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That would be awesome Charred, thanks. Try not to get too much blood on the walls, might scare off potential renters. 
That sucks. Renting is always tricky business, because most states give more rights to the tenants than to the landlords.
If you don’t have them sign a lease, you should do that, but you should also make them fill out an application that gives lots of personal info, including SSN, bank acct # and routing # for checking their credit, and two personal references, along with past addresses. This way, if you ever have to go to court, you can set it up so you can debit their account automatically.
Holy crap what drama. Damn if you lived near me I would be a perfect renter.
That so sucks. I found out a month ago my life was full of drama, I guess I was just ignoring it hahaha
On to your drama, make sure that you cover yourselves and go to the Constable’s Office (may be located at the Sheriff’s Office where you’re at) and legally evict them.
I know in Nevada, the verbal is not good enough eviction notice and it has to be on paper, filed with the constables office. Hopefully it’s not that way where you’re at.
((hugs))
I’m sorry you are going through that. I hope you get teh psycho out of your life soon.
Drama makes me want to 
so I try to stay drama free, so far so good.
Ick. I feel for you. Many moons ago, I worked three years for Native Housing (low income housing for Native Canadian Indians) and it was a nightmare. It’s very hard to evict somebody.
What about a smoke-bomb? Gas? Natural disaster?
That so sucks. Evicting someone can be seriously horrible. Avitable has some GREAT advise. My in-laws used to rent out the house we live in now, and they have some serious horror stories. By the time I moved in, their contract was 10 pages long.
Sometimes you need people like that in your life, just to remind you how nice and normal you really are.
That woman just sucks no matter how you look at it.
Avitable, even if I was a renter, I wouldn’t want to give out all that financial info to anyone! However I have learned a lot from this experience. Two personal references are not enough. You can get friends to BS for you so easily. I’m going to require contact info for their current employer and their previous landlord.
RedBetty, well if you move to L.A. in the next month I’ve got an opening!
Sodapop, thanks for the info! I was wondering where I was supposed to go to do that.
Diva, so true. Makes you grateful for all the things, and <i>people</i>, who are normal in your life (at least by comparison).
J, she would enjoy the smoke bomb. She <i>is</i> a smoke bomb! 
Virginia, yeah my contract/lease is definitely getting longer after this one!
tl, I agree!
I agree with personal references being a joke. No one gives out a reference who won’t say they walk on water.
Better luck on the next tenant...or the daughter if she stays.
Me and my best friend were going to rent the basement of who we thought was a really nice older couple. Come to find out - the older lady was a witch doctor and she totally creeped us out! But I would much rather live with Voo-doo woman than Mr. and Mrs. Thank-You-Very-Much-For-The-2nd-Hand-Smoke-Cancer couple!
I agree Jessica, shrunkens heads and scattered chicken bones are preferable to smoking compulsive liars who like to skip town for weeks at a time.
Mike, we may have gotten burned on this one, but we definitely learned a lot.
I’m sorry you are going through all this drama. From the way things sound, when I read it I immediately thought the mom is on some sort of drugs...she’s probably strung out.
I hope you successfully evict them, not sure what the process is there, but I know here it all has to be done through courts.
I am just so glad that they haven’t done anything to physically harm you or your sweetie or anything yucky like that. Having that type of person around gives me the willies, personally, and I think you should have kicked her out a long time ago. Kudos to you for allowing the daughter to stay if she wants to, though - you rule.
one word…
WOW!
This is the kinda drama you could do without. Some people are just messed up and don’t think twice about messing up other people’s lives.
Ugh. Why do people have to be that way toward their fellow man? I’d move in, but I can’t breathe in LA. 
Oh yeah, and I have a husband....and a house...and stuff. Heh.
you have a guest house? this is very cool.
i think we will need some pictures.
(if its on a lake… we will come rent it. we are very neat..kinda over the top neat, handy - will do home improvements at no cost, and quiet - in bed by 10)
Every rental app I had to fill out during college, law school and beyond required all of that information. It wasn’t optional.
Weese you would be the perfect renter! I would so rent to you and your lovely wife. Unfortunately I’m nowhere near a lake. I am near an airport though, does that count?
You wan’ me ‘n’ Vinnie should pay hers a vist?
Charred | 09.11.2006 | 12:33 PM