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Eviction costs
An eviction splits into three distinct expenses: the management fee, the tribunal filing fee, and the lost rent. Only the first two appear on a rate card. The third, which usually dwarfs them both, builds silently month after month.
Three separate numbers
Management fees run $300 to $800 in published schedules and cover the paperwork, notice requirements, filings and hearing attendance. A single missed deadline or procedural error restarts the entire process.
Filing fees are set by the housing tribunal serving your area and charged separately at whatever amount that authority publishes. These are not management company fees and are never marked up.
Lost rent accrues from day one and continues until the unit is re-let. This is the expense that typically exceeds both others combined. Prevention through thorough screening, early arrears action, and proper procedure saves far more than managing the process itself.
Where the cost builds
Lost rent starts accruing immediately, and it does not stop while the process runs.
In the form and within the period the housing authority requires, or it fails later.
The tribunal filing fee is charged at whatever that authority publishes.
Cleaning, repairs and a new placement fee land once the unit is finally back.
The part nobody budgets
A $2,500 monthly unit sitting empty for three months represents $7,500 in lost rent. That single line item exceeds any management fee or filing cost by a wide margin, and it is why the tribunal timeline matters far more than the fee schedule.
After the eviction concludes, turnover begins. The unit requires cleaning, repairs, and a new tenant means a fresh placement fee. These costs are real, predictable, and completely outside the figures published on any rate card.
Prevention is always cheaper than cure. Comprehensive screening before lease signing, immediate arrears follow-up in week one, and a rent guarantee where applicable prevent the vast majority of cases from reaching this stage.
Cost pages
Each one broken out separately.
Evictions, answered
The questions owners ask before filing.
They itemised the eviction cost before filing: the tribunal fee, the paralegal, the lost rent estimate. The final number sat inside the estimate.
Nobody wants to pay for an eviction, but they showed me what each step would cost and which ones might be avoided. Two of them were.
The estimate included the turnover after the tenant left, which the other company had left out. That was the honest number.
They kept the filing costs low by getting the paperwork right the first time. No adjournment, no second hearing fee.
From the blog
Arrears building
Figures are example ranges. Arrears followed up in week one very rarely become an eviction in month three.
Fees stated separately · Filing costs not ours · Prevention first