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Venessa Bornost

How to Landlord and Rent During COVID?

As we are adjusting and learning how to deal with the COVID pandemic we must also think tactically in what is next around the corner when it comes to how to rent during a pandemic.
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How to Deal with A Non Paying Tenant During COVID-19?

As we try and protect ourselves each day from the deadly virus and adhere to the CDC guidelines in exercising social distancing, safer at home living, donning facial masks, and sanitizing hands many landlords are faced with the anxiety and reality of non paying tenants during this trying time in our nation.
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First Time DUI in Hillsborough County

The Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office in Tampa, Florida has instituted the Reducing Impaired Driving Recidivism Program (RIDR) for a first time DUI offenders. If you have been arrested for DUI you may be eligible for RIDR however a first time DUI arrest is NOT an automatic entrance into the program.
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What are Field Sobriety Exercises?

Field Sobriety Exercises or (FSE) are exercises designed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to measure an individual’s ability to perform certain divided attention tests.
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Meaning of Impairment

If you ask 10 people to define impairment you will probably get answers such as slurred speech, stumbling, falling, glassy eyes, swaying, loss of balance, tipping over, etc.
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What is Reckless Driving?

Just what is reckless driving? Certainly it can be deemed as subjective as it is a certain behavior behind the wheel of an automobile or on a motorcycle.
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Tenant Damaged My Property

I get this question often and just this week I was in court for on a Claim for Damages. There are two ways in which a landlord can recover against the tenant for damages. If the landlord is holding a security deposit then they may send the tenant a Notice of Claim to the Security Deposit and/or File a Damages Claim against the tenant.
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Veterans Court

A few years ago both the Thirteenth Circuit (Hillsborough County) and the Sixth Circuit (Pinellas and Pasco Counties) set up what is generically called Veterans Courts. These Courts were set up to assist Military Veterans and active duty personnel who had found themselves arrested for the first time. In the Thirteenth Circuit, the programs official name is the Hillsborough County Veterans Treatment Court (VTC) Program and in the Sixth Circuit the programs official name is the Sixth Judicial Circuit Veterans Treatment Court (VTC). These Courts are unique in that not only are the Courts, the States Attorney Office and the Public Defenders Offices involved but so is the local VA facilities.
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