Posted on 05/18/2011 5:44:38 AM PDT by Roger_Wildcat
Can’t you just hit ABUSE and ask that it be deleted? I think deleting it is a good idea.
Thanks for the links.
It appears that the landlord is trying to rip these folks off. He's making up garbage fees to steal their money to try to bail himself out. He's had one business go bankrupt, and clearly, he doesn't know how to manage his other finances.
At most, they're late with one month's rent - the landlord even admits this in at least one of the articles - and he's trying to charge them quadruple the rent in “late fees” and “interest.” He's scum.
As for the rest of the lease, even though it's for 30 months, it has a 30-day kick-out clause if the tenant must go back to the country of origin. As the tenant gentleman has a new job in the US, and will no longer be employed by a company with offices in Britain, he will be unable legally to stay once his employment is finished with the office in Britain. The landlord is now saying this only applies to military folks who are reassigned. Baloney.
I'm glad the landlord will be losing his property. He doesn't deserve any better.
sitetest
If it’s controversial it already wasn’t a secret.
or there is a rent dispute where the landlord is not fixing stuff that landlords are required to have in good repair.
either way engagin in such self help is frowned upon by the law here.
There is such a thing as false imprisonment.
they would be within their rights to cicumvent the blockadge by driving over the landscaping.
Your “inside knowledge” is overwhelming.......
I know that in the United States, at least in New York and Massachusetts, landlords can seize personal property of tennants who are in arrears, the dispostion of the property can be settled in court. In the U.S. it is next to impossible to evict a deadbeat tennant, which is why you should almost never rent property unless you throughly checkout your tennants.
“In the U.S. it is next to impossible to evict a deadbeat tennant,...”
Not in Maryland. You must know the law and follow it scrupulously, but typically, if you know what you're doing, you can have someone out in 45 days.
If you're not a big landlord, it helps to hire a good property management company. These folks know the ropes, and know how to get it done quickly and cheaply.
For years, I owned a rental condo, and for a good part of that time, I had a property manager who only charged 6% of the rent, and was very, very good about getting the rent collected, taking care of plumbing and other problems, and filing in landlord-tenant court when the tenant went more than 5 days late. Because he managed a large number of rentals, and there was always someone who was five or more days late every month, he was always down at the courthouse to file, and thus didn't charge for his time to file the papers.
I only had to evict one tenant in 15 years - the rest paid up quickly once they got the notice from the court.
sitetest
I could cite you chapter and verse of horror stories, but I like this one, myself. Around 1971, my sister’s first real job out of college was working for the New York State Department of Social Services, as a quality control officer, working on the 19th floor of the World Trade Center. Basically, it was her job to throw cheats off of welfare. (How’d that work out for you?) One of her co-workers was a landlord in Manhattan. He had a guy who had stopped paying rent and could not get the housing court to evict him. The landlord was BIG very results oriented, so he went down to the stationery store and bought some official looking stationery and some gold seals and typed up a do-it-yourself eviction notice.
He pounded on the deadbeat’s door and shoved the “papers” in his face and told him he was throwing his stuff out in the street and proceeded to do so. The deadbeat called the coppers. By the time the law got there his shit was on a pile on the curb and the locks changed. After listening to both sides, the cops asked the tennant if he had a cancelled rent check. When he replied, “I don’t pay no rent.”, the coppers told them they couldn’t help him and to take the landlord to court. There is some justice for those who help themselves, occassionally.
Interesting story.
I don't know what it's like to evict tenants in other states. I've heard Washington, DC is tough.
I was merely replying to your statement that one could not, practically speaking, evict tenants in the United States. In Maryland, provided one follows the law scrupulously, it's quite possible to evict folks, and it can be done within a reasonable period of time.
sitetest
Apparently, NYC housing court is insanely pro-tenant. Massachusetts is, well, Massachusetts.
Because those listening posts SPY on US.
And have for 20 years.
Long Before Al Queda was a wet dream of the Government.
with specific rules.
you can’t just lock up the appartment to keep them out, you have to evict and have the sherrif seize the assets pursuant to a court order and THEN sold for money or just put out on the street.
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