Have an increase on the rent. Just enough to get them.out.

They are not paying to begin with

Wouldn't it be terrible if he had a fire, since he has no water? Sorry, you are going thru this. since it's your property couldn;t yoiu renovate and paint his building orange or pink and tear up his driveway to add power or something else. Of course you could fire the contractor and leave the job half done. There has to be a way to get at him. You're a smart man, think!

Sounds like a terrible idea to me. I could see this backfiring and once ADEM finds those chemicals they will become Hoggin's problem which costs him even more.

Hoggin I sent you a pm, letting you know since the red blinky envelope got nixed.

You can get the water separately metered we do it all the time.

And you can get rid of them. Read the lease. If they are behind on rent you can probably start the eviction process and at a minimum force them to get caught up.

How is he is operating a truck wash with no water? Start the eviction process now. Pay to have the water turned back on and keep all the records. He'll either pay you back or not have a leg to stand on in regards to an eviction hearing. IMO

If he is a separate business with a different address and you declare your business a different address there should be two water supplies. Now if you are dealing with Jefferson County or City of B'ham dealing with those folks that could be the issue and good luck dealing with those folks. Either way contact the mayors office the mayor could clear up the need of two meters with two separate addresses. Or a good try to and mention your increase tax revenue you are trying bring to the area and now your new venture is at a stand still due to this minor situation and looking forward to expanding in future and bringing more revenue if this issue can be resolved abrutly. Get the guy out either way.

How does a municipality allow someone to be $8,000 behind on a bill? You can't run up that much by turning on all the faucets and letting them run 24/7 for a month, much less two or three.

We had a water sprinkler leak and I know our backyard zone ran full blast for at least three hours before I got it turned off. The bill was $60 for roughly 10 days of usage that month.

So to amass $8,000 in a water bill means the city or county had to just let them go on and on and on for months. That's insane.


It probably would eat into your time to find out legal actions from an attorney, but that's what I'd do. Surely there's something that can be done, legally, when someone's persistent actions interfere with your business like that.

Should have been something in their lease about what happens if it was sold during their lease. Most do.

I would think that if you own the property and the water tap is in your name, you won't have water till someone pays the bill. This has been my experience. Have the water turned on, disconnect him and put a lien on his equipment for non payment. He is not in business anyway without water. Just another thing to think about. Good Luck.

So, I finally got in touch with another attorney that came as a recommendation from one of the members here (should have called him first just tried not to bother him with it) and problem solved. Deadbeats are gone like magic, water will be on today with the lease terminated.

Thanks doekiller, I owe you big time on this one.

👍 Scott’s a pretty doggone good feller.

Wow. Great News. So how did it all go down?

WHASB

WOOOHOOO!!

Great to read!!

Happy for you, as I know that was the pits!!

Are you able to give us any insight as to how doekiller got them to suddenly decide in such a short time to move, whereas earlier they were being so complicated and wouldn't leave?

God Bless,
David B.

Good for you hoggin

Doekiller recommended a real estate attorney who spent about half hour reading through the lease and came up with a few reasons to terminate the lease, I’m not exactly sure how it played out but they moved out during the night last night. I haven’t had a chance to talk to my lawyer yet to see why they caved and left so quickly

I was told that it was simply who my new lawyer is and his reputation but that’s just hear say at this point I don’t have any idea how true it is.

Great news hoggin...