Just when you think you’re in for another routine day at the plant, more turbulence. Wifey thinks I’m getting too aggressive on the blog, but like another agent said today – if you’re going to be a successful realtor in this market, you gotta be able to deal with the hustlers, slimeballs, and grifters that abound.
Here’s another – a tenant who paid 1.5 months rent, has stayed for six, filed a burglary report against the homeowner/landlord and then got a restraining order against him to ice his free-rent program.
Now it’s my turn:
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DO NOT call the cops again!
Call Dirty Dan and Rotten Rick to come bye and tune this MF squatter up and give the scumbag some Louisville Slugger therapy . . .
Give him 5 minutes and one chance to vacate and tell him if he isn’t in the wind in 5 the only thing to beat him to the Emergency Room will be the headlights of the ambulance carrying him.
Take this neighborhood back Right Now. This guy is just asking to be made an example of.
Sounds like a cluster of dirtbags. Not only the renter, but the “owner” who rented the house out even though he knew it was being foreclosed on.
Nope, no sympathy for the deadbeat “owner” from me.
Isn’t it odd that tenants who don’t pay their rent are “bad guys,” while debtors who don’t pay their mortgages are “victims”?
“Isn’t it odd that tenants who don’t pay their rent are “bad guys,” while debtors who don’t pay their mortgages are “victims”?”
I couldn’t agree more!
Sometimes I feel like the only one pointing this out. A Deadbeat is a Deadbeat is a Deadbeat. It don’t matter if they “own” a property and aren’t paying the mortgage or are a renter and and aren’t paying the rent. It’s all the same thing. For some reason people in SD don’t see it this way. They feel “homeowners” that don’t make their mortgage payments are victims of the evil predatory banks and deserve a bailout. While renters that don’t pay the rent are just scum. We need to get past this way of thinking.
I agree, but there is a lot more going on with this guy than just not paying rent–ie; neighborhood nuisances.
You dont want to get in a legal fight with these lowlifes.They will end up owning your property.Let the law handle it.they know the law is on their side and they will work you over as long as they can.Then when it is over the move on to the next guy to screw over.Let the law handle it or you will end up in a jail cell with them.
Videos like this remind me of how many headaches my wife and I have saved ourselves by NOT having rental properties.
Some of the crotchity-er folks at work have rentals…maybe it is not that crotchity folks become landlords…maybe it is that owning rentals makes you crotchity.
ca renter, this is how it plays out (I think)
Renter who doesn’t pay the rent = bad guy
Homeowner who hands the keys over and vacates = business decision
Homeowner who stops paying and enjoys the free rent for years = bad guy
Except, that when people write about those individuals, their bias shows. A whole lot of news writers like to pull out the victim line because it plays well with frightened homeowners who are watching their house value drop. The self-interest in all of us wants to see our home value rise because that benefits our personal finances (and why the government is throwing huge amounts of our money at price stabilization.)
The attitude depends on the living situation of the person writing. A renter who has been saving for a down payment is going to have one view of the attempts to keep him/her paying top dollar for housing through price support. A homeowner who bought during the bubble years and is now underwater on the mortgage is going to have a different attitude and support all this intervention. A homeowner who is not underwater is conflicted in either direction. Prices dropping further might place him/her in jeopardy of being underwater, but at the same time that owner can’t consider a move up until prices the next level up drop some more.
What about the nosy neighbor who admits he read their mail to discover the wife was in prison in Arizona?
lol yeah chris g, i loved that part!
on top of that, he says he is prez of the hoa so his name is now known!
Yes, good catch, chris g!
Additionally, the “owner” did two things wrong:
1. He stopped paying the lender.
2. He rented out the house, knowing it was going to be foreclosed on, while hoping to pocket the rent until the foreclosure.
IMHO, the “owner” was the much bigger scumbag. I’m not sure what the tenant did, other than what the HOA pres said, and the HOA neighbor doesn’t exactly sound like a pillar of integrity, himself.
excellent commentary art eclectic 9:10 am… we can extend this analogy towards the banking system as well.. the biggest bad guys in all of this are the ones who are neither held responsible for the whole fiasco, or even on most folks radar… people running the federal reserve and etc are all hugely responsible for putting americans in the present situation and ironically they are the same ones who received and continue to receive the incredible bailouts.. it tells you something is very wrong with the fundamentals of the usa…
I listened to this and all I could think about was the little girl the renters had. All the fighting in the middle of the night, etc. I hope she’s all right.
the HOA neighbor doesn’t exactly sound like a pillar of integrity, himself.
Retired EPD, 42 years.
I agree with Joan…..I feel sorry for the little girl stuck in this situation….time to call Child Protective Services?
She has been in CPS for a while now.
Thank God. Sometimes the system does work. I’ll sleep better knowing that. Thanks Jim.
“Retired EPD, 42 yrs”.
Every time I think of the EPD I think of Michael Crowe and the years he spent thinking he was going to be charged with his sister’s murder.
The Naked City has a million stories: this is just one of them.
Retired EPD, 42 years.
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It’s a wonder he’s willing to commit a federal offense by going through other people’s mail…
What a cluster. This is the type of scenario that gives you pause when you are feeling bad about your own situation. The HOA Prez/neighbor is a bit over-the-top in terms of his watch-dogging, but I get it if he’s retired from the PD…that’s what he knows. I’m sure he is a nice guy, but I enjoy my privacy way too much to want to live next to someone that’s so “observant”. It’s possible that their mail was accidentally put in the wrong mailbox – so I wouldn’t be so quick to cry foul on that.
The victim in this whole debacle, was the renter that occupied the property after the owner moved out, but before the squatters moved in.
And for those condemning the HOA pres. for minding someone else’s business, my bet is that EVERY one of you would’ve wanted him to be nosy if you were neighbor to the squatters.
Maybe the HOA Pres talked to the mailman… our mailman has been here for decades and knows everyone. He would know if the squatter was trouble, and probably take notice of the letters from prison.
What a bad situation for the rest of the neighborhood!
Thanks Joanie, and yes it was the mailman who pointed it out to the HOA pres.
They have one of those big community mailboxes across the street, and I got the feeling the president’s wife was a bit of a busy-body, and the type to run across the street to pickup her mail immediately upon arrival.
After a few years you get buddy-buddy with the mailman.