Eviction for non-payment in Minneapolis

[Blake Wash]

Hello I just acquired 30 units (Multi-Family) in Minneapolis. I was informed that if a tenant is delinquent they have UP to 60 days before eviction. In Texas this is typically 30 days. My concerns are due to the neighborhood and potential tenants as they were previously comfortable with a traditional process as opposed to an automated convenient method. Anyone familiar with property rental guidelines in the Minneapolis area?

[John Woodrich]

For all of these reasons I recommend people get an attorney on retainer.  Even if you want to handle the eviction on your own it doesn't cost a ton for an attorney to review your paperwork and discuss the options.  You mess up on the forms you will have a longer period of vacancy costing more money.  Only reason I was pursuing it on my own was that it was in a county near my attorney and wasn't a good use of his time.  If it was in the cities I would have talked him into it.

I have had great luck with tenants but was dragging my feet recently between the 9/15-10/15 tax deadlines and was missing rent from a tenant who was in jail.  Drafted the eviction forms, talked to my attorney, discussed other options such as declaring abandonment and decided to pursue options outside of an eviction.  A week later we made contact with the tenant, collected some rent and took over the property broom clean.  He was going to get some real time related to his DWIs and was very grateful we didn't file.  I understand it wasn't the most pro-landlord thing to do but he was a good tenant, was going through some personal matters, would have cost us more money, and worked to make it easy on us.  

My attorney is @Brad Schaeppi and I highly recommend him to people who need advice in this area.