All Forum Posts by: Peter Chan

Failure to pay is obviously a different scenario than failure to respond to a notice.

Its fairly common for people to avoid their landlord (or any creditor for that matter) when they are behind on bills.  Don't take this personal, begin the eviction process and move on with life.  Don't give them any reason to be able to file a counter suit against you for landlord harassment.

No, you can't do that or anything similar. Google "Constructive Eviction". A judge will see you dumping a pile of cow crap in their yard for exactly what it is - an effort to make them vacate the property w/o going through the proper judicial channels. Get that eviction filed ASAP and learn a lesson here about putting off doing so. If evictions in your jurisdiction are especially arduous and expensive, ask them what/how much they need to be gone asap, and get them to commit to a date to do so.

These types of proposed or considered activities could be categorized as "self help eviction" by a court so even though it is tempting to shift the misery, I'd recommend against it. Just go with the eviction process.

Can you drop a shipping container in the back yard?

I'd be careful. If I were in your shoes I'd be tempted to do the same thing. But they may decide to retaliate by trashing the place in the meantime and if they are broke no judgement is going to collect money that doesn't exist.

You want to make life painful for them? Start doing inspections every other day....Usually if I have a tenant that is late a few days on rent and taking their sweet time paying I tell them I'm coming in 2 days to do an inspection. Magically they suddenly pay...

@Peter Chan  Where is the rental property?  I would get a professional to do the eviction if you're unsure how to proceed and by professional I do not mean a hit man!

I'm sure in the meantime, you could let them know you will be doing some landscaping which involves using an organic fertilizer in the garden.

Hi Peter, 

I'm a real estate agent and home owner in Bayonne, NJ.  As you may have read or heard, Bayonne is completing a city-wide tax re-evaluation.  Right now, taxes on single-family homes are in the $6500 to $9,000 range, typically, depending on the size of the home and the current assessed value.  2-family taxes are 10k+.  Newer construction: 15k+  The issue is that we won't know what the new $ tax amount will be (post re-eval) until Q3 of 2020.  That's because the new tax rates won't be published until late summer.  This is all according to the info I've received from the Bayonne Tax Dept.

Of course, tax uncertainty also creates nervous sellers, which means more opportunities for savvy buyers.  PM me if you need more info or want to chat about Bayonne RE in more detail.