Using local help for posting 3 day notice and filing with the courts

[Bobby Narinov]

If you are out of area (2-3hrs drive) landlord you have two choices:

1. Hire a management company (a whole set of problems)

2. Manage it yourself.

The problems with #2 are numerous like showing the property to the prospective tenants but you can sacrifice and drive 2-3 times to the property over the weekend to show it to the prospective tenants. Preferably after collecting rental applications/online screened them. Or you may have inherited them when you purchased the property.

Now the only problem is that when they are late with the rent someone has to serve them with a 3 day notice. Do you know of any company or a person that provides that type of  service?

For the next stage - filing with the courts you can hire a lawyer that handles the whole process but I cannot think of anyone that does serving the 3 day notice.

To be completely honest with you I am sure that even the lawyer does not file with the courts and instead use a document filer to do all the filings with the courts. I had to wait behind such a lady so she can file 10 different claims with the court. At least she knew what she was doing so they were fast.

Have you used something similar or should i stick with the tried and true approach #1.

P.S. If that was out of state property I would be forced into #1 and if it was small multi-family I can probably elect one of the tenants (for a small fee) to do that for me.