Are you a new landlord?  Maybe you have owned properties for years, but been lucky enough to never have to evict a tenant.  Regardless of which situation you are in, you find yourself thinking about and convincing yourself that you need to do an eviction.  While the tenant eviction process can vary in each state and jurisdiction, here are some tips that may help you regardless of where you live:

  1. Most landlords lose eviction cases when they fail to have proper documentation.  This can include, but is not limited to, not having solid enough or proper proof of lease violations.  If the tenant has committed a lease violation, make sure you get as much proof of it as possible.  Pictures, witness statements, and police reports go far to prove your case.  If the tenant eviction is for non-payment of rent, be sure that you have accurate financial records.  Bring them with you to court.
  2. While you should follow the procedures for the tenant eviction process in your state, do everything with expediency.  Many landlords will procrastinate filing an eviction and let months go by and the problem fester before they do anything.  After this length of time the problem will potentially cost 10X as much to fix or you have lost much more rent than you should have.  Get the eviction done in a timely manner.
  3. Once the eviction is filed, do not make any deals outside of court.  The only exception is if the tenant agrees to resolve the problem prior to court to your satisfaction and in a way that can be documented.  If you decide to make a deal prior to court, have it in writing and set the deadline for the day prior to the eviction court.  Then if the tenant does not follow through, you can still go to court and have the eviction.  Too many landlords listen to the excuses of the tenant and then cancel the eviction only to find out that the tenant was not planning to live up to their end of the deal anyway.  The landlord then needs to start the eviction process over again!

Evicting tenants is not a pleasant process, but it is necessary for every landlord to understand and to do it properly and promptly when their is a problem.

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