What You Should Know About Process Service for Landlords and Tenants

Process servers do a lot more than just serve summons’ and witnesses. One of the other major parts of their jobs is to help landlords and tenants navigate the eviction and foreclosure processes.

3-Day Notices

The first step in notifying a tenant that they need to vacate a rental property is to deliver a 3-day notice. This notice informs the tenant of the reason for the request and gives them time to make arrangements to leave. If the tenant does not vacate in the specified time, the landlord can proceed to eviction.

Evictions

An unfortunate and difficult part of being a landlord is evictions. If you own rental property for long enough, you will have to evict a tenant. Eviction is actually filing a civil lawsuit against the tenant with the county court. Just like any other lawsuit, the defendant (i.e. tenant) will need to be served with a lawsuit summons and complaint.

Doing it Yourself Can Cause Trouble

Delivering notices and other paperwork related to landlord-tenant matters yourself is never a good idea. If the tenant has harsh feelings about the request to vacate or eviction, they could react very negatively if you show up with a 3-day notice. Not to mention that tenants frequently claim that the landlord never delivered the required documents, causing lengthy delays and adding expense. 

Process Servers Can Help

By using a qualified process server to deliver notices to vacate, eviction summons, and all your other legal communication, you can eliminate many issues. Process servers provide valid proof of service to eliminate false claims that service was never made. Process servers are also trained in de-escalation techniques for hostile process recipients. 

If you’re a property manager, you might handle 3-day notices and evictions on a regular basis. Keeping up with all the details of who has been served can be difficult. That’s why using a reputable process service agency, like Accurate Serve®, to deliver these documents is a great idea. We track each service and give you the status of each case 24/7, right from our website.

Quality Process Servers in Dallas

If you own or manage rental property in the Dallas area, use the professional servers at Accurate Serve® to handle all your notices, eviction paperwork, and more. Call (469) 518-9581 or send us your work requests online to get started today.