"Oren" wrote in message
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 21:55:34 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:

I was thinking of something remote controlled, like a kill switch for the
furnace or something similar. Something that would make staying in the
home, not paying rent unpalatable. Would it make sense to keep the
utilities in our name and pass them through so that we could cut them
off,
or does cutting off a deadbeat's electricity boomerang back on the
landlord?

Put all utilities in the tenant name.

Yep, that seems to be the way to go for a number of reasons.

If they go all stupid, don't spend a bunch of money of ways to get
them out. Just take the front door off, frame and all. Explain you
have to order a custom made Mahogany door from Belize.

I suspect that would put me at risk for paying for all the mink stoles, flat
screen TVs and bling the tenant would claim were stolen as a result of my
doorectomy. Now if I cleverly planted a solenoid that would cause the door
frame to fall free by remote control revealing carefully faked termite
damage I could claim they had to leave while the house was being bombed.
Nah - too much trouble. (-:

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Bobby G.