Post by littlemisssunshine on Oct 2, 2012 17:06:36 GMT -5
So I'm currently hanging out at my mil's house waiting for the police to turn over my rental house to me so I can secure it. I haven't seen it yet but apparently they busted the door in, and I'm assuming there's blood somewhere.
I got a phone call from the local newspaper at 1pm asking me to comment on a crime that had happened at one of the rental properties I manage. He said there had been a shooting but didn't know anything else. I immediately drove to the neighborhood, but the police weren't letting anyone in. US Marshalls had tracked a homicide suspect to my rental (they think he was the boyfriend of one of my tenants) and when he tried to flee they shot him 4 times and he died in the driveway. Both of my tenants (two girl roommates in their 20's) can not be reached and I have a feeling I will never hear from them again.
They executed a search warrant for the house and found nothing inside save for a table and some personal items. The lease was signed a month ago and I never had any indication that something was wrong. I do very complete background checks and nothing came up. The funny thing is I had two applicants: a single dad who had 2 kidnapping charges, assault with deadly weapon, battery with bodily harm, resisting arrest, and then these two girls who seemed so nice and normal. You can't win with rental properties! And I'm currently shopping for a Taser! ' Updated: I still can't get in, but the police arrested one tenant who came back to the scene. She was 18 and it was her boyfriend that got killed. She had 4lbs of cocaine and 3 handguns in her car. They were using my house to deal drugs. The girls were so innocent looking with clean records and the house was in an upscale neighborhood. I guess you never know.
HOLY CRAP!! I had a murder happen at one of my neighbor's houses 6 years ago. It sat empty for about a year but I think that's mostly because it went into foreclosure when the woman (seemingly normal) was arrested for the murder. It's fine & occupied now. It was on America's Most Wanted but they used the house across the street for the actual filming...they couldn't identify the body (why it was on AMW).
Post by UMaineTeach on Oct 2, 2012 19:18:37 GMT -5
yup you do win the 'landlord horror stories' for the foreseeable future.
and when I go to rent your place and I ask to contact the last tenant to see how you were as a landlord, do you think that the drug dealers will give you a good reference?
also, do you have to give them their SD back? do the cops confiscate it?
Yikes! That's crazy. I'm glad that it was outside, and that it wasn't probably really a "murder" since it was an officer shooting someone who was running. When I opened this post I expected something really awful inside the house, so I'm glad that's not the case!