How long does it take to evict a tenant in North Carolina?

Talk with your attorney because it would be a lot easier if he would file the paperwork for eviction (and list your grandmother's circumstances and your power of attorney and that should get them out pronto. Here in FL you'd need to hand them a 3-day notice of eviction or do it by certified mail return receipt. Then the attorney could file a paper and judge approve it and the sheriff would be sent out to the place, knock on their door and ask them to leave. If you tell the sheriff that they've been a problem then the sheriff would stand there and wait until they leave. Here you cannot toss their belongings out on the street you must put it into storage for them and then if they don't claim it there they lose it for good. You'd call a PUD or POD and fill it and then also charge them for the storage fee. The judge would issue a judgment for what they yet owe you and for anything they messed up while there. You'd need to supply the court the proof of how much they paid and how much they didn't, a copy of the lease, pictures of what they messed up or you had to clean or fix, etc.