As the owner of a Texas mobile home park, the last thing you need is to be burdened by excessive legal fees from a Texas mobile home park attorney while also hemorrhaging money from a non-paying tenant. Our firm offers solutions to Texas mobile home park owners that enable their management teams to handle substantial portions of the Justice of the Peace eviction process on their own. In most cases, mobile home parks are required by Texas law to hire a licensed Texas attorney for representation before a County Court at Law. Additionally, the pricing model we describe below is designed to minimize your year-over-year legal expenses. Girling Law will partner with your team, providing them the eviction resources they need to further reduce your company’s legal expenses should it come to pass that you do need to hire our law firm for either a Justice of the Peace eviction or a County Court at Law eviction. Girling Law’s pricing options coupled with our years of experience handling mobile home park evictions makes us your best option for eviction legal services in Texas!
Managing Legal Expenses for Mobile Home Parks
Having worked with mobile home park owners for over a decade, experience has shown us that the best way for your business to control its legal expenses is to 1) maximize your team’s chances of winning Justice of the Peace evictions; and 2) handling as much of the eviction process as Texas law permits. Girling Law will serve as your dedicated mobile home park attorney, working with you to help you meet both of these objectives.
Given all the expenses involved in managing a mobile home park, the last thing your business needs to worry about is outrageously high legal fees. We get it! That is why we offer resources to mobile home park owners that help your staff succeed before the Justice of the Peace and enable your team to handle significant portions of the eviction process on their own.
Girling Law will never require your company to pay a retainer. You pay only after representation has finished. We bill all of our mobile home park clients on Net 30 terms. We do not require mobile home park clients to pay an up-front flat fee. Our firm makes use of “stepped” flat fees. Our client agreements include fee tables for both Justice of the Peace and County Court at Law eviction representation. Each eviction is broken down into benchmarks. You are billed only for the benchmarks we start. If your tenant vacates only days after you hire us and we have started only the first benchmark, you pay only for that one benchmark! If your tenant vacates after a set out and our team completes twelve benchmarks handling your case, you pay for those twelve benchmarks. Over time, you enjoy a significant savings because you are not paying an attorney full price on cases that ended prior to the eviction trial.
If you would like to learn more about how we can help you manage your business’s eviction legal expenses, please give us a call immediately at (469) 423-6828.
Mobile Home Eviction Notices
Girling Law offers eviction representation packages for mobile home park owners that enable owners to reduce their legal expenses by handling their own notices and their own writs of possession. The only catch to this is that courts STRICTLY enforce the notice requirements. This means there is absolutely no room for error! One aspect of Texas evictions that is particularly painful for mobile home park eviction owners is the differing levels of accountability between the Justice of the Peace Court and the County Court at Law. Because of this, our eviction law firm regularly sees clients come to us with un-winnable eviction appeals even though the client won at the Justice of the Peace level. This almost always occurs because of an issue with the notices. You and your team will need to CAREFULLY follow Girling Law’s instructions on our eviction notices.
Girling Law will provide your team with access to free copies of the eviction notices mobile home parks regularly require. Our firm will even give mobile home park staff versions of these documents on our law firm’s letterhead! This is a big deal, because tenants are far more responsive to notices to cure and notices to vacate when they are on an attorney’s letterhead. We also give your employees free access to training materials to ensure they get the notices, delivery, and day count calculations correct. And your team gets access to these fantastic materials for free!
If you would like to learn more about our free eviction notices for Texas mobile home park owners, please give us a call immediately at (469) 423-6828.
The Best Way for Mobile Home Park Owners to Fight Legal Aid
Don’t be fooled. Legal aid hires really good attorneys. And the training these attorneys get rivals the training found in high-end law firms. If you have heard that legal aid organizations hire low quality attorneys, you would be wise to ignore such rumors. They are wrong. Many legal aid attorneys work for these non-profit organizations because they are passionate about helping the poor. These attorneys often represent their clients with a religious-like zeal, and they are happy to do so for less pay as compared to what they would earn at a private firm.
To make matters worse, legal aid loves to play dirty! I am in no way suggesting what they do is unlawful or unethical. Our firm’s mobile home park attorney’s experience has been that legal aid mostly plays by the rules. But “the rules” permit things like showing up to represent the tenant unannounced and alleging problems with your corporate filings. Such tactics are permitted in our court system, they are regularly employed by legal aid attorneys, and they are deemed perfectly acceptable under our state’s legal and ethics rules.
The good news for you is that Girling Law remains several steps ahead of legal aid. When our mobile home park attorney represents you before a Justice of the Peace or a County Court at Law, he and his team will prepare you case with the assumption the tenant has an attorney (even when there is no record of the tenant having an attorney). Additionally, when you hire our firm for representation, we will build what we call an “authority file.” This provides our appearing attorney with all of the documents needed to fend off legal aid’s allegations that your company’s corporate filings are not current. This file typically includes four different legal documents.
If you have questions about a case in which legal aid has become involved, please give us a call immediately at (469) 423-6828.
Special Considerations for Mobile Home Evictions
Texas law imposes additional notice requirements for mobile home parks. Not only is our team well versed and trained on these additional notice requirements, we will provide your team copies of these notices should your local property managers elect to handle their own evictions.
Mobile home parks often struggle with the need to balance the removal of a non-paying tenant and the need to avoid paying for the removal of a tenant’s mobile home. Our team is well trained in negotiating around these issues and we have a history of working solutions that both the tenant and the mobile home park can live with.
If you have questions about the additional notice requirements for Texas mobile home parks, please give us a call immediately at (469) 423-6828.