evict

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They also point to other local regulations that make it challenging to evict tenants who don’t pay their rent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

If this were a tenant whom you didn’t know, you would evict them and pull your hair out over how anyone could feel so entitled as to take something for nothing.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 2026

Perhaps that’s because state and city laws make it difficult to evict deadbeats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Ditto the city’s current rent regulation and a 2019 state law that requires landlords to demonstrate a “just cause” to evict tenants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

She teased him because it was all so pretty and melodic, and "in the same phylum as Hall and Oates," and he threatened to evict her from his room.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell