How to Evict a tenant from my house who is filing appeals based on fictitious racial discrimination?

Question

I have rooms I rent out in my house, 5 to count. and recently one was rented to a gentleman who quickly appeared to be not only a glutton, but incredible disrespectful. Female tenants quickly terminated their leases due to his behavior of bringing prostitutes into the home and other suspicious activity of a drug related manor. We do operate on a lease agreement basis which he has multiple violations of. We went through the courts here in Indianapolis, Indiana for eviction at which time her filed an appeal claiming age discrimination. Recently I got a latter from the Indiana civil rights commission including a copy of the letter he wrote them claiming that myself and other tenants were placing racial slurs on his door and his personal items in the kitchen. Which is most certainly a bold faced lie, we are all good respectable people of good backgrounds pursuing college educations, that sort of ignorant behavior would never be acceptable. I feel that lying to the civil rights commission should be perjury at least, but I didn't know. I have never had a parasite like this appear in my home, whats should I do?

Answer 1

next time check references. if he is making false accusations against you, that is hard to fight.  what about the other tenants, can't you get them to come to court with you to testify.  you need proof when you go to court.  get a notarized statement some judges will take a written  statement.  it seems you did not enforce your lease when he brought unwelcome people in.  good luck

Answer 2

Definitely get a lawyer.  This is one of those situations were there is no winning situation if you handle it on your own.

Answer 3

Your first mistake was not immediately enforcing the clause in your lease about ilegal activity. Hiring a prostitute is a crime. You should have dialed 911 when the hooker was there.

You should also have asked for written statements from departing tenants and sued him immediately for disrupting your business.

The letter you got was pro forma, but you need to address it properly. The fact you rented to him in the first place is evidence of lack of discrimination. I agree you need a lawyer to get him out properly.

And you need to learn how to be a strict disciplinarian concerning house rules.

Answer 4

first.... get a lawyer of your own. its too easy to make mistakes trying to handle this without professional legal guidance. if he loses his case against you, you should be able to recover your legal fees from him.

remember that if he makes a claim he has to be able to prove it. he is the plaintiff in this case and must prove his allegations to win any sort of legal recourse or procedure.

Answer 5

He isn't the first one to lie to the civil rights  commission, and they know that happens.  Just because he filed with them doesn't mean he'll win (I once won an EEOC case with an employee - and her grandfather was at the time head of the local EEOC office!)

The advice to get a lawyer is probably a good one.  And document, document, document.  Statements from other tenants would help.

Good luck.