I would NEVER rent to a person with an eviction record under any circumstance, no matter how old. They’re troublemakers and have no respect for landlords. They don’t care about all the time, stress, aggravation the landlord went through. They’ve never been through it so why would they care? They don’t care if the landlord relies on that money for their bills. Many tenants should be extremely grateful they were even approved for housing with their horrible credit. Are they ever? Nope! Most have a strong sense of entitlement, make a bunch of outrageous demands, complain about petty crap and think everyone should be quickly approved just because they breathe. They don’t want to follow the rules and probably break other rules like no pets and damage the place without caring.

DONT DO IT, DONT DO IT, DONT DO IT, DONT DO IT, DONT DO IT, DONT DO IT, DONT DO IT, DONT DO IT

I live in Obamaland, which is a very pro-deadbeat, pro-freeloader , pro-criminal (criminals run free/juries rarely convict without videotaped evidence/short “compassionate” jail sentences). The mob never left Chicago, they’re still running the whole city. It’s very hard to collect judgments on people that owe money here because the formula lets the deadbeats keep large amount of money before wage garnishment. You get peanuts for garnishment. It takes you 10 years to collect $300. LOL

Judges and polititions steal and intimidate fair hardworking business people through unfair laws, taxes and lack of enforcement of the laws in order to keep themselves in power. Cook County is one of most politicized and corrupt offices. Throw scraps to the freeloaders of society and stay in power, just like the mob. They go out of their way to help freeloaders criminals and those who do nothing wrong get the shaft! Thieves are protected by the law and the law abiding has become the target of government.

Anybody that would put a landlord through the eviction process doesn’t care and probably did a bunch of $hit to the landlord to make it as long and drawn out as possible, using delay tactics and have no intention to pay. They don’t want to work anything out or it wouldn’t have reached the eviction process. They think they can get away with anything and want to stay for free instead of leaving voluntarily or pay off the debt without the landlord having to chase them down, just like other bill collectors. The landlord shouldn’t have to go after tenants for money owed and resort to wage garnishment and other things. The tenant should be responsible and try to pay with a payment plan of some sort. Do most tenants that have been evicted voluntarily pay the judgment owed? NOPE! You better believe they don’t and have no intention of doing so. I’ve never heard any evicted tenant ever be remorseful or say “sorry” EVER with any landlord I’ve ever met. FIND ONE! Never do they go out of their way to make first contact with the landlord to pay off the debt. NOPE NOPE NOPE!
They know the system and milk it for all it’s worth. Most tenants have horrible credit and have no intention of ever paying that is why they rack up so many bills to get things for free.

Buying things on credit means you can steal for free (this includes rental housing with help of pro-dedbeat court system).
These people who have huge debt look for people to help them (co-sign) rack up more debt and free items (grand theft).
Ask a person asking you to put something in your name when they intend to start paying their bills? 5, 10, 20 years? Sometime this century? When their creditors are already effin dead? They want YOU to “co-sign” to (help them continue to steal) If a person has a bunch of debt and bills it means you’re broke and you can’t afford new crap on CREDIT until you pay off your old crap!!!!! They will never get it.

If you want to get taken seriously as a responsible adult pay off your Effin bills. clean up your grand fu*kin theft credit freeloading losers!

Ask yourself would you lend your hard earned salary to people with a history of bad credit and evictions?
It would be stupid wouldn’t it? You know you wouldn’t because you know it would be the last time you ever saw one red cent of that money ever again. You’d never be able to garnish or put liens because you would need to take a number and wait in line after all the other creditors. Any assets are already gone.

Thankfully now you can cause alot of grief for tenants by posting the truth all over the internet and they can’t get away with it over and over. Any landlord can google someone’s name and eviction info can be googled and posted for free. It follows them around for the rest of their life.

KARMA IS A BITCH dirty rotton S.O.B’s!!!! Trust me I will make sure everyone knows the truth and it can be verified by doing a court docket search free online and I will point the way. They will see what they did and what troublemakers they are.

Anybody who cosigns for people for cellphones and other baloney are a bunch of morons as well.
Just tell them this, “pay as you go phones”. DONT DO IT. DONT DO IT. DONT DO IT. DONT DO IT.

I would like to think that I act in a fair and open way with my tenants, who are also my neighbors. Perhaps that makes things a bit different for us than for others, in that my tenants are right upstairs and so I take a LOT of time selecting the right people since it is of equal importance to me how they are as people as to how they are in terms of a mere ability to write me a check each month.

Anyway, some people here need to consider viewpoints other than their own. The whole thing is a RELATIONSHIP - and sometimes purely a Business Relationship. I want my tenants to be very happy and stay a long time - so I do extra things to make staying desirable for them. Do have to? No. But it’s in MY INTEREST to keep a good tenant happy and spend a bit of time/money to do so. Life isn’t black and white, any way you slice it. I wouldn’t register a tenant of mine with a blacklist unless they put me into a position where I basically had to do so (intentionally caused damage to my property, etc).

It’s better for people who need to move on - for whatever reason - to move on, quickly and quietly. Life is too short to go actively looking for trouble and creating strife.

Let me see… where have I seen such perfection before? Oh, I know, I read about it in a story where a prostitute was thrown before a holy man with a crowd of perfectionists calling for him to agree that she’s dirty and sinful.

What was it he said to that crowd?

Oh oh and I know I’ve heard some speak of glass houses and and the damage you can cause by throwing stones around from inside them.

Nah, I think I’ll go with this little tidbit…. many religions actually share a core message. Yep, they share it! It’s the same thought….. from all different sides of the spectrum. Do you know what it is?

Simply this: The Golden Rule.

In the Biblical scripture it’s stated thus: “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” Matthew 7:12, King James Version

Buddhism: “Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.” Udana-Varga 5:18

Hinduism: “This is the sum of duty: do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you.” Mahabharata 5:1517

Islam: “None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.” Number 13 of Imam Al-Nawawi’s Forty Hadiths.

Judaism: “What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. This is the law: all the rest is commentary.” Talmud, Shabbat 31a.

Wicca: “An it harm no one, do what thou wilt” Wiccan Rede

I wish we all, Landlord and Tenant, could work towards resolutions together.

Now that attorneys are using “Aspergers” as an excuse for their clients having committed crimes, I am concerned that will cause stigma to follow me even though my record is completely clean. I have no criminal record, and no intention of committing a crime. However, if people who have Aspergers are suddenly required to report their diagnosis just because it is being used as an excuse by criminal lawyers, it is a violation of my rights under the ADA if an apartment complex manager refuses me a unit based on my diagnosis just because it is considered a “criminal type” disability in some places. Apartment complexes around here check to see if you have a criminal history. Eventually, having Aspergers may be considered the same as having a criminal history just because of the way criminal lawyers are using that diagnosis as an excuse to let the person off easily in court. It would unnecessarily stimatize those who have the diagnosis as well as a clean record. Pretty much the same as blacklisting. The ADA laws, unfortunately have no teeth, and judges still throw ADA cases out just because the plaintiff has a disability, and judges hate the ADA. They want people with disabilities out of sight and mind just like in the dark ages.

I agree it’s not the landlord’s responsibility, but at the same time it shouldn’t be “pay on time regardless of the circumstances or get out and by the way we will make sure you can’t obtain other housing.”
That attitude by landlords are the reason a lot of tenants take on an “I don’t care, let them evict me” attitude. If they’re going to be evicted and blacklisted anyway, what’s the point? If they’re sick and can’t pay, all the begging and borrowing from friends and family isn’t going to help. Or at least not for long. Everyone is on hard times these days, so saying borrow the money is bull.

Again, I have spent weeks cleaning the filth and damage left by renters who “seemed nice” who turned my spotless places into kennels. In my teens and twenties, I was a great renter, respected my landlords, and left the places spotless, owing nothing. I always got my deposit returned. I also spent that time BUILDING excellent credit that made it possible for me to buy and remodel my home and rentals. Part of the credit I built was via my great rental history. (By the way, you cannot “lie” to the bank when obtaining real estate loans. They don’t “take your word for it”. They check your finances out stringently before loaning you money.

Tenant blacklisting is no different than reporting unethical business practices to the better business bureau. We are conducting a business and providing a service in exchange for payment, not providing social services. You are responsible for providing yourself with the basic necessities and we have the right to refuse service to anyone who is a threat to our business and property. In doing so, we create openings for those who keep their end of the deal.

It’s pretty obvious you haven’t experienced much of the real world, or you would be showing a better understanding of it. Be decent and responsible, appreciate the person who supplies you with a place to live until you can afford to buy your own, and it will pay off. Don’t bitch about consequences that you create yourself.

KJ

The same with air conditioning. If it was rented with air conditioning, then the air conditioner or heater has to be in working condition. If not, then the tenant has the right to demand rent credit until it is fixed.

And if their lease only lists the original tenants on the lease she can have them evicted. Having additional people living in the unit is a breach of their lease. She needs to find an attorney and file the eviction process imediately.

You do; however, risk them staying and not leaving. This has not happened so far, so I am not sure what the law is if it does because basically they can be arrested if they are on the property but, I am not sure if me letting them back in would do something to that law.

I always figured I would deny that I let them back in. It never happened and most are greatful I let them get their stuff back even though many times, there was things I could have sold to get the money they owed the property.

But, he did find a job making $8.50/hour. While it is not the same as the $35,000/year he used to make, it helps pay the rent, car payments/food etc.

But, to bash the guy up top, you don’t even know he is rich. He may just be a landlord, and they don’t make that much money trust me. Most work more than 12 hour days and if you figure the salary to the amount of hours worked sometimes it comes out to less than minimum wage!

But, as an apartment manager, I know what my budget is. I know the expenses that an apartment can make. The company I work for manages for a private owner. So, you have the owners income, the property management’s income, the staff’s income, and then expenses such as repairs, normal employment expeses such as workers compensation, medical, rent, landscaping, advertising, and legal just as the person above stated, the owner of the property really does not make a whole lot on the property.

Maybe he/she should not have said you all were whiners, but tenants need to understand the cost and expense of running an apartment or condo community.

The people who come to me mad that I won’t shampoo their carpet or get them new blinds (That they broke) or get the gate that won’t shut fixed today (not tomorrow) need to understand that just as you are suffering in this economy, so is the owner/property management who have to lower rates to get tenants but, the cost of maintaining the units are going up and our budgets are getting smaller.

Bottom line, is you need to have sympathy as well!

In any case, it sounds like you are already evicted but don’t worry about it - it’s highly unlikely that your future landlord will know about any of those sites. If you go looking you might end up on one of them so best to just make sure that you pay your way going forward.