The Sheriff has served his eviction notice and is scheduled to meet me next week. What can my tenant do now to delay the eviction?
The good part to this answer is that since the vast majority of cases are uncontested, they remain that way unimpeded through any Sheriff final eviction. Unfortunately, in about one (1) in every twenty (20) cases, there is one (1) or more things which your tenant might do to delay the eviction at this point in time. Consider too the many things we do to counteract and avoid or minimize their effect. Yet, like it or not, we live in a world that is filled with attorneys, some say too many, and tenants as well as landlords who have many legal rights they may or may not exercise. Such as filing bankruptcy, requesting additional time from the court, etc. Some tenants file bankruptcy, in the mistaken belief, fostered by some unscrupulous paralegal services, that this will postpone the eviction indefinitely. We efficiently deal with this problem for you. See question 21. The most common type of delay is the lazy tenant asking the court for additional time to moveout. As if all those official
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