When you have a tenant that is not paying you rent or is breaking a part of the lease, as a landlord, all you can think about is “how fast can I get this tenant out of my property”. I have had several questions lately around if this situation allows me to ask for an [...]
0 CommentsMany years ago when I started as a landlord, I was amazed to find that most knowledge around owning investment properties is learned. Very few books really exist on the topic or when they do, they really don’t give you the entire picture of how to manage tenants and the property. Plus, the information out [...]
0 CommentsThis is an often asked question of frustrated landlords, “These $#@!*&^%*&^ tenants owe me money, can I just change the locks and throw their stuff out on the curb?”. I wish it was the at easy! Many years ago you could do that as a landlord, but you can imagine that this was abused so [...]
0 CommentsAn eviction notice has different meaning depending upon where you live. In some states, this is the same as an eviction complaint. Often, though this is a non-binding early warning of lease violations or putting the tenant on “notice” that they are doing something that violates the lease. This would include, but is not limited [...]
0 CommentsFor a quick answer….Nope. I get this question often. Usually it is from a landlord that is frustrated because a tenant is always paying their rent late. Lots of landlords wait until the 28th to finally do something about it and then want to file an eviction. Here are some tips to fix the problem [...]
0 CommentsAs much as we as landlords want to get our property back, we probably want our unpaid rent more! A common misconception about an eviction is that this is somehow going to get our back rent or help us get the back rent. Unfortunately, an eviction takes more money out of our pocket and requires [...]
0 CommentsAs I have mentioned in my other posts, my main customer typically gives me evictions around the 16th of the month as they wait until the 6th to send out 10 day notice to quit letters. If they don’t hear from the tenant by this date, then they file the paperwork. I received a message [...]
0 CommentsI had 2 evictions to do in Hennepin County this month. I was acting as an agent for the property management company using a Power of Attorney In Fact that has been signed and notarized by one of the owners of the management company. I simply make copies of that for each eviction that I [...]
0 CommentsA Notice to Quit would be required in a “tenancy-at-will” situation, which means there is no fixed ending date, or the lease has expired and is now month-to month. Minn. Stat. 504B.001 defines tenancy at will: “Tenancy at will means a tenancy in which the tenant holds possession by permission of the landlord but without [...]
0 CommentsThere are many urban legends, rumors, and old wives’ tales surrounding owning investment real estate and evictions. Did you hear the one about the landlord not checking on his house for 3 years; when he finally went over there, the tenants had flooded the basement to grow fish to sell at the fish market? Many [...]
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