Originally Posted by innerspaceboy (Post 1945025)

An update on my tenant fiasco after they set fire to my house:

They left piles of broken furniture, animal feces, and trash everywhere in the attic when they left. I'll be hiring a cleaning crew and billing him for the labor and for outstanding rent and utilities.

Originally Posted by innerspaceboy (Post 1945025)

An update on my tenant fiasco after they set fire to my house:

I learned that the reason he was fired the day he set the fire was because he was caught on video stealing cash from our mutual employer repeatedly. So add that little nugget of joy to my dilemma.

He ended up paying the $750 in back electric bills but for a spell was illegally squatting in my home after the 60 days I generously gave him to find a new job and an apartment. Sadly they did their very best to make my time at home as uncomfortable as possible. It's a shame that they went that route, but I stuck to the high road.

I didn’t take it lying down. I prepped documents, police reports, fire reports, photos of the squalor they were living in, etc for the court and threatened them with eviction. Every day in the house with them was an endurance trial and an ongoing risk of fire. The threat of an eviction on their already abysmal credit score was sufficient to get them to leave on their own. I got tired of letting people walk all over me and broke the patterning of abusive contacts in my life.

They left piles of broken furniture, animal feces, and trash everywhere in the attic when they left. I'll be hiring a cleaning crew and billing him for the labor and for outstanding rent and utilities.

I’m now king of my castle for the first time with an entire tidy, quiet house to myself. I wasted not a second and cleaned up the sty they’d made of my home and have finally restored its neoclassical beauty.

Nightmare over. Looking forward to new beginnings.

This is what they left behind.

Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1945087)

DAMN! ISB, so sorry you're having to deal with all of this. I totally get how much your possessions mean to you. Wish I could help.

Originally Posted by innerspaceboy (Post 1945186)

Thanks for the support, everyone. I also learned today that he's been hanging with my abusive ex-wife (another lie that he told me he stopped talking to her.) I actually met him through her.

And apparently, he's been going around telling everyone that INNERSPACEBOY set the house fire due to a shoddy self-wiring job that caused a lightbulb to combust! He's telling everyone he's the victim here.

Tomorrow he's agreed to come over with a team and clean up his mess. We'll see how that goes. I plan to supervise. And we'll see if he pays the back rent and utilities he still owes.

And yes - I'll be changing the locks. It will be so, so good to be rid of him!

I'm still getting used to the incredible beautiful quiet of the house with them gone. And how immaculately spotless it is now that I've erased every trace of them (save for the attic). I'm on edge as if they'll burst into the room at any moment like usual.

It's seriously been a traumatic year. But hopefully, after tomorrow, I can put it all behind me.

Thanks again.

Originally Posted by Mindfulness (Post 1945203)

thought it was one big chicken breast for dinner tonight and when i went to flip it, that bish flopped into two breasts of juicy nice fully cooked garlic flavored chicken, ayyyyeee