Take the money and run

Viewing the lies landlord/owner posted online about the great amenities of this house in order to sell it, it is clear he has learned nothing from his deceit and is still deluded by his own greed. If any of these things are actually true would be miraculous.

Overuse of the word “custom” throughout the description is indicative of the simple fact that he most likely did the hackjob work himself — as he did in “replumbing” the place — which is why there was never any hot water in winter nor cold water in summer.

The fact is that as tenants we arranged and withstood the installation of the new air conditioning unit during a week in August of 2010,  when landlord/owner refused to have it done, even in February 2010 upon our advice that it would be less expensive.

The fact is that the installers noted the fire hazards in the attic due to landlord/owner’s faulty wiring near his plumbing handiwork.

The fact is that the new bath tubs, particularly the one in the smaller bathroom, was replaced while we were tenants as the old one was scratched to the point of being unusable. That installation entailed replacement by owner’s cohort in crime, someone who was inept at doing such work but who would do it for a bottle of vodka. His first attempt was merely a smathering of glaze to cover the scratches. The chemical odors filled the house for two weeks. When that did not work, owner’s friend installed a new tub improperly which resulted in a complete flooding of the nearby bedroom, requiring replacement of the carpet.

Owner took credit for appliances that we purchased when he went AWOL that five years.

The fact remains that he cannot look into his own reflection to know the horrible things he perpetrated on us as we withstood five years upgrading his appliances, withstanding his lies about the pool pump destruction by his own hand, my husband trimming trees and scaling the roof to clean gutters, without remuneration, done only in accordance with his promise that the house would be ours someday. No consideration, no remuneration for us trying to keep his dung heap from stinking up the neighborhood after he abandoned it for those years. Just lies, abuse, assault and theft of security deposit.

Hopefully, at least, he did some true, actual repairs by a PROFESSIONAL to this money pit before trying to unload it on an unsuspecting, gullible buyer.

Did owner reveal the fire hazard in the attic, pointed out by professional air conditioning installers?

Did owner reveal the fact that by his own hand the “custom” electrical work he did is faulty, with many outlets and light switches not grounded properly, as any professional electrician had told us when we were forced to have electrical work done on the property.

Did owner reveal that there was no insulation?

Did owner reveal the crack in the slab that he had told my husband about?

These are crimes he can live with apparently, in his signature take-the-money-and-run mode of operation without remorse or restitution.

It is clear that more than one life lesson for him will be necessary and is inevitable.

Use Money, Love People – Not Love Money, Use People

If this web presence prevented landlord/owner from abusing another person, taking advantage of another family while he chased money, then it served its purpose.

To Landlord/Owner – We saw you at Chick-fil-a recently. The terrible feelings that were stirred as we stood and watched you go from your cheep into the store cannot be described. With your hauling lumber for another hackjob project, we could only imagine the house cringing again when you pulled into the driveway that day.

Please don’t do what you did to us to any other.

Finally, ask yourself at least, at last:

“Do I own this property, or does this property own me”?

Beware the Ides of March

I’ve always been apprehensive on March 15. Today gave good reason to continue that sensibility. Landlord comes on property to play with his pool pump still. He persists in stating that “someone” broke it. Yet, after looking him in the eyes, standing my ground, averring that no one, neither me, husband or our pool man did so, he finally admitted, “Well, come to think of it, a man I had here five or six years ago broke a piece off.” In utter disbelief and disgust, not just at hearing another lie but in that he wholeheartedly committed himself to that lie for years, I proceeded to close the door. He then took his whole body and forcibly barreled through the front door, bending the metal closure on the door frame, and his force had the door send me sailing backward into a stack of boxes. After recovering myself, I went to the telephone to call the police. Landlord taunted me, “Call the police, go ahead. This is my property.” We had been subject to landlord’s bad temper for years, which culminated in this incident, documented as police report of battery against tenant.

December 7 — A date which will live in infamy

December 4, 2011: Landlord proffers a lease renewal at the end of the current lease arrangement of January 31, 2013. Tenant and her daughters are relieved and plan to put up a Christmas tree after all.

December 7, 2011: Landlord launches a sneak attack, and we are barraged with harassing telephone messages and bombed with threatening emails, rescinding lease renewal. Landlord’s axis of evil recruits current live-in woman as double-agent to provoke and agitate.

Amid confusion, tenant’s husband aka daughters’ father, goes AWOL in cowardly retreat, leaving mother to assess damage, quell internal upheaval, attend to casualties, including, but not limited to, youngest daughter breaking into hives from emotional and cardiac distress.