How the Eviction Process Works

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This is why God invented the umbrella.

There is one thing you should know about SoCalifornians

We can NOT drive in the rain.

I believe it's taught in our curriculum at school.

As a matter of fact I think I remember my first grade teacher instructing us to drive as erratically as possible at the first sign of rain.

I can't even tell you how many cars I have seen turned the wrong way on the side of the freeway.

No other car around just a single car facing the wrong way.

Or slammed against a railing.

With the driver standing outside of the car

With an umbrella

Looking at their car perplexed as to why going the normal 90mph on the off ramp caused this railing to jump off the side of the road and hit their car.

So needless to say I only venture out in the rain if needs be.

Like I need sugar or hairspray or something of that sort.

However when a particular tenant comes and says she will not leave her apartment because it's raining I am perplexed as to why.

I mean, yes there are some crazy drivers out now.

BUT this paticular tenant is in the process of an eviction.

All she had to do was show up in court today

Otherwise default judgement to Plaintiff

Seriously!?

Wouldn't you brave the storm?

Did I mention the court house is across the street?

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Evict Me Please

About a year ago a tenant, whom was a very nice guy, came in and asked me if he could ask me for a favor...which I always find funny when people ask if they can ask for a favor instead of asking if you can ask, why don't you just ask and save yourself the extra question...sigh...oh sorry I digress.

Anyways, this tenant comes in and asks me if I would please evict him.
What?!?!
He then explained that money was tight and he needed to dip into his 401K in order to make rent. I guess the fastest way to get the money without having to wait a certain amount of days is if it's an emergency, and being evicted is an emergency.

I guess I was a little perplexed by the situation. Here I had a great tenant who had lived here for almost 20 years asking me to evict him. Hmmm. I explained that in order for me to evict him I would have to wait for him to be at least 3 days past his rent and then I would have to pay our lawyer to file an eviction against him. All the while he would be accruing late fees and lawyer fees.

I asked him if he could at least pay partial rent that day and pay the rest in payments through out the month. I would rather deal with late payments then to have a vacancy and the costs of turning over a 20 year old apartment. He told me that he could pay me a partial payment and give me the rest around the 15 of the month. Which sounded a lot more...oh I don't know...whats the word...smart, yes that 's the word. It sounded a lot more smart than to go through an eviction process.

The next day he wrote me a check for the rent minus $200 dollars. Really?? You wanted to be evicted to dip into your 401K for $200 bucks?!?
The best part is that three weeks later UPS dropped off a big box for them that said XBox 360 on it.

Seriously?!

Am I the only person who believes that paying for the roof over your head is more important than games/purses/cars/presents??? Honestly? What is the point of having a Xbox if you have no place to plug it into??

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