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Originally Posted by Z-man
Good advise, from my non-lawyer background.
Question for Kurt and others: since he deliberately did a stop payment on a check with apparently no good reason, wouldn't that make his written (I hope) rental agreement null and void? As such, wouldn't that mean that this fellow is now trespassing on austin552's Mom's property?
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If only it were that easy. Stop payment is no different than just not paying the rent. You are still bound by the landlord/tenant laws of the state which generally mean it will take 30-45 days to get the court to order him evicted. The laws tend to be in favor of the tenant. Most dead beat tenants are experts in the law.