If you've owned units for any amount of time, you've probably wondered how to evict somebody
who's not on a lease. Every now and then this happens, how do we handle it as landlords? Let's go.
Hey there, my name is Mike Fritz. I'm the founder of Titanium Capital Investments and
the multi-family CEO system. My greatest passion is helping people just like you create financial
freedom with multi-family real estate because my goal is to help you achieve your mission.
By investing in real estate, it can free you up to achieve your mission and that's what I want
to help you do. And in this video, I'm going to walk you through how to evict somebody that may not be
on a lease but maybe in your property, let's get started. One of the most undesirable things we do
as landlords is have to evict somebody. And the heat even turns up and it gets a whole lot
more undesirable when they're not on a lease because it gets really hairy to
really get somebody out of your unit if you have no paperwork that they should actually be in your
unit. The first thing you want to do is physically visit the property or have your property manager
physically visit the property and speak with that tenant that isn't supposed to be in your location.
Have a conversation with them and see if you can reason with them that, "Listen, we know you're not
supposed to be here. We have no paperwork of you moving in and this really isn't your unit." Figure
out what happened and why they are there because again, as landlords, we're problem solvers before
we're ever investors. So, maybe you have somebody in there that doesn't have a place to go but maybe
they might make a good tenant. Which leads me to tip number 2, is there a way to get them on a
lease? So, the first thing we visit the property, after we get to the property, let's see if they're
interested in actually becoming a tenant and going through our vetting process. Yes, they can live in
the unit while we do this, but we want to do this vetting process, create an application just like
we would for any tenant. So, before I use force to get them out, I use reason to see if we can keep
them. For example, somebody in your unit that might not be on a lease, you may have somebody who moved
in there and they started dating somebody, their significant other moved in with them
but your original tenant moved out and their significant other, maybe they've broken up and
that relationship has been severed and they're still in your unit. Another time this happens
is we own a lot of student housing, sometimes a student will move in, move in one of his buddies
or one of her girlfriends and guess what? Then, one moves out and they're still there and you
have no paperwork and no lease paperwork for them to actually be there. This can create a
lot of problems for us if that person doesn't pay and how do we actually remove them from the
unit? But as mentioned, the first thing you want to do is you want to visit the property and actually
then see if you can get them on a lease because if you can get them on a lease, you might be able to
mitigate a lot of the problems moving forward without ever having to physically remove them.
The 3rd thing you can do to remove somebody that's in your unit that you don't have a
lease for is check out state law. Contact an attorney and see what your line of defense is.
Each state's gonna be a little different. Sometimes it's as simple as a call to your attorney, you
draft paperwork, you post it on the door and you can connect with the local sheriff and they
literally come and physically remove them from the property. Sometimes the process is a little
more extended depending on which state you live in, but the beauty of an attorney is they'll be
able to tell you what specific steps you need to take and how you can truly remove them from
your unit. But the truth of the matter is you have a tenant that is living in your property illegally
so you want to leverage the law in order to remove them. The other thing is they have no reason to
treat your place fairly because you can't come back on them legally. Yes, they're not supposed to
be there but they haven't signed a lease that they will take care of your property or ever pay you.
Most of the time people in your places without leases are not going to pay you rent. So, it's going
to be really important you contact an attorney quickly and get this process moving so you can
get them out of your unit before something really serious happens and you're liable. Before I go
on to the next tip, comment below, have you had to evict somebody not on a lease or have you ever had
to evict someone? Tell us your story below. I'd love to hear them or if you have any questions, let me
know. We'd love to answer questions below. If you're in the middle of an eviction, how do you get it
done? Let me hear in the comments. The next way to get somebody out of your unit is you can request
it back. What this means is you actually serve them legal paperwork that they need to be removed
from your unit in a certain number of days or they need to show up in court at a specific court date.
Of course your attorney will help you line all of this up. And on that court date, if you show up
and they don't which usually they don't, what will happen is the sheriff will be sent over and will
physically remove them from the property within 10 days. Again as a side note, make sure you check your
state because every state is a little different. If they do show up to court, you can say 2
things. Number 1, they're there illegally not on a lease and number 2, I simply want my unit back.
What this tells the court, you may not even want to rent that unit to anybody else. The truth is as an
owner, if somebody's not on a lease, you can request your unit back and give a 30-day notice at any
time. That's the point of not being on a lease. If they're not on a lease, you have no legal
obligation to let them stay there because you own the property. But the truth of the matter is as you
walk through a process like this, you want a couple things to go through your mind. Number 1 is to
keep the integrity of your property. I want to get them out as fast as possible to make sure they're
not completely destroying my property so that I don't have thousands of dollars to put into it
after they leave. This is why you want to contact your attorney the minute you find out you have
somebody in your property illegally. Of course, that's after you've had a conversation with them.
After I have a conversation with them, if I'm not going to be able to reason with them or they won't
reach out or I can't get in touch with them, I'm going to contact an attorney and make sure that
I get this process moving quickly and we can start moving towards the finish line. Even though
you don't want to do this process, nobody does, it has to be done sometime. And part of owning a unit
is sometimes doing part of these undesirable things so we can move this unit to a family
that it will really bless. Just as a side note, if you don't feel safe going to your property because
you don't know this person or you just don't feel safe confronting somebody live like that, this is
the power of an attorney because an attorney can help you serve that paperwork, get the information
to them and let them know they need to evacuate the property immediately and if not, then you're
simply going to walk through the legal process to get them out. I also want to give you a free video.
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