Posted on 08/20/2017 4:19:43 PM PDT by ARGLOCKGUY
I have almost never heard of an eviction that I objected to. The landlord should be able to evict at the expiration of a lease, with a 30 day notice for a month-to-month renter, upon nonpayment of rent, or upon observing significant structural damage, or for any other behavior outside the lease. It’s the landlord’s property.
Shooting the tenant is not okay, unless it was self-defense, but otherwise I’m almost always on the landlord’s side.
Probably won’t get their security deposit back either.
Sorry, but the landlord had no business being there until after August 23rd. Too many landlords take the ‘lord’ part too literally. I would like to see more details, but given he basically was trespassing (yes, a landlord can be doing that), it makes a self-defense case that much more difficult to win.
The tenant should not have had to be evicted. He should have left voluntarily when he could not pay the rent or otherwise did not meet the landlord’s criteria for remaining. That does not excuse shooting him, and it would not surprise me if the landlord was in the wrong also (particularly removing private property before the date on the eviction notice), but the tenant was morally very much in the wrong.
The law is the law. I have also seen bad and illegal evictions in my time. The larger point stands. The law said the tenant had until August 23rd to leave the premises. The landlord was wrong in entering the premises prior to that date.
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