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Bad Tenants
We've been thinking of renting our current home rather than selling in this
down market while we rent in some of the places we're thinking of retiring to. Unfortunately, movies like "Pacific Heights" where a bad tenant who knows all the tricks of staying in a place without paying rent, haunt us. Yesterday I saw a 'People's Court' episode where a deadbeat had managed to stay, rent-free, in a Section 8 rental for three years by using a loophole that says a tenant can't be evicted from Section 8 housing if there are code violations. Every time he was about to get evicted, he just broke something to forestall the eviction process, eventually plugging all the sinks with rags and flooding the place. How can you drive a bad tenant out from a rental in such situations? How do you prevent them from completely trashing the place on their way out? I know that tenants should be checked out thoroughly beforehand, but even so, people can have no record of evil behavior but still turn evil. While I'd probably NOT rent to any Section 8 tenants, I could easily see someone losing their job or some other such tragedy and so decide they wanted to live in my house rent-free for as long as they could get away with it. I'll entertain all solutions, even extra-legal ones (as long as I can implement them without getting caught!). -- Bobby G. |
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