Terminated MTM tenant.( No Cause) I did not give him a reason, I am not required to. He is now claiming that I am evicting him because I don’t want to make repairs to property. He now has a list of serious repairs that he claims he told me about months ago and I never fixed them. He has never told me about any of these things , some of which he claims are dangerous and have hurt his family. Every repair request ( that happened) we’re taken care of right away. Text history proves that. Yet, none of these other allegedly deadly problems were texted to me but now he claims I’m negligent. I’m getting rid of him because he’s aggressive, a liar and has bounced his rent 5 times already this year. Now he’s claiming he’s withholding rent until all his demands are met. He really doesn’t understand that his tenancy is terminated. I don’t want his rent. The guy was tolerable until about a year ago. I’m assuming he’s doing this to make a play for more time when we go to court. Never had one like this before.

At a Mr.Landlord convention, I learned the "most" valuable clause to add to my residential leases. It was, "for the purpose of evidence in a court proceeding, notice to owner must be Certified Mail, with a signed return request receipt".

So in a recent case before a "State Judge", Section 8, the tenant, their Free Legal Aid Attorney and the City Attorney told the judge, "I was a slum lord and never fixed anything inside or outside this apartment complex"!

I asked, what violations haven't I complied with? The Judge said that since I was not an attorney, I could not cross examine anyone. I said, no problem, I have one of my attorney's with me. She stood up and began all of the prepared questions.

The tenant signed off on all of my Six Month Inspections, saying I tested all doors, windows, fire, smoke and C/O sensors. Checked all fixtures and repaired all plumbing drips. Also that I conduced a Water Heater Sediment test, Hot Water Delivery quantity (29, 30 or 40 gallons). I removed the wall heater covers and vacuumed the heater core and units. And that I complied with my inspection list and asked if there was anything I over locked?.

The City Attorney said this was all Bul... Shi....! I informed the court that all tenant signatures were notarized by another tenant of mine-- these are all official documents.

The the City Attorney, the Free Legal Aid Attorney, who is employed by the City of L.A., are all liars!

No proof that there were no violations meant anything. But when I asked the Free Legal Aid attorney if they read my clause in section 47B, "Notice to Owner". He hadn't also did he read that my AOA lease had a limit to attorney fees? The loosing party is limited paying attorney's fee's to a maximum of $500!

My tenant was given almost every three months, on request, a copy of their lost lease. By mistake the tenant went to the office of the building and the assistant manager gave her the "wrong" lease.....

So My attorney listed all of the lies spoken or written by all parties, including this Judge. I won this case. They had no pictures and I had digital pictures, a disposable 35mm camera and other cameras with pictures of the condition of the unit. Before, during and after the tenancy. These tenants were labeled PIGS.

Yep. Just watch y0utube court nerds, time served, court of public opinion. The old fake habitability claim, non payment of rent coupled with classic holdover. There are thousands of these videos.

Same as NE, what did he look like going in?

That's how they are. I've come to the realization that many don't know how to "leave" and think it's gotta be like a bf/gf breakup. All of a sudden it's "you're at fault" and they want everyone to know why they are leaving.

Just leave... no one cares.

Just keep your head down (meaning focus, not to ignore). If there is ANY truth to what this tenant is stating that there may be something wrong that needs to be fixed... go over with a contractor (make an appointment) and see what happens. I would not be surprised that they either won't let you in (one way or another), they do but they keep talking to "distract" you and the contractor from really seeing anything OR they let you in, you get a day and time for the contractor to come back to correct and "it's not a good time" for them.

I have had a few deadbeats say in court that they were going to sue me. One mentioned counter-sue and the judge merely said they missed the window on that.

One claimed they were going to sue me, my attorney, the Sheriff's department as well as the judge.