Ken Klingler
In TN, does warranty of habitability include air conditioning?
We have a tenant who has been very unreliable in paying their rent for a LOOOONG time, and we are finally getting around to eviction. Recently their AC unit has stopped functioning, and they want it fixed. Is this goi...
Cal C.
A lesson learned in court
I recently had a court date in Fulton County, GA, probably one of the most tenant friendly jurisdictions in a landlord friendly state. Obviously, that is all relative.
My tenant's lawyer was a few hours late ...
Jordan Moorhead
Eviction Moratorium is no more!
A federal judge recently ruled that the CDC does not have authority to uphold an eviction moratorium! Do you have anyone that you're going to evict who hasn't been paying?
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Casity Kao
How do I include a legal clause on split utilities?
We have a single family home with two levels and will rent out to two tenants. Gas electricity and water are all one meter. Utilities will be under our name and we will bill tenants. Lower level is 950sqft and upper l...
Nathan Gesner
CDC Eviction Moratorium Still Stands!!!
A federal judge ruled the CDC moratorium was illegal. Many celebrated that ruling and started talking about going forward with evictions. I warned it wouldn't be that easy.
Sure enough, the judge has put an administr...
Wayne Smith
Evicting a tenant
I have recently given my tenant a 3 day eviction notice and filed to have them evicted with the courts here in Texas. My issue is that when I served the 3 day notice to the tenant, he said "Good, now we can start dis...
Yenlan Patton
Question for Landlord in DFW Texas-need urgent!
We may called New Investor, haven't experienced court filing and all that procedure. First eviction filing on our own without success because we took the payment before the court which is no..no, okay we learn that wo...
Chris DeSisto
Equitable interest on LOs
Bottom line, does there actually need to be equity to be able to claim equitable interest? If something was deemed a "disguised sale" in the end would a judge still need to see some percentage of what the value of the...
Matt Knobloch
Security deposit return
I’m in Pennsylvania. My prior tenant is threatening to take me to small claims court over my retaining part of his security deposit. I have a couple questions. Is a text message considered written notice?Do I need to ...
Ryan Murdock
Too drunk to be evicted
Just when I thought I had seen it all. In court today trying to evict an inherited tenant in a managed unit. The judge actually continued the hearing a week as the tenant was deemed incapable of making sound decisions...