And maybe you're getting "way too much of it" because "I saw a bed in a house, how do I evict??" is not a thread topic which deserves to be taken seriously.
Don't be a jerk franklin. As an owner, the OP has the right to know who is staying at your property on an ongoing basis.
One of my properties is leased to a single dad with 1 toddler. That is fine by me. If he has a partner stay with him, I don't need to know, that's his business, but we'd put her on the lease the next time around just as a formality if they are a de facto couple and if she had effectively moved in.
If he invited his mates around to stay long term, that would would not be ok, because the wear and tear on the property would be quite a bit more and because I/my property manager had not vetted them.
Sure, and if our dear OP had been like "help me figure out what to do" or "who is this guy" or "how to proceed?" or whatever I would not have commenced to clown upon him. But instead of any of those he was like "Hey my dudes. I saw the following: A Bed. And second: An individual. How to evict??" Subsequently he volunteered that he did not want to evict because the tenant had failed to pay rent or otherwise violated the lease, but rather because he, the landlord, preferred to move back into the property because he had, quote, lemme just get the quotes out here, extra third quote, """a timeline""" wow big man with the timeline, hoo buddy.
This is why I'm really frustrated with Senor Frugal Toque, Moderator, being like how dareth thee commit the greatest forum crime at all, personal attack upon the OP, a righteous and chivalrous man, because our OP volunteered straight up that he was
seeking a pretense to evict Put on your thinking caps, fellow owners of property. When a prospective tenant is like oh I'll get the rent later as soon as I can sell all this weed, what's your reaction?
Ok: now put on your tenant caps: when a landlord wants to forcibly evict someone for the sole reason of reoccupying the property since he's all "whoopsy doodle shouldna rented it lol" how bullshit is that? I suggest it is 100% bullshit. And furthermore I suggest that in the case of someone
volunteering that they are seeking any arbitrary pretense to evict that person is, in actual fact, an asshole. It's no longer a matter of personal opinion, but rather, public record.
Sure landlords have a right to know who is living in their property. If OP had asked "how can I identify this person?" I would have suggested first: talk to your damn tenant, of course! But he's not interested in an equitable resolution because he wants to find an excuse to detonate the nuclear bomb of property management on account of how he, the landlord, made a mistake in signing the lease. Here's an idea: fulfill your god damn contractual obligations, and if that makes life hard for you, suck it the fuck up, landlord.