Crazy Landlady - Why Me?

[mosesbotbol]

Good to call the police on her and the best you can usually do as a tennant is withhold rent by putting into escrow. "Miss landlady, I am withholding rent in escrow until this matter is settled in court. This process could take a year. If you would like your rent before then, please leave me alone." Lines like that usually scare landlords like her.

[68TriShield]

Dang Dave,that sucks.

[alwayslit]

Originally Posted by mosesbotbol

Good to call the police on her and the best you can usually do as a tennant is withhold rent by putting into escrow. "Miss landlady, I am withholding rent in escrow until this matter is settled in court. This process could take a year. If you would like your rent before then, please leave me alone." Lines like that usually scare landlords like her.

.......x2. Money talks in these cases.

[Volt]

I love escrow

Rented an apartment like all young sailors do. The 3 single ones next door partied hard till all hours of the night - all days of the week. And to top it off, one had a "lassie" type screamer (watch Porky's for the reference) on the oppisite wall to me. Way too many complaints to the office and the deputies. Finally I set up an escrow account that I could not draw money out of, only the management company. It required both of our sigs to get it. It is illegal not to pay your rent, nothing says they have to be able to get at it though.

After 2 months the big guy came around looking for his $$$. Explained his office manager was not enforcing the agreements of the lease, calls to the cops, etc. Told him his rent was being paid, but he would not get access to it until they meet the requirements of the lease, no LOUD noise. She got fired, they got evicted and I released in the end 4 months worth of rent.

I will live in Newport News city park campground before I ever share a wall with other renters/owners again. Just not worth it. GI Joes sells Army surplus tents.

Originally Posted by mosesbotbol

Good to call the police on her and the best you can usually do as a tennant is withhold rent by putting into escrow. "Miss landlady, I am withholding rent in escrow until this matter is settled in court. This process could take a year. If you would like your rent before then, please leave me alone." Lines like that usually scare landlords like her.

[OLS]

Originally Posted by Volt

I will live in Newport News city park campground before I ever share a wall with other renters/owners again.

I actually camped there when I was a kid.

My mother and dad bought some property in Miss. when I was a young man, and they lived outside of NO. There was no direct road access to the property, it used a road easment on this other man's property. All was fine when my Dad was alive. Once he died, and it was me and mostly my mother going out there, he started being a d(*^ all the time. But we were stuck cause the road to the property crossed his land. In the end my mother GAVE it to the neighbor on the other side for 10 bucks. 12 acres. Pissed the guy off. I am sure he cut his own road and fenced off the Ahole's access. He used to hunt turkey, deer and rabbits on our property when we wern't there, cause he had done so since he was a kid. He was one of those part time deputies that litter that state. Used tough guy BS to intimidate people.

My current landlady lives below me in a two story duplex. I went to NC to see my mother once and
came home and my 'foolproof intrusion detector' had been tripped. I padlock the front door on the outside when I leave. The backstairs access is "hooked" from the inside. You either have to cut the front lock to get in that way, or push a screwdriver through the door gap and flip the hook in back. But once you are IN the house, you can't get out the front, and you can't RE-hook the hook when you go out the back. So I can easily tell if someone went up. I get back from Charlotte one day and the back hook is tripped. In casual conversation, I asked her who had been upstairs when I was gone. She never admitted going in, but got on my nerves 'trying to figure out who could have done it' for half an hour. Never happened again. Best landlord I ever had lived in Houston when I lived in Miss. He couldn't drop in on me.