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Accepting Money After a Notice to Vacate
You either want the eviction or you want the rent, but can you have both? That's a tricky situation. Judges don't like the idea of tenants being tricked into paying money and getting evicted anyway, but what do you do if a tenant sneaks in a payment? Does this mean...
{Texas Landlords}: When is a Tenant’s Security Deposit Forfeit?
Landlords are interested in making sure their lease has all of the right provisions, especially those "Gotcha" provisions that mean the Landlord wins and the Tenant loses. However, these kinds of things don't really exist. It's important to understand your lease and...
The Truth About Suing Residential Tenants + Employee Spotlight
I'm amazed by just how often I have to remind Landlords that Landlording is a business, and that each decision should be made from a business perspective. "Will it generate profit," or "will it generate a loss?" These are the important considerations, not "Should I...
The Truth About Being Ready for Eviction Court
If you're a Landlord who's never attended an Eviction trial, you can consider yourself lucky up until the day you need the Eviction Court to grant you an eviction. Many Landlords get the rug pulled out from underneath them because they just don't know the multiple...
Do This if Your Rent House Suffers a Total Loss
Bad things sometimes happen to good Landlords. Among these things are predictable and foreseeable losses due to fire, flood, wind, etc. These are the kinds of things that insurance is for. However, what obligations does a Landlord have to his Tenant when the house is...
Landlord Guide to Immediate Possession Bond
Everyone is always looking for a short-cut. And, generally speaking, short-cuts are great. However, when Landlords try to find a slick way around the Eviction process, they sometimes find that, what felt like a fast way to get their rental property back, was really...
Landlords Deducting Repairs Cost From a Deposit
The fact that something is "ordinary" does not mean that it is well understood. I think about this like "common sense," which everybody knows about, but it seems so few people have. When it comes to what the Court sees as "ordinary wear and tear," we may have to look...
What You Need to Prove to Win an Eviction
There's no need to tell an epic story. For a Landlord to win in an Eviction case, you need to stick to the legally operative facts. There's no need to share every possible detail about your tenants and just how many time you "gave them another chance" or how many...
Landlord Attorney’s Guide to Lease Termination
One of the things that tends to bring the most confusion to new (and sometimes not so new) Landlords is the issue of Termination of a Lease. Landlords sometimes want to bring a tenancy to an end, even when their tenants have not breached the lease agreement. Rent is...
Should I Protest my Property Taxes?
You know what they say are the only sure things in life: Death and Taxes. Yep, it's that time of year again when you will have to consider the tax bill on your real property. The interesting thing this year, however, is just how high the taxing authority may believe...
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