I call the police.

I check with the town police, that charge was dropped, I tell my clients everything seems OK, go ahead.

I do know they run an eviction screening and a police record screening of some sort.

IMO it would be a waste of time to make a police report or show up in small claims without proof of what was stolen.

The author was a police detective who also had rentals.

Ask the local police dept. for an off duty cop, you pay them directly to assist you with anything that is lawful, you could have them escort you to the theater if you paid them.Go there and serve them with the eviction notice for default JUST AS JON suggested.

I think it's important in this business to realize that we are not doctors, secret service agents, or police.

Alternatively, if you just want to make it go away, in a battle of wits and braun against a Cat D-9, witless mobiles get flattened every time.I once had an unlicensed trailer left in the backyard of a probate house I had just bought then I learned from local police that the Daughter was still running a "Fast-n-Easy" drugs and 'tooting biz.

Talk to the local police.

However the police forced entry into the home and apparently kicked the front door in and busted out the jam by the latch and the trim and some plaster.