how many times have you been evicted?

only once, but lord did it throw my life into disarray

Depends how you define evicted

Never, thankfully. But aside from university and the first 6 months of my life I've never lived in rented accommodation.

damn son u bought a house str8 after uni?

never, but I feel like it might be happening in the near future

yeah, eviction blows. define it however you want, but i was thinking of legal eviction

mine wasn't a legal eviction - just the owner wanting to cash in on his rental property suddenly doubling in value during the mid-'00s US housing bubble. But the bottom line is the same - being abruptly tossed out of your home just when I was feeling settled in, and at a time decent housing prices were unaffordable for me.

i'd say that's eviction for sure. traumatic destabilization

my count: 3 times before high school; once since. all legal (and no fault of my own)

xxp oddly enough something similar happened to me. Landlord wanted to sell the house and we all (shared house situation) got a month to leave. Note: a sure sign that your landlord might pull something like this is that *suddenly* all the things that need to be repaired that you've been going on about for years get fixed within, like, six weeks.

technically i think eviction is england is after a court order rather than notice, and it can take a while to get a court order, but for the purposes of this thread the main intention and effect is the same....

anyone in the position of getting a notice from a landlord etc should read all of the available legal faq stuff on the internet

for example a lot of s21 notices from landlords aren't drafted properly and that can give tenants another couple of months while a landlord resubmits it

when i broke up with my girlfriend in 2005 i had to move out of her house, i'm counting that.

as a family (for a given value of family) im p sure we were forced out of a place or two in the 90's, it's all a bit blurry tbh. we landed down at my mum's family home (by that time under the rule of her formidable elder sister and already packed to the seams with her brood) with the car packed with all we could take more than once or twice- sometimes from three or four hours drive away. don't think it ever happened during a school term, looking back that could have been interesting.

tbf i've evicted (to all intents and purposes) people as part of my job before tho so karmic wheel or w/e

'how many people have you evicted?' might make an interesting poll

damn son u bought a house str8 after uni?

Nope; lived in my parent's house and paid rent.

damn son

mine wasn't a legal eviction - just the owner wanting to cash in on his rental property suddenly doubling in value during the mid-'00s US housing bubble.

^^^^

Got below-market frozen rent for the 3 years we put off the fucker in NYC housing bureaucracy though. RIP Park Slope.

never. although a house i was living in for two years with some friends was put up for sale (similar situation to what Leee626 described) and they had to move. i had moved out a month before that happened though.

I got very close when my wife and I were caught violating the "only one cat" clause in our lease, but they agreed not to evict if we would move and pay out our lease. It was only 2 months remaining, but at the time that was a lot of money for us.

Just the once when landlord decided to sell the house. Not sure if that was legal to get rid of us but it was 14 years ago so

I'm dodging papers right now (I'm holding over, it's not for non-payment), but I'm going to be out before they can do anything about it, so joke's on my landlord for paying legal bills.

I would've immediately said "three times!" but actually only once. Eviction: I was kicked out of a tenancy because the downstairs tenants were trying to start and art gallery on the ground floor. The once-cool landlady got cold feet, pulled a "we're doing renovations", and evicted all of us. It was OK. The other two non-evictions were a) being ordered by police to vacate a squat, technically not an eviction, and b) being asked by roommates to leave the house-- which was only because they wanted an old friend to move in, but still fucking sucked and I've never forgiven them

None yet. I get the impression that once it happens, it makes future renting difficult, so even if I go through a rough patch, it'll always be the first thing I pay.

for anybody who has been (an official eviction) in the STates, do most places refuse to rent to you if you merely have one eviction on your record? and how long does it stay?

I marked 0, but forgot that in seattle I had a low-income apartment that underwent a condo conversion. got a letter offering either the chance to purchase or to take cash. took the cash and got out of seattle, which I'd long wanted to do.

Landlord initiated proceedings against us last year when we were 0.5 months in arrears. We paid, went to court and showed the proof of payment, the end.

It is likely they will initiate again shortly, as we are stuck in a deadly loop of paying the rent on the 15th (my mid month paycheck) instead of the 1st (my end of month paycheck). I am in constant cold fear as a result.

twice, if you count owner reno/selling up. first time was utter trauma for me as I'd been there 8 years and was not in my right mind at the time. in hindsight it did me a hard-reboot sort of favor tho. Christ I was a packrat. second time was barely 12 months later. owner lost his bottle coping with investment property in melb's painfully inflated housing market and sold up v suddenly. very grrr, I loved that house.

I got very close when my wife and I were caught violating the "only one cat" clause in our lease, but they agreed not to evict if we would move and pay out our lease. It was only 2 months remaining, but at the time that was a lot of money for us.

why's that a better solution than eviction?

my answer is 0 but our landlord's been hanging the threat of kicking us out for renovation over us for almost a year now. one time he went as far as giving us a notice to quit, but then changed his mind. which seems a bit dodgy to me. but i'm glad he's lazy cuz i'm paying 2/3 what i'd be paying for anywhere else around here that isn't a complete dump.

Does "counting childhood" mean "counting my birth as an eviction"?

haha

nine month's notice gtfo

why's that a better solution than eviction?

Because you don't want your potential next landlord or rental company seeing that the previous one evicted you.

zero. i bounced enough rent checks at my current apartment that they only accept cashier's checks from me now, though.

apparently they posted the termination notice on my door today. I guess that means they can start summary proceedings in 30 days if I'm not out. Good for them -- I'm moving anyway, they're wasting money, and now they're probably going to get a worse tenant.

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Our landlord put the house we were renting up for sale. Luckily it was a shitty time to sell a house (1987), so we managed to stay there for more than six months before we found a house to buy and move into. We've lived in that house for the past 26 years.

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Wondering if the vote for 10+ was based largely on "including childhood".

once when the home I was living in went into foreclosure because my 'landlord' was going through a divorce but his ex-wife was still on the lease and she went bankrupt.

i was happy tho - I didn't want to live there anymore and got plenty of time to find a new place.

I had a friend whose brother was evicted constantly, at least a half a dozen times, and he had no problem getting the new apartment to rent out to him. And this dude always lived in the swankiest apartments (which was part of his problem - he always chose apartments he couldn't afford). He just had to pay first and last month's rent up front if I remember correctly. Maybe times have changed (this all happened over a decade ago), but I don't think a lot you have to worry too much about one eviction charge on your record.

Like a lot of you, I was evicted once when my landlord sold the condo he was renting out to me.