WASHINGTON – As the DC Council debates changes to landlord-tenant laws, one homeowner says his case shows how difficult the process can be.
It can be challenging to evict someone in Washington, D.C. That’s by design, the result of policy choices made over years. Now, as the D.C. Council considers the Rental Act, which could alter some of the city’s landlord-tenant dynamics, one man’s story underscores how complicated the system can be.
Doug Cleary says it took him six years to remove someone from his property — a woman he once dated who, he says, never paid rent.…