Does my evicted tenant have a case?

Question

I've been renting a house in california to a couple for ten years without a problem. I would always make repairs in a timely manner whenever i was told of those problems. I have never raised the rent and respected their privacy. This year has been a nightmare. They have been late on their payment all year and bounced a check last month. I gave them a 3 day notice to pay or quit. They never paid, so I'm in the process of eviction. A couple of days later I get a certified letter . In that letter, by the way, was also sent to the health department and my city, depicts me as a bad lanlord. The tenants states that we had a verbal conversation about those problems several weeks prior to the eviction process. I never knew about those problems the house had. Right now I'm trying to get a repairman to fix the repairs, but they won't let him in.

Answer 1

They are striking out at you because they are angry that you gave them notice to quit or pay. It doesn't matter that they sent letters to the health dept. and the city. It's your word versus their word about a verbal conversation. It sounds as if you are going to court. You will have your repairman as a witness that they won't allow him to make repairs to things they say are wrong (which make no sense). You also have (I hope) documentation of repairs you made in the past, and record of their payment history. Unless you have other bad judgments against you, you should have no problems.

Answer 2

If you have had model tennants for ten years and suddenly this has changed, you may want to try to find out what has caused the change. Did someone lose a job, become disabled, had a problem recently? Try opening a dialogue with the couple. Eviction proceedings can be expensive and drag out for quite a while, during which time you will not be able to rent the house to anyone else. Maybe there is a middle ground that can save both you and your tenants from the trouble of going to court.

Answer 3

curiously they are having funds problems and are using a stall tactic to stay interior the unit. they won't win in case you could tutor and tutor receipts which you have repaired any complications that the tenant mentioned over the final 10 years. circulate to courtroom, in case you could tutor which you have tried to make maintenance while notified and which you have been attempting to make the maintenance these days yet they won't enable interior the reachable guy then they are attempting to maintain the unit looking undesirable so as that they have a leg to stand on. I propose which you deliver them written be conscious asserting which you're sending over a restoration guy, supply them 40 8 hours be conscious, tell them that in the event that they decline to enable him in you will use your key to circulate into the living. determine you hand furnish the letter and save a duplicate for your self. that's a stall tactic in hopes which you will supply up eviction strategies or that it will take a on a similar time as to circulate to courtroom. proceed alongside with your eviction technique with a bit of luck you will circulate to courtroom previously their case is heard. placed funds into an criminal expert that way you're insured you will win.