Most of the time everything here goes by the book, but this is your chance to go ahead and let out your inner demons!!! --50.32.xxx.xxx

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I heard this one from a plumber about a landlord who died here locally a few years ago. The water to the house was supplied by a springhouse on an upper road that the tenants didn't know about. The plumber told me that the landlord would send him up there to pull the pump out when the tenants didn't pay their rent! Haha. That's a good one! --50.32.xxx.xxx

Back in the 70s my dad would tell a tenant they had 3 days to leave or he would put them out,if they didn't leave he showed up and changed the locks while his buddies would put there stuff on the curb,the tenant would call the cops and when they showed up the cop would tell the tenant he owns the house so you are moving,we are just here to make sure there is no violence,my dad was not much on screening tenants he would put in the first guy with cash,he wasn't much on maintenance either but me did well on those places.If a tenant refuses to answer a door or phone and it is a multi unit and I can get in the basement I have been known to turn off the water heater,nobody ever figures out what happened because it takes awhile before it goes cold and they always call about 12 hours later. --72.231.xxx.xxx

I know a guy who couldn’t get the tenant to call him or answer the door so he pulled the disconnect on the central air unit during summer. --166.137.xxx.xx

Gail --71.203.xx.xx

Gail --71.203.xx.xx

Oops...who said that? --73.158.xxx.xxx

I have 4 rental properties in Puerto Rico, I paid water and electricity on all of them, if any of them wont pay the rent I call the companies and turned them off, so far no problem with the law, in another one tenant did not paid for two Mont and refuse to answer my calls and emails, so I send two friends ( that have the mafia/gangster looks) to let him know I was expecting his call, he call me the same day to let me know that he deposit the money in the bank, in another a lady who also did not paid rent so i send my handyman every day to lock the front door iron gate, after about five strait days doing that she give up and left the place. --173.61.xxx.xxx

I know a guy who occasionally switches from being a good landlord to being a slumlord when tenants start to go bad. This guy took his sweet time going to let a tenant in who locked themselves out in a just t-shirt and jeans in the dead of winter. It took him an hour and a half to get there and it was only 20 minutes away! --50.32.xxx.xxx

Just dreaming. Of course I would never do that! (legal disclaimer) --98.122.x.xx

Hard to believe most of these stories, but I once knew a landlord that paid all of the utilities in a single-occupancy apartment, fully furnished. As the story goes....if the tenant got behind on the rent, this landlord would park his Bobcat at their front door and load up the bucket and put the dude's worldly goods in the dumpster straightaway. All evidence was erased that "he" had ever lived there. End of conversation. This is surely folklore, but I heard that he did it again a month ago. I just love these stories....Radar --184.18.xx.xxx

A friend told me about his brother having a tenant that quit paying rent and bragged about how long it was going to take for the eviction. His brother, a hulk of a man, walked thru the front door of the residence, strolled between the tenant and his visitors to the bathroom. A few minutes later he walked back thru with the toilet under his arm. Not a word was spoken. The big tough tenants were gone within days. --68.60.xxx.xx

Later she got a law degree and was a family lawyer till her late 70's. --47.216.xx.xxx

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We were pretty sure she would not call the cops, because we would have told the arresting officer she was on probation and living there illegally. --104.152.xx.xx

The story I heard was that my grandmother back in the 1930's owned a house with a downstairs unit in the basement. Whenever the tenant refused to pay the rent, for some reason, the unit would flood from a "plumbing leak". After a few days of sloshing around, the tenant would decide to move elsewhere and my grandmother would have the water pumped out of the unit and rerent when it dried out. I read somewhere that a LL purposefully designed his 4plex to have sunken floors in a bungalow layout - so as to have the toilet "flood" in the unit that hadn't paid - no eviction fees! --174.65.xx.xx

BRAD --68.51.xx.xxx

BRAD --68.51.xx.xxx

BRAD --68.51.xx.xxx

I heard a story about a guy who was friends with a group of doctors/lawyers who liked to put on their gear and ride Harleys on the weekends. This one tenant wasn't going to move out and had threatened to do damages, so the LL asked his group of buddies to show up on the guys door step the next Sat and "encourage" him to get out. 24 hours later the unit was empty. --172.56.xx.xx

It's been a while since you shared your stories about the compound & it's interesting residents. --72.93.xxx.xxx

I've got to get one of those Bobcats. Guy and gal are exiting. Guy leaves his boat on a trailer. She left the shed full of misc items. I put the shed items in the boat. Including yard trash that i bagged. Thought it was pretty clever of me. So this couple was no longer a couple...and i forgot to take that into consideration when i was busy cleaning up the mess left! As you may have guessed. The next morning i went back to clean inside, guy had came back to get his boat in the middle of the night...you can guess what he did... Unloaded all the stuff i had put in the boat from the shed, right there in the driveway. Darn! Must have been a full moon. --66.87.xxx.xxx

Plenty you need to have them sign over the boat title, that is how I created the marina in the city - told many tenants on Saturday I get house keys or we go to title place, you choose. I had an old building when I started that had fuses, we just remove 1 fuse when late - both when loud parties, exwife used to chase the nonpayer down the hall shaking the old stinky mop at them and we had great tenants who would help empty the contents down to the driveway while I was off racing motorcycles and sports cars. Those type of evictions would not work today... --76.188.xxx.xx

What was weird was that beyond the fridge being horrendously disgusting, the rest of the place was oddly clean! --50.82.xxx.xx

It works ... --69.201.xx.xxx

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Gail --71.203.xx.xx

One thing for SURE, I'd NEVER remove a toilet, even if I could legally. Take a minute & think that thing through to the end result. --71.51.xxx.xxx

Had a bad mother and teen age kids. Father got out of prison and died suddenly. Kids were selling drugs supposedly. Downstairs was empty so I put a couple of names on the mailbox and told upstairs that my cousin the cop and his cop friend were moving in. I don't have a cousin who is a cop. One was a fireman for awhile though. They were out in two weeks. For some reason did not want to live in same building with cops. --69.141.xxx.xxx

Here's your sign: Deadbeat... --99.56.xx.xx

My brother knows a LL in CA who rents to felons, druggies and the like. When rent isnt paid there is no court date, Crowbar Bob and Bad A$$ Billy stop by and litterally chuck everything out on the sidewalk --174.209.xx.xx

C&J, I could see that stuff working in situations where the tenant pool has no alternative choices for housing. --50.32.xxx.xxx

Visited a friend in the hospital. Hospital roommate was a landlord in Baltimore. He told stories of threatening to deposit drugs in the property and calling the police. --108.51.xxx.xxx

You want to see someone go from cocky to totally flipped out. --24.101.xxx.xxx

Lack of water finally drove them out and I was innocent. Yea!!!! --216.23.xxx.xx

Grand theift was for moving the car out front to a parking lot up the street. Cop comes and asks do you know where that car went? -- I say NO. He said that lady across the street said she saw you drive it away---- OPPS!!!!! don't lie to the police. Sometime I'll give up the whole story. --99.103.xxx.xxx

But in both cases, they moved on right before they went MTM and we would have issued a non-renewal. God is good! --71.175.xxx.xxx

Someone in my LL group has a felony charge he got as a young man helping his father with an eviction. It changed his life. To this day he can not vote. Thankfully he is a very successful landlord. --108.51.xxx.xxx

Laura, I wouldn't worry too much about the voting bit.Look at the riff-raff that's there now and all the people who voted.Makes you wonder? Radar ,you the guy who used to be on M-A-S -H. funny.......charlie..................................................................... --174.199.xx.xx

Brad, slip the driver a few bucks,maybe even a twenty.he'll do it.Me no nothing,me hear noozthing,me no speaka thee English................charlie...........................even more than twenty................ --174.199.xx.xx

Had a friend who was a detective,has since passed away.Had quite a bit of rental property.He had no hesitation in putting his gun to the tenant's head and telling him it might accidentally go off the next time.It worked.........................charlie.........................................good. ......................................................... --174.199.xx.xx

My partner, who was also my cousin, and I had a so so house in a not great, not horrible area. Rented it out to a young couple and the girl's brother. Went alright for 5 or 6 months and then payment problems. We told them if they just left we would not take them to court ( they were judgement proof anyway) and they would not have an eviction on their names. They took us up on it and everything was going well. In a couple of weeks they had most of their stuff out. I went in to check on it a few days later, and all that was left were two big screen tvs. Unfortunately, someone had taken a baseball bat to the wall after a party. Empty booze bottles and tobacco from making blunts on the ground. No sign of a breaking, whoever did it had the keys. We took the tvs and changed the locks. Tenant called when he could not get back in. Partner asked him why he trashed the walls. Tenant says that it was not him, someone must have broken in, and that he has to get in to get his tvs. My partner told him "joe, whoever broke in must have stolen your tvs, after they trashed the wall, cause they ain't there!" --73.141.xxx.xxx

FYI always have gun in breif bag just not on my hip. --99.103.xxx.xxx