Clerk of the county court has a little Pay or Quit envelope. Inside has the official P&Q for you to fill out, make a copy, slap on the door, take a picture of it on the door. It's a 3 day P&Q in our state, not counting the day you serve the paper and not counting holidays or weekends. After the 3 days, file eviction back at the clerk office. Yes, it costs some money. I don't remember it if was 50 or 75, but something like that. Don't sign a lease, just get the deadbeats out before they wreck the place even worse. Sorry, you can't shut off the utilities. That will come back to bite you. If you're lucky, he'll just skulk off in the middle of the night and you won't have to pay even more money for the court date and to pay the sheriff for evicting them when you win.
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