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lowrie · Sep 3, 2007, 08:08 AM

I own a condo that has a clause stipulating 'No renters". A friend stayed in this property for a week and then decided to rent the property without informing me. The Condo Association sent me a letter informing me of this situation and have asked me to evict this person immediately.
I have no details of the lease that was signed, neither do I know the person that lives there. How do I get the order to evict without incurring the cost of a lawyer?

excon · Sep 3, 2007, 01:24 PM

Hello lowrie:

You're going to have to evict them according to your states landlord tenant laws. We have a copy of them right here on this forum at the top on a "sticky note". With a little investigation, you ought to be able to find out their names. If you can't, you can still evict them. It's going to take some legwork on your part, and you have to do it right or they could stay even longer.

Or, you could hire a lawyer. Before you decide, rent the movie, "Pacific Heights", with Michael Keaton. It's a good movie and a MUST for landlords.

excon

Fr_Chuck · Sep 3, 2007, 01:38 PM

Who rented it to them? If you own it, only you could rent it?

And if they are your friend, just ask them to leave?

But if you are the owner and did not rent it, then someone without permission rented it illegal to them, so they are now tresspassers and someone did fraud by renting it?

A little more what happened, who rented to to who, who got the money and so on.

GravitonX · Sep 3, 2007, 04:17 PM

I've had this situation before.

A tenant didn't pay rent and called and said she was leaving that night. Apparently, she had a deadbeat house guest, who also had been evicted from a previous residence. Birds of a feather. When my property manager went to survey the property, he found the deadbeat female friend of the deadbeat tenant sleeping on a lone couch. We called the police. They said they could do nothing. I eventually just filed an eviction on the tenant who had just left. The night before the set-out day the squatter left. She (squatter) didn't show up to court (obviously) but somehow knew when we were coming.

I suppose I could have gone through the weeks/months of trying to find out the squatter's name but I opted to treat the situation as if she didn't exist and leverage the set-out process to do the clean-up of the squatter situation. All in all, I had to go through the eviction process anyway to obtain the writ of restitution - getting the property back. Sometimes, you get "lucky" when a tenant leaves and takes all of their property and you're spared the expense of doing the eviction. But, if you want to cover all your bases, you should do the eviction anyway, because they could return if the lease hadn't expired.

Hope this helps.

Steelmason · Apr 14, 2012, 07:20 PM

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