Weird Crimes....What's your story?

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Just when you think you've heard it all....

On Easter Sunday one of our elderly tenants was enjoying the good weather and had his front door open. A woman who he had never seen before walked into his apartment and went straight to the bathroom, then proceeded to take a shower. He called 911 and the police responded quickly, handcuffed her and took her away. Our tenant just mentioned the incident to us in passing. He said "she looked like she was loaded" and being a veteran of the Korean war, he wasn't phased much by it.

A few years ago another tenant's estranged adult daughter (not living there), broke into her mother's apartment by pushing the window air conditioner into the bedroom and crawling through the window. The mother wasn't home at the time and the daughter turned over furniture and a made a mess of the apartment. Our tenant was quite shaken by this, was worried about the daughter returning and asked us to help her keep her daughter away. We advised her to report the incident to the police and to file for a restraining order if she felt the need. We filed for the daughter to be named on a "no trespassing" order for our property. Not only did the daughter damage our window and window sill, but she had also thrown an egg on the side of the building and had taken a stick and had written creepy messages in the flower bed, and signed her name to it. Turned out she had been high at the time. Our tenant kept the "No Trespassing" order taped to her front window for a year in hopes of keeping her daughter at bay. It all worked. The daughter didn't come back.

Blair Poelman · Answer

I was running an investor tour with a bus full of 46 people. We pull up to one of my freshly rehabbed houses in a gated community. My contractor and a leasing agent were "testing" out the shower.

bad enough to get caught, but by literally a bus full of people... One of the heights of my career.

Dan Perrott · Answer

My story starts when I evicted a tenant late last year.  The tenant complied and left on the appropriate court ordered date and time.  He handed me the keys and left.

At the time when he gave me the keys, my son and I were to changing the locks and securing the property,  We photographed the property as he had left it for the court damage hearing.  It was a mess.  He even had a campfire in the middle of the master bedroom, burning through the carpeting.  We took pictures of every room from all views.

The next day we went back to start the cleanup for the property turnover.  We discovered that the back door was kicked in - someone had broken in.  Having taken pictures of the entire property we then compared the photographs to the rooms.  Every room was exactly like the photos - cabinets open, doors ajar, garbage on the floor, etc.  ---Except there was a missing pair of dress shoes.  The tenant had kicked in the door because he had forgotten his shoes.

He shouldn't have worn his shoes to court....

Needless to say - his wages have been garnished and he is paying for the damages.

Ken Gurta · Answer

I had a family of 4 living in one of my houses. The house is in a small, quiet, and well kept subdivision of approximately 32 homes. The family included a young boy of around 12 years old. I always thought that the boy was nice, respectful, and normal. I was wrong.

One night, the boy sneaked out of the house just after midnight. He went to every driveway that had vehicles and proceeded to slash all of the tires. He also carved obscenities on some of the vehicles with a knife. At least 13 neighbors became victims. 9 wreckers had to take away around 20 vehicles the next morning.

I didn't find out about it until just over a month later. The community had a meeting to discuss the crimes the boy had committed. Someone at the meeting had my contact info.

My tenants were in denial that their son could have been the one to do so much damage. So, I did a little investigating on my own. Wanting them to leave my house peacefully and intact, I met with them to talk about the case. I didn't terminate their lease or tell them to go. Instead, I offered to let them out of their lease without penalties should they find a place to move to where they could get a fresh start. I also explained it in a way as though I was talking about myself. I said something like "If this is the way the community feels, I am not sure that I would want to stay here".

The tenants decided to take me up on my offer. I lost 2 month's rent. The community was happy with my decision. And, I then found an awesome tenant who still lives there!

Debra R. · Answer

I intended to post my new member intro first but couldn't pass up posting my weird crime story.

I bought a 4 plex complete with tenants.  One tenant had a boyfriend (we'll call him Tom) living with her who wasn't on the lease.  Tom seemed sketchy to me but not so much that he was scary.  A few things came up missing and my suspicion was that it was him, but no proof.  Shortly after that they moved out and I moved into the building.  A year later at 8 pm a nicely dressed woman shows up on my doorstep asking if Tom lived at this address.  I asked why she wanted to know.  She was a local TV reporter and Tom had been arrested for killing his girlfriend!  She was looking for someone to comment on him for the story.  I declined.  I really didn't need a murderer mad at me.  :)

Jennifer T. · Answer

I was renting a house at the time.  I had gotten home from work, relaxed a bit, than ran out for less than 30 minutes to run a few quick errands.  When I returned home, neighbors were all over the opposite side of my street.  There were police everywhere.  When I tried to cross the street to go to my house, an officer stopped me and wouldn't let me go through, even though I offered to show him my id with my address.

Here is what happened.  A couple miles away, a handcuffed suspect was in the back of a police car.  The officer briefly left the car (not sure why).  The suspect somehow got out of the back seat.  Into the front seat.  And started driving the patrol car away.  With his hands still handcuffed.  He somehow drove to my street where he jumped the curb, ran over my neighbor's "Historic Property" sign what was in the front yard...then got back on the street for a moment and then sideswiped my landlady's fancy sports car.  At that point, he jumped out of the car and ran away on foot down the side of the "Historic Property" neighbor's house.

It was HOURS before the police would let me go back home.  At first I was understanding, but then I was just PISSED.  They had already searched all over the place.  It was 2-3-4-5 hours gone by.  Half the police had left, the crime van had left...yet I'm still not allowed to literally walk across the street and down my 20 ft. driveway to my door?  Unbelievable.

They didn't catch him that night, but found him at a friend's house the next morning.  Many, many blocks away from me, lol.

Toby Bergstrom · Answer

I was once showing a freshly renovated unit to a nice young couple who loved it. We walked out the front door to see police cars everywhere and the woman who lived next door chasing her adult son down the street with a meat cleaver.

The nice couple must have found another apartment because they didn't rent mine...

Derek Daun · Answer

Back when I was a renter, someone stole all the trees of the house I rented.

There had been three Japanese Maples. One day when we got home there was just a trail of dirt from the hole where each tree had been. The trails each led to the same location on the curb. At first we assumed it was the landscaping company the landlord used, but after a couple of days we emailed and asked. The landlord new nothing about it.

Verna M. · Answer

I had someone break into my garage and steal a reciprocal saw and a small drill. They took all the cases and parts, too.

A year later a very found a  lumpy floral   pillowcase on my doorstep. I seriously thought it was a dead animal or something creepy.  When I opened it was the saw and the drill minus the cases and parts. :-/

I used to have a gorgeous pomegrante tree and 3 citrus trees.  One day an older couple walked down my driveway with a ladder and proceeded to start harvesting my fruit. My car was in the shop and they thought I wasn't home since no car in the driveway.

Then the  apartment building across the street.   I witnessed a fight break out among two tenants.   On grabbed the metal  "No Vacancy"  sign hanging up and hit the other one in the head with it.  Then he tried to run away  almost got hit by a car. That turned into something about a suicide attempt.  The Cops ended up closing down our block for an hour :-/

The house next door to me had a home invasion robbery. In bright day light  while I was in my living room.  I let the cops in my house to see the footage I captured with my cameras. And  wouldn't you know it while were watching it ...I also had footage of the  'victims' of the home invasion stealing cars on the street! Idiots!

It was pretty normal to have homeless people try to take a shower with your hose in the front lawn, thankfully no one came in while I was home. I did get broken into three times while away!

Lynn Harrison · Answer

I was out of town for a weekend and a mobile hash lab blew up on the street I live on. I would have liked to have seen that- I take news photos occasionally for the local radio station's blog, but all I saw was the aftermath and heard stories. It was a small RV full of Butane and hash oil, and the fire which consumed it was so hot it melted the RV and left sort of a "ground zero" where it had been parked. Very impressive! The man inside survived, he ran out of the RV on fire and rolled around. For some reason the cops never found the man even though he was easy to spot all around town with his burned arm... He may have earned the nickname "Sparky".

Andrew R. · Answer

OMG blair that is awesome.

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