How to Evict a Tenant for Threatening Other Tenants
My question involves an eviction in the state of: Indiana
We own an apartment house with a main level apartment which has 3 sleeping rooms and a common area (large kitchen), and one shared bath.
One of the tenants has his teenage daughter living with him. The other 2 rooms are occupied by men in their early 30s.
He constantly accuses the other two tenants of sexually harrassing his daughter.
He has his big, burly buddies come over to visit frequently and threatens to 'beat the _____' out of the guys who live there.
He has also threatened me, when I was there cleaning the awful filth they have made in the kitchen and bath, and even called the police on me, telling them that I 'barge right in' and see his daughter who is coming out of the bathroom (going through the kitchen to get to their room), even though this common area where I'm cleaning and otherwise doing maintenance is not private for him and his daughter only, and is a COMMON area (which the police did point out to him). He has stated to the other tenants that he is going to "get the landlord in trouble for sexually molesting his daughter"!
He drives every new tenant away with his threats. How can I get him and his daughter OUT? He always pays his rent on time.
Do I have grounds for eviction, and can it be IMMEDIATE eviction before something really bad happens??
Re: How to Evict a Tenant for Threatening Other Tenants
Sounds to me you are running a "rooming house" in the first floor apartment. I had not run rooming houses, though I looked into buying rental units that were rooming houses, and discussed issues that came with them.
First of all, does your town or county have any regulations on rooming houses where you'll need a license to run one? In other cases, towns restrict so may "unrelated people" living in a rental unit, usually no more than 3 unrelated people, and if so, you'll be in violation as well.
I ran across one illegal rooming house situation where the owner had big problems with the tenants, and he thought of calling the cops on himself, the way the real estate agent explain it to me, in other words turning himself in, had the town evict the tenants under "emergency dispossess", which bypasses the cumbersome procedures of normal evictions. The problem here is all the tenants would be evicted, you'll have to find yourself all new tenants, and be out of rent for a while, and be ready for whatever penalties the town wants to impose.
To solve your problem, you'll have to evict one or all of the tenants, and under normal circumstances, it'll take you a while through the courts. As I don't know the rules and regulations of the town, I'm pointing out some avenues you can explore.