Hi All,

I started an eviction on a tenant of mine who has not paid since Feb.

The situation went to a "pre-trial" where a court order was formed where the rent/utilities would be paid by the tenant and he would let us in to sell the property and show the property for him to stay until June 2017 - all this had to be done by April 15th. (Court order was set on March 31 2017)

The tenant since then has not paid utilities nor the rent and decided to not let us in to sell the property.

It turns out he did this since he had found another place to live. That deal fell through and now he wants to pay and co-operate etc. I guess he felt like he could walk away without paying for anything since he found another place.

My attorney put in a motion for judgement since he reneged on the court order and the hearing is set for May 3rd 2017.

My question is:

Even though he has NOT been evicted (yet) is the fact that I started eviction proceedings is this on his record and this could have scared off the other (smarter than me) landlord?

I know some of you have been following my story for a while - I just hope he doesn't pay by end of money and he is evicted.

Even if he pays his rent can he be removed for not paying his huge utility bills?

I don't have any experience with a situation similar to this, nor do I know anything about IL law, but this seems really weird.

I don't think you can evict anyone for not paying utilities unless it's in the lease that they must. You might be able to get them ejected by housing if they condemn the place as uninhabitable if utilities get shut off, but that probably results in an expensive bill to get it un-condemned.

Thanks Sid. That is the plan.

Unfortunately this is a lunatic who has money to burn (but doesn't want to pay rent or utilities)

I don't know anything about Illinois law but I do know that in Indiana I can look you up on mycase.in.gov and I can see any pending court cases. From evictions to speeding tickets.

I have turned away applicants who were in the process of being evicted.

In NV, the fact that an eviction action is pending would be public record and a careful LL would see it if that LL knew which court to check.

However, if a T claimed to be living in Reno, NV, but was really living in Pahrump, I would not find the eviction because I would not be checking the Nye County court records.

In The People's Republic of Kalifornia, the eviction court records are sealed for a while after the eviction is filed, just so that LLs cannot find the eviction and refuse to rent to the Tenant. We wouldn't want that!!