California Tenant Avoiding Eviction Notice

[Khaled Seirafi]

Hi all,

So I have a tenant who's renting our condo month-to-month. He's mostly late in paying the rent, emotionally unstable and troubling the neighbors, has caused damage in the property, etc. It's time to evict him.

My property manager has sent an eviction notice via certified mail and he's avoided it. How can we make sure that he gets the notice so that we can get the 60 day period started? 

I thought about telling my property manager to just post the notice on his door, take a photo with a time/date stamp on it. But I don't know if that would hold in court. 

Any thoughts, ideas, or advice? 

[Nicholas Smith]

do just as you said, post the notice on the door, In conjunction, mail a notice through standard mail (non-certified). This is referred to as the "nail & mail" notice. We have had to do it rare occasions.

Also keep the receipt of you're previous attempt to deliver via certified mail.