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Report it to the police. --73.120.xx.xxx

Sounds like a conversation with (pure) Evil. --199.192.xxx.x

Probably someone who has been 'altering his body chemistry' with something. Either that or he just likes to mess around with Landlords and answer a bunch of ads just to make stupid work for you. I've had a few like that, who schedule appts and don't show or send endless emails which end pretty much like yours, EXCEPT for the foul language. I laugh at the missed appts since they don't realize I am not driving over, waiting and waiting and then going home. My rentals are right behind my house, but other Landlords do spend time driving and waiting. Lots of busy work with no rewards. Some people are just not nice. I'd ignore unless he recontacts. Then I'd advise you don't respond as the 'race' references might be a starting point for him to claim discrimination. --72.199.xx.xxx

Anyway it was just hot air, nothing ever happened, and I'm sure it will be the same for you --72.188.xxx.xxx

I can appreciate the tenants concern about getting scammed, but the approach needs some work --24.101.xxx.xx

I decided to leave it alone because sometimes silence speaks the loudest and I just do not want to get into some kind of verbal debate as it seemed like he turned into a nasty person. --68.191.xx.xxx

I agree, just leave it alone. Sometimes it's hard not to fire back when someone says those things (at least for me) but the goal here is for this person to just go away. --72.188.xxx.xxx

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Wow. You just dodged a bullet! Can you imagine if you had rented to him. --24.233.xxx.xx

Normal. --70.44.xxx.xx

Consider putting in the internet ad that will provide rental applications to all adults along with what utilities are separate. If the applicants know utilities are not included then they will look somewhere else. Unpaid utilities and unpaid go hand in hand together. Must jurisdictions vacancy rates are declining along many of those who did not run credit checks have left the rental housing business where houses are sold or apartment buildings were sold to large corporations. Housing is not a right to trash out along not paying rent One out of three odds are common of getting a problem tenant from hell like the videos on You Tube. The internet ad is first part of screening out problem as they know a thorough credit check on all adult applicants no exceptions along with utilities not included in rent. The problem tenants already know they will not qualify to begin with. All inclusive rental units are starting to disappear as utility costs have risen over the years where only the government housing units can be all inclusive. Often some first checks on the rental application like reverse look up phone number look up along checking the place of employment actually exists then there to charge a fee or go any further. A lie end of story here. --147.194.xxx.xx

When I texted him and asked him a few questions such as his name, he gave me his full name and where he presently lives in my state so I have that information although I will not follow up with any kind of charges. He was fine to converse with until he realized that this was probably too much money for him and turned nasty. --68.191.xx.xxx

I would stay in CLOSE contact with my uncle-- Uncle Glock 19 or even AUNT S&W 38. --99.103.xxx.xxx

If you are renting rooms, you are going to get lower income tenants and the lower their income the more angry they seem to be that they must pay for anything, especially for housing. --76.178.xx.xx

I've been accused of running a scam. Usually that's projection of their own intentions. I've cut a lot of this down by not talking with applicants at all until my google prescreened form is completed. That form is accompanied by all information about the rental. Failure to read the information disqualifies. --73.81.xxx.xxx

More then likely he was social assistance which here is around $700 per month which is not a enough to live off. Some people simply will not go out then find a job where they will be on social assistance forever as long as governments provide. I found indirectly that social assistance has a cap on rent where it was better to go higher to eliminate them altogether. A lot of them use illegal drugs or alcoholism is a problem. For them housing as a last resort where the government housing authority where the name was changed to community housing which still has a bad reputation. Once the minimum credit score limit was 700 or higher a lot of problem tenants were eliminated. You can not change the ills of society where those problems will be always be there. The day after the Bolshevik revolution alcoholism and the worlds oldest profession were still there along with alcoholism is big problem in Russia today. Been through many situations where tenants in buildings became nasty. When cancelled all the rent appeals where applied and got a above guideline increase under rent control of 20.25 per cent then in the following year 14.75 per cent under rent control they threw eggs from the balconies at my truck. Went to self car wash then cleaned up. One January five apartments they moved out where could not repair apartment building with economically depressed rent. After one ad rented all five apartments then never heard a complaint about the level of rent as was starting to turn apartment building around where was still operating a loss yet continue to improve. It takes a lot effort to bring apartment building back to reasonable condition. --147.194.xxx.xx

Gkarl, i don't put the apt info in the form beyond the st NG ame n #br. I wouldn't want to remind them what the minimum income is. Plus if they can't remember which apt mine is, why would i want them? --72.10.xxx.xxx

I wouldn't get too worked up about it but you should ALWAYS be aware of your surroundings. Be safe. --67.242.xx.xx

I had a guy threaten me over the phone one time when i told him no he wasnt getting the place.I called the local police just to file a report in case he went and threw a brick through the window.When i gave the cop the guys name he said we have beem looking for him on other charges,do you have his current address? i sent them the application and they were quite happy to see all the info on the application.Real genius he was --72.231.xxx.xxx

I’d simply save the text and ignore it. I can understand your concerns, but it’s just some fool talking $hit. --173.48.xxx.xxx

I hit submit to fast, there is not point in calling the police, it’s not even a threat. He is saying that he thinks it’s a scam, and that some people would react poorly to being scammed, albeit not so eloquently ;-). Has he said “I am going to fu@k you up” that would then be a threat, but even then I don’t think the police would do much. --173.48.xxx.xxx

That should have read *had he said*. --173.48.xxx.xxx

Must be a CT thing LOL. I have a Google pre-screening form that does not cost a penny and really doesn't ask significant personal information. I had emailed it to one woman and she said she wasn't going to fill it out. I said "okay, good luck". Her reply was "I knew you were a scam" and how lucky she was that she didn't fall for it. Nope, I'm the lucky one. She also had a recent criminal record (although I don't know until I can confirm an address)... --32.211.xxx.xxx

Yes, times are difficult and the pickings have been slim, but I would rather have a vacancy than a headache! --68.191.xx.xxx