Avoiding eviction with mediation?

[Joe L.]

Hi all!. To be clear, I can come up with a long list of reasons why mediation might not be applicable or is not effective in the landlord tenant context. My question is not about coming up with why not, it's about how this could be possible. So, can anyone share a story about how they avoided the eviction process entirely simply by communicating effectively with their tenants? To that end, could mediation be used as a cost effective tool to avoid eviction? Obviously mediation should not be adopted as the uniform practice. Instead, could mediation be adopted for One in every three evictions--Simply as a means of reducing legal fees.