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My tenant is not paying rent. I can change the locks, turn off the utlities, and/or take other simliar steps to force them out, right?

April 26, 2017force locks paying rent simliar steps tenant turn utlities

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My tenant is not paying rent. I can change the locks, turn off the utlities, and/or take other simliar steps to force them out, right?

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The answers are no, no, and no. Self help evictions are illegal under modern landlord tenant law in most, if not all, jurisdictions. 18. But my lease says I can change the locks, evict without notice, and/or the property is “as-is”, etc. The tenant agreed to this by signing the lease so why do I need to worry about all of this? This is unenforcable and the landlord ahould rely on it. In the many states that follow the Uniform Residential Landlord-Tenant Act, the Landlord-Tenant Act provisions cannot be waived.