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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People usually get evicted because they didn't pay rent for quite a while.

I don't think rich people have that issue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Illinois is considered renter friendly. You only need to give a 7 day notice to pay or quit before you file an eviction for non-payment. You can give the notice if the rent is one day late. Not sure about TN but it's probably similar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, my silly Euro brain didn't think it through.

Seems like Tennessee takes at least 4 weeks after being late on a single payment. They have to send a two weeks notice and then they can evict you in two weeks.

So it's more like two weeks until they can evict you, and two weeks to pack your stuff.

Rough

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When the two week notice is up, then the landlord can file what is basically a lawsuit. Then the tenant has to get served notice of when the court date is. So it could take a month or two just to get in front of a judge. Then if the tenant wants to contest the eviction and go to trial a new court date will usually be set for trial. Then if the tenant loses the judge will give them a certain amount of time to move.

This is talking about appealing an eviction to a higher court after a tenant loses. You can see how someone could abuse that system to stay for several more months by filing a frivolous appeal.

You can see at the end of the article that there was a judgement reached in error before the court date and the judge told them they would have to appeal. So in order to fix someone else's mistake they would have to post a years rent when they were probably behind on rent anyway.