How Slumlords Courts And Police Work Together To Evict Renters For Any Reason
Created and published by Terry James Clark.
I have been a renter for many years, many decades, and observed not only bad behavior by landlords, but criminal behavior, enforced by the courts and the cops. In my years of renting I have dealt with a lot of people who are slumlords that will rip you off and screw you over with little regret, treating you like a piece of meat that can be replaced at any given moment. In my small city of Caro Michigan and other small towns in the county, do not require any form of rental inspections. The owners of apartments basically have free will without facing any repurcussions for things they do illegally.
At any given time, any day, without reason, a Michigan landlord can drop a notice to quit on you, even if you have paid, even if you have been there long term. You have 30 days to vacate with the notice to quit, and if you don’t vacate by then, the landlord/slumlord can file in court and you are required in front of the court within 2 weeks time. The court officer comes around beating on your door and yelling out your name to get you to answer the door so he can serve you and gloat about how you have to vacate. The pressure is on as you try to deal with multiple people harassing you out of house and home while the courts tell you they don’t offer legal advice, consult a lawyer.
You are not required to appear in court for a civil matter, although most times this will result in a default judgement and a judgement to repossess the property.
Once I vacated before the court date, notified the landlord, his lawyer , and the court, and the judge sent the form “case dismissed”. Recently, another spiteful Eviction for refusing to show my apartment to prospective buyers after the slumlord put the building up for sale after renting from him for 3 years. Harassment from the court officer, my exit before the court date, a different result with the same judge the same county court. The judge this time set a judgement against me for repossession even though I had vacated and notified both as before. The court also violated my rights by not sending via mail the final judgement, the paper from the court proceedings. I could not appear it was a work day, my landlord knew that. So I called the court to see where the hell the papers were. They said they were waiting on a forwarding address. I said you
gotta be kidding me you morons forced me into homelessness. Besides, if they sent the letter to that address they evicted me from, it would have still reached my po box or been forwarded to a new address automatically. 22 days later after the case date, I walked into the courthouse and demanded my papers. The lady went to find it and it was still in the file folder, in the envelope to mail it, but never mailed. They also violated my right to appeal the judgement by delaying it past the 10 day limit. Slumlord wins, here comes another renter he can rip off for a lot of money and never give it back. The court was unapologetic as I told the lady you court people are all the same, you abuse the public and act like youre better than everyone else. Another life ruined and future housing possibilities shot down the shitter. With no reason, I was PAID in FULL for 3 solid years and always on time or a day or two before it was due. My previous landlord took my move in money and 2 weeks later he was putting the apartment house up for sale and asking to tour buyers through the apartments. A senior lady moved in days after I did, and He began showing the apartments without permission, letting people in while she wasn’t around and moving her dog around inside the apartment without any approval. I changed locks on my door, I know how to say no and mean it.
Tuscola county imparticular, posted a job for Homeless Coordinator, which they cannot find anyone to fill the position. Because THEY THEMSELVES created the homelessness and do not care about the people they abuse, just trash to be wiped away clean, to be the strongarm for the slumlords that screw over tenants for money and profit. There are NO rental inspections in Caro Mi, many of these places are filthy, not maintained. My most recent rental the hallway smelled like sewer, the apartment smelled like sewer, the street smelled like sewer. The landlord never sent anyone to clean the hallway period, that’s with 4 apartments upstairs and 2 businesses downstairs.
If any of you would like to comment on your experiences with slumlords that would be great I am all for that. I am a military veteran, and an upstanding citizen that pays his bills, nothing wrong with me at all. Any contacts who would like to get ahold of me can email me at tigerdragon77@ymail.com