If you’ve been in property management for a while, it’s easy to be a bit jaded. Yesterday I was screening a tenant application and turned up a recent eviction in the public records search. Usually the screening process is over at that point as bad behavior tends to repeat itself.
In this case, something didn’t make sense. The prospect was still living at the address attached to the eviction and I had gotten an excellent Landlord reference from the same apartment complex. Digging a little deeper I learned the apartment complex did not post the rent payment correctly one month and forwarded the issue to their legal department for the eviction process.
The tenant ignored the court notices, thinking it was a mistake, and the judge issued the writ of possession.
That’s messed up.