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Post by marigold on Jul 7, 2009 4:31:15 GMT -5
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Post by flylady on Jul 7, 2009 10:51:28 GMT -5
WOW!, I never knew there was such a thing as a 3 Day Eviction Notice, how can anyone find a new place and move in 3 days? That is just cruel! Thanks for the link, it's an interesting read.
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Post by messyang on Jul 7, 2009 19:39:05 GMT -5
A friend of mine was in forclosure, and got a knock on the door from a deputy that she had to leave her premises in 24 hours. She was at a level 2 squalor, and we cleaned all night, calling all our friends. We didn't leave the place spotless, but we sure bought alot of garbage bags, and kept the pizza delivery man in business that night.
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Post by yearning4order on Jul 9, 2009 0:40:01 GMT -5
In college I lived in a cooperative household of over 20 people and we had to use the 24 hour notice eviction for a particularly disturbed and drug addicted tenant. The level of disturbance he created at all hours of day and night was simply insane.
While I would never wish a 24 or 72 hour eviction notice on anyone, it has to be a reasonably extreme situation to warrant that, doesn't it? I have a friend who owns rental properties, and she has said time and again it's so much work to evict someone that it's really not worth it most of the time.
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Post by Meme on Jul 9, 2009 1:40:28 GMT -5
a friend of mine has a x hubby who is living in a seniors' care home and he was evicted on the 72 hour notice as he was drinking and abusing staff and other clients. His family had to pack his things and remove them in that time- he did not have much but what was hard is that they had to take him.
also watched a lady being removed by a sheriff as the judge had her removed and she would not go-- the picked her up and gently set her out side and put a lock on her apartment and she could not return or she would be arrested- she could not even remove her things beyond her purse- everything was packed and put into a storage where it costs her 600 dollars- it does sound cruel but what she was doing to be evicted was cruel to her neighbors etc.
I think she did think she would be removed but two sheriffs just come and the police and she was moved- it was sad to see - her drug pipes were turned over to the police to be destroyed but they did not charge her as they said it is not worth the court's time to try and prove they were hers-
I am not sure how the laws work in Canada-
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Post by 60isolderthanithot on Jul 9, 2009 7:02:05 GMT -5
I had a similar situation when a roomie broke all the biggest rules of the house - drinking, drugs and refusing to pay rent. Calling the police is a last resort but druggies do get violent sometimes and it's best to get qualified help. These situations rarely happen out of the blue. There's a history there of some dispute which finally ended up with an eviction notice. It costs a landlord hundreds of dollars to do it so they want the person out really bad. It isn't trivial.
It's easy enough to fight a notice - go to court and file a response to the charges in the eviction notice. Some professional deadbeats have it down to a science, they can pay three months rent in a year and just fight the other nine months with legal delays and paperwork. Some students will lease a place for a year to get the lowest rent, then skip town in June - after not paying in May either. They go home for summer vacation and come back in August and talk another landlord into a similar deal - and do it again.
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Post by paperpiler on Jul 9, 2009 8:39:08 GMT -5
It is really important to note that the laws are different in every state, and what happens in one state to one individual may not happen in someone else's situation in another state.
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Post by 60isolderthanithot on Jul 9, 2009 8:45:09 GMT -5
By the way, to be honest, I have some trouble with this type of reaction (quoted below), where it's so onesided, there seems little chance of reasonable discussion because the landlord is automatically labeled some kind of monster. A large number of landlords are just working stiffs who saved up enough to buy a small property - 4 apartments or less. Some are older people on fixed (or no) incomes who rent out rooms in a single family home or condo. Why should someone get 4 months free rent because they rent instead of own? Why isn't it considered wrong to live somewhere against the owner's wishes, never mind without paying rent? What is the meaning of ownership if you cannot refuse to allow non-payers to live in a "rented" space? Or if you have to allow them to stay even if they drink or drug or inflict damage?
"I can't believe there is actually a 3 day eviction!!!! Everywhere I've lived the landlord has to give 30 days notice and most of the time you can dispute that and continue to live there for an additional 3MONTHS!!!!!!! So sorry, so so sorry!"
Would anyone here seriously want to be prevented from moving a drunken drug addict out of the apartment you share? (Assuming your original agreement included restrictions against drinking and drugs.)
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