Burning witch is going to bring down her landlord

[sharkhawk]

I see another fundraiser for thorchthewitch coming soon.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026382451

TorchTheWitch (10,724 posts)

Is there a way to find out on the internet what properties someone owns?

Particularly if you don't have to pay for the information?

This is why I would never be a property manager.

TorchTheWitch (10,724 posts)
6. hmmm... this might be complicated

My slumlord inherited this property that she's been letting fall about my ears from her parents. It's the house she grew up in and lived in with her husband and kids until she rented to me. One of my neighbors on this street also grew up in his house that he also inherited from his parents. I'd forgotten about this, but years ago when we were discussing the evil of my slumlord he said he grew up with her and that she hasn't worked a day in her life because she inherited a number of properties in this area from her wealthy grandmother.

In the 10 years I've been here she's never worked. Yet from when I first moved in she's constantly complained about never having the money to fix anything. And this was one of her big lies at the hearing. My neighbor had to be telling me the truth since her husband has never worked as long as I've been here because he's on disability (and I know he is because for the first few months I lived here his disability paperwork was still being sent here along with all their other mail though the disability stuff for him stopped coming pretty quickly after I moved in). But I still after all these years get mail for her here even under her maiden name and there's almost always stuff from realtors.

I'd like to be able to find out if she does have other rental properties, how she's treated those properties (by ignoring everything needing any work even when ignoring something means creating a problem that ends up costing 20 times as much).

I also found out that just days before the hearing that she's never gotten a license to rent this property, so it's never once been inspected. The judge really jumped on that.

We have another hearing in a week because (praise the gods!) he wants to get a township inspector in here. A few days ago I had a neighbor that's been doing construction all his life come in, and he pointed out LOADS of things I had no idea were out of code... I have a ton of photos to take again that I knew nothing about.

If she has other properties that she's getting rents from than she can't cry the blues about not having any money to pay the mortgage on her own big nice house that she lives in. I'm also curious what other possible tenants have dealt with with her.

This is also going to matter because if she does have other properties and tenants guaranteed she's not had a license to rent them or had them inspected either. Code enforcement gave her a huge whopping scary fine for that. That fine and the lease was the only thing she brought to the hearing while I'm at my table with a big stack of stuff, stacks of photos, etc. I still don't have everything I need but since the judge wants someone from code enforcement to inspect the property and we do another hearing next week to see how we stand since who knows what code enforcement's schedule is like.

I would so love it if I could go in there and inform the judge that she has these other properties and tenants she's never gotten licensed to rent that she's been collecting rents from and all the crying about how broke she is is just lies on top of more outrageous lies.

TorchTheWitch (10,724 posts)
20. there's a great deal of fraud she's guilty of

At this point the judge has scheduled another hearing so I can get a code enforcement officer in here to inspect. Just a moment ago I finally figured out how to do that as whoever it is I'd been talking to on the phone at that office didn't know how I was to go about filing a complaint.

I don't think she has been paying the property taxes all this time because just a few days ago I got the township's tax bill for the property in the mail and opened it by mistake. I've gotten these here all the years I've lived here and since they were addressed to her I threw them out unopened like all the other mail for her that's come here since I moved in which is how I know about her husband (or whoever he is) being on disability and that she has a variety of last names.

This property is still listed in one last name while I've always known her by another last name that was the name she used for the lease (and there's other problems with the lease the judge pointed out). A couple of days before the hearing I found out that she's never had a license to rent this property so it's never been inspected by the township. The judge was not at all happy about that and part of the reason he wants a township inspector in here now.

At this point, I don't even know what this woman's actual legal name is! Her "husband" has never had a single thing to do with the property, and he or anyone else isn't listed as an owner. Now I don't know who he is at all - or HER for that matter.

Right after the hearing she even had the gall to call me suddenly wanting the sewage pipe replaced that cracked two years ago that I'd patched myself and she's ignored for two years now, but she only wants it done because she doesn't want the township inspector to see it. I did have the plumber come to look at it, but I'm damned if I'm going to let him touch it until the township inspector sees it. I needed him to see it though so he could figure out what he'd need to do and how much time he'd need to do the job because while he's doing it I can't run any water or go to the bathroom. It's going to take most of a day, so I'll have to have the dog outside all day so it can't be a day that's too hot or too cold or raining, and it will have to be a day where my neighbors are home all day so I have somewhere to go to the bathroom.

Today I needed the tires fixed on the car (which might have been sabotaged - won't know that until my mechanic can look at them) but it's snowing... so much for the weatherman saying it would just be flurries! We already have at least 6 or more inches and there's no sign yet of it stopping. So now I can't do that until Monday.

The more I look into this slumlord the more horrifying things I find out.

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Apparently she is throwing out the landlords mail, hasn't paid rent in months, has been running down the property for 10 years, etc.   

[Big Dog]

It looks like Torchy the Witch is renting from Mo the Chicken Witch, who reported some kind of code enforcement trouble with her slums and junk heaps.

[Tess Anderson]

she will:

As of now I'm very nearly dead broke. I haven't gotten another job and in the last two weeks I've not even been able to spend hardly a moment on that because of all of this. I did get to do one interview for a job so fabulous I thought their contacting me about doing an interview was a scam - some sick joke by somebody. I just found out today that they decided to give the job to someone that works there already. I'm so bummed. I wanted that job so bad if I had any money I would have bought it.

After this is all finally resolved I swear I'm going to write a book. It's a riveting story with so many last minute surprises and twists and turns. At this point, I actually have no idea who my slumlord even IS anymore!

wonder why she didn't get the job? 




the begging did work but:

Response to Texasgal (Reply #24)Fri Mar 20, 2015, 10:02 PM
TorchTheWitch (10,724 posts)
25. if it weren't for the lovely people here that donated I'd be starving

There isn't much left of that money, but it's kept me and Yoshi in food, the phone and internet on and the water and electricity flowing. Thank heaven I never gave any of it to the slumlord thanks to the advice of people here!

The more I find out about this woman the more horrified I am. I wish I'd stopped paying her a lot longer ago or I wouldn't be so scared about running out of money now.

she could have taken the money and moved

[SVPete]

Maybe my problem is that I'm a knuckle-dragging conservative, but how exactly is driving your landlord into - possibly - abandoning the rental property going to solve habitability problems?

Also, did I miss something? Did a DU-person who can't find a job really critically express skepticism at the landlord's complaining that she can't fix up the property because she doesn't have a job?

Job-for-life- and housing-for-life-entitlement thinking hasn't exactly served this DU-person very well. And she can't see that.

[txradioguy]

Maybe my problem is that I'm a knuckle-dragging conservative, but how exactly is driving your landlord into - possibly - abandoning the rental property going to solve habitability problems?

Also, did I miss something? Did a DU-person who can't find a job really critically express skepticism at the landlord's complaining that she can't fix up the property because she doesn't have a job?

Job-for-life- and housing-for-life-entitlement thinking hasn't exactly served this DU-person very well. And she can't see that.

Maybe she's hoping after the landlord abandons the property she can swoop in and buy it at auction for cheap.

[SVPete]

Maybe she's hoping after the landlord abandons the property she can swoop in and buy it at auction for cheap.

Paying for it with an ObamaLoan?

[txradioguy]

Yup!

[Bad Dog]

Why is she so down on a poor disabled person.  By the way, her reading his mail is frowned upon by the USPS.

[JohnnyReb]

Throwing away other peoples official government mail....that's the ticket.

[Linda]

In the 10 years I've been here

Has TorchTheWitch ever asked for anything to be repaired before this 10 year mark?

Or did she just let things run down until repair is impossible?

Did TorchTheWitch ever try to repair anything herself?

Did TorchTheWitch cause any of the damage that needs to be repaired?

10 years is a long time to go without any repairs or request for any repairs to be made.

If he SLUMlord is so bad why not move instead of putting herself through so much trouble?

Was this a SLUM property before TorchTheWitch moved in? Or did TorchTheWitch turn the property into a SLUM?

So many questions, so few answers.

[obumazombie]

Going to the dry well once too often to milk a dry cow.

Wish-a-dupe !

[Gina]

Opening up someone's mail is not an accident and throwing their mail out is probably illegal.