After losing a house that they grew up in or that their parents left them, and given the fact that they have no specific place to go after a foreclosure, many home owners have a problem moving out of foreclosed properties and therefore present a lot of problems to new buyers when ordered to vacate.. As a new owner, you have to keep in mind some things if you want the current home owners to present little problem when ordered to vacate. For example, you can serve the former owners with eviction notice and give them a deadline to vacate.

The eviction process varies from state to state, but in general, the process is that you send a legal notice informing the previous owner to leave the property in 72 hours, After expiry of this legal notice, the previous owner goes to court to present his case as to why he should not be evicted. At the hearing, the judge makes the decision on whether they should or should not be evicted.

If the judgment is against them, the former home owner is given ten days to file an appeal in the higher court. If the appeal is ruled against them, they have no more options and they are given a day by the court that they are supposed to move out. Failure to move out by the agreed date makes them subject to arrest. If the owners leave stuff in their foreclosed properties, it is moved into storage by the sheriff, or whoever the state gives that authority, for safekeeping and they will have to pay a fee to get it back.