The eviction post!

First off, this morning Noah had a visitor come to see him when we got to work. This is his girlfriend, Keltie! There's no room on my lap, so she had to sit on top of Noah instead!



Now in my defense, I have a pillow behind my lower back and it makes my belly poke out more. I'm not that huge!

Ok. Now to the eviction.

Normally, an eviction doesn't get to the point where we actually set all of the tenant's belongings on the street. The tenant receives so many notices that normally, he/she will take the hint and move out before we and the sheriff knock on their door. However, sometimes the tenants are so STUPID that they think we won't actually do anything about them not paying their rent for three months. This is one of those special times! And I always get excited when the tenant is still in the house when we come knocking with the sheriff because there is usually an altercation of some kind...and I'm all about some drama!

So April and I pulled up to the house and I saw a car in the driveway. I got SUPER excited. We and our crew patiently waited for the sheriff to arrive. We were in the ghetto and needed protection! He finally arrived and we bee-bop up to the door. The sheriff (who was super cute and super awesome) knocked on the door.......nothing. He knocked again......nothing. I then got a little disappointed. So the sheriff asked for my key, I gave it to him, he unlocks the door, swings the door open and yells "SHERIFF'S OFFICE!!!!" And then we heard someone from the back of the house say, "What?" (YES! I think to myself) The tenant comes staggering up to the front door and asks what in the world we were doing there. Umm DUH!

The sheriff kindly explained that we were there by orders of the judge to remove him and his belongings from OUR property. Then the tenant goes on and on and on about how he never received a single notice about the eviction, therefore he wasn't going to allow it. Now-as a side note-we mailed him a notice, taped a notice to his door and left weekly notes on his door asking him to call us. Once we filed the eviction, the sheriff delivers SEVERAL notices. So there is NO WAY he never received ANYTHING.

So the sheriff explained to the tenant that it really didn't matter what he said at this point and he needed to kindly step aside. The tenant left to go get a truck to put his crap on (because once we put everything on the street, it becomes community property and any and everyone can take what they want). I went room by room and this is what I saw.....

Why anyone would need that many mattresses, I don't know. We counted 13 total, I believe.






It's really not that bad compaired to what I've seen. I forgot to get pictures of the living room and kitchen, but the tenant had something cooking on the stove when we got there! Homeboy didn't even get to eat!

AND while the tenant was gone to get a truck, the sheriff started going through some papers in a dresser....and found one of the MANY notices the tenant 'never got'. How funny is that?

A little bit of timed passed and I started to hear voices outside. I peeked out the window and saw some people outside talking to the sheriff.

These were just three of the TWENTY people that showed up during the set-out. They all claimed to be a member of the tenant's family....and they all claimed that all the stuff we were disposing of was theirs. Seriously, at one point April and I looked outside and there were four vehicles backed up to the front yard with people loading up.....and most of them were eating....I'm talking Cheetos and chicken wings.

It was a very interesting afternoon for us. And after those two hours of drama, we happily treated ourselves to some Yogurt Mountain! So...any helpers out there that want to volunteer for our next set-out??