 Three Strikes (by AllyM [NJ]) Oct 20, 2017 7:39 AM
 Three Strikes (by Vee [OH]) Oct 20, 2017 7:45 AM
Three Strikes (by CDM [CA]) Oct 20, 2017 8:18 AM
Three Strikes (by AllyM [NJ]) Oct 20, 2017 8:27 AM
Three Strikes (by Lynda [TX]) Oct 20, 2017 8:38 AM
Three Strikes (by AllyM [NJ]) Oct 20, 2017 9:24 AM
Three Strikes (by Andrew,Canada [ON]) Oct 20, 2017 10:18 AM
Three Strikes (by Plenty [MO]) Oct 20, 2017 12:19 PM
Three Strikes (by BRAD 20,000 [IN]) Oct 20, 2017 2:29 PM
Three Strikes (by moby [IN]) Oct 20, 2017 5:57 PM
Three Strikes (by AllyM [NJ]) Oct 21, 2017 1:38 PM
Three Strikes (by AllyM [NJ]) Oct 22, 2017 7:54 AM
Three Strikes (by AllyM [NJ]) Posted on: Oct 20, 2017 7:39 AM
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Longtime tenant recommended an old friend of hers as new tenant for the almost redone mold lady apartment.
Nurse's aide works nights and son delivers pizza and has SS disability. Here's the problem.
Strike One: Longtime tenant's grand daughter upstairs is asthmatic.
Just found out yesterday that both of them smoke. One hot air heater in the basement makes this arrangement difficult. I have experienced that smokers who say they will smoke outside, do not smoke outside. There is supplemental baseboard heat upstairs but I don't want someone to die of asthma on my watch and it does happen. See this month's Readers Digest.
Strike Two: Nurse's aide has a storage unit and wants to download it into the garage and/or basement. These are items from a house she lost. I just went through this with mold lady. Garage needs to hold a car not plastic boxes. Basement can take on water in a deluge.
Strike Three: Something bothered me about the son. My radar was pinging. Checked predator list and nothing. Checked criminal background and nothing. Just got word that he drives to another state and smuggles in cigarettes for resale. NJ tax is $2.70 per pack. Penalty for him would be fines and the repeated fine is 20K. They could also seize his car. I have only the word of one person, one of his customers, but I need to not be in the line of fire since I know about this issue.
What's your opinion? Am I just avoiding normal LL issues or dodging a bullet.
--73.33.xxx.xxx |
Three Strikes (by Vee [OH]) Posted on: Oct 20, 2017 7:45 AM
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I will never understand how someone called a -health care- worker would introduce tobacco addiction to themselves. More and more health care campuses require smoking to be 2-300 feet from the property, job security? --76.188.xxx.xx |
Three Strikes (by CDM [CA]) Posted on: Oct 20, 2017 8:18 AM
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I would reject on the basis of the smoking and shared heat alone. That is guaranteed to be a constant problem. But you just got through a whole drama about the basement, so that seems like a loswer too. And the criminal activity is just the kicker. No, no, and no. --24.130.xx.xx |
Three Strikes (by AllyM [NJ]) Posted on: Oct 20, 2017 8:27 AM
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Thanks for the confirmation. I just hate knowing about the cigarette smuggling and I can't allow it into my property. Every time I met this young man I got a bad feeling that there was a criminal activity but couldn't quite get the message. Now I have it.
I just replied to a Craig's List apartment wanted ad and the size and price is right so I'm waiting to hear from a single man. My radar says he's not perfect and will keep to himself but I'm not getting criminality though he may be on meds. I will have to check this out thoroughly if he contacts me. --73.33.xxx.xxx |
Three Strikes (by Lynda [TX]) Posted on: Oct 20, 2017 8:38 AM
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Yes, Ally, my first thought when reading your post was NOT about the smoking--but the smuggling! In between trips where does he store his stash? At YOUR property. Someone rats him out and you have police, and mama spends the rent money to pay his fines! Your radar is doing fine--keep looking. --108.87.xx.xxx |
Three Strikes (by AllyM [NJ]) Posted on: Oct 20, 2017 9:24 AM
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The longtime tenant that recommended this nurse aide just admitted that nursey has a giant parrot! Says she forgot until she heard it talking in the background the other day. I don't take parrots since they scream at 4 AM when the sun begins to rise.
I think longtime tenant cared more about getting her cigarettes to move closer than the welfare of her grand daughter. --73.33.xxx.xxx |
Three Strikes (by Andrew,Canada [ON]) Posted on: Oct 20, 2017 10:18 AM
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I would reject them based on the smoking issue alone.
All my new tenants sign a non smoking clause. But I still have a very heavy smoker that has been with me 13 years. Her smoking and her sons smoking is causing significant problems with the non smoking tenants in the multiplex. Lots of bickering........leaving windows open all day in the winter (i pay for heating), fighting ect........making my life miserable. --70.48.xxx.xx |
Three Strikes (by Plenty [MO]) Posted on: Oct 20, 2017 12:19 PM
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I've started clarifying... NO SMOKING ON THE PROPERTY.
Smokers think they can say they only smoke outside... And that will get them in a no smoking unit! Frustration on my side... Clarification helps and quickly! --66.87.xx.xxx |
Three Strikes (by BRAD 20,000 [IN]) Posted on: Oct 20, 2017 2:29 PM
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AllyM,
You get the wildest stuff!
My applicants look boring compared to yours!
BRAD --68.50.xx.xxx |
Three Strikes (by moby [IN]) Posted on: Oct 20, 2017 5:57 PM
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Giant parrot is probably an ESA :o --68.60.xxx.xx |
Three Strikes (by AllyM [NJ]) Posted on: Oct 21, 2017 1:38 PM
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Whats an ESA? Oh, emotional support animal. She has a dog for that but didn't claim it for that. This is beyond any pet issue. Grandma wanted to put two smokers in a house with her asthmatic granddaughter. There is no excuse for that. Bad decision making. She almost got it done too. I never thought a nurse's aide would smoke and try to move in with an asthma patient with a small baby.
This is why they are tenants. Poor decision making skills. --73.33.xxx.xxx |
Three Strikes (by AllyM [NJ]) Posted on: Oct 22, 2017 7:54 AM
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I figured out what this crew was going to do about the smoking and the asthmatic granddaughter. Andrew, above from Ontario, has it right. I would bet they all decided they would open the windows and crank up the heat to prevent the smoke from coming up. I dodged more than a bullet. These minor criminals were going to rob me via the heater.
Actually the granny is kind of a crook. Two years ago a plastic shutter blew off and skidded across the roof of her old car. She wanted me to pay to have it repainted. It just needed buffing. I called my insurance agent and let them deal with her. The next door neighbor got into the act too. He had a dent in his car door that could only have been caused by another car opening the door into it and he tried to get money from me too. Former tenant and I sold him with the building. So many of them out there. --73.33.xxx.xxx |
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