Ahh, the dreaded tenant eviction. The word itself – along with words like “notices”, “judgments”, and “sheriff” – is enough to strike fear into the heart of landlords.
So in this first episode with a purely local focus on commercial real estate, we bring in our region’s foremost expert in commercial evictions: attorney Meghan Edwards of Edwards & Edwards PA right here in Jacksonville.
Meghan is a friend of the show who once helped Ian navigate 14 evictions in the span of a year (a story for another day), and today she easily handles just about every question a commercial landlord could have about the legal process of evicting a tenant from A to Z.
Meghan talks about:
Whether you really need an attorney to evict
Whether you should ever accept partial rent payment (her answer may surprise you)
Various lease violations and how each should be handled
What types of actions “restart the clock” on evictions in Jacksonville
The dangers of circumventing the legal system (changing locks, etc.)
Typical timetables and what to avoid if you want a quick eviction
What to put in your lease to make evictions less painful later
And, locally:
Why she loves living in Jax
Her favorite local restaurant, Marker 32
Her favorite local record shop: Soul Waves Vinyl
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Theme music provided by The Firewater Tent Revival
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