[Straight Vermonter]

How soon must an tenant leave after receiving an eviction notice?

Here in VT a tenant has 30 days after an eviction notice. Sort of.... You can NOT evict anyone betwen November and March. The thinking here is that you can't put anyone out in the cold. Also there is lanlord-tenant mediation that a tenant can drag you through. If they lose in mediation they will take you to court. A real operator can live rent free for 18 months and then leave you with an unusable apartment.

[Movemout]

Two guys I have known for years specialize in affordable housing for poor folks. They tell me that it is virtually impossible to evict for non-payment of rent.

[John123]

Here in VT a tenant has 30 days after an eviction notice. Sort of.... You can NOT evict anyone betwen November and March. The thinking here is that you can't put anyone out in the cold. Also there is lanlord-tenant mediation that a tenant can drag you through. If they lose in mediation they will take you to court. A real operator can live rent free for 18 months and then leave you with an unusable apartment.

I'm not saying "You're wrong" but that can't be right. Otherwise, the rent market would dry up and leave the state. Rental laws can change from town to town. Are you a landlord?

Also, I notice many people have quotes in parentheses after their screen name including you. I can't figure out how it is done. Can you tell me?

[I still care]

My father rents apartments. Even a novice can get an apartment judge to give him an apartment for six months free once he takes you to court - and then the judge, who is usually convinced if you are a landlord you must also be a slumlord (the type that exploits the poor/black/hispanic/disabled person), will make you pay him back his security.

Of course, once you have been to landlord-tenant court, it can follow you around the way a bankruptcy does. The woman across the street couldn't get a mortgage for a house because she ended up not paying her landlord. When she told me that, I smiled all the way walking back across the street. (Thinking that maybe the tenant that scammed me hundreds of dollars was perhaps paying for it somehow, somewhere.)