It is very easy, and takes very little time to evict a tenant due to non payment of rent. It goes on your credit and you are blacklisted from renting. My mom just evicted a tenant in December ’05, and the judge awarded her the back rent from them, before they moved out, as a condition of letting them stay. She made a mistake of calling the last month rent a security deposit. So she did have to go after him for some money, which the sheriff’s department had deducted from his pay. He wrecked the place, but, my husband and I fixed it up,( that’s when we rented our place out and moved in. We sold in May of ’07, now we are looking to buy when the time and place is right.) But he can’t buy crap and good luck renting with that on you credit. People used to milk the system because of bancruptcy but, bancruptcy can’t help you anymore either because of the new laws.
He did contest it and it was worth whatever she paid and she was awarded all her costs.