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It can take six months or more to evict a non-paying tenant
A. FRÍAS
...can wait a long time.” Landlords can only evict a tenant under the Law of Urban Rentals by taking out a civil law case, not a criminal one; that is the only option. However, people can take tenants to a criminal court in certain circumstances after ... or she can lodge a criminal case against them. However, this process is longer, and can often take up to two years. The problem in both of these cases is in getting tenants to pay the rent they owe for the months they missed, or to pay for the