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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tucker on June 14, 2014, 01:45:22 PM
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Sat Jun 14, 2014, 12:27 PM
Star Member KurtNYC (13,803 posts)
Landlord evicts dying man, steal his dog, throws away his possessions
I have seen firsthand some reasons why tenants deserve more protection from their amateur landlords. I am renting now from a man who lives 3000 miles away. For a while he really was "doing missionary work in Africa" -- Doctors without Borders to be exact. I count myself as lucky that he is not here to tell me how to live in my own home. Prior to this place I have always dealt with professional landlords, buildings that have a super or other staff.
A friend of mine is aging and is having a series of serious health issues. He was renting from an amateur landlord and things turned bad quickly. Because my friend relies on assistance for his rent, there is a formula for how much they will pay. He made a deal with his landlord to pay the additional $72 per month to make up the difference between what assistance will pay ($664) and what the landlord had wanted ($750).
About 3 weeks into the deal the landlord started coming into the apartment when my friend was out. He didn't like the way my friend was living / dying there. He took pictures during these invasions and put them on FaceBook. He nitpicked every aspect of my friend's life -- the dog wasn't being walked enough, the toilet wasn't flushed. My friend slept at the wrong hours and was therefore awake at the wrong hours. Real control freak stuff and totally illegal.
The heat wasn't working well this past winter so on top of recovering from prostate cancer surgery and battling two other major health issues, he was living in an apartment with not enough heat, about 55 degrees at night. My friend complained daily about the heat and the landlord moved to have him evicted ASAP. My friend got a home health aid, and tried to fix the little issues that the landlord shared with all his FB friends on his illegal visits. Tried to fight off eviction.
The landlord won eviction and then the Sheriff didn't move fast enough for him. 7 days after the eviction was to be done, the Sheriff still had not come so the landlord waited until my friend went out to a medical appointment and then went in threw away a bunch of clothing (including a collection of vintage sneakers), sent other stuff to a storage locker to hold for ransom and then he called 2 people he knew to come and take this guy's beloved dog. They made up all kinds of lies between the 3 of them -- that the dog had never been to a vet, that my friend had threatened to kill the dog, that the dog wasn't walked. The guy who the landlord gave the dog to is mentally ill, jobless forever and living off his old lady but he was running around town so proud of the fact that he was "a hero" for taking this dog away from a dying man who they had just made homeless (and dog-less).
My friend is resettled now. The police went and got the dog back from the mentally ill guy because the dog's VET, whom the landlord and friends swore the dog had never seen, had all the records of the dogs adoption and health care by my friend. The dog is staying with a sympathetic trainer / boarder who has grass and a stream and other dogs around all day. My friend is trying to put together another apartment deal but it is tough because his ex-landlord sticks to his story (to cover his own failings in this mess).
I wish I had space to take them in here but I am one dog over MY landlord's limit (which is one and I have two) and I don't qualify to rent to him through the program. I was threatened with eviction when I got my second dog.
I count myself lucky every day that I have a landlord who does not walk through my apartment and tell me how to live or one who did the things this other landlord did. I have seen how bad it can be. As Mark Twain sardonically remarked: "Nothing so needs reforming as other peoples' habits."
In my experience there are some warning signs that a landlord will be a problem if you rent from them:
- they want to leave some of their stuff in the space you are renting and they want to hold you responsible for any damage to it
- they say they will fix various things that are obviously broken but they will fix them after you sign and move in (they won't -- WYSIWYG)
- they proudly tell you stories about evicting prior tenants during your first 3 minute walk through
- they come out to you and other people waiting to see the open apartment and play favorites right there. This really happened to me. I said "this young woman has waited longer than I" they said "I want to rent to a man."
- they are a landlord because the have to be, not because they want to be / are good at it
- they are renting space within their own home / duplex
- there is a "for rent" sign on the place every 2 months or so
- they have only rented to friends and family members prior to now
What do you want to bet that the OP is the evicted DUmmy.
Another new one. It should be good.
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The primitive should rent from mopinko.
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At this point what is so unusual about PrezBO telling a lie and not following through with one of his promises.
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Great math.
I've had to formally evict 2 people in 14 years. Both were very well deserved. If this went through there is a reason. Sounds like it was an earned eviction and I have zero empathy. I've seen how this works and what it costs, personally.
KC
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At this point what is so unusual about PrezBO telling a lie and not following through with one of his promises.
I had a landlord that was rather strange. I received an eviction notice for having 2 kids living with me.
When I got home from work I would walk next door to the school and pick up my 2 grandkids. We would spend a couple hours together and then I would take them home. Someone was keeping an evil eye out for the land lord. I went in bring the kids school bus driver that stated she picked them up every day on the other side of town. No apology from the landlord, just a an OK no problem.
What fun, next a complaint about the hours we kept, I worked first shift, Hubby second shift and son 3rd shift. Three cars and darn closing their doors did make a noise but the Evil Eye decided we were having 24 hour party's and called the police and landlord.
Then came the real weird stuff, my parents headed to Florida for the winter, offered their home to us while they were gone-----Free. We still had 4 months to go on the lease, so we moved out but still kept paying for the Apartment. With the rent fully paid hubby went to pick up some things we had left and walked in on the landlord and police in the kitchen.
I was not there but from what Hubby told me he was given the 3rd. degree. Where was every one, why the apartment with the rent paid up, was almost empty ? Really none of their business, and I was waiting for them to take this a step higher.
Oh YES, a great law suite against the Landlord, but I was not about to sue anyone, never have, a just leave me alone and go about your own business was good enough for me.
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The real story in one sentence.
Worthless DUmbass trashed the place and didn`t pay the rent.
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I had a landlord that was rather strange. I received an eviction notice for having 2 kids living with me.
When I got home from work I would walk next door to the school and pick up my 2 grandkids. We would spend a couple hours together and then I would take them home. Someone was keeping an evil eye out for the land lord. I went in bring the kids school bus driver that stated she picked them up every day on the other side of town. No apology from the landlord, just a an OK no problem.
What fun, next a complaint about the hours we kept, I worked first shift, Hubby second shift and son 3rd shift. Three cars and darn closing their doors did make a noise but the Evil Eye decided we were having 24 hour party's and called the police and landlord.
Then came the real weird stuff, my parents headed to Florida for the winter, offered their home to us while they were gone-----Free. We still had 4 months to go on the lease, so we moved out but still kept paying for the Apartment. With the rent fully paid hubby went to pick up some things we had left and walked in on the landlord and police in the kitchen.
I was not there but from what Hubby told me he was given the 3rd. degree. Where was every one, why the apartment with the rent paid up, was almost empty ? Really none of their business, and I was waiting for them to take this a step higher.
Oh YES, a great law suite against the Landlord, but I was not about to sue anyone, never have, a just leave me alone and go about your own business was good enough for me.
Why do these bizarre things/interactions happen frequently to liberals but rarely if ever to Conservatives? Here has been MY experience in renting apartments (back to when I was in college with roommates):
1. Read the contract
2. Sign it
3. Abide by what we promised (including number of people living there, pet rules, etc).
4. Pay rent as promised
5. Stay and pay until the end of the lease (meant getting new roommates a few times)
6. When time to leave, leave the place nice and clean.
7. Repeat
I am willing to bet this was 99% of the experience of the Conservatives on this board. I am sure we all have some interesting roommate stories but that isn't what this is about.
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Usually property owners like nice folks that pay the rent on time and don't cause problems. I don't believe for a second all the crap the dummie said the guy did. Don't believe it at all. Remember dummies lie all the time.
I know some people the rent places and the horror stories they tell about just trying to evict someone makes me think this dummie's story is all a lie.
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the dog wasn't being walked enough, the toilet wasn't flushed
IOW: shit everywhere
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Obviously, things were added to this story, and other things were left out.
My newest tenant is the village cop's daughter. She's hard working, and very nice. As you know, I have a no-DUmmies policy, and it has served me well.
Speaking of rent and public assistance for it, said cop was telling me about some policy in New York. Locally, some sort of housing space was made available, and the NY moonbats decided it should be for "the elderly and disabled." Fair enough. But, in this wack-o state, disabled also includes drug addicted. So now you have little old ladies having to live with vile, violent, drug addicts. WTF. Cop says he out there all the time.
Be careful what you wish for from your government, DUmbasses.