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....

[Rick Bassett]

Steve Babiak - good news of sort, the tenant vacated yesterday and left her keys. We started the eviction process on 9/12 and she left on 10/16. We were due to go to court on 10/25 and she probably would've been shown out on 10/31.

She left the place filthy and managed to damage many of our hardwood floors with black stains which I assume is water damage.

I estimate that this eviction action cost us about $5,200 but it had to be done with her at some point or another.

We started advertising yesterday, will clean up and repair over the next few days and hopefully will get this rerented soon.

Rick