How am I supposed to go to work when it's been frigid cold most of the week? Not fit for man or beast or Emma.
It's supposed to be 50 degrees and raining this weekend. Oy.
We evicted the deadbeat tenants. Of course they left the house in a mess (who takes down smoke detectors??) We go to small claims court at the end of the month. They owe us close to $2000 so far. It'll climb when we do some repairs they caused.
Meme, we have a vacant house if you and the boys want to be Hoosiers.
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Didn't you just rent that house out over the summer?
Do you just charge one month's deposit or two? A lot of places around here are starting to charge two month's deposit.
They moved in mid August, and hadn't paid the rent on time or in full since. I asked the judge to evict them on December 19 and he gave them ten days (a little move since it was the holidays) to get out.
I ask for the first month's rent and a security deposit.
Did they actually show up in court?
You may not know it, but you are living in a landlord's paradise. CA is a tenant's paradise. We have instances of landlords paying their non-paying tenants to please move out. The courts here are sticklers for following all these wonderful tenants-rights laws and if a landlord makes a procedural error, he/she has to start all over again.
Same here in NY, good luck evicting anyone. Tenants have all the rights, and landlords none. You're lucky you were able to rid your life of them so quickly. -blu
There's a new band just making it big over here called the Hoosiers, every time I hear them I think of you, which is more frequently than is strictly proper at the moment
Bert,
They actually did show up in the court. The judge asked "Do you agree you have to return this property (the house) to Mrs. Writes?"
The guy said "Yes." and that was that.
I really can't understand why people don't pay their rent/mortgage first. i always did/do. After all, you need a place to stay more than you need cable, etc.
Maybe in NY and California landlords make big bucks renting and that's why they have to jump thru hoops. It's not that way here--or at leat with me. The rent I charge barely covers the mortgage. I'd sell that house in a New York minute if the real estate market was up.
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emma
Real estate sucks here too. Houses here may be more money than Indiana but unless people bought years ago, it sucks if you need to sell. Anyway, glad it worked out for you. -blu
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