'Lived-in' look leads to landlord nightmare | The Michigan Lawyer

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Upon moving to a new home, I?ve heard many people loudly proclaim that they aren?t selling their old one because they?ll just rent it out and make money off of it. Many times, they wind up with a crash course in landlord-tenant law when their tenant turns out to be something less than ideal.

A woman in Texas was sitting on a McMansion she was trying to sell after moving back to Boston. She didn?t want to keep the house, but had a hard time selling it.

Her realtor had a great idea: give the home a more ?lived-in? feel by hiring a company to temporarily place a family. And by family, I?m sure the landowner was thinking Mom, Dad, Connor, Tucker and Chloe, a tricycle on the front walk and may even a sandbox in the back.

Instead, she got the Evil Clampetts. [CBSDFW.com]?

The tenants were supposed to be two brothers. But then they invited the whole family to move in. Then they brought in a? pitbull, despite the lease forbidding pets. Then they parked a pickup on the grass that leaked oil on the lawn. Finally, they started planting crucifixes everywhere, including one that was 10 feet tall.

In other words, this house wasn?t selling.

She had wanted lived in, and she got it. She complained that the crosses violated homeowner association laws. They claimed they were being discriminated against on religious grounds and threatened to go to the Department of Justice.

So just evict them, right? They violated the terms of the deal by having the dog and other family members move in.

She and the company filed for eviction of the family. The brothers left ? but Dear Old Dad ? the trunk on that family tree ? isn?t going anywhere.

It doesn?t matter, [Nathan] Burgess told CBS 11, that he wasn?t expected to be in the home in the first place. He was ?invited? by his sons, he said, before the eviction order came down.

?Sometimes, I?ve learned, you can?t run from things. You just have to hit em head on,? Burgess said.

He said he would have likely moved out with the rest of his family if Aji and Castle Keepers had been nice about it.

?They call and said, ?Oh, you have a dog on the property.? Ever since then, the level of abuse has gotten worse and worse,? Burgess said.

Burgess is vowing to exhaust all appeals before he leaves, like he?s on death row or something.

When the listing agent brought in a prospective buyer, they were met with a sign instructing them that the house is occupied and that nothing is to be touched.

The house was eventually removed from the market while the eviction mess is sorted out. She claims that neither she, nor her agent, can go into the house until it?s sorted out.

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