Tenant has another eviction ongoing

[Yuni Park]

Hi again,

I sent all my docs to lawyer office today to file eviction bad tenant.

Staff just called and told bad tenant has another eviction ongoing.

Anyone has this kind of experience?

Tenant has two eviction similar time?

I am very shock;  tenant signed the lease agreement while she was evicting other property.

Cannot believe it.

Please, share your eviction tenant experice.

[Matthew Olszak]

Originally posted by @Ned J.:

Not sure on the time frame, but if someone is going through an eviction currently and its their first one, and you screen them, its not going to show up on your screening until the first eviction is finalized. An official eviction will take some time to show up on a search

BUT..... there were probably other red flags....AND its obvious you didn't call their previous landlord..... big and expensive mistake. ALWAYS call the previous landlord and even better to call the previous 2 as the current may sugar coat things to get rid of them and pass the buck...

One phone call to current landlord and you would have avoided this issue....

Except when that landlord, like 90%+ of landlords, says: "Oh yea, Kelly, its a shame she's moving. Always pays like 5 days before rent is due and never had any complaints!" Why? Because they want to get rid of the nightmare and owe nothing to you. I only request current/previous landlord info from applicants to see if they are lying (like putting down a friend's phone number and/or name). Landlords who are pissed a good tenant is trying to move will bad mouth them to keep them there, and those who are trying to get a nonpaying tenant to move will say whatever just to get them out.