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Attorney Tom Olsen is host of the Olsen on Law Radio Show in Orlando. Tom has been answering legal questions on his radio show for over 35 years and has been practicing law in Orlando for 40 years. The Olsen on Law Radio Show is America’s longest running legal radio show. Produced by Professional Media Ideas. Call or text Chrissy Merrill at 321-207-8384 or by email at chris@olsenlawgroup.com.
Attorney Tom Olsen: One of the things that we do here at the Olsen Law Group is landlord-tenant law, and mostly we represent landlords who have issues with their tenants, and those issues usually are non-payment of rent, and so we have an attorney here. His name is Caleb Maggio, and he assists clients with landlord-tenant law, and I just want listeners out there to know that if you are a landlord, you've got rental properties, you're having issues with your tenants, well, at the Olsen Law Group, we'd be pleased to assist them.
Attorney Chris Merrill: Absolutely. Caleb is very knowledgeable about how to help you as a landlord, everything from making sure that your lease is the way that it should be to best protect you, all the way through non-payment of rent where he may have to help you and do an eviction.
Tom: Yes. We've had a rental property for many, many, many years, and we've had many tenants come and go. We've had good luck with all of them, except for one, and she turned out to be an alcoholic, and I'm so sorry for her, but it just means she did not have the wherewithal or good sense to understand that if you don't pay rent, you're going to get evicted, and we went all the way, you and I did, all the way through with that eviction to where you get a writ of possession, and it gets posted on the door. It told her that she had 24 hours to move out, and this was after the legal process, okay, a legal eviction, it takes a few weeks.
She did not comply with that. The next day we came there, and the sheriff was there, and kept the peace, while we literally put her stuff out on the curb. She didn't really have a full understanding, and she was okay. She starts walking out. The sheriff goes, "Well, you may want to take your purse and your wallet with you, and probably want to put some shoes on, too."
Off she goes, and we put all her stuff out on the curb, and she walks somewhere, and got managed to get a bike somewhere. Then we see her coming by, on her bike, and grabbing stuff off the curb, and had taken it somewhere. I don't really know what came of her, but I know her. Part of it, we were dealing with her parents, and, of course, they were trying to help her as best they can, but sometimes when you have children in those situations, there's just nothing you can do for them. |