Anyone have a tenant evicted?

[DebMcDonald]

Was the 18-year old actually an official renter - i.e. was he a party to the rental/lease agreement? If not, it seems like you wouldn't have to go through legal channels to get him out. It sounds like he truly is a "squatter" and you could go and change the locks anytime you wanted, as long as the actual person with whom you made the rental agreement was gone. In fact, he's committing a crime by occupying the building and it seems to me that the police should be involved in getting him out.

My parents have been landlords of multiple homes for years. They've done several evictions. They always give the non-paying tenants a reasonable amount of time to vacate. If they don't, an eviction in California involves getting a court order and presenting it to the tenants with two police officers and a locksmith standing by. If the tenants are not home, they enter the building, remove any personal belongings and change the locks. The tenants are told the date and time of the eviction and have always left before then. But they frequently leave behind a lot of their junk that my parents have to deal with.

My uncle owns several commercial buildings. A few years ago, he hired a handyman to make some repairs and paint the interior of a vacant building. The guy and his dog moved in! My uncle found his clothes and camp stove one day when he went by to check on the place. Since the guy was considered a squatter, my uncle didn't need an eviction notice from the court. He just took my brother (who is a locksmith) over one day and had him change the locks. The guy wasn't happy about finding his things in the alley, but there wasn't anything he could do about it!

The squatter in this situation, I think is the tenants son, she inturn has moved out and moved to another town, I know this by following her on twitter and facebook, he on the other hand is still there, but again, even though he is a squatter I have to follow the legal channels. At the time the lease was signed he was 15, so it was his mother who signed the lease.

We're currently at the second step and are awaiting the court day, which I know they will not show for, so then we'll "win" and go to step three which is asking for a judgment to have him removed at which point in CT law I hire a sheriff, hire movers and pay several months of storage fees and move any of his posessions to storage and then can change the locks.

I could do this cheaper and not hire an attorney, but I live two hours away, so it's taking time off of work to go file the paperwork, get the sheriff so it's just not worth it.

I am just so disgusted that people live to take advantage of other people.