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  1. #1
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    Default How to Evict a House Guest

    My question involves an eviction in the state of: FLORIDA

    My son had a co-worker who needed a place to stay for a few nights when his parents kicked him out.
    My son said he could figuring it would be a few days and then he would be gone. Very wrong. He stayed a few days til they got paid then disappeared for 3days--apparently he has drug issues and went off on a bender. He showed back up went to work with my son Tuesday am and then said he got a call that his mother was in a car accident and he needed to leave early to go to the hospital and could he borrow the housekey so he could get his ID which he left there. My son being trusting gave him the key and he didn't come back to the house that night. Wed am as my son was leaving for work he noticed the side gate open and some of my boxes from the garage outside. He didn't see it the night before as he gets home after dark. He went in the house and out to the garage to find every box I had stored there had been ransacked and items were missing. Most of it with no real "street" value but he had put aside some new items with the obvious intention of coming back for them. He did steal my son's bike and some of my jewelry. My son called the police and told them what had happened and they did try to get some fingerprints off some of the packed up items. I got there just after and decided I would check through his duffel bag and storage tote--we found a bunch of items that belonged to me in them-electronics, DVD's, CD's and a checkbook of new checks but from a defunct account and the housekey my son had lent him. We then packed up all his things(after removing my items) and put them outside on the porch so he had no reason to come back inside. He showed up at 11pm that night--after making two earlier trips by the house I guess to see if he could get anything else but my son had stayed home from work so he just left--and wouldn't leave the porch saying he "lived" there and was a roomate. He was not allowed in so he called the police and told them the same thing. They said my son HAD TO let him in and if he wanted him gone he would need to file and eviction($400+) and serve him and it still could take up to 10-30 days to have him gone. My son cannot take off work to watch our belongings but we are supposed to let this drug addict stay there so he can steal more things??? This is ridiculous. The guy has no ID or mail or anything with my son's address on it and is NOT on the lease so why is a "transient" allowed to just take over your home?

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    Default Re: My Son's Houseguest Won't Leave and Stole from Us

    Probably easier to call the police back to file theft charges on this deadbeat.

    Police will not address what the consider "civil" matters (i.e., issues as to whether someone is a tenant or not)..and it's pretty obvious this guy was, at the most, just a guest. It's a different matter if you push this as criminal matter regarding the theft business.



    Gail

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    Default Re: My Son's Houseguest Won't Leave and Stole from Us

    Success to a degree! Found out that he got a homeless man that had an ID to pawn the gold chain a a few rings, we are about to find out which shop so the police can at least retrieve the stuff. The jewelbox that it was in may still be at an acquaintance's house--waiting to hear--and if so I have told them to pick it up with a plastic bag and bag it so the police can print it and nail his butt! Also he apparently stole something(illg substance) from this acquaintance and is now in dutch with him. I told my son if the acquaintance wants to beat him bloody just make sure he does it out of the house and preferably off the property and to stay out of it, as much as I'd like to give him a kick myself. If this acquaintance does have the jewelbox then my son will call the police after the butt kicking.
    I had managed to get ahold of his mother by phone this am but she works til 5pm(ironically for the Sherriff's dept) and they live about 2hours away so she said the soonest she could come would probably be Saturday. But she has been made aware of his drug use and theft as well as all the money she wired him that he claimed to her was for bills was never given to my son as he claimed. Looks like she may be picking him up in jail or not as he has a criminal record and had been in jail before( news to me as of this am) and may be staying awhile this time.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Still waiting on the slow flow of info but he decided to leave last nite and go home--about 2hrs away. The galling thing is I had to drive his ass halfway so he could get picked-up. I did it only because I wanted this crap OVER!! I did make him print and sign his name on a document saying he gave up all rights of residency to the address and would not seek to occupy it at any time in the future and that he left of his own free will. I signed it as witness as did his mother when I dropped him off to her. EVERYTHING he had went with him so there is nothing left and I told my son to hold onto the paper in case he is stupid enough to come back. Now to see if the sheriff's dept can recover anything.

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