re: #204 Naso Tang

In Florida you can evict within 3 weeks if you don’t waste time filing. The only thing that can delay is a response, but it has to be accompanied by a payment to the court of rents due or it fails by default.

Want to move south?

After the past few weeks in Baltimore (hint: the snow is still not cleared even from the major street I live on), I just might.

The important thing is to always get a judgment. Even if it’s only for two crappy months, and even if they don’t pay.

I know a landlord who waited fifteen years and finally got a desperate call from some old deadbeat couple. They had cleaned up their act and wanted to buy a house. Trouble was this fifteen-year-old lien against them.

He was happy to tell them that the four hundred dollars they owed in 1993 was now several thousand, thanks to the magic of penalties and interest. “Just consider it part of your closing costs”, he said, when they begged and pleaded.