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The Five Basic Types OF Evictions Are:

  1. Constructive Eviction
  2. Retaliatory Eviction
  3. Legal Eviction
  4. Evictions for Cause
  5. Consent

Constructive eviction occurs when a rental property becomes untenable, or a landlord substantially interferes with a tenant's ability to use the property for its intended purpose. Constructive eviction includes:

bullet Changing the locks.
bullet Removing an entry door.
bullet Turning off any utility under the landlord's control. 
bullet Using any means whatever to make the dwelling untenable.
bullet  Interfering with the tenant's quiet enjoyment.

A tenant who has been constructively evicted can repossess the property, collect actual damages and even be awarded punitive damages. Fines can also be levied for each day that a tenant is deprived of possession or enjoyment. If a tenant's use is substantially impaired because of excessive noise, terrible odors, nearby property being used for drugs or other immoral purposes, constructive eviction may have occurred.

 Retaliatory eviction occurs when a landlord attempts to evict a tenant in response to some (legal) action taken by the tenant. A common instance of retaliatory eviction is after a tenant has made a complaint about the landlord, or the property, to a duly constituted authority. Another likely instance is after a tenant has called for or supported municipal rental inspections.
There are of course, countless cases where a landlord and tenant become emotionally and personally upset with each other which may not constitute a clear violation of either the lease or the law. In such instances it behooves a landlord to step back from the situation and consider the consequences if he takes any action that could be held to be a constructive or retaliatory eviction. The costs could be extreme. 

Legal Eviction.  The only legal way to remove a tenant from your property, no matter the reason, is with a suite for possession, a court order and writ of restitution.
The eviction laws of every state differ in some respects. Your best source of information is by reading your state's landlord tenant law in the RHOL web.
      Some states have landlord/tenant courts. Some others devote a certain day of the week to evictions in a civil or criminal court. Still others allow you to use Small Claims Court. All of them have advantages and unique problems. Small Claims is usually the cheapest and simplest but it is also the slowest. Each and every day a nonpaying tenant stays in your property costs money and ten extra days while waiting for a court date would easily pay the costs of using traditional legal procedures.
Most eviction statutes are called summary proceedings or process, because they limit the proceedings to the single issue of possession. If additional questions are raised such as damages or back rent, and the tenant contests the facts or makes a counterclaim, the case will likely be moved to the civil court docket and the time necessary to resolve the issues could drag on for substantial periods. Knowledgeable landlords often confine an eviction for non-payment to possession and back rent, then seek money for damages or other charges in small claims court. 

      Evictions for Cause. An important question arises if a rental property is federally owned, or federally funded but privately owned, as to when and how a tenant can be evicted. Many such tenants are at-will or month-to-month periodic tenancies which normally can be terminated with proper notice and without cause. However, in the case of publicly-owned housing, HUD regulations now specify that a tenant has due process rights before they may be evicted, and may only be evicted for just cause.
Where housing is privately-owned, but federally assisted, including Section 8 subsidized rents, a similar right not to be evicted without reasonable cause probably also exists. Courts have held that even though a tenant may have a month-to-month lease, tenants in publicly assisted housing have a right to an expectation that their tenancies will not be terminated without just cause and that they have a property interest deserving constitutional protection. Joy v. Daniels, 479 F.2d 1236 (4th Cir. 1973)

       Consent judgments. Also known as stipulated judgments are granted when the landlord and tenant agree and inform the court they will sign a consent order. This judgment is recorded by the court an in the event that the tenant does not move or pay as promised, the court will usually grant an immediate writ for possession without further proceedings.