A lot has changed in Milwaukee County eviction court over the past nine months. Recently a property owner we do work for faxed in a five-day notice she filled out herself, requesting we give it to the attorney and proceed with an eviction.
Our staff immediately noticed two problems with the notice that would cause the eviction to fail:
- The owner listed late fees on the notice
- She had used an older “fill in the date” 5-day notice. The date she entered was five days after the day she mailed it certified.
I had to call the owner and tell her she needed to start over with a new five day. She was upset and said this was the last financial straw – she is ready to walk away from the properties.
While hopefully she rethought this, it reminded me of the need to post these changes again so the rest of us do not make the same mistakes. So what are these are changes …