NE of PA had a great post: APATHY!!!

It made me think of the many times that throwing out stuff did not and does not matter.

AND

How many Landlords gave or will give the best gift to a deadbeat tenant during the Holiday Season.

EVICTION NOTICE POSTED in DECEMBER!!! OR the Day before CHRISTMAS EVE!!!

OH yes and post it on light green paper with red print or light red paper with green print. It gives it the Holiday CHEER that is needed for The Eviction Notice!!!

Here's your Christmas Gift you Deadbeat now get out of my unit!!!

Oh yes and enjoy your Christmas gift from me to you, the deadbeat tenant.

Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas someplace else.

Landlords who are on the fence of giving eviction notices during the holiday season. Your monthly rent is $400 or $500 dollars or more and now you wait another month now the rent doubles and it starts to add up. Don't wait ZERO TOLERANCE is the best Christmas Gift you can give yourself as a Landlord.

His a mean one MR. Grinch!!!! OH yeah sing along and sing it loud. OK to sing out of key too!!!

LOL - Not at Christmas I'm sorry to say. I shall probably go to my grave without the pleasure of kicking someone out on Christmas eve.

I have however evicted folks in driving snow storms when my mom had the vacation management company at a ski resort! And I once held three theives for the sheriff when I was 18, who thought we wouldn't be watching a resort property at about 10 pm in a freak two foot snow.

Personally,now that we have passed mid December, I Would not evict anyone until at least the first week in January, at which time I would then vigorously persue garnishment!!!!!!.

Somethings just can't be allowed to screw up MY Christmas. Do I care if joe blow gets evicted? naw! December is just another month in the 12 month rental calendar.

Will it ruin my time with family and friends just thinking heavy on this? -- yes.

With a record for collections I will eventually get them-- that's how you have to look at it or close your door. Not only will I get it-- it's making me 25% and 15% a year interest.

I think some times as a Landlord we make excuses for our actions to valid them for ourselves.

I did it early on in my rental biz;

I want to be fair to the tenants and they will be fair back to me? I realize thats not the case.

IF I give them a second chance they will be understanding and pay on time. I realized this is NOT the case.

OH it's Christmas and of course the tenant over spent on gifts and now the things that need to get paid are NOT getting paid and that is the rent number one on the list. OH and our Landlord will understand that its Christmas and he or she will let us slide due to the holidays. I realized this is NOT the case.

Each and every EXCUSE I put up in my mind was just that an excuse AND it clouded my business decisions. WELL lets see this person is late on December 15th and I don't want to post a notice because its the holiday season. NOW thats clouding my proper business decision, POST the notice and take the proper business action.

My point is to this is don't let a particular day cloud making your business decision because you as the landlord has obligations as well and the lease is worthless if you do not follow it and enforce it no matter the day.

I do month-to-month because you can't garnish in TX, so there's no incentive for me to do 12-month leases. If someone's going to break a lease, there's no way for me to stop them-- so I might as well reserve the right to play the "30-day-notice-of-nonrenewal" card so that I have the same flexibility they do.

I've played it exactly one time. It was a female couple; I think one of them was "just about to start a job" (uh-huh). The other was employed by the local nursing home and worked 60-80 hours per week. So even though I wasn't impressed by #1, I figured #2 would hardly ever be home, there would be no trouble (it was a separate ADU), they had plenty of money coming in, and you had to be somewhat reliable to be in nursing, right? Their criminal was clean. So I offered them the place.

Then I ran their names through the local grapevine. Ooops. #2 was active in the local drug scene. Ugh.

There was a lot of activity at odd hours. I couldn't tell if it was drugs or prostitution-- but ugh.

The people in the main house are like, "Uhhh, I don't know if you're aware, but..."

They lasted two months. I gave them their 30-day-notice-of-nonrenewal on Thanksgiving, November 24th. The 30 days ended on Christmas Eve, December 24th.

Nothing is says Merry Christmas quite like a neon Pay Or Quit notice.

What I think is funny - NE started this out with the apathy posting.....and before that he was ask for the night before eviction holiday poem.

Where this might not be a Merry Christmas for the customer, there have been plenty of customers that have made me Merry when they left