My HUD-supported tenant has become increasingly unstable. She cursed my repairman and told both him and me he could never come on the property again. She imagines that each time she goes out of the house, someone breaks in and steals items (small and odd things like jars, paper towels, etc.). She has implied that I am either the thief, or that I am cooperating with the thief. Yesterday she called and told me angrily over the phone "You shut up, you shut up and listen to me!" I decided to listen carefully so I could figure out what was on her mind. During her rant she told me that she sleeps with a gun beside her every night, and made the statement "I'm going to wind up shooting someone." Although she also told me that she is looking for another place to rent, that's going to take some time. I am afraid to go onto the property now and have warned the tenants who live near her to stay away from her house. I've called the Sheriff who is unhelpful. What can I do in the meantime while she is supposedly looking for another place to stay? --64.53.xx.xxx

Don't go there. Call Hud office and talk with her case worker. Read the post below about Tenant Health Declines. Don't go there at all, let her calls go to voice mail and call her back the next day when perhaps she won't remember why she called. Don't prompt her memory either! --99.203.xx.xx

I wouldn't wait for her to leave,i would evict her --72.231.xxx.xxx

Best of luck and please share what happens when everything calms down. --107.3.xxx.xxx

Here, we can call the police and report things like what she said, especially the "I am going to shoot someone" part of it and they will come out and possibly one of them would get shot trying to take her to the crisis center at the local hospital. --73.178.xxx.xx

If you are hoping she finds another place and this problem solves itself that won't happen. Who would ever rent to her in this state of mind? No one. --75.146.xxx.xxx

I hope she doesn't know where you live. --174.216.xx.xx

Kim,I'd just do what she asks,and stay home.After all one roll of paper towels is adequate................charlie............................................................ --174.199.x.xxx

Kim,how good a shot,do you think she is ?.....................charlie............................................................. --174.199.x.xxx

If law enforcement does not like helping, go to the mayor office to explain this - have a newsteam help number, landlord threatened by tenant with deadly harm. --76.188.xxx.xx

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Also, since you say she's paranoid, using your real name in a post about her may not be a good idea. She might think you're talking about her. But I guess that's just being paranoid. --108.69.xxx.xxx

Thank god her second amendment rights aren't being infringed upon! Even paranoid schizophrenics should be able to possess firearms, otherwise how would they protect themselves from the goblins? --170.224.xx.x

The other tenant called me because I hadn't refunded their security deposit. She was still living in the unit and had never given me notice she was going to move. Until she switched her medications, she was impossible to deal with. --47.156.xx.xx

Kim,I don't know you,so she could be right....................charlie...........................................make sure you duck.................... --174.199.x.xxx

Not all kinds of crazy are cured by meds; not all kinds of crazy are brought on by lack of meds. This could just be regular anti-social crazy. --98.229.xxx.xx

Does you ares reach to the phrase "making terroristic threats". --174.225.xxx.xx

Where was any slander involved? No names were used. --170.224.xx.x

Ernie, get a life! --50.45.xxx.xx

I am very grateful for the responses to my question. There is good advice offered here and I'm certainly taking it to heart. I've have advised HUD of the situation and am waiting for a call back from the employee there who knows my tenant best, hoping that she can throw more light on this situation. No matter what I'm told, though. I want this tenant out of my property and have begun the eviction process. If I am forced to go onto the property, I will have to be accompanied by a deputy. I'm afraid of the tenant. --64.53.xx.xxx

You cannot expect the initial responding officer to know what to do in these situations. Go up the chain of command and keep everyone safe. The police really are the good guys. --98.146.xxx.xxx

I agree with Rathdrum. ...cert. mail to the head of local law enforcement. Not only does it get their attention but puts them on formal legal and documented notice of a problem. Thus, if there is an event they cannot feign ignorance. --174.225.xxx.xx

HUD finally called me back. Turns out this tenant went to see HUD 2 weeks ago at which time she was given the forms she needed to find a new dwelling. The HUD agent told me that she knew at the time my tenant was deteriorating, and that she, the HUD agent, felt threatened herself! (But didn't do anything about it). HUD agent told me to go ahead and send the 30-day notice because the way things stand now, if there were an emergency repair needed, I have no way to go onto the property safely. She and I also agreed that we are independently making reports to DSS-the Adult Care department. I have made my report this afternoon, and DSS told me they wouldn't tell the tenant I was the one who called. --64.53.xx.xxx

Thanks for sharing, I learned a lot. --172.56.xx.xxx

Tenant threatened to kill you? Evict. Hire lawyer whatever the cost. No contact with tenant. None. Don’t answer calls emails or your door if she shows u 911 on speed dial. Any other advice is foolish and dangerous. --174.192.xx.xxx