Hi Alan,

>> I'd figure the landlord is always going to win :(

> Not here in BC. It's very hard to evict someone even with just cause. The
> only time it is easy to evict if if folks don't pay the rent. Even then you
> can't evict without a hearing and that will take a couple weeks in the best
> case. Once you have your papers you still have to get folks off your property
> if they don't go on their own.

I think it's about like that here in NYS as well, though I'm not sure to be
honest.  I think I remember reading that if there are children involved it is
especially hard to evict tenents in NYS.. (nice of those landloards, geez)...

But I don't know or remember anything about pets that owned by a tenant when
the ownership changed hands ...

> I once had to hire a private cop to evict a
> group of drugies who weren't even my renters, they were left behind when my
> renter got tangled up with the law in Alberta.

That doesn't sound like a fun situation there :(

> I don't miss property management. :)

I can imagine :)  Before we sold our house in Windsor NY some folks said why
don't you rent it??  We couldn't, as we're just not landlord types haha

>> I wonder if that kind of grandfathering varies from state to state?

> It might, here in BC if you take over management of a property wygiwys.

Makes sense really... ;)

Take care,
Janis

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