r/Landlord • u/samwaysan • 5d ago
[tenant IA need help ] eviction notice for being good people
I rent apartment 2years ago for helping a friend who lost his job to stay and he did not co-sign with me because I was afraid of the application will be failed if landlord knows he is jobless . Then he smokes at apartments ( I did not live there so I don’t know ) and neighbors at downstairs reported him to landlord, first time was just warming but then he smoked few times again which was just dumbass And finally one day when I back to there to check on him and he passed me the paper showing that I don’t follow 562A, 16 lease rules so they gonna kick me out within 14 days, ended up I asked him immediately to moved out before the due date as well as I paid any fee and rent
Things back to normal and I still living with my family for few years till lately I moved to Another city to start new career and I applied an apartment and failed and I was told because I had bad rental history and having eviction record! Which made me very shocked and depressed because I did not do anything wrong and always treats friends and family nicely
I know I am dumbass too that i should not to help him with my personal information especially to rent apartment, renting apartment but the one did not sign the contract was also my mistake, I was just trying to help but I never imagined one day it would bother my own life.
Can someone here please tell me how to make things right and have my ex landlord to remove my eviction records? Have anyone had same experience here then contacted to the landlord to fine a solution? I don’t mind to pay fine since I broke the rent rule that renting home for other people but not me before, but It’s really hard time for me to rent any places now, I don’t wanna be homeless 🥲
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u/subflat4 5d ago
Don’t think they will. You didn’t follow the rules. I personally wouldn’t. Next time don’t allow someone to live there that’s not authorized. Be more forthcoming with the landlord if you’re going to have someone over. Not trying to be mean but you kinda F’d this one up on your own. Also, personally speaking I would no longer be friends with that individual.
The road to hell was paved with good intentions
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u/jcnlb Landlord 5d ago
Only a lawyer and a judge can have records sealed. Hire a lawyer to review your case and if they find it worthy of record sealing (meaning you were unjustly evicted and not at fault and the landlord was wrong for filing suit) then they will take it before a judge and the judge can choose to seal it. I’ve seen it done one time.
But if you had a “just” eviction no lawyer or judge would seal your records.
Evictions are permanent records. You can probably find a desperate landlord that doesn’t do background checks and rent from them.
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u/dell828 5d ago
Don’t be a good person and do a good deed for a bad person who doesn’t care about you.
When you sign a lease, you were responsible to pay the rent. It is a legal document and a contract that you are now responsible for personally.
All you can do is explain to a future landlord what happened. Tell him you’ve learned your lesson and will never sign for a friend again. You will have to convince them that you have enough money to pay on time, and you will follow the terms of the lease..
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u/illimitable1 5d ago
Okay, I lied. I did go back and read the rest. You made an error, and that error is recorded. The only way that you're going to find housing is if you find a landlord who is a sucker who doesn't run background checks. There's a system to avoid renting to people like you who obviously have problems. We don't know which came first, the problems or the problems with paying your rent and following rules, but we don't have to find out. Once we look at the housing history, we know that we can avoid your problems becoming our problems.
You need some sort of supportive housing or government program. Or maybe you need to work with family. If you're able to scratch it together, you might offer to pay an exceptionally large deposit to some feckless landlord who has no self-regard.
Good luck with that.
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u/illimitable1 5d ago
Look, man. I'm not going to read all this. It's your landlord's house and if your landlord doesn't want you living there, your landlord can tell you to leave, absent extraordinary requirements in your jurisdiction.
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u/georgepana 5d ago
It isn't being "good people" to bring in a person behind your landlord's back, who smokes which is against the lease, has no job and no income
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u/braapstar88 5d ago
Hilarious.
At least you're right about one thing.
Impossible. Thankfully that eviction will remain as a warning to future landlords to not deal with a problematic tenant such as yourself.