legal to evict/change locks?

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tenant23

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if there is legal documentation that a month-to-month roommate that is not on the (rent stabilized) lease has been given 30 day plus notice, can i enforce my possible bluff to change the locks and hire an eviction service from the 30 days MINUS the extra two weeks i had originally given her in a recent oral statement ?
our written agreement says only thirty days is required notice, but the bottom line is, he has to go but he doesn't show much intention to and hasn't been around to the apartment for the last two weeks, nor paid the rent/utilities due at the beginning of this month, but he insists that he still lives there. Can I use this to my advantage to get him to get out all the sooner?
is it possible that he is trying to get me off the lease and trying to takeover the lease or something? he has been reminded about the rent and his contract with me but I suspect he will try to not leave. I had asked him to simply reaffirm his intentions to follow through with our agreement but, as of now, he has remained silent.
he has already tried to get me into trouble with my landlord (we have bad relations as he is trying to de-stabilze the rent) by telling him he is here eventhough I'm legaly within my rights to rent out the extra room.
I want him out a.s.a.p.-so can i get him out thirty days after i told him (a date that he has acknowledged in writing) eventhough i had initially given him a sympathetic cushion? which has precedent-the written contract upon his move-in or the oral statement recently that i'd give him extra days? and if i told him in writing the next day that that was revoked and he'd get only the thirty days?
 
sorry if confusing when i change pronouns...the roommate is the person referred to alternately by "he" and then "she."

worried that ...the roommate will try to damage apartment to get me (sole lease holder) in trouble. it looks like i probably have to get the law on my side and issue holdover proceedings-which is supposed to be really complicated...although some people have said that there is little recourse left to him/her if i ended up taking all the crap left behind and putting it in storage.


it's really creepy noticing stuff moving around and disappearing (to wherever this roommate is hiding out after threatening me when given notice to move). don't even know if he/she is in the apartment while i'm around guarding the place and researching what to do before things get really bad.
no advice? well i guess off to free consulting.
 
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