I almost got sued by my tenant one time when I evicted them from my rental property. They weren’t paying rent so my property manager and I had to work on evicting them, and it involved courts, lawsuits, and more. One of my viewers wanted to know the story so here it is!
My Story of How I Evicted a Tenant from a Rental Property
Show Notes
Introduction
Have you ever been sued by a tenant that you evicted based on their refusal to pay rent? Well, I have, and I am going to walk you through my story and how I handled my unfortunate situation.
Show Notes
Hey guys, I am Sharon from Digital Nomad Quest, and I will be sharing with you a story of how I had to evict a tenant because of their inability to pay rent. The beginning was smooth with my tenant meeting the deadlines for payment. After a while, my tenants started delaying the payment of their rent. At first, it was for just a week until it stretched out to three weeks and longer. As a result of this, I had to take the following steps
- Verbal warning: when I requested my rent from them, they started making all these excuses, stating they were going to get the check to me soon. But the check never came. Due to this fact, we gave them some verbal warnings, but it didn’t yield any result or improvement
- The written notice: we informed the property manager of their refusal to pay rent and written notice was sent, nevertheless the tenant still didn’t respond to the notice
- Hire a Lawyer: As a result of the unresponsiveness of the tenant, a lawyer was hired to process the eviction. The property manager and the tenant were present in court and agreed on certain terms. However, the tenants defaulted in meeting the terms. They had to go to court again, and the case lingered for a long time until the tenant moved out.
The tenant didn’t pay several months of rent, but fortunately, no damage was done to the property. But the case dragged on for a year from the period when they started defaulting till they moved out. This caused me to lose a few months’ rents, and I had to pay lawyer fees and repair fees. Also, the vacancy time where I had to look for new tenants resulted in money loss and finding a new tenant required fees I had to pay as well.
In the end, for some reason, the tenant tried to sue me. although I was scared because I had never been sued before but ultimately, I didn’t think I did anything wrong. The property manager showed up to the court hearing while the evicted tenants failed to do so. The hearing was postponed, and they failed to show up again until the case was dismissed.
That is the summary of my story that took a year of my time. It was stressful, but I have seen cases worse than this. For instance, where the tenants have negative relationships with their neighbors, among others. Presently, I am grateful for the end result, and I learned a lot from this experience.
Transcription
Below is a transcription of the podcast. This transcription was taken from Otter.ai so it might not be completely accurate:
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This is the digital nomad quest podcast with Sharon Tseung. teaching people how to build passive income, become financially free and design the best lives.
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Hey guys, I’m Sharon from digital nomad quest, and today I’m going to share with you guys a story about how I had to evict a tenant because they’re not paying rent. So in the beginning, it was all good. The tenant was making their monthly payments, but all of a sudden, they started delaying their payments. Basically, they’re supposed to pay by x date or before that date, but it was delayed by like a week than two weeks and three weeks and longer and longer. They just kept making all these excuses like, Oh, I’m going to get a check soon. I’m going to pay you soon, but it just never came. So we gave some verbal warnings and there’s still no improvement. So we told the property manager Hey, let’s like send a written notice let the tenant didn’t respond to our written notice. So we basically had to hire a lawyer to process the eviction. Now the tenant and the property manager showed up at court they reached
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Some type of agreement, they’re supposed to meet the terms but the tenant didn’t meet the terms again, so they had to go to court again. And it just kind of lingered for a long time until the tenant finally moved out. But the tenant didn’t pay like several months of rent. Fortunately, they didn’t make like large damages to the house. But it was like a one year process from when they were delaying payments to basically moving out. So I ended up losing a few months rent, I had to pay lawyer fees out of pay repair fees. I also had that vacancy time where I had to look for a new tenant, which is money lost as well. And that had fees as well to find a new tenant and for some reason at the end attendant tried to sue me. I remember I was scared because I had never been sued before. But ultimately, I wasn’t sure if I did anything wrong. I don’t think I did anything wrong, right. So my property manager shut up to the court hearing but they didn’t show up and it was postponed and they didn’t show up again. So the case was dismissed ultimately. So basically that was a summary of my eviction process that took about a year’s worth of time.
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It was kind of stressful, but I’ve seen cases that are worse than this. Like there can be other cases where the tenants cannot legally do business in their house or the tenants have negative relationships with their neighbors people having high turnaround rates with tenants, so they have a lot of vacancy and have a lot of problems and have to keep finding new tenants. You know, right now I’m in a good position, I think. So I’m very grateful ultimately, and I learned a lot from this experience. So I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Please make sure to rate review and subscribe. It really helps our podcast grow. And thanks again. I’ll see you guys in the next one.
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