Tenant that are late on making rent payments or have not made paid the rent for months have the landlord scared. I get property owners contacting me worried about how their tenant has not paid the rent in months and how they are getting in financial distress. They want me to do everything I can to speed up the eviction process and get the dead beat tenant out.
Wait a minute. You made the problem worse by not dealing with it right away. Now you want everyone else to just run and jump and get it done quickly. It doesn’t work that way. The law has a process and set of steps and procedures that they do, we cannot speed that up. It takes about 3 weeks minimum.
The issue here is not the courts, but you, the Landlord, are the problem. Why did you wait so long? I mean really! Owners that I speak with that do this right, are giving a notice right away are not all stressed out. When the rent is late on the 3rd day the landlord gives a 3 Day Notice to Pay or Vacate to get the process rolling. As a matter of fact I tell my tenants look this is nothing personal, it’s strictly business, but if your late a few days on paying the rent, expect to get a 3 Day Notice.
As a result I do not have any concern with late payments. Amazing how that works. As a matter of fact if they give the rent early you can give a $25 to $50 discount. Now you have the rent checks on the 30th of the month before not the 5th of the month late. They know that if they pay a few days late your not going to charge them the late fees.
Sooner or later they will keep testing your patience being later and later and later. My dog died ya know, checks in the mail. Landlords WAKE UP! Smell the coffee! We are here to help you but you cannot force the system go faster. Only you can do that to yourself. So stop blaming the system for being slow and look at your own procedures and business strategies. You speed up.
What I see is there is too much emotion when it comes to many landlord rentals. They listen to all the sob stories. Hey guess what you will not fix the world and you cannot fix their problems. But you can let their problems become yours if you don’t deal with this accordingly. Now I do have rich clients that are gracious and when it’s time to evict they evict but they are also not flipping out about it either.
So you know your limits and your stress levels. Don’t wait until the last minute to do the eviction, delaying it will only cause the problem worse, not go away. You have to be the boss and let them know that, whose in control. Some of you do not like being hard landlords but look I have seen enough of the game playing, there are a few real heart breakers out there, but if you don’t press early you’ll never know who is playing you or just can’t give you the rent anymore. Either way you have to be aggressive. Let us take over and get your rent or get your house. Get started with us today. If you need a Lawyer go to http://www.houston-evictionattorneys.com
