How some North Texas landlords go outside the legal eviction process to force tenants out

Earlier this summer, Nicole Hernandez said she came home to the room she rented in Garland to find the door kicked in and her window air conditioner unit smashed. Her landlord had just taken her to court to evict her. The judge gave Hernandez about a week to appeal or to pack and leave before the constables showed up. But Hernandez said her landlord was trying to make it unbearable to stay another day. Temperatures that week were over 100 degrees. She drenched herself in water to keep cool while she tried to figure out what to do. “It felt like my head was just tight. My temples were hurting and my head, it was just so swelled up," Hernandez said. “The heat was making me very sick.” To continue reading the rest of the article, please click on the source link below: https://www.keranews.org/news/2023-08-08/how-some-landlords-go-outside-the-legal-eviction-process-to-force-tenants-out