Why is it that because they lived under my roof that I am responsible for taking care of their debt when they left me with basically nothing?
My boss received a phone call today from my former tenant's brother asking her to leave a number for me to call him. My boss knows the brother well because my former tenant was also a former co-worker that had to be rushed to the hospital from the job because he had gone into congestive heart failure in October of 2006.
I'm thinking that the number is my former tenant and not him. I call the number and it is not set to receive messages and it's a woman's voice. I thought it was kind of strange and called back and got the same. I blew it off.
I just got a call back from the brother. He asked me who I was. He rattles off all these names and really doesn't let me answer anything other then my name. Then he says, "OOOHHHHH you are Don's friend." "Yes", I reply.
He then proceeds to ask me when Don is going to receive his money for the break in. I said, "I haven't filed it yet because I haven't received all the receipts." He then proceeds to verbally attack me saying, "You haven't filed it yet??? You know you have only so much time before they are null. Don't you think you ought to pay him some money seeing as how he saved you so many times and you were all the time leaving the door unlocked? Or did you forget about all of his money being taken?" I'm speechless. He then said, "You better get on it right away!" I said, "You act like I asked them to break into my house. The doors were lo..." He interupts me saying,"You owe him and he's broke." I said,"The insurance company is only going to pay me back for anything over $4,000. I haven't found all the receipts..." He interrupts again, "Well I don't know how much money you are out of but, Don's out over $400 because of this. He's broke. Don't call back until you have some money for him!" And he hangs up.
I'm pissed off now. Don's brother Norm has sued a church because he fell down because a child bumped into him and he lost his balance. He said in his suit that the church was responsible because they allowed the child to "run" loose. And this is the same mofo that called me.
You know I'm sorry that his stuff got stolen while he was in the hospital but Norm also had his brother's keys to the apartment. How do I know that he himself didn't take it?
These people may have paid his rent while he was in the hospital but, they came in and moved all of his stuff out while I wasn't at home because he and Don's son wanted him to move immediately to Corpus Christi when he got out of the hospital. Thus, I was without his rent right at Christmas time. I also didn't get paid two weeks because of Christmas break. Not to mention that my stuff was stolen too!
I did offer to pay him back for the gun but, I don't think that I should have to pay him back for some money that I don't know was even there or not.
Now, I'm thinking that I should just say as the landlord even though the apartment is attached to my house that he should have had renter's insurance to cover his stuff because I can't prove that I owned any of his stuff.
The house WAS LOCKED and there is evidence that the garage door had been jimmed open and the guy that broke in admitted to doing it and is in jail. So, why should I be held responsible when I DID take precautions to secure the whole house?
