An interesting call was broadcast on the HPD radio tonight. I am still shaking my head in disbelief
Tenants living in an apartment on Broad Street called in a no heat complaint to the HPD Dispatch Center. I think by law a landlord has to maintain heat in an apartment at 68degrees for the tenants. The man and woman complaining reported that they had no heat in their apartment.
Apparently an officer was dispatched and upon further investigation he learned an amazing fact. Sometime over the summer, the two tenants removed the radiators from the apartment and sold them as scrap metal at a Hartford junk yard.
I wonder why they thought the heat wasn't working.
It appears as though the couple will be in heated quarters after the warrants are signed and served for their arrests for the theft.
I really would like to ask them what there were thinking, stealing their radiators and then having the nerve to call in a no heat complaint. Did they think no one would notice the pipes cut off in the floor where the radiators used to be?
And who says being a cop can't be fun?
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15 comments:
Are you serious? there needs to be a separate charge for extreme stupidity. Hopefully they aren't parents passing their ignorance on to their kids
Kevin, you need us to be able to report this stuff on Facebook, the community needs to know how stupid some people are, like the title says "YOU CANT MAKR THIS STUFF UP"
give us a way to post to FB......
I usually do link to facebook and twitter, I just put the link up there, kevin brookman on facebook. Thanks for the reminder
We need to get the names of these scumbags. Embarrass them and make sure they'll never be able to rent again.
I told my best friend who is a landlord about this "You can't make this stuff up". His reaction was shocked but not surprised.
I think the saddest part is that the landlord will most likely be required to pay for emergency repairs to provide heat, as required by law. The real unfortunate part is that it will take months to go through the legal eviction process to get rid of them. And even if the tenants are convicted of the thefts, what do you think the likelihood is that the landlord will recover anything?
Where is the law when it comes to some of the good landlords, so many of the decent landlords are going under because of scumbags like this.Landlords and owners do the best they could to make repairs and keep their apartments clean, and you have scumbags like this who do damage like this, I personally wouldn't fix a damn thing in that apartment after what these tenants did, maybe something like this would teach the scumbags tenants like this a lesson, why should the landlord go thru now the Court system to evict people like this, it should be an automatic. Yes I agree you have good landlords, and bad, but in a situation like this, the Court should have these people who did the damage like this MOVE out !
Yes the landlord will get stiffed for all the repairs and eviction costs. The legal system protects the tenants.
I am not an attorney, but the tenant is protected, If they don't provide heat, the landlord can be arrested, if they change the locks they can be arrested for criminal lockout. The landlord gets screwed either way.
Not to mention that the landlords property is now at risk of freezing pipes and possible flooding. Very expensive to fix. I know there are a lot of scumbag landlords that we hear about all the time but I'd guess the majority of landlords are good and you never hear about what they have to put up with. I was looking for an apartment years ago and the property manager hesitated to show me one that would be available soon because it "hadn't been cleaned". I said don't worry, I was appalled at how the leaving tenant had left it, garbage everywhere, food still in fridge. When I moved out of apartments I always overlapped leases so I would have at least a couple of days to make sure the old apartment was spotless. That property manager told me that was the rarity, not the norm.
In a situation like this, and I feel for the Landlord on this one, not sure if a lease was signed, but in the future, Landlords/Owners need to have up to date lease agreements written up, damage like this is going to cost more than the first months rent and security.
In Hartford, a signed lease doesn't worth the papers the lease is written on. Tenants have all the protection they need. Landlords have nothing.
The situation with Hartford renters leaving a situation like this is sad and costly for the good landlords/owners. Although there are many non-profits/non-taxpayers in Hartford to help educate people. Yet, some organizations to no avail.
I was once a property owner with tenants and one crazy tenant wanted a new gas stove. No, we said. So she waited for some time to pass. Then one morning around 4AM, she reported a smell of gas in her unit and called 911.. Fire department located a loose gas valve and they red tagged it. What a creep she was. So we purchased another used gas stove, of course. She also once accused me of hating "N" word with an s on the end. She left it on my phone recording. Every year, I play it back to my friend and business partner around ChristmS time and leave it on his machine. He gets a big kick out of it. Another thing Miss big butt complained about was that her grand big butt couldn't fit on the toilet seat. So she broke it. The toilet was a bit close the the tub. But that was her responsibility to test sitting on the damn toilet before signing a lease. I hope anyone reading this is laughing. Sometimes, you laugh to keep from crying.
I'm telling you, the creeps and nut cases renting apartments. While I am in favor of tenant rights, we also need owner rights too.
9:01 PM
I didn't laugh reading this. As a matter of fact, I feel more like crying. I'm a landlord myself, and that's exactly what many of the landlords in Hartford are dealing with.
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