Detroit State of Evictions and Tour of This Destroyed House -- Courts Should Be ASHAMED!

Here is the truth about what is happening with evictions now that the courts are open AND all the free rent money from the state has finally ended. See what the occupants of this house at 19988 Hickory did to it!

When we buy an occupied house to renovate and sell to investors, I always send a 30-day notice of eviction. I never know how good the tenant is in that house. So I can't move them out during the first 30 days that they have to move themselves out or face eviction. Once that's up, my attorney can file it in court. This last one took 45 days AFTER the 30 days were up before we even got a court case.

Court Case #1 is always adjourned...ALWAYS...because 36th District Court in Detroit hired several "free" lawyers to help ONLY THE TENANTS. The attorneys are not available for the landlords who have had deadbeat tenants sometimes for the last two years who haven't paid rent.

Once the case is adjourned it takes a good 20-30 more days before the real court date. There is a new judge finally who isn't giving the tenants breaks anymore once they've made it to him. He only gives them 10 more days to pack up and move.

If the tenant does not move in that last 10-day window, the landlord can then get the bailiff to come and remove the tenant.

We have been offering occupants (tenants and squatters) Cash for Keys up to $1,000. Most people would prefer to wait out the four months of free lodging though. We finally had our first taker who saw the value of not having an eviction on her record and she has said she will move in the 30 days I gave her to get her Cash for Keys. We'll see how THAT goes! Will she really leave? Nothing surprises us anymore.

This house in this video was finally vacated after two months of back and forth with the tenant. She moved at one point and we went in and she, of course, took the furnace and hot water heater. We checked out the electrical and gathered our plan to come back. We came back with the crew to start working on it only to find that the tenant had moved out but she had moved in her pit bulls. That took another few weeks.

We actually did not go to court on this one. But looking at this house, this isn't all that abnormal to find in Detroit. This is how a lot, if not most, tenants leave their houses. Yet the judges are giving them opportunity upon opportunity and the last two years of living free and doing this to our properties. The judges think they are helping the tenants. Yes, they have helped some tenants, but this is more the reality of who they're helping.

I'd like to show a judge the photo of the dead dog in the garage with the chain around its carcass. That is the kind of person the judges are granting free living to. I think the dogs deserve better care than the intentionally cruel tenants do. The dogs should NOT have to make their own doggie doors!