Who can I ask for help removing someone from my place? She is going to be 70. Her kids don't want her. They're making excuses that their mom does not want to move from here to Michigan. I can't take responsibility for her as I am already 68 years old. I want her out as soon as possible. She was asked to move last year, too. But making excuses that she is searching for apartment and that senior care denied her.
If she has lived there that long, even if she is not paying rent, she has to be legally evicted, as stated by Grandma and Joann. You cannot do what is known as a "constructive eviction" which involves things like throwing belongings out, changing the locks, turning off heat or water to the property, or harassing them with loud music or sudden construction in areas where the tenant is, or making their lives difficult in the service of getting them out.
You don't say if you have any relation to her, if you've given her any recent requests for her to leave, or if this woman has any cognitive difficulties. That will all play into how this goes.
You should sit her down and tell her it's long time past when she should have gone, you have been very generous, but it is time to go. You tell her that she will have 30, 60, 90 days to get out or you will evict her. I would also hand her a written notice at that time saying she has to leave. Keep a copy. Take a photo of her accepting it if possible.
How did she end up there with you?
You need to do a legal eviction and do it right. You cannot change the locks and throw her belongings out the door. She now has legal residency. You have to give her the time that is legally allowed in your jurisdiction. If she still refuses to leave you may have to get the police involved to excort her from the property. You may have to take her to court and a Judge tell her she needs to leave.
You go to your local County Courthouse and ask for the papers to fill out to file for an eviction.
You will probably first send her a certified letter giving her 30 days to vacate the property. After the 30 days if she is not gone then you will file paperwork to request an eviction.
You complete the papers and you will get a court date.
Once you get the court date the Judge will probably give this person 30 days at least to leave but they may be given longer.
You can NOT remove any personal belongings until that date. You can request that the Sheriff be present be help with the eviction.