All Forum Posts by: Jim Bryant

@Brian, the problem is I paid.  So, I'm sure much like you, I demand good service for my good money.  I mean we hired this guy in early November.  He printed the notice, but after that hasn't done a damn thing.   

@Laura I wasn't aware of the limited time to do a court procedure for eviction.  This is only my second one and my dad handled the first one.  This is also the first one where I want blood.

So I evicted some ne'er do wells from one of my houses.  Had to do a fair amount of fixing up and such.  So I'm looking to at the very least get these guys in court to make sure they've got an eviction on their record.  Also, I'd like to bleed them too, although I know that will be in uphill battle.

The trouble is my lawyer I hired has really done nothing.  He printed out the eviction notice and then we posted it.  After that we haven't heard about a court date and he has become harder and harder to get ahold of.  Does anyone have experience with this?  What is the best way to get him back on the job.  I am not afraid to drag him through the mud and take it to the Bar association, but my preferred solution is simply to have him do the job we have paid him to do.

My wife is planning to go talk to him on Monday, I'm currently overseas, so any advice you have before then would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks for the reply, I guess all those people were right about what you put on your social media haunting you.

I just wanted to extol the virtues of facebook.  Even in my crummy little area I got about 10 people interested in the home in a few days.  Also, I was able to look at their facebook pages.  So a question to you well-heeled landlords, have you ever rejected someone on the basis of pictures of them using drugs on their facebook page?  If so, how did you word that.  I mean I'd like to be blunt (no pun intended) but I don't want to somehow get myself in trouble.  Although I don't think "weed smoker" is a protected group.

I'm talking north of Peoria about an hour.  @Diana, I would say this area is pretty good, but it's small time ball.  I bought my first house here 2bd/1bath before the crash for 56k but in 2012 I got a house for 20k 3bd/1bth and my best house 3bd/1th 19k at a silent auction.  I get 500, 600 and 650 respectively.  Taxes in the low 1000s.   Anyway, I'm trying to find some people who invest in the area to at least get to know one another and swap notes.  Especially since the population is small, to pass around names of people never to rent to :D.

Just curious to see if anyone else is investing in this area.  Kind of a small place but with dirt cheap housing.   If anyone works in this area there might be opportunity for collaboration or at least war-story exchange.

I'm set on pursuing this one.  Yeah I suppose I'll have to ask, I think I have some good evidence that they were living there, lots of letter, prescription drugs, kid's report cards with the address.  I'll see, it took me all day to get the place cleared out and about 4-hundo on the dumpster. Cat piss smell, still a work in progress :D.  

I know the juice probably won't be worth the squeeze, but I would like to be the reason for annoying phone calls and possible garnishment down the road.  

Also I'm calling CPS on them, no child should have been living in that joint!  There were straight up pee bottles, that had more than pee in them.  Animals!

I went through most of an eviction with a lousy tenant and they have vacated the premises.  I plan on getting the judgement in court for the eviction and I plan on suing them in small claims court for back rent, cleaning costs and some damages.  I realize these losers are probably not going to pay me, or it will be down the road.  That's fine, it's the principal of the thing.  Here's the question:

They had turned my house into some sort of loser inn and I was told by someone that they had up to 8 people living in this three bedroom house (originally just two people living there).  I have been able to piece together who was living there by some clues around the house.  Can I name these people in the suit as well, or just the renters?

So I tend to be really conservative and don't purchase another property until the last one I bought is paid off.  This is a bit easier to do since my area has really cheap housing.  However, I'm starting to think maybe I should be a little riskier and try to grab more property at once, particularly if a good deal comes along.  I have a good job right now that allows me a bit of a cushion.  I have just bought a house, that my family lives in for 63k that I put 10 down for.  So about 50k of debt currently and that house, of course, doesn't generate any rent. My first instinct when I buy I house it to pay off the loan quickly, so as to save on the interest. 

What do you think?  Should I get a bit more aggressive?

Well I had something in writing, but not a straight up lease.  I'll go ahead and tell Uncle Dick that one there, Nate.  

He wasn't really giving legal advice, he mostly handles wills and the like.  Thanks for the help, but no need to be rude.