Tenant Eviction Process In California

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How To Handle The Tenant Eviction Process In
California
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• The tenant eviction process in California is a
  long and tiring process that most landlords
  would like to forget about. In the case of having
  to handle a tenant eviction, you need to have a
  full understanding of all legal requirements
  under California jurisdiction.
• Most landlords will go to the best property
  management companies in Orange County CA to
  minimize the chances of this happening, but also
  to resolve the issue as swiftly as possible if a
  tenant eviction does happen.

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Stages of the Tenant Eviction Process in
California

• Make sure you have legal grounds to evict your
  tenant
• Personally contact your tenant
• Eviction notice
• Serve notice
• File an unlawful detainer complaint
• Request a court date
• Court
• The local sheriff takes control
• Deal with the property tenant left behind

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Make sure you have legal grounds
Step 1

• Go through all of your paperwork, especially the
  Landlord Tenant lease agreement and be absolutely
  sure you have the right to evict your tenant
  before doing anything else. This needs to be
  in-line with what is accepted by California law,
  therefore make sure you have sought some legal
  advice before going ahead to avoid a lawsuit in
  response.

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Personally contact your tenant
Step 2

• Occasionally, a legal battle can be avoided by
  speaking with your tenant personally and
  attempting to resolve the situation. This is
  always worth doing, as it will save you a lot of
  legal fees, even if you hire a legal mediator to
  support you both in coming to a decision.

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Eviction notice
Step 3

• To continue with the tenant eviction process in
  California, you must send a written notice to
  your tenant to inform them of how they violated
  the lease and how long they have to leave the
  property. This varies depending on the violation,
  so checking if this is in accordance with
  California legislation beforehand is recommended.

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Serve your notice
Step 4

• You need to serve your tenant with the eviction
  notice in order for it to be valid. As many
  tenants preempt this happening, they try to avoid
  being served as an attempt at avoid eviction. The
  law has now extended this stage time in order to
  provide further options to serve tenants. This
  includes personally delivering a copy of the
  notice to the tenant or leaving it with a person
  over the age of 18 at the tenants workplace and
  mailing another copy to your tenant.
• Give your tenant some time to try to resolve the
  situation before filing a lawsuit. This will help
  you to avoid a time and money consuming legal
  battle. However, if the tenant does not proceed
  to vacate your property, you need to go forward
  with legal proceedings.

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File an unlawful detainer complaint
Step 5

• This is the part of the tenant eviction process
  in California where you could use the support of
  the best property management companies in Orange
  County CA. Once the time limit you have given
  your tenant has expired, you can proceed with a
  lawsuit. This process is done by filing a
  complaint at the courthouse. The court will issue
  a summon to the tenant. Tenant has 5 days to
  respond.

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Request a court date
Step 6

• Once the five days have gone by, and your tenant
  has still not vacated the property, you have the
  right to request a court date which is usually
  held between 10 to 20 days from your request.
  Please note that during this time you cannot
  collect any rent payments from your tenant
  however they will still be liable to pay you for
  this.

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Court
Step 7

• Make sure you bring copies of every legal
  document and form of communication between you
  and the tenant to this part of the tenant
  eviction process in California. On average,
  proceedings take about an hour but can go on for
  longer, if there are any delays. Make sure you
  have every piece of documentation, however
  irrelevant it seems.

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The Local Sheriff takes control
Step 8

• The court will have the local sheriff serve a 5
  day notice to your tenants to vacate and if they
  do not, the sheriff has the authority to come and
  physically remove your tenants.

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Deal with the property tenant left behind
Step 9

• You can sell these items or dispose them in some
  cases, but you need to check the tenant notice
  and rules of your local jurisdiction to ensure
  you are not liable for any of the tenants
  leftover possessions.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION
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