Renting an apartment after an eviction?

Question

I'm a former student at a university that requires its students behave by a stringent set of rules. This university also requires that its unmarried students live in Approved Housing, which also require their tenants to live according to those rules. I broke those rules when my girlfriend at the time and I had s*x. I was suspended from the university and served a nuisance notice to vacate and told I had three days to get myself and my stuff out.

I never missed a payment. I never failed a cleaning check. I kept to myself, never had parties. Overall, I figure I was a pretty good tenant.

Now that I'm back on my feet, I'm looking for a place to stay again, and I'm finding that this past eviction is causing me a great deal of trouble in getting housing, even housing that doesn't require a behavior code. I have good credit, good payment history, and nowhere that I've applied would have cared that I had s*x, but they still reject my application. What do I to turn this around?

Answer 1

I used to work in an apartment rental office. Unfortunately many places will turn you down if you have an eviction on your credit report. My advice to you is talk with the landlord and explain exactly what happened, prove yourself financially, or ask if they will except a larger security deposit ( as much as 2 or 3 months rent). Good luck!

Answer 2

It does sound somewhat UNFAIR now!

Try Offering a Large Security Deposit?

Answer 3

Unfortunantly they look at eviction very strongly. My best thought for you would be if there's someone that can co sign the lease with you. If their background check comes back clean, maybe you can live there then.

That is a completly stupid reason to evict someone over. Man those rules really were strict. Good luck to you, I hope you can find a place to live.

Answer 4

I am a private landlord and would not believe that a judge signed an eviction order because you dipped your willy.

Our conversation would be over, I would think you were some sort of dishonest freak to make something like that up and discuss it with me.

Even if it is true I would not tell that story.

You will need to make double deposits for a few years.

Answer 5

You could also rent through a private landlord. Talk to them. Tell them what happened, and they'll probably understand. Find somewhere off campus.

Good luck.