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$5000 was cheap to get rid of those people. Pay it and be grateful.
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$5000.00 is not cheap to get rid of someone. When someone violates the lease or the lease is up they need to leave without being coerced or forced. I am a landlord. Every once in a while I will have to take a tenant to court and have them evicted. When the court says I cannot evict them for this or that reason or says they can be forced out in some number of weeks or months so that they have time to find a place to live and move, then it turns out that I am paying their rent. What right does the government have to make me pay their rent. If the court said ok, they have this much time to leave and the court will pay their rent until they do leave and then pay for whatever they tore up then I would be a little better with it.
The court will simply tell me to take them to civil court and sue them. I will be able to get a judgement in civil court but will never collect. Nobody enforces, or at least seldom enforces the judgments of civil court.
I did get lucky one time. I evicted a woman once who tore the house up before she left, literally tearing huge holes in all the drywall. I took her to court but she didn’t show up. I got a judgment against her but she didn’t pay. Several years later she got a speeding ticket and they saw her unpaid judgment and put her in jail. It was strange I got this letter from the court with a check for the judgment amount. One of my kids was a cop and found out what had happened. I really enjoyed that check.