What are typical costs included in an eviction judgement?
After a court judgement, is the management legally allowed to add a “bill” from the court officer who was on site during the eviction?
Is management legally allowed to charge extra for a double wide vs. single?
Is management legally allowed to say “if you don’t sign a lease, you will pay higher rent?”
Good questions for an attorney, these all vary across the country. Our costs in the northeast (tenant friendly) are typically $1,000-2,500 plus lost lot rent.
In our jurisdictions, we typically have the lawyer’s fee and the court costs. If we do the eviction in house, we do not have the lawyer’s fee, but we do have the court costs which includes cost of service. The legal fees are much more substantial than the court fees and we have paid from $500 to $2000 per case.
Your second question about the “bill” is not clear. I assume you are asking if you can charge the tenant for the eviction costs, and it depends by the state. Some states do not permit recovery of court fees in residential evictions. Even if they did, you are not likely to get it.
Aside from a few rent control laws that are unique to an area, you can charge any rent you want. In fact, if I was to rent a house that is double the size of another, I would expect to pay more as a customer. I think most people expect to pay more to get more.
The last question is very interesting. What you say, while legally binding, is often clouded by what was put in writing. What is put in writing is what usually wins over any verbal agreement. To that end, to handle this is that you enter a verbal agreement with a tenant for $800 per month, but you indicate that the rent will only be $750 per month is you sign this lease. In effect, you are not providing a “discount” under “the lease” but you are a providing a completely separate lease from the verbal lease which has different terms. The new lease does not in any way refer back the original verbal lease. So the short answer is yes, you can say that.