PTO Day #15: I Hate Lazy Tennants

I wanted to spent the last week of my vacation to working on the house. Today was the day i was supposed to begin cleaning and preparing the Sunnyvale house for remodeling. The tenants who previously occupied the house and their lawyer said verbally they would move out by June 20th. Of course when they said this, we wanted everything in writing, but they refused. They have not yet moved out and the lawyer is ignoring phone calls. So, It'll be at least another two weeks before something happens - in two weeks we'll stop paying their hotel bills.

Some background on the tenant: The tenant is a mother of two who does not work. She gets checks from the government to pay for her housing. So basically, she lives in the house for free. A man also lived in the house. I presume he is the tenant's boyfriend. I bumped into him while checking out the house one day. I doubt the gov't knows about this since if he lives in the house, the tenant would lose her rent voucher.

The current situation: the tenant's belongings are still in the house. they are currently staying in a hotel which we are paying for. This costs about $600/week. and they have been in the hotel for over a month. Her lawyer, Nadia Aziz, works across the street from Realization. The tenant doesn't pay for her lawyer. Her lawyer works for financially deprived citizens and probably makes money out of settlements and lawsuits.

How did it get to this situation:
It all started out with the tenant complaining about mold in the house. There is mold under the kitchen sink and in the wall next to garage. She says the mold is so bad that she and her kids get sick all the time and that is the reason why her kids can't study and why she can't go to work. (the neighbors say she uses drugs). So we had to get the housing authority to come inspect the house, and gladly for us, they said the house was inhabitable. So the tenant had to move out but because my parents still want to be law-abiding landlords they are paying for the tenant's hotel bills.



Some of the remodeling I plan to do. Fix the holes in the walls made by the tenants. Remove all cocaine infested carpets and replace with wooden floors. Paint the interior and exterior of the house. Redo the kitchen. Gut the garden and make it look nicer. and more...