1. Just Evict Already!

    Author: Todd Christiansen | Date: 14 Apr 2011, 10:07 pm | Category: My Evictions

    I was in eviction court last week  waiting on my cases to be called.  I always enjoy listening to the other landlord’s cases.  It is sometimes like an episode of Cops.  On this one case, the judge says to the landlord “so this tenant has not paid rent for August through March”.  I just about [...]

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  2. Can’t Evict if Always Late on Rent!

    Author: Todd Christiansen | Date: 23 Feb 2010, 4:23 am | Category: Eviction

    There 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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  3. End of the Lease Evictions

    Author: Todd Christiansen | Date: 23 Feb 2010, 3:46 am | Category: Eviction

    I love this old quote:   Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein. I have been burned at least twice by this little trick that tenants play: Tenant short pays you on the 2nd to last month of the lease or does not pay you on the last [...]

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