Notice to Quit served - tenant not a happy camper

[Rick Bassett]

We just served a long-term and problematic tenant with a three day notice to quit for non-payment of rent, she was shocked and appalled to be served a summons by a Marshall. She was especially mad because as she thought we had an arrangement. Her vision of the arrangement was she put half of the rent in an envelope on the 10th along with a note saying we would get the other half on the 23rd even though the rent is due to us by the first. Before serving her we attempted to reach out via text, email and voice but she wouldn't take our messages or return them. We always try to work something out before invoking the nuclear option. We stuck to our processes regarding this situation but it's never really easy especially when someone has been in your property for almost 4 years. Now we'll see how the move out and/or evection process unfolds....