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Updated about 8 years ago,

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Harry Wilson
  • Rego Park, NY
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Evicting tenants HELP!

Harry Wilson
  • Rego Park, NY
Posted

Hi there, my friend has a house with three units.

all need to be renovated lightly and adjusted to market rents (1k-1.3k).

when he bought the property he inherited a tenant with a pitbull, this was the previous owners grandson (property was bought in an estate sale), he agreed to let the tenant live there for 400 a month until he knocked the property down or renovated it.

Now we have carried out all major fixes and are painting and finishing the first floor and we plan to move some thoroughly screened tenants in with all measures in place etc, at 1,200 with all utilities.

the tenant and his dog will affect us getting these floors rented to quality tenants, and we also cant renovate his floor ( which is two bedroom we could rent for 1,100)  until he leaves, i have offered to pay him and help him move however he has a pitbull and he says it will be hard to find anywhere else and he doesnt want to leave.

in the past there has been issues while we have been doing work such as broken heating, and we don't have any official agreements that he has signed. 

how do i go about evicting him?

should i just increase his rent to 1,100$ and get him to sign a month to month lease and keep increasing until he leaves?

do we take him to court? we haven't argued or fell out yet and it was more of a polite offer i made to get him to move and he just told me about his dog saying he has nowhere to go and declined it.

Please help us!

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