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Posted: Sun Mar 23rd, 2008 02:38 am |
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| You betcha! I'm off work until April 2nd for this. I want him gone more than anything in the world! Thank you for your support!
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Posted: Sun Mar 23rd, 2008 01:34 am |
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Make sure you are there for the 5 day notice. It is very important you follow through. He will soon be gone...
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Posted: Sat Mar 22nd, 2008 10:00 pm |
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| Well, he left the house for the first time in I-don't-know-when yesterday, and my other roommate, the angelic one, saw him walking away with the orange Constable's notice in hand. So he has no doubt seen it. Yesterday was Friday, and he pulled it off the door after 5pm, so there's not much he can do other than try to remedy the problems listed on the notice. It is now 24-hours later and the coded-lock is still on his door, I still smell the coffee brewing in his room, and I have yet to see him pack, or see him at all for that matter! Early Wednesday morning I will be back at the Constable's filing for the 5-Day notice. Thank you for all your help and support!
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Posted: Sat Mar 22nd, 2008 07:28 pm |
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| Great! Sounds like you will get rid of him shortly.
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Posted: Fri Mar 21st, 2008 04:57 pm |
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| I don't have to make a copy. I can detach it and put it on his door or leave it where it is. It's no one's problem if he's seen it or not. He can deny seeing it but according to the Constable he is served. He is served by its being posted on the door. And he will probably deny it seeing anyway, no matter where it is posted It's called a 3-day Nuisance notice, the next one is a 5-day Unlawful Detainer.
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Posted: Fri Mar 21st, 2008 12:39 am |
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| Can you make a copy of the nuisance notice and attach it to his door? Then he cannot deny receiving it, even though he might try. I have never heard of a nuisance notice. Interesting.
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 08:44 pm |
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Yolanda, I have learned from this and then some! Renting that room is the worst decision I have ever made in my life! I won't ever make that mistake again,I promise. Thank you all again for your help and support.
I went to the Constable yesterday, and they are coming up today to serve him a 3-day-nuisance notice . They only have to post it on the front door. He rarely leaves his room so I wonder when he'll see it. On Wed I go back to have them post a 5 day nuisance notice. Then 6-7 days later I go to Justice Court to get him evicted. If he contests it (since he hasn't even begun to pack and it took him weeks to pack/move when he moved in here,) I'll show the judge the police report and USPS report for mail theft/tampering and tell the judge I want him out now. He's had plenty of time to pack, and instead of preparing to move, he locked himself in his room. The next step is locking him out and escorting him off the property.
I phoned the DEA yesterday regarding his falsifying prescriptions, and that detective and I have just been playing phone tag.
I had called the Constable's office Monday, asking who could help answer my questions. They directed me to NV Legal Services. Unfortunately, NV Legal Services didn't take the time to answer my questions or I would have been in the Constables office Monday getting this handled. They should have spent a couple of minutes listening to me and this would have been resolved!What they did tell me was partly wrong, and also when they told me to do my own research it sent me into a tailspin.
Anyhow, it looks as though the Constable is helping me with my problem, and I will post what ends up happening. Thanks again!
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 01:19 pm |
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| I am sure you have learned from this. It is very personal, emotional, and very difficult to rent a room in your home. Make sure you do a thorough background check. Even that does not ensure you have a good tenant, but you must check all references, etc. Keep us posted!
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Posted: Wed Mar 19th, 2008 03:44 pm |
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I can't sleep, can't go to work, can't roam around my house, this is a nightmare out of a movie. I left my room yesterday and there was this lock on his door that I had expressly tld him he could not use. I can't take this anymore. I was being nice to him letting him move into my home. He asked me almost everyday for 2 weeks if he could rent the room. Recently, I found out that he left his apartment owing them money, they locked him out and he had to be escorted in to get his things he's left when he was moving in here!
I want to kick myself! How I could have believe he'd be a good tenant. He had my other tenant fooled as well.
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Posted: Wed Mar 19th, 2008 03:37 pm |
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Thank you for your help and I hope I get him out quickly too. I am going to the Constables office in awhile to see what to do about this. Obviously he doesn't plan to be out by the 31st or he wouldn't have put this elaborate lock on the door. There's some type of warning I have to get to him re the doorknob. Then I guess I hire a locksmith to get the door open and I can only imagine his reaction while he's in his room and a locksmith is breaking the lock open. What a mess.
I don't know what mental illness he has other than he is a classic narcissist. I did not have a lease/rental agreement with him, and I don't have any informatio. His parents live here in the city, but I don't know where.
Last night I remembered something that may help me. About a month ago he told me that he had found a way to forge his prescriptions for his meds by creating false prescription paper and forging his doctors signature. He said the prescriptions don't get sent back to the doctor. I had told him that the DEA must have some regulatory protocol or be a watchdog for this kind of thing. He said he had checked on it and wasn't worried. He told me this because he offered to do it for me but of course I declined. I had forgotten about this because its just so far out there. He told me how he'd taken it to a pharmacy to get it filled and he said he was afraid of getting caught when the pharmacist had told him to 'wait a monute while I check something.' He then told me how he had gotten his prescription filled and that was how he would fill them from now on.
He is stealing mail (and yesterday my partner noticed my housekey, that resembles hers) is missing from her keyring; the same keyring he had to take out of her purse to access her car and her mail. He is forging prescriptions. He has violated EVERY basic obligation set forth by the NRS. And I have to endure having him in my house?
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Posted: Wed Mar 19th, 2008 03:12 pm |
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| This sounds like something out of a movie. I feel for you. You need to take time off to find out how you can evict him from your home. Your best bet would be to call an attorney and find out your options. Sometimes they have 30 min. free consult. You need to follow state statutes and local law. Once you consult an attorney, you can figure out what you need to do. Oh LL is correct. Adderall is a drug used to control ADHD. Without it, an individual can be totally out of control, especially if he has severe ADHD. Even with the meds, a person can be out of control if he does not take them as prescribed. It is only a suggestion, because you cannot always reason with this type of person, but suggest you will move him. He appears to be a danger to you and to himself. It might be in your best interest to do this because the court might take longer and he needs to be out ASAP for your safety and well-being.
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Posted: Wed Mar 19th, 2008 02:47 pm |
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Adderal is used to treat ADHD and is a stimulant. Lexapro is used to treat depression and generalized anxiety disorder (among other things). ADHD does not explain his bizarre behavior. Neither does depression. Personally, he sounds like he meets all the symptons I have seen in bi-polar disorder or schizophenia. (I worked at prison for years! We saw lots of this type of behavior.) Maybe he hid some of his symptoms from the doctor.
The UD notice is available from the clerk of court's office. They usually have a sample form filled out so you can see how to fill it out. If you are not sure, I suggest you seek the advice of an eviction attorney on this. If you make a mistake, you will have to re-do the form and repay the court fee. You may have to fill out another form with the UD. (Here we fill out a form for the UD, one for expected damages, & a notarized military affidavit -saving we know he's not a current military member) and you may need to submit copies of things (the notice you gave him to vacate, a copy of his lease or agreement, a copy of your deed or the tax card proving ownership may be required). The clerk can tell you all of the paperwork that is required. While she can't give legal advice, she can tell you the correct procedure and forms needed for an eviction.
He cannot keep you locked out and must either provide you the code for access or remove and restore the original handle.
I'm not sure about the legality of removing his stuff from the garage attic. While merely moving it would not deprive him off it, he may well claim that you stole or damaged his items. I would put in another call to legal aide and ask if you could move these things to an indoor room where he has unlimited access to them. If you do move them, perhaps you should doument their removal with photos, or better yet, a camcorder (you could show each box being moved carefully and the contents not being disturbed). And be sure to have a couple witnesses to say that you took nothing from the boxes. I hope you get his guy out quickly.
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| Does anyone out there know the laws in Nevada pertaining to this roommate in my home who has now installed a coded push-button doorknob lock on his bedroom door? I told him he was NOT allowed to install a code type doorknob lock on his door, only a keyed lock, and he was to give me a copy of the key to the lock. Today while I wasn't home, he installed a coded doorknob on his door. In case of emergency I am to have access. He cannot lock me out from a section of MY house, can he?
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Posted: Tue Mar 18th, 2008 08:39 pm |
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Thank you for your reply and your help. All the LL/Tenant Laws are under NRS 118A. and NRS chapter 40. I don't know how to write out all the stuff to serve the creep. I spoke to Nevada Legal Services for 1 minute and the harried advisor told me that the notice I gave him on 3-11 giving him notice to be out on 3-31 is sufficient. If he's not out on 3-31 then I serve him with another paper, an unlawful detainer notice and on the 5-7th day or something like that the Constable escorts him out. After the smug look on his icky face when the cops were here that vision of the Constable escorting him off the property just makes my little heart sing!
Unfortunately, that legal advisor was so busy she really wasn't too clear on the procedure in detail. She told me to do my own research!
This morning I had to get the trashcans out to the curb. I had to walk along the side yard past his open window and right there under the window was his microwave and coffepot, which he hid well under the pile of crap in his room when the cops were here and he invited me to look inside. No wonder he wanted me to look when the cops were there; he'd hidden it all. I explicitly wrote to him that no cooking or hot beverage preparation was allowed in that room! I feel I can't do anything about what he does in my house!
Then looking in the tin trashcan dedicated for dog-waste, there was a new piece of mail: a bill for him, a coke can, and a catalog with my partner's name and address on it with coke spilled all over it. I bagged it all up. That piece of her mail wasn't in that can on Friday when I found her other mail! We'll go to USPS today.
Funny you mentioned that particular mental illness: when the cops were here he came out of his room and pointing at me with that smug look he said "She's delusional, she's a liar, and she's schizophrenic!" I kind of wish I was, then all this wouldn't really be happening! With all my alleged afflictions why on earth would he want to live here?
He told me he has adult ADD and takes Adderall and Lexipro and a heart medication for a prolapsed mitral valve or something. I think I looked up that medication when I remembered the name of it and saw that it's also used for mental illness, but maybe that's just one of my delusions.
If you know how to interpret these laws found in 118A and 40, can you give me a hint if you have the time? I am truly worried here and am considering calling in sick tomorrow to try and get this resolved. I cannot move the stuff out of the garage: it would take a truck and a crew since I have a ripped tendon in my elbow and a bad back. I have boxes of crystal, silver, fine china, photos, books, records, mineral specimens, etc. I hear him going in and out of the garage several times per day and he really doesn't have anything in there except in the attic. That's why I want to lock him out of garage. THe only way to access his stuff is with a ladder and the ladder is at my partner's house. We moved the ladder before he could move his stuff: we believe he stole some of her computer equipment and has hidden it in one of his boxes in the attic unless he threw it away. I guess I could pile his stuff in the corner of the living room. No one is coming over with him here anyways!Am I by law allowed to do that?
Thank you again for your caring and your time. It relieves me to know there's someone out there who is trying to help me!
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Sophie, I'm sorry this guy is acting so strangely and that you are woried about this situation. He sounds like a schizophrenic. Seriously - they go from one emotion to another, hear voices, and act very erratically when they are off their meds. He may have been on his meds when you first met him, which would explain why he acted so differently then. I don't know if you could get him evaluated - you're not a relative. But this guy needs medical help and to go back on his medication.
I tried to find Nevada's statutes on a week or week tenant, but could only find a month to month statute that said you needed to give 30 days notice to terminate. In many states, the amount of notice required is ewaual to a rent period, so I was hoping to find something to help you get him out earlier. I suggest you call a local landlord's association or a local chapter of REIA and ask them if there is a different notice for a week to week tenant. Otherwise, you will have to give him 30 days notice to vacate (in writing).
I would not lock him out of the garage. Could you move those files temporarily to your business partner's house? Just secure them someplace else for the next month? You don't want to take any action that can set him off again or give him ammunition to file a court case against you. Please contact a local LL association, or call a local eviction specialist (attorney) who has had experience with this type before. If you call around, you can probably find one wo will do this for a flat fee. It would be worth it to get rid of this guy. If he threatens you, you can ask for a restraining order against him.
I also would keep a log of all the things he had done or said. Dates, times, what was said and to whom. Keep it in your purse so he can't get it. You may need it later. Better to do it now and have it just in case. Good luck and let us know how this turns out.
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Here's my story and dilemma. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
I'm renting 2 rooms in my home: one to a very nice man , and the other to what has turned out to be a 38-year-old narcissistic, controlling, manipulative, passive-aggressive psycho. I am not exaggerating.
We did not sign an agreement: everything was verbal. There was no term specified other than he wanted to pay me weekly instead of monthly.What I do have in writing is the multitude of letters and copies of text-messages that passed between us. These days I no longer talk to him: everything I say to him is misconstrued as a confrontation, even when it isn't, and this has gotten to the point of zero communication. He has even told me not to send him text messages or call him on his phone.
Looking back I can see everything so clearly; I see exactly how he manipulated me and what his true intentions were, none of which are good. Looking back, unfortunately, I can also see how stupid I was: I allowed this creep to move into my home! I still haven't seen any form of identification from him nor performed a complete background check. Too late now! I honestly don't know who or what this guy is and he lives in my house! All I really know about him is very basic. I relied on blind trust, not suspecting that this master-manipulator was playing me like the fool I am!
Now, I don't come out of my room without my loaded gun within reach, I am in fear for the safety of my beloved dogs, I cannot trust that my belongings are safe with him, and it appears no one can help me. The law is on his side! I hope someone besides me can learn from my mistakes!
I met him a few weeks before he moved in, when I called on his ad in the Yellowpages. He consistently acted polite, considerate, respectful, articulate, and funny. Although I had not planned on renting another room, he repeatedly asked me to rent it to him. His business wasn't earning him much money (and now I know why.)My other tenant (who also liked him) and I agreed on accepting him as a roommate in late-December.
Now that he's moved in he acts inconsiderate, dishonest, disrespectful, anti-social, weird, deceitful, scary, messy, argumentative, spiteful, vindictive, slothful, lazy. He's also a thief. His personality rapidly changed within 2-3 weeks of moving in. The personality he showed us before moving in was a ruse to get in.
He rarely leaves the house. He'll do antagonizing or inconsiderate things, then deny it was him, for example he'll repeatedly slam his door then deny doing it. We never know when he's asleep or awake so being considerate we don't play music, we keep the tv volume low; the atmosphere around here is so depressing and the tension is unbearable. My other roommate is suffering from this also. My house was once my sanctuary; it no longer is. I hate coming home, and unfortunately have been stuck home with the flu for 3 weeks! The stress this has caused isn't helping.
I have no idea how he earns money. His business is a 24-hour on-call repair service where he goes to private homes. By the 3rd week of February he'd started confining himself to his room 23.5 hours a day, 7 days-a-week!
I just found receipts for a refrigerator, cans of sterno, electric lighters, tea-candles, so I believe he's cooking in his room! I know he's brewing coffee in there. I served him a notice telling him that cooking, etc., is prohibited in his room, so in retaliation he disconnected my internet connection that is permanently installed in his room.
He'd been renting a studio apartment and said it was too cramped with all his stuff. I told him he was downsizing and moving into a 12' x 12' room where he'd have even less room for his things and no room for storage. I said I'd make room for a couple boxes in the garage but that was it. He told me he would get a storage unit, however, he brought it all here instead. There was a huge pile of his junk taking up room in the garage to the point where I couldn't get my car in there. It was only supposed to be in the garage 2 days; it took him 6 weeks to get it out of the garage. Everyday, to the point of confrontation, I had to tell him to remove his stuff.
We had a huge confrontation in February because he'd dumped out a large box of miscellaneous junk in the middle of the living room and wasn't cleaning it up after saying he would. It took him 4 days to clean it up; everyday was an arguement and my other roommate couldn't even sit on the sofa.He blamed my partner and I for his mess, saying it hadn't been cleaned up because he'd devoted all his time to working on her ___, and how dare I ask him to spend more of his time cleaning up his mess (She'd hired him to fix her ___, yet he felt he was doing us a favor.)
On March 11th I gave him notice to move out by March 31. I had told him in a letter dated February 20th that if he didn't start abiding by the "rules" I'd listed he'd have to leave by March 31. He not only didn't follow the "rules" (which weren't really rules, just basic common courtesy,) he'd become even more weird and belligerant, vindictive, and argumentative. Just about everyday since he started moving in in early January there has been some unwelcome issue revolving around this creep. I don't think 3 days have gone by before something else happens. I am living in a nightmare.
For $5.00 he'd purchased 2 large white cardboard dividers, and told me he'd got one for me in case I wanted one. I was in my garage assembling something, and had laid the parts out on one of the cardboard pieces. He came out to the garage, said "what do you think you are doing with that? Who gave you permission to use that? Did you take it upon yourself to use that to get back at me for storing it in the garage?" He then proceeded to carry the remaining piece out to the curb for the garbage-truck. I could see his anger. When I reminded him he'd clearly offered a piece to me, and then I offered to replace it, he recanted, saying it was okay, just a communication misunderstanding. He then told me he was sorry to have assumed I would have done something like that in retaliation. Then he said "I said that to y0u because that is something I would do. I know you're not like that. In fact, I often have malicious thoughts and have to fight them off all the time so I don't dwell on them. I've talked to a psychiatrist and a priest about it in the past."
My house is very nice, tastefully decorated and clean. I saw inside his bedroom for the first time the other night. I had to call the police after he cussed at me, threatened me, and had become confrontational with my other tenant after he was told to move the wires that he'd piled in the middle of the hallway. My business partner and I have an internet business and need the internet connection. He disconnected it while I was working on it. Earlier that day I'd given him a 24-hour notice to inspect his room, and since the police were already here he decided he wanted the police to supervise. I was only able to peek in. There is stuff piled in there wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling. All cooking and coffee pots were hidden.
He had taken the doorknob off the door 2 weeks ago in order to install his own doorknob with his lock on it. (He did this vindictively when I changed the lock on my bedroom door, for reasons that had nothing to do with him!) He hasn't installed the doorknob; in fact, there is just a hole in the door where the knob belongs. The cop told him to put the doorknob back on the door. I told him he had to provide me with a copy of the key, and in front of the police he said, "No way, I'm not doing that!" I said yes, by law he had to provide a copy, and the policeman said, "Are you sure about that?" I said I was, but my tenant said no, he wouldn't give me the key. By the way, the police had their hands tied: I could see they sympathized with me, however, they said this was a civil matter. I cannot afford a lawyer and the expense of a civil case, and what would I stand to gain anyway? I rented these rooms to have some extra income.
Besides being stupid by pretending to "attack" my German shepherd who still hasn't warmed to him and was already barking at him as he entered the house(she wants to bite him now), he has argued with me over EVERYTHING, has acted like this is his home, not mine, has decided he is in charge, not me, that only what he has to say is important, and has only done his share of the housework once, (yet he is the one who didn't want to share the cost of a professional housekeeper.) He creeps around the house in the dark with his headlamp on, although we have electricity. He keeps changing my things around in the house without my permission then gets upset when asked to put it back the way it was.
When my business partner hired him to fix something of hers he ended up treating her very unprofessionally, then got angry with her because she wouldn't sit there for hours watching him work, making her listen to a long meaningless tutorial on how he did his job. So in retaliation he did a couple of really nasty things to her, one of which I just discovered the other day: he stole her mail out of her car. He had opened it, tore it up, then hidden it in the garbage under a bag of dog waste in the can reserved for dog waste. I decided to dig through the garbage because at 4:30am Friday, a few hours before the garbage truck was to arrive, he inconsiderately woke me up. He was outside (near my bedroom window,) in the side yard making all kinds of noise suspiciously rummaging around the garbage cans. (She filed a police report on him but won't hear from a detective for at least a week.)
I don't know what to do because he is not planning on leaving. He hasn't started packing, looking at housing, anything. As slow as he is, he has at least 2 weeks of packing and moving ahead of him. Today is the 17th, and I've told him to be completely out by the 31st.
He is a ticking time-bomb. I am in living in fear and anger, mostly fearing for my dogs and valuables. I hate the thought of returning to work Wednesday while my dogs are here alone with him all day!
I want to lock him out of the garage and put all my personal files and valuables in there- there's now too many fileb0xes in my bedroom with no room for more. However, he has stored about 6 boxes and an ab-machine in the garage. There's no room in his room for more of his junk. What do I do with his stuff? Leave it in the locked garage and tell him to give me notice when he needs to access it? I had given him permission to store those things in the garage attic. What is legal for me to do?
One of the cops that was here suggested locking my things in the garage, and carrying my gun. What a mess!
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