Comments on: Landlord destroyed and stole my property

By: kim

kim — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 04:53:37 +0000

This also happened to me. My stuff was taking and gave away by the management.. they waited 48 hours to tell me then evicted me.. when will someone help us fight these landlord/managers

By: Mitchell Butterfield

Mitchell Butterfield — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:29:16 +0000

I have the same problem except that the renter locked my personal property in his garage then evicted me. He has had my property for 3 months. I received a phone call that he had been evicted also and was loading a U-Haul truck. I went to the house to find the garage all but empty, what was left was a pile of trash and his refusal acknowledge my owenership of anything in the garage. I went to the police only to be told “its a civil matter”, the police did get him to agree to let me have my property but he took the truck to a gated storage further deneying me access to my property. We found in the trash, in the rain our medical and financial records, personal property and articals that held no value for him. I can not begine to tellyou how this makes me feel. The laws need to be changed to protect tenets from this kind of treatment. personaly I intend to prosecute to the full extent of the law while he sells and or gives away the rest of my property, everything I own is subject to his whims of disposal and there is nothing I can do except bend over and take it like a man because “its a civil matter”

By: We need more Tenant Rights in Maine!

We need more Tenant Rights in Maine! — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:55:55 +0000

Check with your laws in your state. Type in the name of your state in google and then “tenant law” and the law for your state should come up. Read through exactly what rights you have etc and what should be done. You may have a place that helps with tenat rights like we do in Maine (Pine Tree Legal). If not, after reading the law and following the procedures, request in small claims court that you want the money for damanged property, your deposit etc. Make sure going forward, instead of calling, emailing or texting, you send your landlord all requests by mail and that it’s certified (meaning they HAVE to sign for the mail before getting it.) Then you can prove in court that indeed you have discussed this with the landlord owner and got no result. Normally if you sue in small claims court and the landlord knows he’s in the wrong he’ll pay up. Sometimes though, landlords aren’t that bright and will go to court, make a fool of themselves and then end up having to pay you the money + court costs, and costs for you to file. Good luck! I hate when landlords think they are God and can do as they wish because they are dealing with renters!