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Originally Posted by maleficent
I'd also find out what the laws in your state are about evicting people if it comes down to it... (just in case... some states, like new york, the tenant almost has more rights than the landlord does)
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In CT it is nearly impossible to evict a tenant. This unfortunate fact led to a situation in which a landlord of a three-unit house, who may or may not be my uncle, found out several weeks after everything was legally binding and irreversible that the two black tenants who had been living there for some time were sharing a house with a mentally unstable but surprisingly unarmed white supremacist.
Legal means were exhausted in the attempt to remove the now unwelcome resident, but luck smiled upon the landlord shortly thereafter and when he arrived to address his new tenant's lack of phone service, initiated a conversation that eventually resulted in an agreement to nullify the lease contract with his new tenant with no refund of the security depoist. Apparently, the tenant became aware of his lack of phone service when, during the course of the previous night, he was unexpectedly unable to obtain a dial tone [and was unfortunate enough to be living in a time period before cell phones were practical or economical for personal use,] which rendered him unable to inform the outside world of three midnight visitors wearing ski masks and carrying baseball bats who had come to welcome him to the neighborhood.