My Brother is a Bum

My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Florida
My adult brother lives with me and I want him to leave. He does not pay rent but has agreed to pay $100 a month for a room, food, electric, water, laundry, and phone. I am fed up with his demands and attitude, it is taking a toll on my children and my relationship with my husband, who is at the point of "It's me or him". (He is the one who actually pays for the utilities that me brother uses indiscriminately). So when I asked him to move out he said I would have to evict him, I already know I can't afford to do that. My question is: can I kick him out of his room? My 3 children share a room so that he can have his privacy. Can I put his stuff in the garage or make hime sleep on the couch something? The only thing he owns is a laptop, everthing else I bought for him brd, clothes, etc. I want to make him as uncomfortable as possible so that he'll want to leave. How can I accomplish that legally?

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Quoting FL_mom

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He does not pay rent but has agreed to pay $100 a month for a room, food, electric, water, laundry, and phone.

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That $100 per month? It's called "rent". He's right, that you need to evict him.

Don't invite him to Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner.

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Quoting Mr. Knowitall

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That $100 per month? It's called "rent". He's right, that you need to evict him.

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Even though he hasn't actually paid it? He keeps saying "next paycheck" to pacify me for the moment.

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Quoting FL_mom

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Even though he hasn't actually paid it? He keeps saying "next paycheck" to pacify me for the moment.

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You really are going to have to evict him through the courts if he refuses to leave.

When your tenant doesn't pay his rent, you follow the process for evicting him for nonpayment of rent.

I don't know what county you're in, but in Hernando county you could start with this;

http://hernandoclerk.com/wp-content/...e-fillable.pdf

That's something that needs to be done before you institute eviction proceedings, and won't cost you anything. May not accomplish anything by itself, but it starts the process. If that doesn't work, then on to;

http://hernandoclerk.com/courts/civi...ndlord-tenant/

You can probably find similar information for your own county, so you can at least begin to remedy this.

Good luck, I understand how frustrating it can be to deal with this kind of situation.