Posted by Ernest on February 21, 2000 at 16:57:21:
Thanks Steph in TX, but what is “corp housing.” I’m niew to landlording adn I may need to know this someday.
inexpensive eviciton process - Posted by charles
Posted by charles on February 19, 2000 at 10:59:01:
Give me the name of a lawyer or specialist that will file eviction notices in Miami, FLA for $125 or less. I am getting tired of $300 to file eviciton notices. This fee does not include the rit of possession fee ($96) or sheriff escort fee ($125-$175). There has to be a cheaper way? By the way, do not suggest prepaid legal. The servioce is a joke in Miami!
Thanks,
Charles
Re: inexpensive eviciton process - Posted by William Bronchick
Posted by William Bronchick on February 19, 2000 at 13:50:05:
the chepeast eviction process is to bribe your tenant to leave. You have to figure in the cost of paying your mortgage while the eviction process goes on. Add that to you legal costs and it might be cheaper to pay the tenant cash and hire a moving truck to help him.
Re: inexpensive eviciton process - Posted by Chris
Posted by Chris on February 19, 2000 at 11:30:34:
Charles-
You may want to join your local apartment owners association as well as your local RE Investors Club for info on contacts in your area concerning insurance and water meters,etc. For clubs check the link within the yellow banner on the left of the page.
-Chris
Re: inexpensive eviciton process - Posted by Chris
Posted by Chris on February 19, 2000 at 11:22:11:
How about offering the tenant some cash to leave? It may not give the “satisfaction” of evicting, but you get rid of the problem tenant quicker and get your place re-rented sooner. Screen the new prospects more closely then the last ones. mrlandlord.com has some good tips for screening.
If you do not want to go that route and you have a lot of evictions and want to use a lawyer you should get a discount for volume. Ask the attorneys you have found about a discount for directing all of this business their way.
-Good Luck, Chris
Re: inexpensive eviciton process - Posted by CarolFL
Posted by CarolFL on February 20, 2000 at 09:48:08:
I agree with Bill. We have yet to actually have to get into the eviction process.
So far a 3 day notice and our firm statement that once we start the process, we will follow thru to the end even if they leave meantime …
plus the offer of “the $100 is would cost us to file” (joke … it’s more than that but they don’t know it) and
when all else fails, my 5’4" “grandmotherly “frame shking my fingure at 6’10”, 350 lbs tenants and downright SHAMING them into leaving…
those are the best techniques we have come up with.
BTW, when my presence doesn’t seem appropriate, we send Dennis, who is 6’4”, lean and ‘mean’, with a demeanor that speaks of “bad a&&”, and belies his warm and loving nature!
Good luck.
PS heck with your local REI group
but that’s not the real problem - Posted by ernest
Posted by ernest on February 19, 2000 at 20:05:24:
Its not having any place to go. Some may be able to return to parents, etc. But people who’ve been evicted can’t find anyplace that will take them. Right? Offer them a truck. Pay for one month’s storage. Etc. But that still doesn’t solve the problem for some who have no place to go.
Re: Carol-Do you mean heck with’em or check with 'em? 
- Posted by Chris
Posted by Chris on February 20, 2000 at 10:13:57:
nt
I can put them up in a weekly… - Posted by steph in tex
Posted by steph in tex on February 20, 2000 at 14:30:20:
hotel or corp housing for about 275.00 a week.
i have paid for storage and even helped a guy move–
LITERALLY! (ohhh-my achin’ back!)
whatever it takes, and besides–
it may keep them from trashing the place… major savings!
good luck
steph in tex
Re: but that’s not the real problem - Posted by gio
Posted by gio on February 20, 2000 at 13:17:08:
ask sev’l realtors to find them a place and pay the commission, pay the moving, just get them out - Bill is right
OK - So I don’t have my glasses on this morning!! (nt) - Posted by CarolFL
Posted by CarolFL on February 20, 2000 at 10:31:47:
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