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If owner asks tenant to vacate due to non payment of rent does owner have to have eviction papers served
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should tenant agree to vacate property but is having hard time finding other resources an is continuing to pay mthly rent plus what is owed from back payments does owner have the right to just throw tenant out an or change locks on the tenants door with out permission? and does the tenant have to leave without a marshall serving eviction papers
The landlord cannot simply change the locks. If the tenant does not leave, the landlord has to go through the legal eviction process, called summary process in Connecticut. The Landlord actually has to have a notice to quit served on the tenant, which is the landlord's unequivocal statement that he/she wants to terminate the lease for non-payment of rent. Even after the notice to quit is served, the tenant does not have to leave until the landlord commences the summary process action in court and gets a court judgment saying the tenant has to leave.
