I was just evicted from my rented Missouri property. I lost most of my property. Do I have any rights?
June 5th, 2011 | 
Author: My landlord filed a judgment against me for rent. I paid rent owed before the court date but still owed late fees. I didnt think I needed to go to court and I had called the landlords attorney on 3 seperate occasions without a response. I didnt go to court and later received a notice of a judgment against me. My fault for not going to court anyway. Fast forward about 40 days and I got home 2 days ago after work(6pm) and there was a notice from the Sherriff that I was being evicted the next day at 11am. I called my landord with no response. I called her again the following morning with no answer/no response. I had a meeting first thing and when I got out of my meeting at 10am I had 2 messages from the sherriff thay they were removing my property and thay I needed to get out there with a moving truck. I got there 2 hours later and everyone was gone as were most of my property. Most of the property left was damaged or destoryed. Do I have any rights here? Or is this just how it works?
Posted in Landlord Tenant Law
it sounds like you were given plenty of notice and you didn’t do anything about it. next time pay your bills
Not many. They left you notification and messages. The attorney did not have to return a phone call neither did the landlord. You really should have gone to court. You really should have made arrangements to have your belongings moved. All those notices were the final answer. Now its time to start again. Good luck.
You really need to speak to a lawyer in your area.
Where I am, a landlord cannot proceed with an non-payment eviction after they accept money from the tenant. They arrest landlords who take the money and proceed with the eviction, and they also get sued by the tenant. I have seen tenants who had this done to them be award damages from anywhere from 1,000 to close to 50,000.
Why were you calling the landlord’s attorney? He or she has his clients interests at heart …. which are in direct opposition to your interests.
The second you got that notice from the sheriff, you should have hightailed it to a lawyer.
Go to a lawyer. Now.