My bossy older sister told me that I cannot post a blog about how my weekend has the potential of being awesome or catastrophic and not have some sort of follow up blog!
Let's start with the good news first.
1. Sell the black cabinet. Check!
2. Sell the antiques. Um 1/3 of a check?! Aka- we sold one of the three antiques!
3. Be awesome. Check!
Now onto the not so great news.
It is the 27th of February and our tenants are in breech of contract in multiple ways. First of all rent is due on the first of the month. That puts them 27 days late. Secondly we are required to give them 24 hours notice when we plan on being inside the property and we gave them over 48 hours notice to let them know that we were going to have the realtor show the property. They refused to let us in on the grounds that it was the tenants birthday. There is no birthday clause in the lease agreement.
When Hotsauce posted the eviction notice he knocked on the door and both he and the police officer that accompanied him heard the tenants tell the dog to "Shut up." But, they refused to open the door. So Hotsauce taped the notice to both the front and back doors. We waited four days to go to the Clerk of Court to file paperwork for their forcible removal. There was other paperwork filed so that we can receive payment owed to us.
Our tenant hired a lawyer and discovered that if we post an eviction notice we must also mail an eviction notice to them via regular mail and certified mail! We honestly had no idea. The case was dismissed. Since it was dismissed it also means that we pay the court costs. =(
Ugh.
So we will start the process over. And we started by going to the Sheriff's office to have them serve the eviction notice. I think we might also have to send them the notices via regular and certified mail and post it to their door. Just to make sure that we have all of our bases covered this time!!
We were told at the Sheriff's office that this isn't our tenants first rodeo and they know all the loop holes.
It was a frustrating day to say the least. Keep us in your prayers please!
Let's start with the good news first.
1. Sell the black cabinet. Check!
2. Sell the antiques. Um 1/3 of a check?! Aka- we sold one of the three antiques!
3. Be awesome. Check!
Now onto the not so great news.
It is the 27th of February and our tenants are in breech of contract in multiple ways. First of all rent is due on the first of the month. That puts them 27 days late. Secondly we are required to give them 24 hours notice when we plan on being inside the property and we gave them over 48 hours notice to let them know that we were going to have the realtor show the property. They refused to let us in on the grounds that it was the tenants birthday. There is no birthday clause in the lease agreement.
When Hotsauce posted the eviction notice he knocked on the door and both he and the police officer that accompanied him heard the tenants tell the dog to "Shut up." But, they refused to open the door. So Hotsauce taped the notice to both the front and back doors. We waited four days to go to the Clerk of Court to file paperwork for their forcible removal. There was other paperwork filed so that we can receive payment owed to us.
Our tenant hired a lawyer and discovered that if we post an eviction notice we must also mail an eviction notice to them via regular mail and certified mail! We honestly had no idea. The case was dismissed. Since it was dismissed it also means that we pay the court costs. =(
Ugh.
So we will start the process over. And we started by going to the Sheriff's office to have them serve the eviction notice. I think we might also have to send them the notices via regular and certified mail and post it to their door. Just to make sure that we have all of our bases covered this time!!
We were told at the Sheriff's office that this isn't our tenants first rodeo and they know all the loop holes.
It was a frustrating day to say the least. Keep us in your prayers please!
I didn't even know you guys had properties...will definitely keep you in our prayers!!
ReplyDeleteWe own a house in West Union. When Hotsauce started working for the DOT we lived 2 miles too far from S. Point so we had to move. We tried selling that house, but didn't have any success so now we rent it out. This is our 3rd renter. The first one stole one of the neighbor's purse and then stole another neighbor's Jeep. The police were in and out for drugs ... it was a huge mess. The second renter was amazing. But, he got a job out of state and had to move out. Now we find ourselves in this legal battle. But, through it all God is faithful!
DeleteSend them letters via fax, snail mail, e-mail, Fed-Ex, UPS and carrier pidgeon. Just to cover your bases. Geeze!!! This makes me nervous since I now have a tenant...Hope it all works out.
ReplyDeleteI know right... maybe we should even have a helicopter fly above their house and have it spell out "YOU'RE EVICTED!" in it's exhaust!
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