How long can you typically go without paying your apartment rent if you got a 3 days notice to pay the rent or get out?
I assure you that not paying your rent is one of the worst decisions that you can make. Your life will not be the same after an eviction. It can be a very traumatic experience.Every state is going to have slightly different eviction laws but here in Ohio my company has a very large rental portfolio in the Cleveland area and this is how we handle tenants who do not pay rent.Rent is due on the 1st.Rent is late on the 2nd.We call tenants 3x day from the 5th through the 10th.We put up 3 day notices on the 10th.After the 3 day notices we file for eviction. Once we file we will no longer accept rent. At this point the non paying tenant can't pay or get out of the legal ramifications of their actions.We win the court eviction and get a write to regain possession of the property. The eviction remains on your record for life. It will be incredibly hard if not impossible to find another landlord willing to rent to you.We send in the bailiffs (guns drawn) to the home. If you do not open the door they kick it in and forcibly remove any occupants living in the home.Everything that the tenant owns is placed on the curb by a moving crew. They can clear out an entire home in about 2 hours. They are not vary delicate with your possessions. Everything stays on the curb until 5pm. Scrappers and thieves usually come by and steal anything of value. At 5pm we bring a dump truck and load up everything that is left and take it to storage. After 30 days in storage we take it to the dump.After all of the above a non paying tenant can also expect the following to happen.We take you back to court and sue you for back rent, legal costs and damages.We garnish your wages until all debts are paid off.As you can gather from everything above being evicted is a terrible experience that is 100% preventable by you. Don't be stupid, pay your rent or move out of your landlord's property you are only hurting yourself if you don't.For more information on evictions take a look at the LIVE video of one of my company’s evictions below.Have more Real Estate related questions? Let me know! Follow/Subscribe & simply ask. I will make you a FREE video reply. #AskJamesWiseFollow me on InstagramSubscribe to my YouTube ChannelWould you like access to a FREE list of the most profitable Real Estate Investments in the USA? CLICK HERE FOR ACCESS!
What happens when you get a bench warrant?
used from: What to Do When Facing a Bench WarrantA bench warrant is an arrest warrant that is ordered by a judge against the defendant in a criminal case or a similar proceeding such as for a traffic ticket. A bench warrant is typically issued in the case of a failure to appear for trial, sometimes abbreviated “FTA.” The “bench” is the traditional term for the judge's seat.In serious criminal cases, a failure to appear will most likely lead to a “regular” arrest warrant, which would spur immediate attempts to find and jail the defendant. A bench warrant, on the other hand, usually does not mean the police will be at your door the next morning. But, your name will go into a statewide computer system that serves the entire law enforcement community. Once your name is in the database, if you have to deal with the police for any reason – even resulting from an incident that was not your fault, such as someone hitting your car from behind – you will be taken into custody for the outstanding bench warrant.Once you are taken into custody, you will have to post bail before you can be released. Typically, bail on a bench warrant for failure to appear will be enough to cover the fines and court costs for both the original offense and the FTA. Then, you'll get a new court date.If you know that there is a bench warrant out for your arrest, you can usually call either the clerk of the court or the local police department and arrange to come in and pay the bail so that the warrant will be recalled. You should find out, when you call, what kinds of payments they will accept, since a paper check is almost always not good enough, and not all localities are able to take credit cards.If you had posted bail before the missed court date, that money has almost certainly been forfeited at this point. If you had a very good reason why you weren't at the court on time and didn't call, you might be able to persuade the judge into letting you get that bail back, or at least having it credited against your fines and costs. Naturally, having an experienced criminal lawyer arguing on your behalf during this process will show the judge not only that you take the charges against you seriously, but also that you are genuinely contrite about your failure to appear.
Can a Landlord tell a tenant that they can not put up an above ground pool even if it has a locking fence?
Yes they have the right, they own the property and subquently are liable for any injuries that could occur there and could be sued by anyone who may drown or become injured. Without a lease she is on a month to month and the landlord can give her 30 days to get out no excuses.
Is it legal for someone to refuse a letter from a law office?
My lawyer tried to send a certified letter to my old roommate for deposit/rent money. It came back and I have to find a forwarding address for her. But I know that she still lives there because I found a posting showing she's looking for another roommate now. Is this legal? How can I make her receive the letter?
Living in Texas but served a subpoena from an Oklahoma State Court?
I have lived in Texas for the last 25 years but also served at a miltary base at Lawton, OK - as a reservist - during 2006. I'll try to be concise as possible: while living temporarily in Oklahoma, I was served a subpoena alleging that I had interfered with the sale of a company owned by a former employer in Altus. At the time, I had a lawsuit against him for failure to pay me a bonus; ultimately, in Federal Court in OK City in 2006, I obtained a large judgment against him. As a reward, I guess, for doing that, he sued me in Altus, OK in a state court in 2006. While I was visiting Oklahoma one weekend, I was served a subpoena. Again, I had been living in Texas and still do. This state lawsuit of his has consumed a lot of money, especially due to me living 180 miles away across state lines. Being as that I still live in Texas, don't or can't I ignore this. Example: what if I lived in Alaska (I don't plan to move)? Does that mean some low rent court in Oklahoma can chase me forever? Addtl info: we are now in Discovery, etc. My atty in Altus tells me if I was served, then I must defend myself but that is a self serving statement to increase his billfold. Do I have any obligations? What if I simply stopped cooperating to any degree in this case? What would be the consequences?
Is there a way to exempt yourself from jury duty?
On multiple occasions, I've gotten a notice to report for jury duty. Two times I wasn't called to the box at all, another time I was called, but for some unexplained reason the defense excused me (All three times I was a bit annoyed because I could have been doing other things). Now this time I actually was selected and had the pleasure of sitting through a child molestation trial where I got to read nauseating love letters written to an 8 year old girl and listen to testimony from psychiatrists who explicitly described the sex acts the girl claimed were committed upon her, and we were treated to very entertaining clips found deleted on his laptop of him performing sex acts on an unidentified child who did not look any older than 7 or 8. If that wasn't bad enough, we had to sit through the defense that claimed he didn't know what he was doing was wrong because he had had an ongoing sexual relationship with his mother up until the time he left home. After this all this, I'll be honest with you, I'm almost tempted to just ignore any other jury duty letters sent to my house. But in the case where I'm somehow contacted and directly ordered to show up, is there some way to exempt yourself? I've heard that work is not an excuse and that employers are mandated to let you have the day off to serve. I don't want to have to sit through another nightmare like that again. I really feel for the people who had to sit through the Jeffrey Dahmer case!!!