 · 46 posts · 3 votes
Hi,
I just filed my first eviction in Union City NJ for a tenant who stopped paying rent. Since New Jersey is very tenant friendly I wanted to know if anyone has had a successful experience with actually getting your tenant out within a few months? I have a feeling this is going to be a long and painful process. I tried to work with the tenant but they have stopped responding and refuse to pay rent anymore, I don't even know who lives in the unit anymore. I hope a court date doesn't take too long to get. thanks
I've successfully evicted numerous tenants in Union County. I am a New Jersey Landlord/Tenant Attorney. Typically, depending on the county it can take 1-3 months to get a court date. It's important to make sure your property is registered prior to your Court date. Additionally, be sure to have an accurate ledger and your signed lease agreement. The state website can also be very informative. If you need any assistance don't hesitate to reach out. Good luck!
If you do not regularly file for evictions, you'd best retain an attorney. See who represents owners frequently in your jurisdiction and get set up with them.
depending on how backed up the county is it can e take a few months for court date. in essex county it took my mother in law about 8 months or so for the full process. she had an attorney, not sure if that sped anything up
I've successfully evicted numerous tenants in Union County. I am a New Jersey Landlord/Tenant Attorney. Typically, depending on the county it can take 1-3 months to get a court date. It's important to make sure your property is registered prior to your Court date. Additionally, be sure to have an accurate ledger and your signed lease agreement. The state website can also be very informative. If you need any assistance don't hesitate to reach out. Good luck!
@Elizabeth L. You can definitely evict a tenant in a few months. Hearing dates are presently around 1-2 months presently (though obviously that can change). If you have a written lease, this should be a straight forward matter to process the eviction. If it's a verbal tenancy, you have to show a practice of collecting rent that the tenant is no longer abiding by (or perhaps tenant shows up, and honestly states they were obligated to pay rent and haven't done so).
When the eviction case is submitted, you give the tenants names, e-mail, phone, address. The courts will handle service via e-mail and delivery to the unit. Should tenant fail to response, you would request a default judgment and under the proposed facts it would be granted in all likelihood. Lock-out, should they continue to not come even, would be typically less than 14-days. Unless the tenant comes even with the rent (which would result in dismissal of the non-payment of the case), there is generally limited defense to this process. If tenant raises factual defenses such as falsifying the lease or claiming they paid rent, there would be a brief trial which you would be prepared to testify against. They could make legal arguments about hardship and/or off-sets for non-compliance by landlord, but this would require posting rent or coming even with rent.
Thank you for the run down on the eviction, I found a local attorney and she filed for me last week and told me it will take 7-8 weeks. My tenant never responded to the notice and won't respond to me at all so I have no idea what will happen. I don't see them showing up or paying any of the back rent that's due to become current if they wanted to stay. I hope this is a smooth process and I can remove them without any issues. I tried to work with my tenant but they cut off all communication with me and wont respond to anyone. Thanks for the information on the process.
Thank you so much for the information, my eviction has been filed with the court so I'm waiting to hear about the date next. My tenant is also nonresponsive to all communications so they may not even show up at this point. I'm hopeful I'll be able to get my apartment back and not make the same mistakes again.