All Forum Posts by: Steve Sanchez

Welcome Marshall!

I've signed up for your Meetup Group, looking forward to the first meeting!

-Steve

Congrats Reuben! Success stories are great to hear, thanks so much for sharing!

Congrats @Jon Lafferty!!! Way to take your first steps towards investing.

@Derrick Craig compliments on your website! Spent some time on it, very well done.

As retired law enforcement (LEO) I would respectfully disagree with Ken, while I was in CA, so no LEO experience here in Illinois, we would get called out on landlord tenant disputes often. While I personally never had one similar to your issue Michael, I do know (in CA) once you change your "lease" or contract to reflect the tenant paying their utilities through you, you are assuming responsibility for the utilities and would not be able to turn them off without severe consequences.

I would suggest following Bill's suggestion, and keeping the issue of the tenant violating the contract as your opportunity to (hopefully) quickly evict if things were to go horribly wrong.

Possibly a visit to Peoria Police and asking if you would be in violation of any landlord tenant law if you needed to turn off service? However In my one visit to Peoria PD with questions I was not impressed with the level of knowledge of the sergeant manning the desk reference landlord tenant law.