"Mark" wrote in message
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:02:21 -0500, "Clark Griswold" wrote:

Be very careful how you handle this. Tenant's rights is a very tough
hurdle
for the landlord to overcome. Document everything. **Consult with a
lawyer
trained in landlord/tenant disputes.** You will probably end up evicting
the
tenant.

Unless there are monetary trail or a lease/rental agreement, he is not a
tenant. He's a squatter.

I'd like to know if there is a paper trail (bank records or contract)
proving
some type of rental arrangement.

There is not a paper trail. He gave $500 towards utilities and tried to
create a paper trail by giving my husband a money order made out to cash but
I got one of his (former) friends to cash it. I'm sure his mother told him
to pay with a money order. He's 22 years old, if that matters. When he
camehere it wasso he could be closer to a bus route so he could get a job.
He ended up gettingajob at WAWA. Not the kind of job he told us he was
after. He had said he was after ajob at the newspaper. I arranged an
interview for him and he never showed up.