“Unfortunately when knocking on somebody’s door, that’s always a dangerous proposition,” he said. “But I’ve had several instances where I’ve been threatened with a gun, threatened with a pipe, with knives, with machetes. Sometimes people do desperate things to keep what they believe to be their home, and it is their home, but a lot of times, unfortunately, they take it to the next level.”
via CityLimits.org.
According to neighbors, the property was originally purchased by a developer, who took down the previous house and built the six bedroom, nine bath home. The developer reportedly lost the home to the bank late last year. The house has been on the market for two months,
via PNWLocalNews.
Dawn and Charlie Price have been told by their apartments management company that they must take down an American flag they have hanging in the dining room window of their west-side apartment by Saturday or face eviction.
via Oshkosh Northwestern.
The down economy has meant brisk business for Landlord Solutions, a Tacoma-based company that specializes in eviction services.
via The News Tribune.
n contrast, foreclosures are up for the fourth consecutive year, and appeals have skyrocketed, but the number of evictions and replevins have both dropped.
Landlords know they’ll have trouble finding new tenants if they lose the ones they have, industry observers say, so some of them are more willing to give struggling tenants a break.
“The economy has hit the apartment industry in a lot of different ways,” said Brad Cathers, past president of the Tennessee Apartment Association
via The Tennessean.
So how can you make sure that you don’t get stuck with a tenant you’re eventually going to have to evict? How can you find the perfect tenant? Well, here’s how I do it. Recently, I had a tenant move out of one of my properties. And while most people freak out and quickly call the newspaper to begin running classified ads, I do something else.
