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neighbours from hell, the epliogue

thx1138thx1138
edited April 2012 in Chit chat
neighbours from hell, in jail, dead, in rehab mostly, landlord of the property got hit where it hurt, his wallet - as it sat empty for a long time, and he refurbished it, the damage caused probably higher than any rent he got, coupled with no tenants for months.


New bloke moved in. Normal bloke, drives a nice car, probably on finance, works weekdays. He has been there a week. Landlord no longer shunned by the street, people co-operating, fences mended both metaphorically and literally. We put a combination lock on the outside of the side gate to the alleyway, to make life easier, we didn't trust the previous tenants not to give the combination to all and sundry, or just lose the lock. All seemed well...

Police just woke me up, before 9am on a Saturday :( I was having a lie-in :(


House has been burgled. Prime suspect, is the last tenant, he was seen in the street yesterday. New chap has had lots of stuff stolen.

The landlord hadn't changed all of the locks, one of the back doors still had the old lock, and guess who the police thought had the keys....

D'oh!
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  • milemile
    edited March 2012
    /facepalms.


    :-P
  • MinerWillyMinerWilly
    edited March 2012
    Not the smartest of crimes. Sometimes when i hear things like this i wonder if someone really can be that stupid or if they just doesn't care if they get nicked. Probably the latter since punishments are too light, they get off far to easy.

    Worst of all he'll probably sold the stuff forward already and drunk the money he got for it. The only way the tenant will get anything back is if he have an insurance for the lot.
  • WookieeWookiee
    edited March 2012
    that's tragic, for the new bloke - still good to hear things might be sane for you again now
  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited March 2012
    It's great that you've got a nice new neighbour and everything is going well in the street morale wise.

    Shame he got burgled already.

    I wonder if he can get some sort of compensation from the landlord or whoever changed the locks?
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited March 2012
    Well, assuming that he is insured, it would depend largely on the insurers I should think. Were it me, if the insurers didn't pay out, I'd sue the landlord, but would wait until the short hold tenancy expired and I'd moved.
  • torottorot
    edited March 2012
    Its a really difficult situation. But its come to this because some scummy lowlife has been allowed too much freedom and they think they can do what they like! My advice on the other threads was always get in there, sort it out and if they don't comply, they get a kicking. Its the only way with this type of scum. Sorry if this sounds harsh but there you go.
  • HairyHairy
    edited April 2012
    torot wrote: »
    Its a really difficult situation. But its come to this because some scummy lowlife has been allowed too much freedom and they think they can do what they like! My advice on the other threads was always get in there, sort it out and if they don't comply, they get a kicking. Its the only way with this type of scum. Sorry if this sounds harsh but there you go.

    Sometimes you just need to speak to people in thier own language.

    I had crappy neighbours (5 kids, drunk parents, police always round, etc...) but I moved about a year ago, and the neighbours are all great.
  • zx1zx1
    edited April 2012
    As some may remember, i had a neighbour from hell last year and i had to leave flat pretty sharpish as he was threatining to kill me, where i live now is a lot better and peaceful, my downstairs neighbour lives with his male partner, my bedroom is directly above theirs and i have had to endure listening to their sex sessions once or twice, apart from that their fine:smile:
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited April 2012
    one of the former tenants' cronies, was in the paper 2 weeks ago, found passed out in a puddle of wee, in a lift to a block of flats with a bottle of cider - was in the paper, as they were up in court for it, 14 similar offences in the past 2 years.. Lovely people. I miss them.
  • Rebelstar without a causeRebelstar without a cause
    edited April 2012
    thx1138 wrote: »
    one of the former tenants' cronies, was in the paper 2 weeks ago, found passed out in a puddle of wee, in a lift to a block of flats with a bottle of cider - was in the paper, as they were up in court for it, 14 similar offences in the past 2 years.. Lovely people. I miss them.

    Learn to punch straight! :D
  • joefishjoefish
    edited April 2012
    That's bad luck on the new guy. Insurance may not even pay out if there's no evidence of a break-in, so he may have a long struggle to get anything back. It'd be tough to pin the blame entirely on the landlord.
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  • fogfog
    edited April 2012
    thx1138 wrote: »
    one of the former tenants' cronies, was in the paper 2 weeks ago, found passed out in a puddle of wee, in a lift to a block of flats with a bottle of cider - was in the paper, as they were up in court for it, 14 similar offences in the past 2 years.. Lovely people. I miss them.

    see the car is better than the bike sometimes ;) .

    as for your neighbour, reminded me of when my sis moved into their house.. the old owner was an footy hooligan (press turned up a few months later looking for him, he liked throwing coins at players apparently). the owner, had a few properties,

    I think some bloke was living there and had a key.. so the owner comes back later with a bottle of wine or something in the evening. dunno , maybe to see what they brought in. I didn't let him past the door and said "cheers, kinda busy" .

    It just looked a bit shady, and yer I told her first thing was to get the locks changed as too many folk had access to them keys.

    the problem is , they obv. think insurance will pay out and they'll come back for round 2 a lot of the time a few weeks later.

    next door to here was done over in the middle of the day, maybe 2-3 years ago... but well the people who did it, did something really stupid (which I'm not gonna say) that gave them away and made them very easy to catch.

    I guess it's a prime time for people to see others moving in.. trick being is , rope in loads of friends and just get your stuff in the house ASAP without too many prying eyes about.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited April 2012
    fog wrote: »
    (which I'm not gonna say)

    Bet they took a dump on the beds or the kitchen table or something like that eh? :D

    Or if they were total spanners spraypainted their names on the living room walls :lol:
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  • zx1zx1
    edited April 2012
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Bet they took a dump on the beds or the kitchen table or something like that eh? :D

    Or if they were total spanners spraypainted their names on the living room walls :lol:

    Along with their address and telephone number:grin:
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited April 2012
    zx1 wrote: »
    Along with their address and telephone number:grin:

    Hello Shaun we noticed you seemed a bit skint and didn't have a TV so we left you one.

    Love

    The Burglars

    :lol:
    Every night is curry night!
  • fogfog
    edited April 2012
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Or if they were total spanners spraypainted their names on the living room walls :lol:

    not quite, but not far off.. I remember going to a place called slapton ley in devon with the school and we were warned not to graff up the place.. as previous years they had written "<my area name> mods " hehe

    my year were more prolific shoplifters anyway.. they used to ask someone "how much is that" to the bloke to get him to look behind em, while another 3-4 were in there filling their pockets.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited April 2012
    I hope you can get some if not all of the stuff back. What is the chance of that?
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