I need some clear insite folks.I rent property to a man with a real violent past. But he served his time...numerous times.
When he moved in I told everyone has a past the only things that I would hold against you is any sort of violent crime against a woman whether it be assault or rape or hurting kids. And he said that he had done none of the above so I rented to him.
I just found out he has a aggrivated sexual assault charge. It was lessened to simple assault.I am thinking about evicting him as there are neighbors very close. What's YOUR oppinion?Keep in mind his debt to society is paid. Thankyou
Were you JUST looking for advice on whether or not you can evict him where you are? Or were you looking for additional or alternate thoughts about your reasoning about him? I ask, because I'm used to the word "insight" being used to talk about understanding each other and ourselves as humans, rather than just talking about legal and functional mechanics.
So I'll put something in, which you can of course ignore, if I'm off the mark from what you were after.
You repeatedly said that he "paid his debt to society." I have always found that to be a very dicey, and sometimes even misleading idea. Society doesn't get "repaid" by a member being imprisoned, even if they get treatment or guidance on how to avoid repeat incarceration. It's just a nice-sounding phrase, that we're supposed to use to close our own concerns about someone who did something wrong.
That's one of my own "insights" about this: since you mention it twice, as though you think you have to convince everyone else about something, the fact that you do, suggests the strong likelihood that you have a lot of doubts about it yourself. You might want to put in some more introspection about that.
Another thing to consider: the fact that someone is charged with aggravated assault first, and then that charge is reduced to something less, doesn't mean that the ORIGINAL charge was the more accurate one. In other words, more investigation would be needed to be sure that you've correctly assessed this person in either direction. The news is often full of people being charged with more intense crimes than they have actually committed, as well as with people who manage to use lawyers help to get the system to pretend they really didn't do anything as bad as they actually did. It's not logical to ASSUME that we know reality, from the charges.
Edited by
IgorFrankensteen
on Wed 02/27/19 06:49 PM