File for Eviction

This task is used to formally File For Eviction for all or selected households that meet the criteria for filing for Eviction as defined at System Administration > Maintain Lookup Tables - Legal Method and assigned to a community/funding program group at the Community Detail > Rent tab.

Prerequisites to complete task correctly.

• A Legal Method must be set-up System Administration > Maintain Lookup Tables, and assigned to the community/funding program group at the Community Detail > Rent tab

• At least one household meets the criteria defined for Filing for Eviction at System Administration > Maintain Lookup Tables - Legal Method.

• At least one household has been Sent a Notice to Quit

How do you get here?

Occupancy and Compliance Detail Legal Tab Tasks File for Eviction

or

Household Detail Legal Tab File for Eviction

To File for Eviction:

1. Enter/Select the effective date for the filing of the formal eviction.

2. The Type of Eviction was already set with the Send Notice to Quit task.

3. Enter a note/explanation in the Description field if necessary.

   • This note will appear as part of the Legal Transaction created by sending this Filing of Formal Eviction.

4. Set a Follow-up Date

   • This date will appear for the households in the Track Legal Proceedings To-Do List Activity to help manage when this household or these households need further contact in the Legal Process.

5. Use the Select All and Deselect All links or manually select/deselect individual households that you wish to file formal eviction against.

   • If this task was accessed from the Household Detail > Legal tab, this step is not applicable.

6. For each selected household enter an Eviction Number, if there is one.

   • Some states assign each eviction a formal number used to track the eviction through the courts and this is where you would enter that number in Property Manager.

   • The Eviction Number is included on the Eviction History Report (Reports) and also as a merge field (eviction_nbr) in the Data for Legal source document (System Administration > Maintain Documents).

7. Click Next.

8. If you have enabled attachments for Legal Transactions at System Administration > Maintain Lookup Tables - Business Constants, the next will be to scan and/or attach any necessary files to this legal transaction (Manage Attachments), otherwise skip to the next step.

9. Click Next.

10. Select the File Formal Eviction documents you want to print by clicking on it, if more than one is listed.

    • You can also use the Select All and Deselect All links to help in making your selections.

    • Documents included in the "Eviction: File Formal Eviction" Document Group (System Administration > Maintain Documents - Maintain Document Groups) will be included in the list of available documents.

11. You can preview the File Formal Eviction document by clicking Preview.

12. Click Finished to print the File Formal Eviction documents.

    • When the task has been completed successfully, the household will be moved to the Track Legal Proceedings To-Do List Activity with a new Legal Transaction indicating that this Eviction has been formally filed.  This Legal Transaction will also appear on the Household Detail > Legal tab.

    • If Eviction Charge amounts have been defined for File Eviction at System Administration > Maintain Lookup Tables - Legal Method, then the appropriate Eviction Charge will have been assessed based on the Type of Eviction that was selected back in the Send Notice to Quit task.

Related Topics:

• Undo Notice to Quit

• Reprint Notice to Quit

• Resolve Eviction

• Complete Follow-up

• Add a Legal Transaction

• Edit Legal Transaction (Only available from the Household Detail > Legal tab)

• Undo Legal Transaction (Only available from the Household Detail > Legal tab)

• Update Eviction Number

• Manage Attachments

• Schedule Move-Out