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Post by High Priestess on Dec 26, 2015 6:03:20 GMT
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Post by lambada on Dec 26, 2015 15:58:05 GMT
Hm.. the link took me back to this posting?
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Post by High Priestess on Dec 26, 2015 16:02:47 GMT
Sorry about that -- Try again I put the actual link in!!
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Post by High Priestess on Dec 26, 2015 20:13:52 GMT
Replies from the Anecdotes forum:
helga (helgaparis) Hi Deborah, I read one, but I have to do this in small doses or on guest free days. Your first one will give me a nightmare already! Happy about the invention of airbnb as an easy way to short term guests not roommates. You will go straight to heaven, having paid for all sins already. I wish you many nice guests for the New Year!
Jeannette I am completely intrigued with every chapter as someone who has homeshared since 1991 and has similar stories, but none *quite* so awful. I wonder if homesharing per se is a doomed project with only a few exceptions?? The people at our local St. Ambrose Homeshare might know, they interview both parties and try to come up with a good match... wonder how things work out.
helga When I was a student, so long long ago, there were students services trying to match up people. I did not trust it, as chaos and disputes seemed to be an inherent part of the deal. Like an initiation rite. I opted for Deborah's choice, to have tiny solo apartments instead. Later they came up in several European countries with matching a senior in need of help or company with a student in need of a cheaper lodging - that seems to work sometimes but rested a marginal business.
Rhonda Thank you Helga and Jeannette for replying to Deborah's post. As I'm still in my Garage office and sleeping on the floor, sharing the 'shared bathroom' with 4 guests; as well as playing host. I didn't catch the depth of her title, and dismissed it for the moment. Ahhh!!! Now I get it, and will make it a priority read! You know me and my stories, I did attempt to rent a room here at this property. One was a true Sociopath, stalked me until I rented a room. Totally business. I've been a landlady since 1980. He was well known in the legal world for targeting well established homeowners, male or female, then attempt to get a restraining order to have the homeowner removed. I actually ended up getting hauled off to JAIL, as he stated I had assaulted him. $10,000 in legal fees, the charges were dropped. Whatever he was accusing me of, I am right handed, not left handed to cause the injury, and lil tiny me assaulting me a 'Vietnam vet', who stated his years of service as occurring after the war had been declared over. I also had to hire personal security. I feared for my life on that one. That experience gave me the idea to write a book "Yes, they do send old ladies to JAIL in Hawaii". Another was a separated girl, She was labeled "The tenant from Hell'. Luckily, I didn't go to jail over her. I refuse to rent long term when on same property. Not that I care to hear of other's unhappy times, misery does love company, and many times certainly provides strength and gratitude to carry on. PS. The policeman would not allow me to stop at the bank to get the $1000 cash not to be locked up, he allowed me to phone my lawyer from home, who had an early morning court case, but would come bail me out after four hours or whenever he got there, which seemed like 3 lifetimes to me. I was sleeping when the policeman arrived, opened the door in my nightgown, and he was nice, but finally stated, "I do have to take you to jail, would you like to get dressed, or come in your nightgown." haha, then he handcuffed me in the front with the seatbelt all wrapped around it, so he had to unhandcuff this 'threat to society', before he could get my seatbelt off, re handcuff me, to book me. I swear I could never make this stuff up if I was offered gazillions of dollars to. Ever so glad I can usually keep my mouth shut during all this weirdness, and find the humor after the fact.
helga Wow Rhonda, I did not know that you were such a dangerous criminal. Assaulting soldiers? Did he pretend you won too?
helga Nevertheless, a Happy New Year to you! (And no more assaults!)
Deborah Rhonda, your story definitely belongs with the tales in the blog chapters here! We have both endured some of the most outrageous of renter hassles. Isn't it so insane, the trouble and expense and really trauma that can be caused to any ordinary person, if some malicious scammer gets it into their mind to tell lies and try to get someone else in trouble.
What's more, the world needs to hear more of these stories about nightmare renters, because the stereotype is that the landlord is the one "From hell" and the tenant is just always little poor innocent lamb! I think if the truth ever came out, we'd see a heck of a lot more nightmare renters than nightmare landlords.
Rhonda, do write a book --!!
Helga, thank you for your kind words. You have only read about 1/7 of the total story (I think there will be 7 chapters in all....4th chapter should be coming soon...) but you already believe I have paid for all sins. By the end of chapter 7, I am guessing you will believe I have paid also for the sins of my whole family and some distant ancestors as well.
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Post by lambada on Dec 26, 2015 21:14:31 GMT
Thanks! I was able to open it from the Part 2 page Wow, you went thru lots and glad you could look back instead of living it now. I ran into a neighbor a few blocks away who had a crazy former tenant who threw a knife into her dining room, thru her window, a few weeks after he got evicted. And he did that a few times apparently. When she reported it to the police, she was told that she had to catch him 'in the act'. She now rents only to tenants who are here for relocation. Can't blame her, really.
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Post by High Priestess on Dec 29, 2015 6:00:07 GMT
Yes, unfortunately, with creepos doing vindictive things like that, it's like the police say -- you have to have solid evidence of a crime (eg see the person) or the police really can't do anything.
your friend made the right choice to change how she rents. I believe one of the main causes of problems with tenants, is that they begin seeing your property as their home. Of course one expects that a tenant who rents their own whole apartment, would experience that place as their home, but when the tenant is renting a room in the same house that you as the landlord live in, this presents very real challenges. I have found that it too often ends up being a battle, between the tenant and the homeowner-landlord, over whose home it really is. WHIch is why, I will no longer rent to anyone who is actually looking for a home. I finally came to understand, that my house can no longer be anyone's home but mine. This doesn't mean I only take very short term renters -- some of my renters stay here for several months. But the difference is, they have a project here, then they are going again. They are not planning to stay here indefinitely. It makes a world of difference.
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