I have a tenant who is in process of eviction is bothering many neighbors and sabotaging new tenants, what can we do?
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I have a tenant who is in process of eviction is bothering many neighbors and sabotaging new tenants, what can we do?
Tenant who is in process of eviction for non-payment is bothering many neighbors for cigarettes, food and money. She has gone as far as knocking on peoples doors, stopping them in the parking lot. We have an apartment for rent 2 doors down who when a tenant moves in – she tells them horror stories and they move in days. She is extremely unstable, had police come for her ex-husband “beating” her (he left). We don’t want to approach her without witnesses. What can we do to get her out?
Asked on July 29, 2011 Illinois
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If this tenant is in the process of being evicted by you, hopefully she will be out of your property in the near future. If you want her out sooner, then perhaps a financial enticement will motivate her to give you her keys and leave the unit she is occupying.
If she is making things difficult for you to rent the vacant unit, it is probably a good business decision to pay her a sum of money to leave sooner rather than later. Suing her would get you nothing other than making her difficult behavior all the worse. She probably does not have much money to pay any judgment you may get against her for unpaid rent or other problems she is causing.
If other tenants are being bothered by her, they could seek a restraining order against her. Paying her money to get out sooner rather than later is the best course to eliminate the problem.
FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If this tenant is in the process of being evicted by you, hopefully she will be out of your property in the near future. If you want her out sooner, then perhaps a financial enticement will motivate her to give you her keys and leave the unit she is occupying.
If she is making things difficult for you to rent the vacant unit, it is probably a good business decision to pay her a sum of money to leave sooner rather than later. Suing her would get you nothing other than making her difficult behavior all the worse. She probably does not have much money to pay any judgment you may get against her for unpaid rent or other problems she is causing.
If other tenants are being bothered by her, they could seek a restraining order against her. Paying her money to get out sooner rather than later is the best course to eliminate the problem.
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