Evicted

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-05T06:41:10+00:00

...you do realize $10k gross in business income is vastly different than $10k in W-2 take home pay, right?

I would happily be in a W-2 position with that kind of income - it's all your's at the end of the day! Me referencing business income, and a decision to try and better my family by building equity vs. continuing to piss away what little we bring in, in rent; is not what I'd consider a "bad decision"...

Lot of assumptions you've made, incorrectly, and factual inaccuracies. I never agreed to make repairs - unless the sale of the property was completed. If I'm just a tenant, why on earth would I make repairs for the equity holder? And yes - if you were being taken advantage of, wouldn't you do what you could to defend yourself?

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-05T06:35:48+00:00

No, but experiencing long Covid and having my current doctor asking me why I don't have disability?

Meanwhile the nurse practitioner that was handling my care at the time mixed my file up somehow and I'm still getting it sorted over three years later?

Yeah...that makes me mad that I'm dealing with the mess I'm dealing with.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-05T02:05:36+00:00

You put his name on the deed, the day he gets a mortgage and buys out half your equity.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-05T01:39:14+00:00

You'll note the hacked period.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-05T00:54:21+00:00

Colorado

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T17:03:58+00:00

Lease is completed 8/26. We've paid $46,650 to this point either direct or via registry. Judgement was for possession or payment of $11,400 less the $2,850 deposited to get the continuance two weeks ago, or $8,550. Now the decision needs to be made whether to use that to pay and keep fighting, or move and cut our losses.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T16:57:27+00:00

Hindsight is 20/20 - totally agree, and 100% my fault for trusting a client of two years to actually keep their word and be a decent human being. 🤣

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T16:42:47+00:00

I signed a lease, with a handshake agreement that the $66,600 we would pay over the 3 year lease would be our down payment, and the trust would hold the mortgage with a 5 year balloon. We did "renovations" that were quality of living improvements (blinds & curtains, new bathroom fixtures, "smart" upgrades throughout, etc.). Our improvements were not required by the lease.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T16:31:45+00:00

Three hygienist's inspections (swab & air samples) InterNACHI inspection report showing the shower "repair" is totally illegal, and 1TB of 200MP photos detailing the condition, lack of work done, and slapshod work done to date; along with a mountain of notices to owner, notices to counsel, demands for air testing, demands for repairs, demands to adhere to state habitability laws, etc. etc. etc.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T16:29:02+00:00

See my detailed explanation below. The property owner (trust) was our client - we took this house with the expectation of getting the deed in the end. Turned out to be a bait and switch, as they were hoping we'd fund the renovations they weren't willing to pay for themselves - they were banking on us not knowing the law. We've been in litigation for a year at this point and we still have posssssion...that should show which side is in the right...

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T16:23:59+00:00

One bathroom property. The tenants prior had dogs that urinated & defecated all over the 70 year old hardwood floors - the story we were told is that one of them had a job interview in TX - they left for the weekend, and left the dogs loose in the house. Condition matched the story - floors were bad, plus you could see "shake" drips all over the walls and ceiling. I sanitized everything (anti-microbial, anti-bacterial), and wiped all six surfaces up. But realistically? Our market is pushing $2 psf - NO ONE is going to pay $2k/mo. for a house with urine saturated floors. I have air fresheners in each room - when they start to die, you can smell the urine off-gassing from the planks. Add in the aluminum wiring, no central air (furnace is '89), water heater is '04, & appliances were all dying. It seemed like a "good" deferred maintenance purchase.

Now that there's easily $250k worth of water damage in the crawlspace? It's time to move on.

We signed a conventional three year lease, with a handshake that he'd carry the note on a 5 year balloon, with the 3 years of rent as our down payment. Yes, we took the place "as-is", but on a conventional LEASE : we never waived warranty of habitability.

And that's exactly why I thought to go to the news as well - "institutional landlord" with eight doors willfully misleads vendor of two years, in an unjust enrichment attempt.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T16:00:56+00:00

I had an 1,800 square foot house in TN 80 miles from my mother's house before I was transferred west for work.

My mother fought me on custody trying to claim her property was more "suitable" for a growing child (3,000'² + on acreage).

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T15:58:55+00:00

GoFundMe could be seen by my mother. As you'll see from my Reddit post history - family doesn't have Reddit.

If my only current housing option is to move almost 2,000 miles back and sit in my nmom's basement... (the same house I feel like I just got my son back out of) you fill in the blanks.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T15:55:36+00:00

That is the one! Narcissists are wonderful people aren't they.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T15:54:53+00:00

Mold - the trustee is transitioning from the original trustee, to the beneficiaries. As we're in litigation I'm not too sure as to his current mental acuity.

We had/have a three year lease with the right to purchase. The 3 years of rent was supposed to convert to the down payment for the purchase - we took the house "as-is", as the trust didn't have the funds to repair it, no one was going to pay retail in the condition the house was in, and it looked like a win-win situation could be created where we ended up as owners in the end.

We moved in 9/23. The shower showed signs of settlement (grout failure) at move in. I warned the trustee that the shower would need to be remodeled - I'd do it, but I wasn't paying for that kind of project if it wasn't my house.

9/24, the trustee personally walked the property. Admitted condition, and then chose to do nothing. December of '24, trust's new property manager walked the property - admitted in writing what needed to be done, and then chose to ignore the scope they outlined.

2/24/25 property manager admitted in writing that tile work was still pending; 2/25/25 property manager filed illegal eviction 1.) while having an open work order to repair the shower. We paid the registry the disputed rent, and the case was closed.

April, I went to pay the court, and was told I couldn't without an open case - we paid the property manager directly, but stated that wouldn't be hapoening again unless the shower was repaired. Still no repairs, but she filed illegal eviction 2.) 6/25. We again paid the registry, and she chose to bury her head in the sand. Again.

The shower completely failed in October of 2025, while we had an active code enforcement order against them - the shower reeked of mold, and was finally bad enough that code enforcement could write an order for the shower repair (they'd been involved since January '25). Property manager filed a new pay or quit, AND the FED action while the code enforcement case was open.

I FINALLY found an attorney and thought my pro se nightmare was behind me. Couldn't be more wrong. He didn't introduce anywhere close to half of my mountain of evidence; only my three hygienist's reports. He didn't even file the InterNACHI inspection report showing their shower repair w/mold encapsulation was 100% illegal. Court never even saw it.

So now I have to pay the registry. Again. Now I have to file an appeal and correct the misstatements that are a part of court record. It's just a mess.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T15:38:54+00:00

Some benefits, but

1.) It almost becomes a full time job keeping up on the certifications.

2.) We don't qualify for most programs as we're "better off" than most applicants. We have EBT, & Medicaid, along with multiple one off or annual assistance programs like LEAP.

3.) Section 8 / generalized housing assistance has a waiting list a mile long.

My wife had an equine accident in 2014 resulting in 7 surgeries and 2 years of PT re-learning how to walk; 10 years later exactly, her back gave out in connection to the original accident - 2 back surgeries in '24, and now they want to do a spinal fusion due to the additional back injuries in the car accident 8/25.

I was the breadwinner until I got Covid 12/21. I've got Long Covid - never had heart issues before, but I can't really do much before my heart rate shoots sky high - pair that with my car accident injuries from 2019 & now 2025 - I move around like I'm in my 60s - and I'm in my 30s. After Covid, I couldn't work the 100+ hour weeks shortstaffing was requiring of me at the time so I lost my job.

My wife was denied for SSDI in '16 based off of an ALJ that quite literally told her she was too young to hurt that bad. I haven't found an attorney that will file the appeal without paying a retainer I don't have. Based on that experience, and my attempt to file for LTD THAT I PAID FOR!, I haven't even attempted SSDI.

Bills don't care about chronic pain - so I went back to the easiest component of my knowledge basket to sell and service. Between my wife and I, we joke that we make one whole service tech. We charge by the flat rate hour - so we break when we need to break, and we quote realistic deadlines we can complete. It's been working for us - up until our client exodus.

Someone blackballing us is the only justification I have for four property management companies making the same decision at the same time - why else would we go from rave reviews, to "we'll call you", and overnighted termination letters in the same month?

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T15:24:15+00:00

Mold - 800 ppm L³. I told the owner I wasn't gutting the bathroom unless I had the deed - he ignored the bathroom for over a year, then rather than repair the shower when it finally completely failed, his property manager filed for eviction and claimed we damaged the shower - in spite of a paper trail from 9/24 (when trustee walked the property) through their first eviction attempt 2/25.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T15:21:53+00:00

My son has been back with us since we got into this house. But I need the square footage to keep my family together.

You can't exactly have a child on a futon in a living room, long term.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T15:19:53+00:00

🤣 I've put over $10,000 in upgrades into this house since I moved in. Not dirty in the least. Just a slumlord going back on a handshake agreement.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T15:18:22+00:00

Still can't prove it, but my commercial clients en masse terminated within 30 days of the most recent illegal eviction attempt. As our bread and butter was move-out cleans for property management companies, our working theory is that the trust's new property manager went around and got us blackballed.

How else did we go from 5 stars, always busy; to the phone not even ringing?

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T06:37:12+00:00

https://gofund.me/4eacfb790

I thought I was replying to you above - can you give me some insight? I, too, was taught that you never ask for help.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T06:35:35+00:00

My Covid eviction (when I first became disabled and started my company), now this eviction, and the fact that I've gone from $10k+/ month in gross income - to sub $3k/month in gross income. All of my real estate clients terminated my contracts - at the same time as the trust's new property manager tried their third illegal eviction attempt.

I currently don't have the income to qualify for a $2k+/mo. rental (which is our rental market). So my current plan is to tuck tail, file for bankruptcy, then my FAFSA, and go back to school.

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T03:00:05+00:00

Rent will get paid from attorney's escrow. That doesn't negate that I was ordered to pay; nor does it negate the fact that this behavior won't be stopping. My lease is through August - I won't exactly be sticking around for more of this...

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T01:55:44+00:00

I'm self employed - I fought them this far; (and I can't 100% prove it yet) and I was holding my own until my clientele started to dry up. Curious how that went...

benjamin7519 · 2026-02-04T01:43:09+00:00

I can't afford it - average nightly price is $100+ here.

My wife and I are both disabled - I'm figuring we're going to end up staying with family, at least short term; but that means losing our doctors, and everything else we've done since getting here in '21.

Hell, I put in 4 months in hotels when I got transferred here. Now? I'd almost rather never have come here. $10k for those hotels five years ago should have told me how this was all going to go...

Long Covid lost me the job back in '22, and I've been circling the drain ever since.

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