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    Default Potential Damaged Property And Crazy Cat

    My question involves a roommate in the State of: TEXAS

    I live in Ausitn, TX and I bought a brand new house last year and allowed my friend to move in with me. She does pay rent, but I never had her sign anything nor did I ask her to give me a deposit (stupid me!).

    We've been getting into a lot of arguments and recently she went overboard and I asked her to leave. She refused and I had to call for police assistance. When the police arrived they told me that I have to give her 30 day notice because she's considered family or something because she does pay rent. They also said I have to go to court and file to have her evicted. I told her I was going to do this and she said I didn't have to and that she would just get a letter that I write notarized with me stating that she would be out in 30days.

    I have a few problems here:

    1. She has lived with other people before and when she moved out she started taking stuff, throwing things around and breaking mirrors and picture frames and such. What can I do if she does this to my home?

    2. Her cat has become a huge problem. The litter box was originally in her bathroom but we got an additional roommate and they share a bathroom and the new roomy doesn't like the cat. I told her that she could leave the litter box in the downstairs bathroom because she knows I do not want the litter getting all over the carpet in any of the rooms. She has recently moved it into her room and has it on the carpet. Her cat likes to kick the litter out as well as her feces and smear it all over the ground. Her cat is also not spade and is currently in heat. She is leaving small amounts of blood on the carpet and my furniture. I asked her to leave her cat in her room, but she refuses. Can I make her get rid of her cat before the 30 days?

    3. Thus far she is extremely rude to me and screams at me when I go into her room to bring her cat inside. She tells me that because the cat is her property I'm not allowed to touch her and she says that because she pays rent I am not allowed to be in her room at any time without her permission. Before all this craziness, she borrowed a lot of my clothes and I know she still has many of them in her room. How do I get this back from her? Is it true that I cannot go into her room even though it's my house and she has never signed anything?

    Thus far she has not gotten anything notarized with me and she keeps telling me that she has to work so she has to sleep early or something. I can't even talk to her without her blowing up. She's become really spiteful and has been purposefully leaving the door unlocked and not setting the alarm when she leaves... what am I going to do?!

    Please help!

    Thank you in advance for your advise!

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    Default Re: Potential Damaged Property And Crazy Cat

    Quote Quoting o0ojeneeo0o
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    1. She has lived with other people before and when she moved out she started taking stuff, throwing things around and breaking mirrors and picture frames and such. What can I do if she does this to my home?
    Call the police.
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    2. Her cat has become a huge problem. ... Can I make her get rid of her cat before the 30 days?
    No.
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    3. Thus far she is extremely rude to me and screams at me when I go into her room to bring her cat inside. She tells me that because the cat is her property I'm not allowed to touch her and she says that because she pays rent I am not allowed to be in her room at any time without her permission. Before all this craziness, she borrowed a lot of my clothes and I know she still has many of them in her room. How do I get this back from her? Is it true that I cannot go into her room even though it's my house and she has never signed anything?
    She has a reasonable expectation of privacy in her room. If she has something of yours, ask her to return it.
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    Thus far she has not gotten anything notarized with me
    Serve her legally valid notice that you're terminating her tenancy. She doesn't need to sign it. You may be able to get a standard form from your county court, or from its website.

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    Default Re: Potential Damaged Property And Crazy Cat

    She agreed to have something notarized with me, but when we went to get it notarized today, she refused because I put a clause in there stating "Further, please be sure that the Premises is surrendered clean and in the same condition as when your occupancy commenced, reasonable wear and tear accepted at the landowner’s discretion. You may be charged for any damages to the Premises. This includes, but is not limited to: damages made by pet(s), stains on the carpet, septic tank problems do to litter being flushed into the commode, or any other damages to the Premises caused by tenant." She said she wouldn't sign it because she doesn't want to get charged. That only frightens me that she's damaged stuff in her room that I don't know about. Is there nothing I can do to prevent this other than sue her in the future?

    If I cannot ask her to get rid of her cat, can I ask her to leave her cat in the kennel while she is at work or at school? When she moved in with this cat, it was agreed that she would get the cat declawed ASAP and thus far, 4 months later, it still has not been done. It was also agreed that she would not put the litter box on the carpet, but she started to do that a few days ago. Can I tell her that is against our "verbal agreement" and that she has to leave it in the bathroom?

    One more thing, I gave her the notice at 2am on the night of June 4th, technically June 5th. She agreed to be out by July 4th and has said it time and time again, but now she's saying that I have to give her until July 5th. Can I hold her to July 4th? Or is she correct and I cannot change the locks until July 5th?

    She said she wouldn't make me go to court, but I guess I'm going to have to file for her eviction.

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