We rent to our son who is in college & required him to get a roommate. We checked the guy out & all was normal & acceptable. He's been in the unit for 2 weeks. We have had a noise complaint & something very odd occurred. My son, who was a police officer before deciding to go back to college, notified me his roommate drove home drunk (really drunk) the same night as noise complaint. In the am, my son was going to his car & notice his roommates car (he has 2) has front fender damage (bad). That day, a notice thru Nextdoor that a car was side swiped on the street below & it was the same type of car as roommates. He put two & two together. The roommates car disappeared shortly after that & before he could get pics. We want to evict this guy. He's on a month to month. What is a good reason to give without ticking him off & causing him to be combative with son in the same apartment? (he admitted to driving drunk & getting a DUI a year ago- because he was also a cop at some point- I think they knocked it down to moving violation)

"We checked the guy out & all was normal & acceptable"

How did you check him out?

Why did you require your son to get a roommate?

STTR,

Son was a police officer? He is trained to handle difficult people. I'd leave it up to him. HE's the one who has to deal with the roomie.

Drunk is not a reason to evict or non-renew unless he was causing trouble. (Half the college would be evicted if drunk was a reason!)

MY concern is drunks with guns. As a former cop he probably packs.

I do not rent to law enforcement because they feel entitled, above the law, trained to kill, and are trained to NEVER BACK DOWN. So he would not have been approved.

PS If your son decides roomie needs to go, no reason is necessary. The less he says the better.

"Joe, This letter is your 30 day notice to move out."

"notice his roommates car (he has 2) "

Two roommates, or one roommate with 2 cars?

And both your son and the roomie he wants to get rid of used to be police officers?

And your son has had a roommate for two weeks? And is required to get a roommate by his school? But it's March?

In my state, the minimum age to be a police officer is 21. For all the universities that I've had experience with, they generally have one set of rules for students who are traditional students and attending straight out of high school. But there are different rules for students who are married or over the age of 21/grad students/etc.

Also, in all the universities that I've had experience with, I would expect that the university could only dictate living arrangements if you're in on-campus dorm housing. On-campus dorm housing is required for a certain period of time for traditional students, but there's special family housing that's optional for grad students/adult students/married students, and the on-campus living requirement is rescinded for those later-in-life students, even if later-in-life is 22 or 23. Because that's the only way it would make sense--- you don't want a 40-year-old late-in-life adult student being housed with a bunch of 17/18 year-old traditional students. But that said, a lot of adult students/students with families like living in university family housing anyways, because it's usually cheaper and very conveniently situated. In some HCOL/desirable areas, people will take the minimum number of credits just to qualify for university family housing, and be professional students that have no intention of ever getting a degree or graduating... because otherwise they can't afford to live in the area. ;)

So I'm a little confused so to how he has so little control over his living situation that he's required to have a mandatory roommate, yet has enough control to be the one who not only selects it (in March, rather than August or January), but his parents are able to approve him with a background check.

To clarify:

Not college housing. We own the triplex in residential area.

Only college person there is our son. He orig moved in fully employed as a LEO & pays rent. Decided to go back to college & change direction in career. We gave him a break on rent while in college & if he has a roommate to make up difference. Hence the roommate.

My bad- I meant 30 day notice not eviction. You all are correct.

I agree with many of you. We will just let it be. If there are issues in future with noise, property damages, etc- we will serve then.

Ken- After reading & pondering everyone's input- I do agree with you. Not warranted at this time. Our rental agreement does stipulate no illegal activities, etc. However, if we get more complaints, other issues, hostile household situation: I would just do a 30 day w/ no explanation (as Brad stated). We just don't want to "cause" hostilities (given he may have a gun since he was prior LEO).

Brad, I 100% don't agree with you. I would rent to our Law Enforcement (LEO) folks any day as long as they pass background & credit (yes we did that for the roommate prior to renting that room to him- Excellent credit no legal issues came up).

Unless you are running a boarding house, my guess is your lease is joint and several there for you need to give all occupants the same 30 day notice.