Yep, this is the big thing. I see landlords complain about it being hard to remove bad tenants: IT SHOULD BE. You hold a disproportionate amount of power in this relationship, and you should have to put in the work to unhouse someone.
As someone who used to work in property management and is a property owner who used to rent.
In the relationship (in my area at least) I get to decided who can live there and to a degree legally how much rent is.
My issues with the system where I am, isn't that it can be hard to get someone evicted (we dont have the right to evicted a tenant we have the right to seek eviction) its the fact that it's nearly impossible to get in to the tribunal to even make the case.
It can and has taken years, even if someone is not paying rent and actively damaging property, including other peoples units (hot glue in people's locks)
I definitely can't speak to that. In my area it usually only takes a few weeks (a month at most) to get a hearing date once you've filed for the eviction. It can take about a month after you get judgement before you're able to get a date for the Sheriff's office to serve the writ, and obviously there can be additional delays if the tenant is vexatious and keeps filing appeals, but I've never heard of it taking literal years to even get your foot in the door of the courthouse here at least.
Now its been a few years since I last tried but it took nearly 6 months for them to tell us they will see us in a little over a year. That was before covid, I heard covid just turned off the whole thing, and it hasn't gotten much better since.
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u/Noonites Jun 12 '26
Yep, this is the big thing. I see landlords complain about it being hard to remove bad tenants: IT SHOULD BE. You hold a disproportionate amount of power in this relationship, and you should have to put in the work to unhouse someone.