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?
Daily Archives: June 5, 2011
Crazy tenants – please advise!!?
This is my third post about this matter and I really appreciate everyones advise. As you may or may not know, we made the mistake of locking in a tenant into a 3 year lease that has been horrible from day one – that are aggressive, vicious, constantly causing trouble and are very clearly trying to get money out of us. We recently had a situation with the heating of the house that we fixed within 24 hours. Since then, we have sent them TWO certified letters in the mail, none of which they have signed for.
The most recent is an important letter stating that they are in breach of contract. Per the advise of people on this board, we sent them a letter after they REFUSED to confirm the names and number of people living in our house. We have the original names from when they first moved in on the lease but our township recently sent us a form that they wanted filled out w this info (and we are suspicious that someone else is living there anyway). They refused to give us this info and we sent them a letter stating they have a week to get back to us with the name and until then they are in breach of contract. The next step I am assuming would be to send them an eviction notice but at this point, knowing how vicious they are, I’m scared. Every time someone goes to the house, they scream and yell and intimidate them. If they aren’t accepting our letters, what can we do? Essentially they won’t let us communicate with them (despite the fact that they constantly send US letters).
What should we do? They are very much so after us and since they are pretty poor, I wouldn’t be surprised if they have played this game before to bring someone to court. What does one do when they don’t sign for letters? If we evict them, do they have to move out? How can they refuse to give us this basic information?
Please advise on what we should do next:( Thanks so much!