I just got a phone call from a gal I showed an apartment to last summer. She and her boyfriend who I make a posting here about as he dropped red flags all over at showing

Will you work on deposit? Can I paint for rent?

Then I spelled his name right and found three evictions in the past 2 years with his prior girlfriend. Old girlfriend was making payments on all evictions and had 2 of 3 paid off, with no payments from him. New girlfriend had a good job and no negative records. He called about 4 months ago and I refused as he did not meet my criteria for job time and had prior evictions.

Just for kicks I reentered his name last week and he was evicted again in December with new girlfriend. She is no longer stellar.

So tonight I get a phone call from a lady and my last 2BR is rented but I have a 1BR coming up. She wanted the address and I wanted info first. She stated they were renting but Landlady was going to let them out of :Lease because basement flooded and Landlady was not going to do anything about it.

I asked her name and she said P_____ S____, the same unusual first name of red flag dude but now she had his last name. I said(forgive me), I can't believe you were foolish enough to marry that man, he has 3 prior evictions with his old girlfriend and 1 with you. I do not accept ant person who has been evicted in last 5 years> Thanks for calling.

She immediately calls me back and I ignore and block her. Then a new number lights up but I ignore that too as I figure they are just using a different phone.

Then I get two texts fron the 2nd different phone:

1. Hello this is MS and I legally got the one eviction expunged from my record, so legally there is no eviction at this point.

2.If this is a discrimination issue I do not have a problem with pursuing it.

So I ran him again on state website and everything is wiped clean even old criminal records and all 4 evictions, but their last eviction from 12/2018 is still present under girlfriend/now wife's name with no mention of him. I blocked him too.

I figure she still has an eviction on record and he is very bad news. Would any of you try to communicate with him?

I'm the future get a Google phone number as forward calls to your real number.

Possibly better yet, all calls to voicemail at the Google number.

My husband always tells me, don't take it personally, IOW, don't get mad about what people say or do. He also tells me it isn't always a good idea to let people know "that you know".

It is a no win situation. They are not going to change because you "caught" them in it. Because in their minds, they haven't done anything wrong!

Sometime earlier, I learned from another LL on this site, NEVER get personal with the tenants in this business. Don't volunteer any personal information besides a name and number, never allow tenants my home address or more than very general information, not my political leaning or judgements on their lifestyle..

I'd just ignore them. If they don't go away contact the police. They seem a bit stalkerish, and I'd sure like to know how they got civil cases "expunged."

expunging civil cases is in vogue now, many areas doing this, in my big city they only allow it if the judgements are paid off for 5 years and the plaintiff landlord allows it.

Pay VA said it well, best to keep your steady face and remain on top of a bad situation, easier to avoid trouble than get out of trouble.

Lana,

Documemt document document.

Print out that eviction and staple it to their app.

Expunged?!?

Be certain you can find that app 2-3 years from now. She has two years to file a complaint. Your response attacked her love life so she must retaliate.

LLs get in trouble or make trouble by what they say. I don’t want my tires slashed so our offical phrase is “The office did not approve the application.”

Notice I did not say *I* denied YOU.

Another reason we do not answer the phone - cannot argue.

Also have your current, dated, written screening criteria copy attached to their app for when the govt comes calling.

I've made the same mistake too. I try now not to get into discussions or arguments with these people once the decision is made. It isn't worth it.

I would not communicate any further.

But a learning opportunity for you...I would avoid personal comments such as the one you made....this is the type of thing that could put you in a dangerous situation. Keep it professional.

Lana, it appears you are feeding into tenant drama, if not urging it. Shouting personal insults at tenants solves nothing. In another post, you said your husband shouted to a tenant "come down here and say that" and you responded "don't worry, he only hits women".

Nicole I am retired, but too used to telling people what I think they need to hear. That comes from years of being a family doctor. The telephone prospect was going on about her newest landlady and all the things wrong with the current rental and how they were being let out of their lease because Landlady did not want to fix them. I asked her name, recognized her and gave her some of her own medicine. The yard confrontation was 20 years ago and tenant had threatened my husband in person and by phone, he had lied in court, and I had seen his exwife too many times after a beating.

I am a true redhead at times and never back off a fight. Not sorry for either instance. Both of the long ago tenants ended up in prison where they belong. The recent couple I had been following after my encounter with them last summer. Every time I have opening since last year, I have heard from them as he is once again between evictions. I want him to never call me again.