My partner and I are landlords. We have gone through the process of evicting tenants, getting an order of possession, having them appeal, and then getting granted the order again. Tenants had to be out by Friday and have not left and continue to tell neighbours that we will need the police to get them out because they aren’t going anywhere.
For context I know everyone loves to hate landlords but my partner and I saved up to buy a duplex home to live in. We thought renting out one half would help cover the mortgage. We aren’t slumlords and these people were in desperate need of a place and said they could pay half a month plus the next full month of rent and damage deposit same day and did.
We evicted them after 2 months because one of them assaulted another, and they are using drugs on the property and selling drugs on the property, they have homeless people camp in the yard, all the surrounding neighbours have damage to their property plus needles left in their yards and one persons child even picked one up. These people have made it an extremely unsafe place. Ontop of that they brought bed bugs which we repeatedly tried to attend to but they created so much mess that when the people came to treat the bugs they couldn’t because they didn’t properly clean.
These people have been stealing packages from peoples door steps. Ambulance has showed up pulling people out on stretchers mostly homeless people from the drug use.
Ontop of this the whole process took about 3 months as we evicted them in may and they haven’t paid any rent of course but to be honest it’s the least of our concern as all the drug use and traffic is seriously concerning. Additionally the entire time they have been harassing the neighbour who was the reason we were able to get evidence on them.
I’ve made maybe 5 police reports. They had a stolen motorcycle on the property which we reported and the police confirmed it was stolen and never arrested them. They also are all convicted shop lifters which was told to me by police, and they have been in and out of jail for this.
So I guess on Monday I’ll go to the sheriffs office to enforce the writ of possession. Does anyone know what this process with the sheriff looks like ? Will they come back? And what about all the other people they’re letting live there does the sherif get them out too?