What if a tenant lease is up and they refuse to move
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What if a tenant lease is up and they refuse to move
They still owe 1,000 from back rent
and had a horse on my property when the
lease agreement stated no animals on
the property their lease was up 2
months ago they have another place to
stay they’re just using our place now
as storage.
Asked on June 4, 2017 under Real Estate Law, Alabama
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
You can evict them. There are several potential grounds for eviction: the expiration of the lease; the violation of lease terms (horse on property); the nonpayment of rent (the back rent they owe). Since it sounds like you really want them gone, you should hire a landlord-tenant attorney to help you and file the eviction action: landlord-tenant law can be somewhat technical in terms of the "notice" or written warning of the eviction which must be provided, and a failure to provide the right notice delays the case, since you are required to provide the correct notice and start over. Let a lawyer make sure you do everything right; stress to the attorney that your focus is not on recovering the back rent but on removing the tenant, so you want them to proceed on all possible grounds to evict (if they went just on back rent and the tenant then came up with the rent, they could stay).
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