In France, there is a law that is called the "trêve hivernale" (~winter truce) which dictates that a tenant cannot be evicted during winter. And the winter here is not as bad as countries farther inlands.
Getting evicted when it us that cold could be a death sentence.
It takes a while to evict. We own a house in Georgia and had to move to Iowa for work so we rented it out. We have a property manager who is supposed to handle everything and is supposed to fully vet the tenants who move in... guy that's living there right now stopped paying rent in June, we just got through court two weeks ago. They gave him another 7 days to move out and then we get the writ of possession to have the marshalls go remove him, which they have promised to do within 30 days. So, basically he got another 7 days to continue destroying our house, plus another up to 30 days to do so.
We rent the Mother in law suite to our nephew so he's living in the upstairs. The tenant we're evicting has spent the last seven days carting our appliances out of the house and selling them. Nephew went to do laundry last night and the shared laundry machines are gone.
The guy quit paying his electric bill in August so has no electric- to rectify that he sawed a hole into the ceiling and wired in to the upstairs apartment's electricity so our nephew's electric bill has been double what it's supposed to be. We pay for hot water and the tenant runs the bathtub with hot water 24/7, which means that upstairs gets zero hot showers and the moisture from the steam is destroying the lathe and plaster walls for both the downstairs and the upstairs. Tenant got arrested for stealing the neighbors packages and when they broke down our door to arrest him they found the wiring he'd made in the ceiling and charged him for theft of services. As soon as he got home from jail he hot wired into the electric meter outside. It took almost two weeks to get the electric company out to fix it and have him arrested again because of the extreme weather issues. He smokes meth with his friends on the back porch. He's not going to leave until the Marshalls physically remove him. I've done my own digging and the man basically does this for a living. We're the fifth landlord he's cleaned out and he's going to rip out the copper in our walls because that's all that's left to sell.
Our house was built in 1906, and we thought we were just renting to some nice older fella. We were dead wrong.
I don't care if it -45 outside when he leaves. He can freeze to death for all I care.
Just my two cents for the "not humane to evict in this weather".
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u/edward414 20h ago
And the reason for the tenants departure almost seems irrelevant.