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  • The Dumb and the Defiant.

    This is purely hypothetical on my part, but I'm guessing that your landlord hates your guts.

    Why, because you are behind on your rent maybe? Or that you recently did something that caused the Sheriff's Department's car to show up in the driveway of your rental house last month? The Sheriff of a DIFFERENT county no less... Well, if that wasn't enough reason for him to chew linoleum upon seeing you, there's definately the matter that you have an un-inspected half-wrecked (seriously, it has NO headlights left) car in the driveway of his rental house that you've repeatedly brushed off his demands you do something about. Apparently, you "don't have the money" to fix it.

    Anyway, you've pissed off your landlord so much that he had us install a "NO PARKING" sign IN THE DRIVEWAY OF THE HOUSE, a ONE-CAR driveway, SPECIFICALLY TO TOW YOU next time you parked there.... yeah, that's right, we went out and installed a legally-mandated "NO PARKING VIOLATORS TOWED" sign, on a post, in the yard just off the driveway because he WANTS YOU GONE AND/OR DEAD.

    What's that tell you? Apparently nothing, because you, suh-prizey, parked there.

    And we towed you. (Well, that aforementioned rattletrap half-wrecked car you own, actually, it looks like it belongs at a county fair being crushed by something with huge tires and a nickname like "Truckzilla" or "Dieselsaurus Rex" )

    So you are forced to shell out $130 just to get it out of hock with us (actually more, that busted driver's side window means we had to crash-wrap it, extra $40) That's quite the mark-up on something worth only maybe that much in scrap weight at current market. Strangely, you didn't plea poverty with us. So, why you have enough money to get the car back, but not enough to put headlights in it to make it legal (let alone that back rent) shows me you may have a very fuzzy grasp on economics.

    Well, now that you've had it spelled out to you, that your landlord clearly hates you, and that we're clearly going to come for you, you wouldn't go directly BACK there and park again would you?

    Would you?

    Oh, who the hell am I kidding? Of course you would, You DID!

    And when we went there to get you the SECOND TIME, you tried to DRIVE OFF the tow truck. Why you thought that was going to work, I don't know, where were you going to go? This is a one car driveway after all. With us half in the street, and your car half in the air, and only maybe two feet in front of it before you hit the side of the house (Your landlord already hates you, this will make him LOATHE you!)

    Well, you tried it anyway.

    And you managed to get your TIRES out of the truck, but, then, of course, with nothing to support that weight, your car fell and got hung up by it's rear bumper and was effectively speared. (Well, why stop at half-damaged? go all the way dude!)

    And THEN you called the cops on us.

    Mind you, the cops, or rather one of their fraternal agencies, has been AFTER YOU for something, and you STILL called them....

    And they, of course, made it very clear that if you didn't want to get a ride from them, you'd pay us for the drop, and get that car off the property, and they'll even be gents about it and NOT immediately cite you for that uninspected headlight-less car the instant the tires hit public roadway because it's daylight out right now.

    NOW you plea poverty

    That didn't work, unless you were pleading poverty of grey matter, that's TOTALLY believable.

    They also didn't believe your claim we picked your car up from the back and mashed the bumper, as they've seen the classic "tried to drive off the truck" wear pattern just as much as we have.

    So, that's over $300 to us, on a junk car worth $200 that you KNOW will get towed if you park it where you keep parking it....

    Time will only tell if they go for the trifecta tomorrow and park there again, anyone want to work up a betting line for me?

    Oh, and congratulations by the way, now not only does your landlord hate you, I hate you too!!! That's two down, 10 billion to go!!!! Keep at it Skippy, I hate quitters, especially only 5 days in to a new year.
    Last edited by Argabarga; 01-06-2016, 01:52 AM.
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  • #2
    Well, that's today's episode of "Some Idiots Never Learn," I wonder what tomorrow's episode will be like?

    It's just sad how little common sense is out there.
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    • #3
      You're going to update us on this genius, right? XD
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      • #4
        Not that this saga doesn't promise to be entertaining, but why doesn't the landlord just evict the deadbeat?
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        • #5
          Maybe they don't or can't evict until rent is a certain number of months behind? I dunno
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          • #6
            Sounds like deadbeat is in violation of other matters that one would expect to be part of a reasonable lease agreement.

            Of course, this assumes landlord thought it through to write a lease agreement with such usual provisions as not turning the place into a junkyard.
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            • #7
              In some jurisdictions, this could be considered an illegal rent increase. After all, the guy rented a house that included a parking space, and then took away the parking space.

              Of course, the lease could have a clause that the parking space is to be used only for a street-legal vehicle with (assuming PA does this) a current annual inspection sticker. Lack of headlights means not street legal - cue notice that the vehicle is to be repaired or removed by date X, failure to do one or the other will result in it being towed.
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              • #8
                It can actually be pretty hard to evict someone, even if they are in violation of something in the lease. I believe (not a lawyer, obviously) that the landlord has to give time for the issue to be corrected or even if they are evicting them it isn't instant. It's supposed to protect tenants against randomly being evicted, though it ends up protecting both good and bad tenants. In any case, my lease says "street parking" even though there are 5 off-street spaces available for my building. There are six apartments, and probably 8-10 cars total, so there is no guarantee of an off-street space.
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                • #9
                  My guess is he was letting them use the driveway as courtesy, and now that he's decided to evict them, he's not playing nice anymore and is going to make the rest of their stay as frustrating as he legally can, starting with barring them from parking there.
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                  • #10
                    Quoth MoonCat View Post
                    Well, that's today's episode of "Some Idiots Never Learn," I wonder what tomorrow's episode will be like?

                    It's just sad how little common sense is out there.
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                    • #11
                      Wonder how much this bozo is going to spend sticking it to Da Man
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                      • #12
                        This saga has epic fail written all over it, please keep us informed amused...

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                        • #13
                          In PA any car lacking inspection can and will be towed at the owners expense if found to be on the street. Had an asshole neighbor do this to me because I was in "his" spot. So I just flipped the car into the rear off street parking and moved a 'legal' car in its place. I sold the illegal car a short time later. Stupid LeBaron and it's 2.2 turbo blew its second head gasket and was shown the door.
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                          • #14
                            Quoth Argabarga View Post
                            you may have a very fuzzy grasp on economics.
                            Don't most of your targets have a very fuzzy grasp on economics? Why else would they keep paying to get their vehicles out of impound when it would actually be cheaper to park legally?

                            Quoth Seanette View Post
                            Of course, this assumes landlord thought it through to write a lease agreement with such usual provisions as not turning the place into a junkyard.
                            I've found that there's surprisingly quite a few landlords out there who are well-meaning and don't think a lease agreement or similar is necessary...until they run into that first bad egg and realize they need the contract.

                            Quoth notalwaysright View Post
                            It can actually be pretty hard to evict someone, even if they are in violation of something in the lease.
                            And then there's this. I had to help my grandmother figure out all the legal logistics of evicting someone from one of her apartments in our hometown when the tenants turned out to be extremely filthy deadbeats. Even with an actual contract, there were still hoops and waiting periods and everything my grandmother had to go through before she could finally punt the deadbeats.
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                            • #15
                              Can't say if it's true or not, but I have a rather.. obnoxious guy I know who claims he once got a job, paid under the table, to pretend to be a tenant in a building where a landlord wanted someone out. He would proceed to act so completely, dangerously insane that the hated occupant would leave on their own.

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