<p>So, they run a lawn business out of the home? Is it zoned for that or have they violated some zoning law? Is the business incorporated? Are there officers? Do they have a tax ID? Do they pay their taxes? I assume the answer to the corporate registration etc is no (easy enough to look up on line). Can you report them to the state so they will pursue tax collection? You can make it increasingly desirable for them to want to get the heck outta dodge.</p>
<p>Hire a local punk to come by every few days and slash the tires on their work trucks.</p>
<p>Stop by and express your sympathy about how the neighborhood is going to heck.</p>
<p>Only half kidding.</p>
<p>nooooo… you hire a local punk to set up a protection racket and shake them down for $$ that without the “protection”… someone might slash their tires…</p>
<p>You want them to be able to get $ and drive the vehicles the heck outta there.</p>
<p>Well, IRS is on their behind already…Saw the recorded liens against them, apparently they also evaded taxes. But that does not give me the rights to posses the property. The law of landlord tenancy governs the repossesion of properties. I have asked the specific questions about IRS liens and the answer is that has nothing to do with the title of the property. Even you close their business down, repossesion is not going to happen. They also can declare bankruptcy, but it will only delay the evction process by 2 weeks in California.</p>
<p>The IRS lien may not affect the actual title to the property, but don’t you need to get the IRS to discharge its claim?</p>
<p>My record - this was way before the current back up in the courts in foreclosure - was a family that hadn’t paid their mortgage in 9 years and 9 months!!! They had filed bankruptcy three times. And the couple was a chiropractor and a dentist.</p>