Since you have an obligation to pay your rent when it is due, a telephone call from the landlord asking that you pay the rent is not considered harassment. In fact, contacting the tenant to determine why he has not paid the rent is a good business practice.
Jan 03
I paid my half of the rent this month, but my landlord still wants to evict me. Can he do that?
Dec 31
New York State’s courts are closing the year with 4.7 million cases — the highest tally ever — and new statistics suggest that courtrooms are now seeing the delayed result of the country’s economic collapse.
via NYTimes.com.
Dec 29
if you’re going to be a successful realtor in this market, you gotta be able to deal with the hustlers, slimeballs, and grifters that abound.
Here’s another – a tenant who paid 1.5 months rent, has stayed for six, filed a burglary report against the homeowner/landlord and then got a restraining order against him to ice his free-rent program.
via bubbleinfo.com
Dec 25
Citigroup Inc. will suspend foreclosures and evictions for 30 days in a temporary break for about 4,000 borrowers during the holiday season.
via Tulsa World
Dec 23
A day after she told a judge that her live-in boyfriend had brandished a gun and promised to end both of their lives, the managers of her Elmhurst apartment complex served her with eviction papers for violating the terms of the lease, citing the criminal activity she had reported to police.
via chicagotribune.com.
Dec 20
A day after she told a judge that her live-in boyfriend had brandished a gun and promised to end both of their lives, the managers of her Elmhurst apartment complex served her with eviction papers for violating the terms of the lease, citing the criminal activity she had reported to police.
[Another unintended consequence of nuisance abatement laws]
Dec 20
Lawrence J. Manware, 42, of West Haven, Connecticut, evicted the Marine about 5 years ago. Manware changed the locks and got a new tenant.
The state decided to prosecute Manware for “criminal lockout in violation of General Statutes § 53a-214.2,” according to the final opinion by the Connecticut Supreme Court. Yes, it went all the way to the state’s highest court.
via Don Surber
