All Forum Posts by: Steve Y.

Hi BP friends,

Could anyone refer me to a reputable property management company in the Hillsborough County area in New Hampshire? I have a 4 unit property with great tenants in New Ipswich and I'm looking to switch my current property management company due to my old pm who changed careers (bless her heart, she was great) and I can't seem to connect with the new person the company replaced. Nothing bad on this person but would like to explore other management companies. 

Thanks!

Hi Everyone,

Apologies for the delay in responses. I can’t keep up with the overwhelming responses individually but thank you so much for the support. This is such an amazing community and I’m truly grateful. I'm taking this whole experience as an education. Many great ideas and points were brought up and I hope as an online community we can help each other to be successful and do the right thing. I dropped the ball and I take 100% accountability on this. I took for granted what I thought would be an easy case and took it too lightly. I'm paying for it so I'm now trying to make it right.

I found out the case was dismissed due to the Owner Affidavit was not submitted. I relied on my PM to submit all the paperwork as she said she’s done this many times. Again this was my first time so I relied heavily on her guidance. She adamantly said she submitted it and said it was a clerical error on the court end and would not accept it was not submitted. She sent me copies of all the documents except the owner affidavit and said they did not give her that. So I’m having trust issues now. I’ll have to deal with that shortly after this case. At the end of the day, I’m the one that dropped the ball.

A HUGE lesson learned. Use an attorney or at least if you can't afford one, do it yourself and learn, learn, learn the process. I plan on appealing and do this properly. Just trying to get a hold of attorneys seems to be a challenge right now. I got one call back from Nashua after contacting five firms.  I'm under the timeline on for an appeal so I'm not sure I'll be able to find an attorney on time. I may have to do the appeal myself. I’ll keep you all posted. Thank you!

Steve

Thanks Robert and Jonathan!  I have thought about this long and hard but my gut feeling is she's going to try to milk this as long as she can. So I just don't know for this one. Going to try to get an attorney to do this right but that's not even gauranteed. Have to try.  I just want some sort of settlement of a timeline to move her out and not get it simply dismissed by the judge.

@Axel Ragnarsson thank you! The court is in Jaffrey but landlord/tenant lawyers are a bit scarce there. I contacted a few law firms around Nashua and waiting for a return call. I’ll call CBZ though they don’t seem to practice landlord tenant disputes on their website. Well I’ll give them a call anyways. Thanks again!!!

@Axel Ragnarsson thank you so much for sharing your experience. It’s comforting to hear how others handle these cases even if it’s not within your favor. I can’t even get a nonpayment case in my favor as it was completely dismissed. We gave the tenant 45 days notice to vacate as well to help but obviously she didn’t care. I’m trying to do the right thing and everything seems to backfire. I can still pursue the 30 days to vacate eviction hoping at least there’s some sort of settlement to leave and not dismiss it. Maybe we just got the worst judge. I’m looking into hiring a landlord attorney. You wouldn’t happen to know any? Thanks again!!!

@Bjorn Ahlblad thank you.

@Bjorn Ahlblad thanks for your response and duly noted but I need advice on how to move forward! Any suggestions on how to evict a month to month tenant?

@J Tessier thank you for your response. All the issues submitted through maintenance requests were resolved. These issues were things like furnace not working, broken lock, mice, etc. All these were addressed and fixed and quite costly. Anything verbal we would request her to submit a maintenance request via Cozy. There’s one outstanding issue with lights flickering but we’ve contacted her many times about it but she would not return our messages. Raising rent won’t help as she’ll try to threaten me with other things to try to fix. At this point I just want her out. I think we can still have the sheriff serve the eviction for not leaving on the 30 day notice to quit. That case hasn’t been executed but I’m worried this will get dismissed as well. How in the world can you not evict someone on a month to month lease with the proper notice?

Sorry, title is supposed to say New Hampshire! Anyone know how to change the title of your own post?