The MHP Brokers Tips and Tricks Podcast Interview with Mark Brisebois, Founder of EZ Evict USA

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In this episode of The MHP Broker’s Tips and Tricks podcast, Maxwell Baker, president of The Mobile Home Park Broker, interviewed Mark Brisebois, the founder and managing partner of EZ Evict USA.

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Here Are the Show Highlights:

• Mark Brisebois recently started EZ Evict USA, a company serving mobile home park owners as well as the owners of single- and multi-family homes with non-paying tenants. (Max, 1:05)

• Mark has worked in the real estate industry for almost 40 years. His responsibilities have taken him into such related fields as title and mortgage servicing, loan origination, training and wholesaling. From there, he started working with mobile home park owners, improving their valuation before sale. From this he learned about the high cost of evicting tenants, which can be as much as $8,000 in some cases, and the negative impact a high eviction and non-payment rate had on parks. He was not particularly impressed with the actions of local professionals he saw in the eviction line of work. (Mark, 1:44)

• Mark was seeing evictions taking 60 to 90 days, and wondered why it couldn’t be done sooner. He realized that the tenant who wasn’t paying rent was a non-performing asset, so the eviction needed to happen as soon as legally possible. (Mark, 4:04)

• He also noticed that there was not a national eviction service. All existing services were local, and of varying quality. Another shortcoming was that the client was rarely able to see the process in real time to know how it was going. In frustration, he decided to start his own service, which he launched in March of this year. (Mark, 4:55)

• His company, EZ Evict USA, works with attorneys across the country and is currently active in 25 states. (Mark, 6:14)

• Max said that Mark’s earlier comment about some evictions costing $8,000 were situations where the resident was renting and not paying for the pad, but had their own mobile homes. It was when the entire home had to be moved out of the park in a legal manner that generated that high eviction cost. (Max, 6:32)

• The EZ Evict UA process starts by providing the client with an app through which all of the client’s documents and information on the eviction can be submitted, and the company can provide an agreement that outlines all that EZ Evict will do. It also provides the client with information on how they should proceed (or not proceed) to stay within the law in their state and to not jeopardize the case. (Mark, 7:19)

• The agreement allows the company to be the legal intermediary between the client and the lawyer used for the eviction. That means the client doesn’t have to deal with the lawyer, but can monitor every step taken via the app including the activities of the process server and all court dates. (Mark, 8:04)

• Max pointed out that there are several forms of eviction related to mobile home parks, including lot rent evictions, park-owned home evictions, lease option evictions and foreclosures. (Max, 9:24)

• Mark said that most of the types boil down to non-payment, and can all be handled more or less the same way. (Except lease option non-renewal, which is not a non-payment issue). He emphasized the importance of park owners reading their leases and following the process carefully to stay in compliance with their state laws. (Mark, 10:03)

• Before working in a state, Mark learns whether it’s what he calls a “tenant-friendly” or a “landlord-friendly” state. He’s not actively pursuing business in tenant-friendly states where it can sometimes take as long as six months to evict a non-paying resident and require at least two court dates. (Mark, 11:31)

• Mark pointed out the bottom-line benefit to park owners of being able to process an eviction in 30 days rather than 60 or 90 days, or longer. The faster they can get in a new paying tenant, the better for cash flow and the valuation of the park when selling. (Mark, 12:55)

• The best way to reach Mark and hire his company is through his website, at EZEvictUSA.com. (Mark, 14:56)

If you’re a mobile home park owners losing revenue from non-paying tenants or concerned about your non-payment rent when considering selling, check in with Mark Brisebois and EZ Evict USA by visiting EZEvictUSA.com. Or reach out to Max Baker at [e-mail] or give him a call at [phone]. He’ll put you in touch with Mark.

Power Quotes in This Episode:

“Sometimes tenants don’t always pay.” (Mark, 1:44)

“I was having a hard time wrapping my head around as to why, you know, why should this take 60 to 90 days to get someone out? And you know, obviously, during that time, you're not getting any money off of that non-performing asset.” (Mark, 4:04)

“...we launched in March, and I'm happy to say that, you know, July looks to be our first break-even-slash-mildly-profitable month. So we're movingin the right direction.” (Mark, 4:55)

“What I want to be able to do for the community out there is to provide a service that would actually save you money, because if you're normally doing 60-90 days, and I can do it in 30 days, you know, that month or two of non-rent is paying for your eviction.” (Mark, 12:55)

“...the eviction process, in my mind, is a critical piece to the overall management of that park.” (Mark, 12:55)