You are required to go through the eviction process.  Once a judgment is won, you are required to store their belongings for 90 days.

You can limit the number of adults in an apartment but you cannot limit the number of children.

If a tenant does not pay the rent on time, the landlord is considered to automatically have a lien.  In other words, a landlord may keep a tenant or subtenant’s belongings to satisfy the amount of money owed to the landlord for unpaid rent.  No one, including other creditors, can remove the tenant’s property without first paying the landlord the money owed.

The District Justice’s judgment is valid for five years.  If the Notice of Judgment is filed with the Civil Prothonorary or Clerk of Civil Courts in the court of Common Pleas, the same is also valid for five years but must be renewed.

There are a number of ways to collect a judgment.  1). The landlord must take the Notice of Judgment issued from the District Magistrate’s Office and file the same in the Civil Prothonotary or Civil Clerk’s office.  The Judgment will be recorded on their Credit Report as a Public Record.  2). You can request that we mail your tenant a Collection Letter. 3). The Landlord may also execute on his Judgment.  Wages may now be garnished to collect on Judgments. 

During the first year of a lease, the amount of a security deposit cannot exceed two months rent.  At the beginning of the lease’s second year a landlord cannot retain a security deposit of more than one month’s rent.  Thus, if the landlord collected a security deposit of two months rent when the lease was executed by the tenant, he must refund the equivalent of one month’s rent at the beginning of the second year.  At the beginning of the third year the landlord must place any deposit over $100.00 in an interest bearing account.  If the tenant gives the landlord a forwarding address and returns the keys to the property a security deposit must be returned in most cases.  Within thirty days of move out the landlord must send back the deposit or send a list of damages and costs, with the remaining portion of the deposit.

The contents of the lease agreement will answer this question.  If the tenant is in breach and has waived a Notice to Quit an action for eviction may be immediately filed with the District Justice’s office.  If the tenant is in breach of the lease but has not waived a Notice to Quit, a Notice to Quit should be served upon the tenant.

Initially, the landlord must look to the lease agreement to see if a Notice to Quit is required.  If the same is required one should be delivered to the tenant.  Thereafter, the landlord may file a complaint with the District Justice’s office.

Yes, the charge for the same may not be Excessive.