Evictions

As a real estate investor, I dread evictions because it is a terrible thing to throw a family out of their home.

Therefore, I'll do everything possible to avoid that calamity.

People lose their jobs, get sick, marriages end, drug addiction strikes and other bad things happen. Through our son's property management firm, I will attempt to work with them in their time of need.

But on occasion I do an eviction and here is why:

A small percentage of people show callous disregard for the rights and well being of others.

They destroy the property, threaten other tenants or neighbors, throw wild parties requiring police intervention or do other things that make them a menace.

We give them notice, but when there is no significant change in behavior, out they go.

Sometimes children are involved in the eviction, and that hurts most of all.

But my regret is that a child must live with a parent or guardian that is so irresponsible and callous, that an eviction is necessary.

For that child, through no fault of his or her own, this may be but one of a series of evictions.

So it is with all of these issues in mind, I always hope to avoid an eviction, but if I can't convince a tenant to be responsible, I must still be responsible.

Dick