Eviction

Question: I own a home that I am using as a rental investment property. This home has a large backyard with a patio. During these recent summer months, I noticed that in addition to the tenant on my lease, there is another fellow sleeping on a lounge chair in the backyard. My tenant says this guy is his guest, and that he will be staying there the entire summer. I am not happy with this arrangement. Is there is any action I can take to remove "Mr. Outdoors"? Answer: First, check your rental agreement.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- A county constable was serving an eviction order when he was killed Monday, prompting a shootout in which the suspected gunman and an unidentified man also died, according to local police. A police officer and a 55-year-old woman were shot and wounded, and two other police officers also suffered non-life-threatening injuries while responding to reports of the initial shooting, according to College Station Assistant Police Chief Scott McCollum. He was shot by officers who responded to a 911 call of shots fired at a home in a leafy neighborhood near the Texas A&M University campus shortly after noon, McCollum said at a late afternoon press conference.

Vernon's first competitive elections in years took more bizarre twists this week when the L.A. County registrar announced it would uphold disputed ballots that city officials had ruled were fraudulently cast and the city moved to evict some of the voters in question. At a meeting Thursday, Vernon's housing commission gave city staff the approval to remove residents at four households if they are found to have violated their lease agreements. The decision comes after two City Council races were thrown into chaos by claims of widespread voter fraud.

Unable to qualify for modifications on Bank of America mortgages, a few of California's most distressed homeowners are being offered one last chance to stay in their homes: Become renters instead. Testing a mortgage-to-lease program in the Golden State, Bank of America Corp. sent 300 letters this week inviting borrowers without other options to apply. An additional 1,500 letters will go out in the next few weeks as the bank -- which also is testing the program in three other states -- evaluates whether a national rollout is feasible.

A new report finds Occupy Los Angeles cost city taxpayers nearly $5 million, with the bulk of the money spent on policing the protest. The report presented Friday by City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana says the Los Angeles Police Department spent $1.3 million monitoring protesters during the course of their two-month demonstration outside City Hall, and another $1.3 million evicting them. An additional $500,000 was spent by the Office of Public Safety, whose security officers protect city property, according to the report.

Harold Hazelton can't imagine living on land. For more than 30 years, the 76-year-old and his wife, Donna, 75, have resided on their 43-foot Grand Mariner at Colonial Yacht Anchorage in Wilmington. That soon will end, however. "I don't know what we're going to do," he said. "I don't like living on land. I've been on water all of my life. " The Hazeltons are among 95 tenants who face eviction May 1, the result of port officials having labeled the marina's dock and its 138 slips in Berth 204 as too dilapidated to be safe.

If you're like millions of people out there, you've spent time cultivating and curating your life online. You post videos and photos, you share links and connect with friends and family in real ways, virtually. Your musings, poignant moments, snapshots and vibrant exchanges are captured and cataloged. But what happens when you essentially get evicted from your online home?  As Instagram users fume about Facebook's buying the popular photo-sharing network, considering packing up their photos, comments and community isn't something you do hastily.

A business dispute between two aviation companies at Van Nuys Airport is threatening emergency helicopter flights for injured and severely ill children from around Southern California to Children's Hospital Los Angeles. The disagreement could result in flight delays or even cancellations, according to executives at Helinet Aviation, which owns and operates 15 helicopters at the airport. Flights carrying donated organs for transplantation could also be affected, Helinet executives said.

JERUSALEM - Israel's government is scrambling to find ways to save some of the unauthorized West Bank settlements it once promised to dismantle, including some that are built partly on private Palestinian land. The new strategy seeks to retroactively legalize some outposts and, in other cases, relocate Jewish settlers to nearby land that is not privately owned, in effect creating what critics say would be the first new West Bank settlements in years. The approach by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition government appears designed to avoid the need to carry out high-profile military evictions of settlers in order to appease conservative lawmakers, who have accused Netanyahu of betraying the settlers' cause.

Tenants and a state senator are battling a requirement by a Los Angeles landlord that residents pay their rent online, alleging that a "green" initiative introduced by the company is actually a pretense to evict low-income, elderly renters benefiting from rent-stabilization provisions. Elderly renters living in the Woodlake Manor Apartment building in South Los Angeles have sued their landlord, Jones & Jones Management Group Inc., alleging that their digital shortcomings could leave them vulnerable to eviction under the Woodland Hills company's new requirement that they make all their payments online.