How to Get Eviction Notices in 30 Seconds

With our landlord software’s built-in templates for eviction notices, you can create eviction notices to tenants within 30 seconds.

First, create a free account in our property management software. Then click on the “Leases & Documents” page on the left-hand menu bar. Along the top of the page, you’ll see three tabs: Lease Agreements, Tenant Letters, and Eviction Notices.

Click on Tenant Letters for informal letters, and Eviction Notices for formal eviction warnings. You can then pick the sample eviction notice template you want.

Here’s a 45-second demo video, creating a sample eviction letter:

It’s that fast and easy to create an eviction letter notice. Feel free to edit the eviction notice template directly in our landlord software.

You then download the printable free blank eviction notice PDF file to serve on your tenant.

How Eviction Notice Letters Fit in the Eviction Process

Never filed an eviction before? Here’s a quick overview of the eviction process – and where eviction notices to tenants fit in.

Step 1: Serve the Eviction Notice to Tenants

That’s where our software comes in handy. Using our free templates for eviction letters, you can fill in your tenant’s detail in 30 seconds, then download it as a printable free eviction notice PDF.

Or even copy and paste the text as a free blank eviction notice word document.

Next, you serve the eviction notice to your tenants. Not sure how to give notice of eviction? In most states, you can do so in one of a few ways:

• Send it by certified mail (keep the receipt, you’ll need it for the eviction hearing!)
• Hand deliver it in person to your tenants
• Post it on the front door of the rental unit

Once you serve the eviction notice letter, you have to wait the prescribed number of days to allow the renter to catch up on rent payments or cure the lease violation.

Step 2: File in Court for Eviction

If your tenant doesn’t cure the violation at the end of the prescribed period of time, you can file in your local rent court for eviction.

You can typically file for eviction in person, by mail, or in some jurisdictions that have joined the 21st Century, online. The court will then schedule a rent hearing, and send out notifications to both you and the tenant.

Step 3: Rent Court Hearing

After a few weeks (or months, in slow districts), you’ll finally get to present your case to a judge.

You and the tenant will both have an opportunity to present your side of the story, and any evidence to back it up. Bring a copy of the eviction letter, plus evidence that you served it (such as the certified mail receipt). Make sure you also bring any other relevant evidence as well, either that the tenant failed to pay their rent on time or whatever other lease violation (such as illegal activities) took place.

Once you and the tenant have each said your piece, the judge will rule one of three ways. Either they’ll approve the eviction, deny your request entirely, or schedule another hearing in the future, pending some required action on your part.

If they approve the eviction, the case transfers over to the sheriff’s office (in most jurisdictions).

Step 4: Lockout

The sheriff’s office then schedules the actual lockout date – which usually takes another few weeks or even months.

As you can see, the process takes a while, from the time when the rent first becomes late to when you actually reclaim possession of the property as a landlord. The tenant can catch up on late payments and late fees at any time up to the lockout date, and stay in their apartment.

On the day of the lockout, you (or your representative such as a property manager) must meet the sheriff at the rental property with a key. Bring a contractor to change the locks. The sheriff knocks on the door, and if no one answers, you unlock the door. The sheriff enters, and makes sure there’s no one still in the property.

If the tenant remains at the property, the sheriff oversees them leaving permanently. Once they’ve grabbed any final possessions, your handyman changes the locks, and you now have legal possession of the property again.

Post-Eviction

If the tenant still owes you unpaid rent after they’ve moved out, you can opt to pursue them in small claims court.

Many landlords choose not to take this next legal action, because even after you win a money judgment in small claims court, it’s very difficult to collect back rent from deadbeat tenants. In most cases you have to hire a collection agency if you actually want to see any money. And they typically take half of every dollar they collect on your behalf.

Eviction Moratoriums During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Most landlords cannot file for eviction for nonpayment of rent while the nationwide CDC eviction moratorium remains in effect (currently scheduled to expire on June 30, 2021).

Landlords can file for eviction for other types of lease violations however, such as prohibited pets or occupants.

The nationwide eviction ban aside, some state and local governments still have their own eviction moratoriums in place. Check the status of federal, state, and local eviction moratoriums here (updated regularly during the pandemic).

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Our free late on rent letters, lease renewal notices, and free eviction notice templates are just one part of our larger free landlord software. We also provide free rental applications, free tenant background checks, full tenant credit reports and criminal checks (free for landlords), free lease agreements, and online rent collection (free for landlords).

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