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Originally Posted by Skybird
it reminds me of what in German we call "Mietnomaden", people who rent a flat, but never pay asingle cent and have all protection and rights by the law, causing immense stress and loss of income and damage to the house owner.
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This exact thing happend to us with one of our properties back in 2008.
The guy did not pay November's rent.
he then avoided numerous phone calls, visits to his door, mailings etc.
December rolls around, same thing.
2 months now... $1,900 in rent now lost.
We got legal advice as we had never been in the situation to evict anyone before.
at any rate the way it all worked out we had to start the eviction process all over in January and do certain things after the passage of so many days for it to "stick" where he couldn't sue or make false claims against us etc.
Finally at the end of January, under threat that he could leave the property voluntarily by XXX time or else the sheriff's department could remove him from it by force, he left.
This translates to $2,850 in lost rent over the period of 3 months not including the cost of legal advice and the petty expenses involving the eviction process one could tabulate given a few minutes time.