Here Comes The Judge!
Do you realize the number one search string that brings people to this site is hinged around the word eviction? Ironically for the last three or four months my entire life has revolved around evicting problem tenants who believe they have the right to disrespect my properties, don’t find it necessary to live by societies, never mind my rules and who are trying to take advantage of my trying to initially help them.
Along the way, I have also run into a steady stream of other landlords and investors with similar problems. I haven’t been able to help all of them, but I have been able to help the majority ease their fears and concerns about the process. After some prompting over a bottle of wine (or more) about opportunities out there, a thought came into play.
I guess it’s finally time to take advantage of my experiences and turn them into a tool to help other landlords. I’m currently in the process of putting a package together that will walk people through the eviction process in Alberta, it will explain the steps, the costs, the potential pitfalls and your various options. Anyone out there interested in this? There will be a cost associated with it, but considering the costs that can run up with a bad tenant it will be very affordable.
I’ll potentially be looking for a couple of people to review it and I should have a draft available by the end of November. Let me know if you would like to be one of those people, if I get a flurry of people it will end up being a random draw of some type (with preference going to people with excellent grammar!). With any luck, it should be available for purchase and as a giveaway to lucky readers sometime in December, unless of course I get stuck in more evictions!
If you wish to be updated and you were brought here by the search engine, or have friends who don’t read this blog, but have eviction problems, simply register on the site and you will be notified when it is ready! Register by clicking here. If you can also take a minute and please answer the polls below it would be appreciated because they will help me with some questions I have!
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Thanks for the info. Any advice on where to find good tenants for non share accomodation. I am currently using Renfaster but not getting as many responses as in the past
Hi Steve,
From our experience it’s best to hit multiple places and not just one site. We use Rentfaster, Homerent, kijiji.ca and craigslist as well as our own site. It’s also incredibly important to get some type of signage on your property showing it is for rent. This alerts any tenants already living in the area, people driving through that specific area looking for places or viewing someone else’s and also anyone living in the area that would like ot have friends living nearby.
There are also some new rental sites showing up lately so be sure to check google to see what results show up if you were a tenant looking for a place like yours and advertise on the top sites there as well. To clarify this, if you have a lower two bedroom suite for rent in Crescent Heights, type “two bedroom suite crescent heights calgary” into google and see what comes up. If you aren’t advertising on the top sites that show here, you are missing prospective tenants! Hope that helps!
Hey the first report on how the Alberta Eviction Process works is done and up at my new site http://www.albertaeviction.com. If you are in the process of evicting a tenant I have some great information I have put together to help walk you through evicting a tenant.
You can go check out some of the additional eviction information I have put together there as well! So just follow this link,
How To Evict a Tenant
Bill