DC tenant not paying rent

[Anonymous]

unfortunately, this is a problem across ALL democratic run cities in the US. What were laws to protect law abiding renters from evil landlords has turned into a scammers utopia. on top of this, many of these dem cities want you to not include past credit, evictions and other things are part of your decision to rent space as to eliminate bias

you have to have bias in determining your renter, and also credit check.

there are so many loopholes for these scammers. one big thing they do is not pay until right before a eviction and then make one payment and it can reset everything b/c the court will see the payment as favorable.

[Anonymous]

I am completely naive. How does this happen, and what is the cure?

[Anonymous]

OP here - just found out that tenant has subleased our home to another family. Any lawyers that you all can recommend to help and is there anything we can do immediately?

[Anonymous]

Vito & Rocco LLP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vito & Rocco LLP

Actually, Moose and Rocco have been the go to guys since 1980.

[Anonymous]

This is insane. Can you make the living situations so unpleasant that they'll be forced to move?

[Anonymous]

I thought DC was becoming for landlord friendly due to developers backing out as they aren’t able to keep their properties up to code when tenants don’t pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't have any of these issues by investing my money in an S&P 500 index fund.

People don't trust markets, they don't do the math, and don't understand this at all. most go for real estate and you cannot talk them out of it.
My family members who go on and on how they made $80k from their last home. They just got their equity back. Had they rented the same house or similar and invested the money, they would have had $200k.
Same with out other home. We got $50k of our own equity out and family member thinks this means we paid no rent for 10 years. In reality, we lost $200k and were unable to leave the crazy neighbor behind.
I'm renting now. My rent was increased and I gave notice. I can get cheaper rent in the same building and my landlord can try to get what he wants. Win-win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I looked into this, as a private landlord, you couldn’t report to the credit bureau.

I'm a private landlord and my property mgmt did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - just found out that tenant has subleased our home to another family. Any lawyers that you all can recommend to help and is there anything we can do immediately?

Michelle Meiners. She wasn't my attorney but I was very impressed with her as an observer when I was going through eviction with my tenant two years ago. I started tuning into cases and tracking outstanding cases to gauge how long it took for eviction and she stood out as the most efficient. You absolutely need an attorney who knows what they're doing or you will literally pay for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
What happened if you change the lock and put their stuff in a locker?

LL would go to jail

So, basically anyone can move to a DC located house and claim to be a tenant ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
What happened if you change the lock and put their stuff in a locker?

LL would go to jail

So, basically anyone can move to a DC located house and claim to be a tenant ?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Democrats shouldn't punish landlords. Their nonsensical and failed policies are the reason they shouldn't get elected to run any city. They are good at federal level but suck at city and state level.

[Anonymous]

Every city they govern gets infected with lawlessness.

[Anonymous]

Hire actors. My old neighbor had a few guys who looked like out of central casting for Sopranos or Godfather. He have them go over there if issues. 90 percent of time tenant moved on. The one guy was a school teacher and wannabe actor who looked mean.