Removal of fiance's brother from my home - Landlord Forum thread 353231

Removal of fiance's brother from my home by Anonymous on July 14, 2017 @11:05

My fiance' and I purchased our first home recently. We actually closed on Feb. 27 2017. We restore antique furniture and repurpose discarded items of others and resell these things to try to help ends meet. So we decided to purchase a house that we could greatly improve upon and turn a nice profit in a year or two or three. I say that WE purchased our first home while, in reality, the home was purchased by myself from one of my trust funds and has mine and my mother's names on the deed. The home was bought straight cash so there is no mortgage.
My problem started only a few days after moving in when my fiance's brother showed up at the front door. Of course he needed a place to stay and very reluctantly I agreed... Again. We sat and talked and I layed down ground rules that he agreed to. (needless to say, we've been through this a few times before with him)

Long story short, we had some remodeling to do in the house so that was one of the stipulations to him staying was that he help me do the work on The house. Another was to pay $150 a week to help with bills since his sister is disabled and we can neither one work due to her need of 24/7 care for a Severe seizure disorder. (we've somehow managed to raise three wonderful children, now adults, on $741 a month for the last 10 years) so money has always been tight to say the least. Stipulation #3 was for him to only be there 2 to 3 months tops while he saved enough money for a place of his own. Stip #4: He is a drug addict and was to get clean while living in our home. My fiance' and I don't even drink alcohol so we thought it might be good for him to get clean there and that would certainly help him save money for a place. And I will just add here that, due to his addiction, he is also a terrible thief.

1. Our guest bathroom has been torn completely apart since March and still is not finished
2. He has not paid his weekly dues in 3 months.
3.it is now nearing the 5 month mark that he's been there.
4. He has not saved a dime because he is still on drugs and I am now facing jail time because I caught him one morning 2 weeks ago in the driveway doing a drug deal and I went ballistic. Lets just say that I went to jail for battery by strangulation and am waiting to be sentenced on the 20th of this month. I also have a "no contact" order that denies me even returning to my own home until after the arraignment and am having to stay at my mothers house while he lies around MY house, wasting oxygen until then. Meanwhile, he's slowly and methodically emptying my house of everything with any value. He steals artwork right off our walls if he gets the chance. God's honest truth.

We have asked him to please leave numerous times and are met with excuses or simply no action towards leaving. Needless to say, this entire situation has all but split my fiance' and I up. I don't even think I want to go back home to my first home ever purchased due to the stress level he creates and the bad memories that are already stacking up from that place. He also has just received his first pieces of mail at our house. I understand that factors in as well in these decisions.

I apologize for the length of this letter but as you can see I need help and fast. I need to know the most direct and timely manner to get this scumbucket out of My home without it costing me a bundle or him his life. There is no lease, he does not have a key to the house and he has begun bringing his drug cronies around my house and my family which was another agreement we had, he would bring no one to or in our house unless it was a mutual friend and he was given permission to by us.

Please, I'm desperate
Sincerely and appreciatively,
Brad

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Re: Removal of fiance's brother from my home by Charlie on July 14, 2017 @11:39	[ Reply ]

You need a lawyer. If you and the SO are done, then you need a lawyer for that as well. You can get everyone out but it takes time and money. You could possibly sell the house if your mom's on board with that idea. But the price would below market value. Because whoever buys the property will have to evict whoever is currently living there. As well as repair house. Many mistakes made from the start.

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