All Forum Posts by: Xiaomei Song

We asked the tenant to contact with the hot water heater professional to fix it. He scheduled it. The hot water heater fire extinguished some times because they closed the closet, window and door. They need to restart it again by hand sometimes.  So basically it still work. 

HI John, thank you for your suggestion.  I heard there are many lawyers are free to tenant.

How can I "file paperwork and do anything to keep making the tenants attorney have to bill them for more hours."? I really hope this will be work. Any detailed suggestion?

we have insurance, and filed a claim.

Hi Mr George, Thank you for your suggestion. Yes I do have my own attorney and the attorney from insurance company now. They have different opinion

Hi Scott, we already did the pest control , and they also proved there are no rats at all. And I  am allergy about the animals. That's why we list in our lease. anyway, thank you 

Hi Greg M, Thank you for your suggestion. I am wondering how about do the eviction after the decision of the lawsuit, then my own attorney will have more acknowledge of the case, then the eviction will be fast and cost less? 

Now my own attorney said it will cost at lease 10,000$ because the tenant already filled the summons which complain the retaliation

Hi all, I get a professional tenant, who breached the lease in several ways: 

1. Hot water heater Storage room use as a bedroom
2. No payment of May Rent.
3. Subletting without landlord permission
4. Keep the cat in the bedroom without landlord permission.
5. Threaten Landlord

I served him 60 days notice of termination of the lease on May 6, he sued me on May 13.  He sued me negligence, Retaliation and body injured.

The timeline is as the following:

Feb 26, 2019, he complained bathroom water dripping to downstair and rats crawling noise in the wall.

March 3, 2019, he complained about the hot water heater issue.

1. March 9, 2019, We fixed the hot water heater issue.

At the same time, I  found the person living the storage room, then I emailed to him on March 9, 2019, and we said we did not allow a person living in the storage room.

2. March 10, 2019, my husband sent an email to him and wrote we can not renew the lease. He emailed back and wrote that he will find all of the detail to sue us, and the city will make a decision.

3. March 16, 2019, we hired the pest control company did the relative job, and we got report there are no rats in the basement at all.

4. March 26, 2019, My lawyer helped me served the 30 days notice of the termination.

5. April 6, 2019, I got an open violation because of rats problem, then I proved to the city on April 8, 2019.

5. April 10, 2019, the city came to do the inspection, and list the second open violation.

6. May 6, 2019, I sent a 60-day notice of termination because the 30-day notice had a mistake on it.

7. May 13, 2019, the tenant filed the claim by his lawyer. I got the summons on May 20.

Now I am very struggling because the lawyer of the insurance company do not suggest me to do eviction now.  Because first the insurance company worried about wrongful eviction. For me, I need pay the fee of eviction by myself. But I am so suffering this bullying tenant.  What can I do not? please share your experience or give me some suggestions. Thank you very much!

what's the final decision of the summons?