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By Lane V. Erickson<\/a>, Attorney<\/p>\n

By and large, most tenants are pretty good, but one bad tenant can give a landlord nightmares and cause him to question whether he should ever rent again. Sooner or later a landlord will be faced with the task of evicting such a tenant. However, even when a bad tenant exists, there are specific steps that a landlord must follow to legally evict a tenant from a rental property. When a landlord fails to follow this process and simply locks the tenant out, the landlord could be liable to the tenant.<\/p>\n

A lease is a contract. As a result, the rights and obligations of both the landlord and the tenant are controlled by the terms of the contract. Our society and the laws that current exist determine that it is important that people have a place to live and that a person should have some protection from being immediately removed from their home. As a result, current law requires that even when a tenant has breached the lease agreement or is doing something illegal such as producing or selling illegal drugs, the tenant still has certain protections from being instantly kicked out of the leased property. In fact, unless a landlord has provided the required demands and notices, eviction of a tenant cannot occur.<\/p>\n

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By Lane V. Erickson, Attorney By and large, most tenants are pretty good, but one bad tenant can give a landlord nightmares and cause him to question whether he should ever rent again. Sooner or later a landlord will be faced with the task of evicting such a tenant. However, even when a bad tenant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate"],"yoast_head":"\nIllegal Lockout by a Landlord|Racine Olson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you have questions about what a landlord can and cannot do, we can help. 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