All Forum Posts by: Garry Martin

Thank you for the replys...JN, I think I rented to your tenet's brother as the description you have is about 90 % correct for my tenet.

To answer a couple of questions:
The garage is a 5 car garage. I include 1 stall with the house. As with Michael's point in the last reply I will be building dividers soon.

The tenet did call for the tree limb being down.

As to the fair use issue, I am not an intrusive landlord. I often drive by my properities to see what is going on, but I never interfer with the tenet's use of anything. Also, when I do go by, it is always at a resonable hour. This was the frist time I had been on the properity without the tenet at my side. Just thought his reaction was over the top.

Thanks to everyone for the input. You all raise some good points. I think I will let it go for now (no eviction), but if he does it again, I have to say, I will pull the trigger. I hate turning over tenets for all of the usual reasons. But I refuse to be walked over.

Hello all,
I am hoping someone can give me an unemotional response to this issue.
I have a tenet in a one family house in upstate ny. In the latest blowup, he called me to ask if I had been on the properity the day before. I told him yes, I was removing some tree limbs that had fallen in the last storm and retrieve a ladder the tenet had borrowed from my stall in the garage. He did not like the fact I was on the properity without calling him first. Keep in mind I never entered the house, just the yard.

He then demanded that I call him before I come on the properity. When I informed him I can come into the yard at any time I choose, he exploded on the phone. I hung up on him several times and he kept calling back. It was not until I told him if he called again, he was out (rental agreement gives me the right to remove the tenet without cause) that he threatened to call the cops if I did it again.

I wanted to give him his 30 day notice right there, but my wife did not want me to decide while I was still so angry. So I am looking for some input from other landlords. I should also say he does pay his rent but has been late by a couple of days for the last 4 months.

As far as I know, I have to give 24 hour notice to enter the unit. Can anyone confirm for me that this does not apply to the yard?
If you were in my shoes, what would you do with him?

Thanks for any input you may have.

where in northren ny are you. I am in the albany area.

0 to 3 years still have another job

Hi MikeOh, thanks for the reply.

When I wrote that the tenet was a month behind, they were a week late. To me, if the rent is late, the tenet is a month behind. I guess i should have been more clear. Sorry for any confusion.

I guess what I was wondering was if anyone knows of anything that can be placed in a lease or rental agreement that can speed up this process. I know that nothing in the lease will trump state law, but I am fairly new at this and thought there may be a method I did not know of.

PropertyMaster, can you go into some detail about how you get bad tenets out fast. I just had to evict my first one. It was not fast. I live in NY and here is how the eviction process goes here (as far as I know anyway).

1) give 72 hour notice of eviction. You must be able to prove the tenet got the notice.
2) after the 3 days pass, you can request a court date.
3) If the judge rules in your favor, He then usually orders a 30 day eviction.

so once the first three days pass, you request a court date. This can take 2 weeks or more. Then you get to wait another 30 days. Then you can retake possession and start to get it ready for the next tenet.

When you consider the tenet was already a month behind then the two months it takes to get them out and clean the pace up you are already out three months rent. That is if there is no major damage.

Any insight you can provide would be great.

I agree with everyone who does not let tenets do work. I just evicted a tenet who was 2 months behind in his rent. He was renting a sfh that needed some painting and the back porch needed sheetrock. he claimed he had someone who would help him. You all know how this ends, the painting never got done, the sheetrock was done so poorly that I had to remove it and start over. So I lost 3 months rent (2 months behind and one moth for the eviction), and a few hundred bucks in materials that I get to buy twice. as All Cash said, never, never, never again.