Practice Areas - Landlord Tenant Disputes

Practice Area - Landlord Tenant Disputes

If you are a landlord and you want to evict your tenant, or a tenant who has a landlord who is violating the terms of your lease agreement or your right to live in suitable living conditions, we have more than ten years experience in handling hundreds of landlord-tenant matters.  Our office has represented mobile home parks, apartment complexes, landlords, homeowners, and tenants in a wide variety of legal disputes.

Landlord-tenant proceedings are technical in nature, and they are commenced in the local district courts as expedited proceedings. If the notice of petition and/or petition is improperly drafted or served, often times the proceeding will be dismissed, forcing the petitioner to start the proceeding all over again.  We know the pitfalls of the landlord- tenant practice, and we take care in drafting the appropriate legal documents and are diligent in the timely filing of those documents.

If you are a landlord and wish to evict a tenant for failure to pay rent, for violating the provisions of the lease agreement, or for staying past the time when you want them to leave, we can help.  We will advise you on the best way to proceed prepare the notice of petition and petition, have the tenant properly served by a process server, attend all court proceedings, conduct all hearings, and prepare the judgment of possession and warrant of eviction, and those documents to the sheriff to collect on a money judgment and to evict your tenant.

If you are a tenant and your landlord is violating the terms of your lease, or seeking to evict you, we can ensure that your rights are protected by commencing an action or seeking dismissal of an action commenced by your landlord.  In addition, we can raise the appropriate defenses to any action commenced, including a breach of your warrantee of habitability (landlord not providing you with suitable living conditions) and seek abatement (offset) of rent.