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Hi All,
One of the tenants in a 3-plex I have is a nice lady who has been living there for 5 years and always pays on time. However, recently she has a new boyfriend who is not a tenant there. He apparently beats her (she does not admit but the tenants are talking about it and she had 2 scary blue eyes last time I went there!) Also, her entrance door was broken she said break-in but nothing was stolen and I suspect the new boyfriend did it. Then, as of last week, another door, this time an internal door inside the apartment is broken. I paid for the entrance door but she did not complain about the internal door yet (she is probably trying to hide it), I just heard about it from one of the tenants living in another apartment in that 3-plex who showed me the broken door in the basement taken from her unit (no one lives in the basement).
I plan to enter her unit next week for "annual inspection".
Any advice how best to deal with this difficult situation would be highly appreciated!
Options I can think of:
- evict her ASAP
- talk to her
- try to charge her for any damage I find next week and if she does not pay within a certain period of time, evict
- report to police
- prepare a letter/agreement, and have her sign it, saying that "the boyfriend is forbidden to be on the property under any circumstances whatsoever..."
- other?
THANKS.
ps. first "break in" she told me about when the entrance door was broken and "nothing stolen", I asked her to report to the police and she did. I don`t think the police even went to the property as nothing was stolen so police said something like: "well, nothing was stolen so what can we do about it?"
One of the tenants in a 3-plex I have is a nice lady who has been living there for 5 years and always pays on time. However, recently she has a new boyfriend who is not a tenant there. He apparently beats her (she does not admit but the tenants are talking about it and she had 2 scary blue eyes last time I went there!) Also, her entrance door was broken she said break-in but nothing was stolen and I suspect the new boyfriend did it. Then, as of last week, another door, this time an internal door inside the apartment is broken. I paid for the entrance door but she did not complain about the internal door yet (she is probably trying to hide it), I just heard about it from one of the tenants living in another apartment in that 3-plex who showed me the broken door in the basement taken from her unit (no one lives in the basement).
I plan to enter her unit next week for "annual inspection".
Any advice how best to deal with this difficult situation would be highly appreciated!
Options I can think of:
- evict her ASAP
- talk to her
- try to charge her for any damage I find next week and if she does not pay within a certain period of time, evict
- report to police
- prepare a letter/agreement, and have her sign it, saying that "the boyfriend is forbidden to be on the property under any circumstances whatsoever..."
- other?
THANKS.
ps. first "break in" she told me about when the entrance door was broken and "nothing stolen", I asked her to report to the police and she did. I don`t think the police even went to the property as nothing was stolen so police said something like: "well, nothing was stolen so what can we do about it?"