All Forum Posts by: Ihe O.

Nothing good except encouraging such people to find a gun tolerant landlord who won't terminate their lease instead of renting from me who will if I discover it.

Yeah alright. There is a right to bear arms, in many states there is also a right to grow legalized marijuana in your backyard. 

Best not to travel down that road at all.

Well the original plan was to file eviction just to make sure that she goes when she says she was going but attorney says I won't get a judgement before she is due to be out, which is true.

If a tenant is intent on leaving in 3 weeks and is saying keep my security deposit, I'm not planning on paying anything else, the only leverage you have is the threat of a civil suit but if she's leaves with no forwarding address where are you going to serve that.

So the question is whether there is better idea than filing the civil suit before she leaves so that it can be served on her current address and whether that is a good idea in the first place.

You mean you don't respect the rights to freedom of expression under the 4th amendment  to point out the pitfalls of selectively applying the constitution in a rental policy.

My tenant is 1.5 months behind on her rent just served notice to vacate at the end of the month, promising to pay all rent due before she leaves. Technically she has not given a full 30 days notice so there is probably another week that she would owe but I am not stressing myself over that - happy to get the apt back month end.

Then she comes back and says can she use security deposit in lieu of final month. I say no because it won't cover me for breakages and she owes another 3 weeks rent anyway, pay your rent please.

There's been no response and she is yet to give me a forwarding address.

I am mulling issuing a civil suit for the unpaid rent now that I still have an address where I know she can be served (my apt).

Assuming there are no breakages and she leaves when she says my max exposure is about $1k, ultimately though I may write it off, either way I am interested to see what is thought of my solution and what  other options there are. 

I take it then you would also never want to deny them their 5th Amendment right not to incriminate themselves if they commit a crime on your property.

You can't prohibit guns in your rental.

You can and I would make the possession and/or ownership of a gun in the unit breach of contract and grounds for termination of the lease.

You don't have to respect a tenants 2nd amendment right to bear arms. That's between him and the constitution not your lease.

Then since you have time. Spend more of it researching, both instead of and before, posting. 

That way I won't have to keep responding to the misinformation you spread, people don't get misled and everybody wins.

I am ok that we are ideologically different, that's fine, but most of what you write here is nothing more than propagation of ill-informed beliefs.

For a guy whose philosophy is all about not being a charity , you seem to devote alot of time to giving out free advice on here.  See ,if you were actually the big landlord you claim you are you wouldn't have the time to do that.

The only reason I give your posts the time of day is to counter the bad advice you keep dishing out that could really hurt people who may not know better. 

Ok my tenants don't lie to me because they don't fear the consequences of telling the truth 

I'll explain my position more succinctly so you won't have cause to misrepresent it again.

When it comes to leases, I choose my battles.