Yes, this happens, and it happens more often than you might expect. People who own their own homes sometimes make very bad decisions with those homes. That is, they decide to invite someone to live with them and then decide they are no longer interested in the...

One question that has to do with a statute of limitations is – “How much time can you sit on a case if your Tenant breached that lease and caused damage to your property?” If you're going to sue with regard to a written or even an oral lease agreement, you have four...

Sometimes you're stuck with that one Tenant that always pays late and just does not know how to leave. So, you have gone to trial in the Justice Court. They've appealed it. And now you're at trial in the County Court. One big complication is that the Tenant has a...

Tenants during an Eviction trial are usually anything but predictable. Generally, you send the Notice to Vacate and then all communication shuts down. It was already bad when they stopped answering your calls or would return your texts when the rent was a few days...

I hear this from Landlords a lot, “They filed an Affidavit of Inability to Pay [which is commonly referred to as a Pauper’s Affidavit], but I know they can pay. I know where they work; I know what they drive, and the stuff that they put in their Affidavit – total...