Wisconsin evictions may be changing soon. Law calls for Landlords to file evictions, not management companies!
A recent court decision in Dane County could affect the way Wisconsin landlords are able to evict tenants.
Some landlords let their management companies take care of eviction proceedings. However, state law requires that evictions cases be filed by “a person entitled to the possession of real property.”
Some legal experts say that means only the landlord can sue, according to a Wisconsin State Journal report.
A Dane County circuit judge also has raised questions about the practice, and his decision this winter could lead to changes in the way eviction cases are handled.
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A hike in renting leads to more disputes in court
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Animal hoarders. Bed bugs. Drug dealers and wife beaters.
“If you don’t have a horror story to tell, then you’re probably not a really a landlord,” said Garry Miller, a Bensalem property manager of more than 25 years.
Bucks County is home to about 53,836 rental units, according the 2010 Census. The number of rental units jumped 10 percent in just three years, records show.
More locals are leasing properties or simply renting out rooms for extra money, experts said. And more of those landlords are taking their tenants to district court, according to the county.
Living in Filth? One Landlord discovers what his tenant has been doing!
MEMPHIS, TN -
(WMC-TV) – A Memphis rental property has been dubbed the ‘Dirtiest house in America.’
Imagine spending your life wading through mounds of garbage, drowning in a sea of trash everywhere you turn. It is hard to believe that someone could live like that on a street where neighbors had no idea what was going on in the house next door.
Memphis real estate investor Chris Wark leased his rental home to the same woman for seven years. She was a school teacher, who apparently had a hard time throwing anything away.
This place must have been a PIG STY
A council is attempting to trace a tenant who caused thousands of pounds of damage to a house after keeping a pig inside the property.
Housing staff from Derby County Council found the Gloucester Old Spot roaming around the bottom floor of the property in Kingsley Street, Sinfin, Derbyshire, when they went to evict the tenant following complaints from neighbours.
The carpets were muddied and covered in droppings, and rooms were so full of boxes of junk that officials could not get into them.
It is thought the pig had been kept at the house for a year.
Who you gonna call? Maybe your lawyer!
A New Jersey family has filed a lawsuit against their landlord, claiming that they were forced to bail on their home because of “paranormal activity.” Josue Chinchilla and Michele Callan made it through a week in their Toms Riverhome before bouncing in the middle of the night because, as they put, spirits were “tugging at their bedsheets.”
The couple is suing their landlord, well-known local orthodontist Dr. Richard Lopez, because their home is haunted. They even want the $2,250 security deposit back.
This gives a new definition to "explosive argument"
A tenant set fire to the flat he rented above a petrol station following a row with his landlord.
Shane Willis, 45, of Coventry, has now been jailed for 54 months following the blaze last May.
He had poured turpentine in the lounge and bedroom of the apartment and then set light to it, causing £250,000 of damage.
Rental scams can target either landlords or tenants
Three days after listing a house for sale, real estate agents Richard and Jean Murphy of Portland, Maine, began receiving a surprising number of calls — not from buyers but from would-be tenants
It turns out the callers were answering an ad that said the place was for rent, “and at a really low price,” the agents for Harborview Properties recall. Worse, the “owner” was not the Murphys’ client. It was someone living in another state who told callers that if they sent $1,500, the place would be theirs.
A controversial bill signed by Gov. Scott Walker helping/hindering landlords and tenants
Madison - Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation Wednesday scaling back some rights of tenants, including how a landlord can dispose of tenants’ property.
The bill was among 19 pieces of mostly minor legislation that the Republican governor signed in a private ceremony. The tenants bill passed the Legislature last week.
The bill drew praise from GOP lawmakers, who said it was common sense, and criticism from Democrats, who said it took too many rights away from renters.
The proposal would allow landlords to deduct money from a renter’s security deposit to cover unpaid rent or utilities and require landlords to provide new tenants with a check-in sheet with an itemized description of the home’s condition…
Let us know how you feel about such a bill. Also, do you feel it is fare to call Landlords “irresponsible”?
Bronx landlord and tenant join forces against the New York City Housing Authority – and its dysfunctional new $36 million computer setup
In a town where landlord-tenant disputes are the stuff of legend, the New York City Housing Authority has now achieved the inconceivable.
The agency’s dysfunctional new $36 million computer system for tracking tenant and landlord records — better known as NICE — has created such chaos that it even prompted a small landlord and his tenant to band together in Housing Court.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/bronx-landlord-tenant-join-forces-york-city-housing-authority-dysfunctional-36-million-computer-setup-article-1.1038504#ixzz1p6uzfUUh
