How bad tenants are getting smarter in Texas..

[Shal Patel]

Yesterday I was talking to my realtor and he told me how bad tenants are getting smarter by using existing process. I thought let me share and it might help someone to stay away from bad tenants. First they find a rental property and then they start paying rent regularly for few months. Suddenly after 2 month they stop paying. 3rd month owner send notice to tenant. 4th month owner go to court to get eviction notice. Almost 5th month court send notice to tenant and tenant raise objection. Again it delay another month and court send another notice after clearing all objections. 7th month constable goes to our property and find tenant is gone already. This is how bad tenant keeps doing it and they also spread their success stories to others. I don't know if it is true or not but does it really take that long to get rid off bad tenant. Is their any work around to expedite process? What tools are available to find good tenant? What credit score is required?

[Vijaianand Thirunageswaram]

@Shal Patel That's totally not right! I have rental properties and manage them too. We evict tenant within a month if process is followed or max 45 days. We give vacate notice on the 4th or 5th if no response and file for eviction after 3 days is completed. It takes 15- 21days for the court date, on the court date they won't show up, you win by default but they will do papuer appeal and court set the hearing for next week and you go and get the writ filed since they are not going to show up. They will be out in 3-5 days after that. At max, 1-2 months not 3-4 months. Who will want to waste their money waiting for tenant to pay for a month only landlords who don't run rental business properly.

Also as @Nicole A. says you better do the screening part correct. If you use smartmove or any good screening service to search for past evictions it should show the court judge and things. 
This only happens again to landlords who don't know how to run the rentals.