Your tenant stopped paying. We serve the notice in all 50 states — and in Maryland, we file & appear too.

You can — plenty of landlords do. The risk is in the details: the Notice of Intent to File (DC-CV-115) has to name the right tenants, at the right address, for an amount your ledger actually supports, and the Failure to Pay filing can't be made until the required notice period has run. A defective notice doesn't get fixed at the hearing — it stalls or kills the filing, and the clock starts over while the rent loss grows.

Our Step 0 service prepares the notice from your lease and ledger, sends it by First-Class Mail with a Certificate of Mailing — the method Maryland law requires — calculates your earliest filing date from the mailing, and delivers the proof of mailing / mailing certificate back to you — so when the case is filed, the paper underneath it holds.

Yes. Step 0 is $40 on its own — DC-CV-115 (or the correct notice to vacate for your case type) prepared and sent the way your state's law requires — with proof of mailing returned to you — and it's included at no extra charge inside every Step 1 filing package. If you already sent a notice yourself, tell us in the intake: we'll look at what you sent before anyone relies on it, and re-issue it if it won't hold.

Step 0 — the eviction notice — is available in all 50 states + DC for $40: we prepare your state's required notice form and send it the way your state's law requires, with proof of mailing returned to you. Each state prescribes its own form, wait period, and delivery method, so we follow that state's rules — there is no single nationwide form or mailing method.

Steps 1–5 (court filing, appearing for you, warrant, eviction day, and collections placement) are currently live in Maryland only and show as Coming soon · 即将推出 in Virginia, DC, and every other state. Use the state selector at the top of this page to see exactly what's available in your state, or join the list / ask us and we'll tell you when your state opens.

No — we are not attorneys, we are not a law firm, and we do not give legal advice. Maryland Real Property § 8-401 expressly allows a Failure to Pay Rent complaint to be brought by “the landlord or the landlord's duly qualified agent or attorney,” and the District Court's own form DC-CV-082 provides for a “Landlord's Agent” to appear. With your signed written authorization, we file and appear for uncontested rent cases.

Most uncontested cases take about 22–45 days from notice to judgment, and longer to a physical eviction depending on the sheriff's schedule in your county. The 10-day notice wait and the court's hearing calendar are fixed by law and the court — anyone who guarantees you a specific eviction date is guessing. What we guarantee is same-day action whenever a step becomes available.

Good — that's the cheapest outcome there is. In most Failure to Pay cases the tenant holds a right of redemption: paying the full judgment amount (plus any costs the court allows) before the eviction stops the process. Tell us the moment any payment arrives, partial or full, so the court record and the balance stay accurate — a partial payment is credited, it doesn't wipe the balance unless you agree in writing that it does.

If the tenant contests — claims serious repair failures, disputes the lease or the amount, or demands a jury trial (which moves the case to Circuit Court) — that is attorney territory. We stop, tell you exactly what was raised, and refer you to a licensed Maryland landlord-tenant attorney for the contested portion (typically $250–$1,000). Roughly 95% of rent cases never get there.

Regular coverage: Prince George's, Montgomery, Anne Arundel, Howard, Charles, Frederick, Calvert, St. Mary's, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Harford, and Carroll. Another Maryland county? Ask us in the intake form below — if we can't cover the court date responsibly, we'll say so before you pay anything.

Some jurisdictions — Baltimore City in particular — expect a valid rental license (and, for older properties, lead registration/certification) and a judge can postpone or dismiss a case without them. Send us what you have with your intake; we check your documents before filing so a missing paper doesn't burn your hearing date.

A possession judgment and a money judgment are different things — a money judgment generally requires the tenant to have been personally served or to appear. We'll tell you which kind your hearing produced.

For the balance itself, that's our Step 5 — Collections Placement: we build the final accounting — rent through the move-out date, utilities billed to the tenant, and documented damage, minus payments and any deposit applied — and place the account with I.C. System under your own I.C. System account. I.C. System works it on contingency (its fee comes out of recoveries under your agreement), recovered funds remit directly to you, and you keep 24/7 access to your account data. Our part is the first-party work — the accounting, documentation, and placement — for a $75 flat placement fee; we are not a collection agency and never place your tenants' debts under our own account.

可以。从咨询、材料清单、到开庭结果，我们都可以用中文跟你解释清楚；递交给法院的文件是英文正式文件，我们会逐项给你说明内容。你只需要提供租约、欠租明细和授权签字，剩下的流程我们来跑。