The Rental Disaster

We are starting the process of evicting our tenant. She sent me a message after I sent her one inquiring where our rent was. He message was that she could not complete paying the rent this month until the end of December. She was going to visit her children in Colorado instead of paying the rent on time. I had even offered her split payments and she couldn't make those dead lines. So we are giving her the 72 hour notice today to come up with the whole rent or move out. No more split payments no more accommodations for being late.

She shorted us $50 last month plus the late fee. She hasn't paid the full dog deposit we requested when we found out she had got herself a dog without telling us. She signed a no pet contract at the time she moved in. I would have been fine as long as the full deposit was made. Anyway I tried to accommodate. But I will not go past the date when we owe our own mortgage. I told her that. Our late fees are worse than hers.

I have been reading up on eviction law. Any acceptance of partial payment implies that we have accepted rent for that month. Being late is cause for eviction. You only have to be late twice in six months. Our tenant hasn't been on time in six months. Getting a pet without consulting the owners is another cause. There are rules stating that she has so many days to comply, three days for the rent. If she doesn't comply then we get a court order to have the sheriff give her notice to vacate. She has 13 days to vacate. The whole process should take about 21 days. Just in time for the Christmas Holiday. Ho Ho Ho.

Makes me feel used. I really tried to work with her. All she did was push her payments further and further out. Shorting last month and telling me she wouldn't be able to finish paying until the end of December for December was the final straw. It would have made her late in January and on and on.

My property manager wanted her out a month ago. I really thought I might finesse this to work if I let the tenant split payments. Even that didn't work. I am no longer to have contact with the tenant. My Property manager is doing her job and forcing the tenant to pay in the next three days or move out.

I have to find out what happens when the sheriff comes. If he bodily removes her from the house, I don't know what we are to do with all her things. I assume she will move it all out prior to the forced eviction. But what do we do if she just leaves it. Tom says we use her deposit to hire the movers to come and take everything to storage. But who pays for the storage. How long does she have to claim her stuff. We are definitely learning about the rental business in a trial by fire method.

I think she will move her own stuff out as she has pretty nice things. I just think she has a history of making bad choices and over extending herself. Next tenant can't move in unless full payments and deposits are made in the beginning. No more sad stories or hardship cases.


Anyone know someone reliable needing a four bedroom, big 3000 foot house in a great school district in Oregon. Great school districts are hard to find in Oregon.