Early this month, the real estate investment start-up Roofstock posted a list ranking the United States’s top seven “landlord-friendly states,” evaluating them based on their rent-control programs (the weaker, the better), their property-tax rates, and the ease and expediency with which landlords can carry out evictions.

I wasn’t surprised to see my home state, Arizona, in the mix. Here, evictions generally happen within five days of court hearings — which most tenants don’t attend, often because they’re unaware they can fight an eviction notice in court — and, per state law, immediately after a constable knocks at their door, ordering them out.

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