How to evict a tenant in Ohio?

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I live in an apartment building ran by an older couple. They are very nice and take good care of the place. The problem is another tenant. She is about 50 years old and does have some mental illness issues. The past few months she has not been taking her meds and has been drinking heavily! Last month she flipped and grabbed her neighbors 6 year old daughter by the hair and tried to drag her in the apartment. She then took a 2x4 and broke car mirrors and threatened that landlords wife. She broke a window in their house. She was arrested and taken to hospital for treatment. When she was discharged from hospital she took a taxi back to apartments. The landlords are afraid of her and don't want her to do anything else to them. I have found her standing outside of my apartment window, shining a light in to my daughters window at night. Last night she got in to someone's car and they ended up calling the police on her again. My question is how can the landlords get her evicted legally? I don't want to move but I don't want my daughter being hurt by this women!

sophieb · Accepted Answer

The problem is not the neighbor, the problem is the age of the people who run the place.  The owners should be the ones initiating whatever.  They should have an attorney who does landlord tenant law, and they should give warnings to someone who is misbehaving.  Perhaps the 50-year old neighbor is a relative or friend of theirs or their minister and they don't want to overstep friendliness, or they don't want to spend the money on an attorney, but maybe the fact is that since they can't handle the situation of owning something anymore then it's time to get out of the business.  If you have the money then try to buy out the apartment.  Or if you're friendly with them then ask them if they have a relative who will be taking over the complex some time in the future.  "they" could give the woman a warning, they could keep the problems in a folder from the tenants who wrote them so that they would not be charged with discrimination.  "they" could contact that 50 year old woman's family.  But these things aren't something you can do.  After an arrest she could be given an eviction notice (but I'd say they should contact her family first as they might want to put her in an ALF or something rather than just move her to the streets).  Here we might baker act someone to get some action, the county would come over and take her to a facility where she would be evaluated, and then later she's have to do followup work with a social worker.  An eviction is for 3 days and the old couple would then ask the sheriff to come by and remove her on the date she is to leave.

kemperk · Answer

the comments are all good; since yours seems to be a timely
problem, the lady needs to be given TWO documents;
an eviction notice to leave immediately and go to court and
get a TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER

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