Anybody deal with a tenant that had a 'clean' record and...

[Lisa G.]

you had to kick them out?

Just dealt with a tenant that had a clean credit, rental and criminal history that suddenly quit paying rent-I'm talking *squeaky* clean record. He moved in at the end of December last year, payments on time, then at the end of April, we get a shut off notice from the water company (they send us copies of shut off notices-which we are ultimately responsible for). Then we got a late reminder from e-rent payments.com, so we make an appointment to go see the tenant. Tenant gives us a bunch of 'reasons', he owed the IRS lots of money, his wife filed for divorce (I guess they were separated), wife wants alimony, he had to hire a lawyer, he's going to just file for bankruptcy, on and on.

We find out he is also sub-leasing a room to another person who refused to give us her name or SSN, even after we told her we were not going to charge more, we just needed her information for insurance and legal reasons, she still refused.

So we give him a week to come up with the rent, he can't so I served an eviction notice (his roomie then starts calling us and yelling at us that she paid him her part of the rent) and he says he can't be out in 3 days. We gave him till the end of the month, when I collected the keys he claims he doesn't have a forwarding address, and said I had to call to turn off the utilities-that's when I find out most were turned off due to non- payment.

The big kicker, the next door neighbor is his brother AND boss.

I'm so upset, we thought we had a good tenant and then we had to deal with so much BS, has anybody else had an experience like that?