anyone own rental properties on here?
Only do rentals in landlord friendly states if you want to be in that game.
States like California are terrible for landlords, even if the renter is a POS and in the wrong, it's difficult to get them out of properties. I know 3 people that had rentals back in the 2005-2010 era. They gave properties back to the bank because the renters didn't pay, the homes lost so much value and a couple years of negative cash flow was killing them. I heard 2 of the renters stayed in the properties for 3-4 more years before they were finally tossed out, RENT FREE. There are Free assistance programs out here to help renters if they are being evicted. Total game.
Laws do differ from state to state. Some states you can get someone out in 14 days! Others can take more than a year.
California and New York are the worst from what I understand.
I had to evict the tenant in my house this past August. It took 12 days from filing to the set out. There was a 3 day eviction notice and I also did a 30 day eviction notice before I filed. So she had 45 days total.
She refused to believe it would happen. The judge gave her 5 days to move. We showed up, on the 6th day, and she hadn't done a thing. I called the bailiff at the court, he called the local PD and they told her she had to leave. If she came back it would be considered trespassing.
I changed the locks, told her that I would be back the next day and she was welcome to take her items back as we set them to the street. I told her to get a Uhaul and some friends and we'd help load.
I got a crew of myself, my wife and 4 day laborers. We started at 8:00 am and set stuff on the street. By 9:00 am it became obvious we needed a dumpster. All they had available was a 20 yard dumpster. I thought it was to big, but I had no choice.
By 10:00 am the word had got out that there was a bunch of stuff sitting on the street and more coming. I had people wanting to come in and pick thru the house for things.
We ended up filling that 20 yard dumpster on top of the stuff people took from the street.
My tenant never did come back. We threw her clothes, her furniture, everything away.
I don't understand it.
As I thought, she had a dog that she wasn't supposed to have. She kept it in a crate, but didn't bother to clean up after the dog did its business on the floor. So the fairly new pergo floor is damaged. She had a young kid in there as well, and this kid must have been autistic, because there is "poo painting" in one of the bedrooms.
We haven't even started to redo the house, but I figure it's out of commission for the next 3 to 6 months.
