Tenant May Raise Non-Eviction Issues at Trial

Your tenant may attempt to excuse nonpayment of rent with a claim that you failed to properly or timely address a repair request. What impact might this have on your Eviction Trial?

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The Law Office of Ernie Garcia represents Landlords in various trial cases in Texas Justice Courts, County Courts, District Courts, and even U.S. Federal District Courts in the Southern District of Texas. While our office is located in Houston, Texas and many of our cases are in Harris County, we have represented clients in Courts all throughout the State of Texas.

Our Landlord clients look to the Law Office of Ernie Garcia to send demand letters to tenants who have breached their residential or commercial leases. We prepare petitions for Eviction and represent Landlords, Investment Companies, and Property Managers involved in Evictions at the Justice Court and in Eviction Appeals.

The goal in every Eviction is full and final resolution, which sometimes includes Judgment, Writ of Possession, Abstract of Judgment, Writ of Execution, and even settlement. We also defend Landlords whose Tenants sue them in these same courts with claims for repairs, security deposits, or a variety of other Lease disputes.

Additionally, Ernie Garcia assists Landlords with drafting Leases that comport with the Texas Property Code and puts the Landlord in a firm position to derive the best benefit from the Landlord/Tenant relationship. He routinely delivers Notice to Vacate, Notice of Lease Termination, or Notice of Non-renewal for Landlords seeking to end a Lease relationship with a bad tenant. Ernie Garcia shows clients how the Eviction process can improve Tenant cooperation and reduces the potentially enormous losses that come from continued instances of partial and late payments.

Ernie Garcia has over 10 years of litigation experience in jury trials and bench trials. He has also represented clients on appeal to the First and Fourteenth Texas Courts of Appeal.
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[jeff]

Thanks for the videos. Having a pain ITB tenant makes you a better property provider.

[nicoleperez]

This is the reason I would like to hire you! Your the best! I'm running out of time! I have pay in advance where I live at! She told me that she wasn't going to do nothing in my unit.

[baldthanos]

Not if your dealing with property management that haven't made repairs in months. I been their as a tenant when paying rent, I seen with my own eyes a property management company wouldn't do any repairs for six months.

[robertdavis]

Regarding repairs, this technique by baboons is called "sandbaging repairs". It's used primarily to scare the landlord into dropping the eviction process. I also state in the lease agreement that"All repairs must be in writing, to the lessor. By text or by mail". Timed and dated photos are taken of everything i do at the property. You must realize the tenant always knows he is a bad tenant before he's given the keys. This defense always works. All problems with tenants start with the lease. Landlords must do there do diligence. Good video from Sacramento

[Master-lsop]

rent withholding for failed to make repairs is major thing. its really the only legal thing a tenant can do to force landlord to make repairs. shit i went 3 months without a fridge. got the BOH write them 30 plus code violations.

[heatherabbe]

If they don’t in writing talk about the repairs needed and they aren’t done and then in writing say they are withholding rent it is void I thought bc obviously an excuse. I’d hope it would be accepted as obvious if tenant doesn’t say anything in writing about withholding until court about an issue it’s a scam!! Bc landlords have so many hoops, specifics, etc to know to make eviction stick in court. So to not require same knowledge by tenant is effed… I’ve spend $500 and an extra month of tenant not paying bc I had to do fed correct.