Solvay, NY -- His mother had been laid to rest for less than five hours this week when Rich Hayes, 16, got a visit from her landlord.

Get your stuff and get out, the landlord said.

Ronald Reid, owner of the rental property at 901 Second St. in Solvay, called the police on Tuesday -- the day of Kim Cavallo's burial in Woodlawn Cemetery.

The Solvay officer who responded, Sgt. Curt Francemone, was stunned to hear that a landlord wanted to remove a teenage boy from his home on the day of his mother's funeral.

"I pulled up and the landlord said, 'I want him arrested for trespassing,' " Francemone said. "I go, 'No, it doesn't work that way.' "

Hayes said he and his mother had lived in the home for the past year. His father died six years ago. Hayes said he'd been home from the funeral for about 20 minutes Tuesday afternoon when Reid showed up.

Reid said he wanted Hayes out because he was an unsupervised minor who'd brought in a large amount of beer with his friends, and they'd broken windows. Reid denied asking police to arrest Hayes.Hayes said his aunt stayed with him at night after his mother died. He said he had a couple of beers the day of the funeral and denies breaking any windows.

Even if Reid's scenario were accurate, he could've waited a day, Hayes said.

"They bury her and this guy starts on her son," said Francemone, the police sergeant. "It was completely in bad taste."

Cavallo, 39, died of a heart attack about 9 a.m. July 31 at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center, where she'd been transported the day before because she was threatening to kill herself. Cavallo had suffered mental health problems for five years, her son said.

Hayes got the news of her death around noon that day. Reid was at his door within two hours, Hayes said.

"I'm sorry for your loss, but we got to get this on the go," Reid said, according to Hayes. "I need new tenants. You got 24 hours or else I'm gonna have you arrested."

Reid, 46, said he didn't visit Hayes until the day after Cavallo's death. He said he wanted Hayes out of the apartment because he was a minor living without adult supervision. Hayes' aunt said she would stay with him, but she never did, Reid said.

Cavallo's lease expired at the end of July, Reid said. He said he told her July 1 that he was not going to renew it and that he wanted her out by Aug. 1. She was always on time with her rent, but Reid said he was tired of hearing complaints from neighbors about loud fighting between her and her son, he said.

Hayes said Reid never told Cavallo she had to leave by Aug. 1. They agreed to a month-to-month rental when the lease expired, he said.

State law requires landlords to give their tenants a full term's notice before they evict them, according to Ronald Van Norstrand, a lawyer who represents the Fair Housing Council. In this case, the term was a month. And to evict a tenant, the landlord has to go through the process of obtaining an eviction order, said Van Norstrand, who for years handled landlord-tenant disputes for Legal Services of Central New York.

Reid initially told police that night that he had an eviction order, Francemone said. Then Reid changed his story and said he had no such order, Francemone said.

Reid, who owns 16 rental properties in Onondaga County, said he felt bad about kicking Hayes out on the day of his mother's funeral.

"To this day, I'm still bothered by it," he said. "But the thing is, they made it into a party out there. Windows were getting broken. There were 16-year-old kids being left alone and they were drinking."

Even if he did find the house full of drunken teens, Reid would've had to get an eviction order, Van Norstrand said.

"There are no grounds for automatic eviction," he said.

Reid helped Hayes get the contents of the home to a storage facility in Mattydale. "I was a nice enough guy to move him in my truck and trailer," Reid said.

Francemone didn't consider it an eviction because Hayes agreed to leave and remove his belongings, Francemone said.

Agreeing to leave doesn't make it any less an eviction, Van Norstrand said. The police could've charged the landlord with trespassing for being in the apartment without permission, Van Norstrand said.

Hayes has been living with a cousin down the street since his eviction. His friends were asking Reid that night if he was aware that Hayes' mother had been buried that same day.

"You'd say it to him, but it was like talking to a brick wall," said Rick Worden, Cavallo's former boyfriend. "He never would give you a response."