Tenant with criminal history

[Susan Herschell]

Hi All,

I have a tenant whose boyfriend was a frequent guest at her apartment. As time went on it was apparent that he was permanently living on the premises and I knew that I needed to get him on the lease right away, but since several months had past and he was already living there full time, I neglected to perform a background check as I felt it would complicate things more. Well, I was wrong! It has come to my recent attention that the tenant is a registered sex offender and has a list of other felonies, including kidnapping! on his record.  Both tenants have been problematic and there are frequent unsavory visitors to the property and I get reports from the neighbors that they're noisy and there's a lot of foot traffic. I don't have any evidence of illegal activity and other than them being messy tenants and having a lot of visitors, not a whole lot of ground to evict.  I should mention that they are on a month to month lease. I am looking for the best way to get rid of them. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!