Midland Courts

Landlord and Tenant

The Landlord/Tenant division is responsible for handling all real property evictions. Real property is considered land, and generally whatever is built on, growing on, or affixed to that land. 


Most commonly, the landlord tenant division handles four main types of cases: 

1.Non-payment of rent

2.Termination of tenancy

3.Land-contract forfeitures and

4.Evictions after the redemption period on a mortgage foreclosure 


Landlord/Tenant disputes are not handled by this department. If you are a tenant or landlord and have questions regarding disputes, you will need to contact an attorney.  

There are different reasons that a landlord may want to evict a tenant. A landlord must specify the grounds to evict.


The grounds a landlord may cite to evict a tenant are:


  • Nonpayment of rent;
  • Extensive and continuing damage to property;
  • Serious and continuing health hazard;
  • Illegal drug activity and formal police report filed (lease provisions must allow for termination on these grounds);
  • Violation of a lease provision and the lease allows for termination;
  • Forceful entry or peaceful try, but forceful stay or trespass;
  • Holding over after expiration of lease term;
  • Assault of a landlord;
  • Just cause for terminating tenant of mobile home park (MCL 600.5775); and
  • Just cause for terminating tenant of government-subsidized housing (MCL 125.694a and 600.5714).

**Properties that are owned by Corporations or Limited Liability Corporations must be represented by an attorney.

How to start the eviction process at the 75th District Court


The first step in starting the eviction process is to serve the tenant with a notice. The purpose of this notice is to inform the tenant in writing of the reasons the landlord may be filing a LT case, and to state the time limit for the tenant to take remedial action. If the tenant does not comply with the notice, the landlord may then file to start the eviction process at the district court in which the rental property is located.


Below is a chart showing the different types of eviction notices that may be served upon a tenant, and a brief description of the different situations in which each is used. You may click on the notice type to bring up that form.  


You must "serve" the "Tenant's copy" of the notice on the tenant. This can be done in one of three ways.

  • Delivering it personally to the tenant,
  • Delivering it on the premises to a member of the tenant's family or household, or an employee of the tenant, who is capable of understanding your instruction to deliver it to the tenant, with a request that it be delivered to the tenant, or
  • Sending it first-class mail addressed to the tenant at his or her last known address

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Landlord Tenant Handbook

Landlord Tenant Handbook