I refused to dismiss the action against her so it goes to trial next Friday.To make it clear, when I issued the 14 day notice, the actual tenant had given me money orders for about half of October rent. 

That of course didn't work so the next letter with a trial date was sent out getting me a court date of November 20.  

Secondly, if the court system in your area is as most areas, the suit will take 18-24 months to get to trial (minimum). 

If it wasn’t for the trials and tribulations of the recession, I wouldn’t be as strongwilled or have the positive mindset that I have today.Fast forward to the present and I still am a man with many odd-ball jobs.

Trial by fire my friend, it will be unpleasant but when you emerge you will have learned more than you even thought there was to learn.

I am a clinical database manager (we set up databases for Pharma companies that have their drugs/meds under clinical trials.

Either word of mouth or trial and error.Any thoughts on where you might want to invest?

As an actual lawyer I just know the strength of trusts by trial work and case law myself.

@Milena Simsic Finding good and reliable contractors and handyman is more like trials and error.

@Charles Kao We are doing the cleaning and scheduling ourselves right now but we are going to do a trial run on a couple cleaners in the area while we are still local.