Eviction Broome County (applies other places)

[William Haller]

Earlier this year, I was facing an eviction situation. The tenant had DSS pay a couple months, but lost services and stopped paying. I learned a lot and took care of it myself. A consolidated resource could have helped me, so here you go Binghamton. I'm not an attorney, so don't hold me accountable, but this was my experience.

Screen tenant for past judgments here to avoid making a bad call on letting them in to begin with.

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/webcivilLocal/LCM...

1) DIY eviction/legal forms (3 day notice to quit, notice of petition, etc.)

http://nycourts.gov/courthelp/DIY/index.shtml under housing for small property owners nonpayment 

You do some inputs, print forms, it explains where it needs to go and what timing to deliver

2) That Broome county has process servers through the sheriff's office. They deliver the forms professionally, call you, and fill out the service part of the forms correctly. Rates for each notice are found here. 

http://www.gobroomecounty.com/sheriff/civil

Depending on locale, you are looking at $22 for the 3 day, $47 for petition/not of pet, $112 for warrant, which is only about 200 bucks.  But if at any step the tenant leaves, you are set

3) Know your local court - my property is in the village of Port Dickinson. The court of jurisdiction is the Town of Dickinson. Their website http://www.townofdickinson.com/department_justice_...

Plainly states evictions are heard the 1st and 4th tuesday of the month. Since the court date has to be 5-12 days from the date of service of the notice and you need a 3 day notice served prior to asking for the court date as well, the 4th Tuesday is easily attainable if you initiate right when problems come up. The program gives examples of the time frames, weekends, holidays, etc

An attorney told me a quote of $1000 to take care of an eviction. If I pay the county to serve all documents, spend $20 for a court date, etc, you can do it yourself for a quarter of the price.

This is liberating for a small time investor