Did you serve them with an Unlawful Detainer order?

Most all notes have provisions for assignment of rents, not doing so becomes fraud and embezzelment or an unlawful collection of bank funds/assets.

I copied the relevant section from Ohio law below For purposes of the immunity created by division (B)(1) of this section, reasonably necessary force to repel a trespasser from a building or other structure that is maintained as a permanent or temporary dwelling or to prevent a trespasser from making an unlawful entry into a building or other structure of that nature may include the taking of or attempting to take the trespasser’s life, or causing or attempting to cause physical harm or serious physical harm to the person of the trespasser, if the owner, lessee, or renter of real property or a member of the owner’s, lessee’s, or renter’s family who resides on the property has a reasonable good faith belief that the owner, lessee, or renter or a member of the owner’s, lessee’s, or renter’s family is in imminent danger of death or serious physical harm to person and that the only means to escape from the imminent danger is to use deadly force or other force that likely will cause physical harm or serious physical harm to the person of the trespasser, even if the owner, lessee, renter, or family member is mistaken as to the existence or imminence of the danger of death or serious physical harm to person.

First a non-judicial foreclosure, we brought action in Circuit Court for wrongful foreclosure in 2008, beat an unlawful detainer by purchaser at foreclosure, as we filed substantial evidence of wrongful foreclosure.

In some states, it is actually unlawful to do estate planning in the contemplation of avoiding transfers for the benefit of the state and qualification for medical assistance, so, anything you do needs to have reason and cause for the terms you design.

Should either Landlord/Seller or Tenant/Buyer waive their rights to enforce any breach of this agreement said waiver shall be considered temporary and not a continuing waiver of any later breach. 38.Indemnification: Landlord/Seller shall not be liable for any damage or injury to Tenant/Buyer or any other person, or to any property, occurring on the premises, or any part thereof, or in common areas thereof, unless such damage is the approximate result of the negligence or unlawful act of Landlord/Seller.

I also have this clause: The acceptance by Landlord of partial payments of rent due shall not, under any circumstances, constitute a waiver of Landlord, nor affect any notice or legal proceeding in unlawful detainer theretofore given or commenced under state law.

First a non-judicial foreclosure, we brought action in Circuit Court for wrongful foreclosure in 2008, beat an unlawful detainer by purchaser at foreclosure, as we filed substantial evidence of wrongful foreclosure.

Do we go unarmed, in which case we all get arrested for unlawful protest (or whatever the legal term is)?

It is not the right way to do but it works, and it is not an unlawful thing to do but when you dont remove it after being asked, then there would be a problem.