A tenant has moved out of a clients property and owes 2 months of back rent in Philadelphia, PA. My client is curious what is the best way to go after the tenant, to sue in small claims court or to try to hire a debt ...

Hello,              I was able to finally evict my tenant. To all those stress I had to go through during this process the only consoling factor is the judgment amount I got through the Justice of the Peace Court. Wha...

Last year, I bought a house from another landlord with tenants already living in there.  It's a family.  Their rent was actually about 20% below market price for a house that size.  But whatever, I continued to honor ...

I recently won monetary damages from an eviction hearing for a little over $7,000. This is my first eviction that I would like to make an attempt to recover the funds. I was looking for any recommendations on how to p...

Got a money judgement from an evicted tenant. Rather then send it to a debt collector and deal with garnishments, and long term, I'd be open to taking a cash payout and selling it to a debt collector. Does anyone know...

Hi,I am reviewing rental applications here on BP. Why do we ask for Bank information and account number?  Is it necessary?Thanks, Meg

Anybody here have any success stories retrieving money owed from previous tenants? One of my ex tenants left the house a mess, owes me a couple months of rent and a fee for breaking the lease early. We set up a repa...

Hi ,I am evicting tenant in one of my properties in California. I have a question if anyone uses other ways than salary garnishment and attorney/ collection agency to collect on judgment ? Can I seize tenant car ? Can...

My tenant got mad after I legitimately deducted $600 from his security deposit for cleaning fee and damaged furniture so he reversed his last months rent on cozy.  I immediately put in a block with my bank to stop the...

Tenant claims their bank accounts were seized by IRS and money was garnished for back taxes. A couple rent payments were already late. This will be the third time the rent is late since the money garnished was the ten...