Welcome to the new and improved Brummund Law Office! After 8 and a half years of dabbling in many areas of law, we’ve decided to focus exclusively on our largest client group: landlords and property managers. Now that we’ve focused, we’ve created a new website packed with resources for landlords. In particular, we’d like to to point to two new features. First, there is this weekly EvictionsFAQ blog, which aims to help address questions landlords ask me every day. Second, we are debuting a page with free forms that we’ve develop for landlords. There are just a few forms to start, but we will be ..read more

Evictions are relatively straightforward, as far as lawsuits go. Having said that, for a non-lawyer, can still be complex confusing, and tedious. Use this overview to better understand the entire eviction process. This is not an exhaustive guide that will give you all the tools you need to file your own eviction. Instead, this article is meant to familiarize you with the eviction process, and introduce you to the basic concepts. Serving a Termination Notice Before an eviction action can be filed, the landlord must almost always serve the tenant with an eviction notice which terminates the tena ..read more

An eviction action is a small claims lawsuit in which a landlord asks the court to remove tenants who refuse to leave on their own. The case typically must be filed with the property owner as plaintiff, and the tenant(s) as the defendants. Unlike most lawsuits, evictions have two distinct parts. In the first part of the case, the court has to decide whether or not the tenant has a right to stay in the property. If the court determines that the tenant has a right to stay, usually because of some kind of procedural or paperwork problem, the court will dismiss the eviction case in its entirety.&n ..read more

If you’ve just found out that one of your tenants is suing you or your company, the news can be difficult to deal with. Before you panic, here is an overview of how you can respond to a lawsuit filed against you in Wisconsin Circuit Court. Remember, anyone can sue you, but they can’t win if they don’t have the facts and the law on their side. The first thing to do is read the summons carefull, and look for the case number. In Wisconsin, state court case numbers start with the year, and then an abbreviation for the type of court. If you case number has “SC” in it (for example: 2022SC0012345), y ..read more

Although Wisconsin Law gives the landlord broad authority to deduct rent and damages from a tenant’s security deposit, it also severely punishes landlords who don’t follow the appropriate rules. If tenants leave or are evicted after their lease term ends, the landlord has 21 days from the day they learned the tenant moved to mail the tenant a security deposit withholding statement which itemizes all deductions made from the security deposit and returns the remaining portion. (If the tenant’s leave during the lease, the 21 days runs from the end of their lease or the day the landlord re-rents t ..read more