On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:51:05 -0800, Smitty Two
wrote:

In article ,
Ashton Crusher wrote:

I can only speak for the laws here in AZ but if you are worried about
being able to get rid of them just rent on month to month leases. If
you start to see problems, either in them paying the rent on time, or
in keeping up the place, just give them their "30-day" notice. If
they stay past that you'll have to take them to court for eviction,
not much you can do about that part, no matter what you do you can't
physically throw people out, only the court can authorize it and then
you have to have the sheriff or constable do it.

A landlord in a city in which I own a rental house offered that when he
has trouble with tenants, he would go to the house while they were home,
and remove all the exterior doors and drive away with them, saying that
he was going to repaint them. Tenants usually vacated promptly.

That's risky. If they had stuff stolen he could wind up on the hook.
Most tenants have no idea of their rights. But every once in a while
you run into one who knows every part of the law AND is malicious in
applying it. We had a guy like that in our town for a while making
life miserable for the apt complex he was living in. He'd go around
looking for problems and if he couldn't find any he'd create some.