Walk It Through: Ten Days After A Demand
Unpaid rent, summary ejectment, the court rule against lockouts, and seven days to collect.
The rent is late, and the landlord writes demanding all of it.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One rent case and one lockout. Notices to end a periodic tenancy, retaliation, the late fee section, and what happens at the summary ejectment hearing are not set out here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Notice to quitThe notice ending a periodic tenancy: seven days for month to month, two days for week to week, and one month or more before the end of the year for year to year.
- Summary ejectmentThe court procedure by which a landlord removes a tenant, available after a demand to surrender the premises, when the tenant holds over, breaks a lease term that ends the tenancy, or deserts the premises behind on rent.
- Self help evictionRemoving a residential tenant any way other than through the court procedures of the landlord and tenant chapter, which the state's stated policy forbids.