We had a tenant who was having domestic violence problems from a former boyfriend that she couldn’t seem to completely break up with. The local police department advised us to evict her…they couldn’t think of any other way to break the cycle of violence, and things were escalating. The rent didn’t begin to cover the cost of constant repairs of broken windows, doors, etc. and there was no telling whether the guy would eventually direct the violence to her person rather than her dwelling.

In the end, she was more or less glad to be taken off the hook. Eviction meant she wasn’t to “blame” for leaving. She walked away alive, in arrears on the rent but under the circumstances we weren’t going to make an issue of that, and everybody but the guy was happy. Sort of.