My Mother-in-law’s boyfriend is a retired NYC police detective, who also worked for Miami-Dade PD for several years.
When he first moved to Florida, he told me two of his co-worker cops were complaining about an assignment they had to perform that day because it was typical Florida weather, very hot and humid.
He asked them what it was and they said, “We have to evict someone.”
Curious, he followed along to see what they were going to do.
Being from the Bronx, NYC, his entire life, he was shocked to see them having to evict the people from the property along with all their stuff, furniture and all, they had to tote out of the house and deposit at the curb. He had never seen that before!...............
I have a friend who owns some property and has gone through the route of evicting tenants. Here in Kentucky at least you have to pay the sheriff to come out and evict somebody and then you have to pay them to remove the tenants’ property from the house. I know it took her almost a year to get the non-paying renters out of the house so she lost a year’s rent as well as the not inconsiderable expense of the legal action to have their asses thrown out.
I did not mention the damage to the property that the renters did once they stopped paying. It seems to be a tradition among non-paying renters that they are compelled to trash the property before they are evicted.