You never know what's going to happen in the rental business. Take today for example. Who would have predicted that I'd be threatened with a frivilous lawsuit; have a tenant that was the victim of a home invasion; and be standing 25 feet from a major drug raid? Almost unbelievable, but all of this was part of my day.
I started out this morning by going to the post office to pick up the mail. In the rental business, it's never good to receive certified mail. Unfortunately that was exactly what was waiting for me. The letter was from one of those scumbag contingency lawyers (lower than snakes if you ask me) who is representing one of my tenants that is trying to extort money from me. A couple of weeks ago, the tenant claims that she fell into an open water meter hole and was injured. I don't have any idea if that is true or not, but it certainly isn't my fault. This tenant was already totally disabled and is claiming that she re-injured her already existing back injury, which is a typical claim for tenants who are trying to hit the landlord lottery! As we always do, we will aggressively fight this frivilous claim.
As I was working on one of our rentals, I was listening to the radio. The big news locally was about a home invasion that had occurred in our city. A few minutes later, I received a call from one of our better tenants. Last night, he had awakened in the middle of the night and was walking downstairs. Unfortunately, as he was walking down the stairs, a criminal was walking up the stairs. My tenant was the victim of the home invasion that was on the radio! The tenant ran back to his room; grabbed a stun gun; and chased the two criminals out of the house. His wife called the police who then became involved in a foot chase with the criminals. The police reportedly caught one of the criminals. Fortunately, no one was hurt and the tenant will be putting in an alarm system tomorrow.
Later in the day, I was in front of one of my apartment buildings. Suddenly, an all black van pulled in across the street. The back door quickly opened and several swat team members carrying assault rifles jumped out. They went straight to the door of the duplex across the street. One swat member shouted "Police" as another hit the door with a battering ram. Then, a concussion grenade was thrown in the door and there was a large flash. The swat team entered the duplex yelling "Police, get down, get down!" It was just like watching an episode of cops, except up close and personal, instead of on TV.
Enough excitement for one day!
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3 comments:
Ah, the stuff the Gurus DON'T tell you about. :-P
Haha, sounds like you had an interesting day. That had to be cool seeing the swat team action though :)
Yes, it was just liking cops on TV, except it was live! Pretty cool!
Mike
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