You sound like a nice guy. It's my experience that bad stuff does happen to nice people, and I'm always surprised. That's not the way it's supposed to work. Like, why does that lady think she has the right to your parking spot to the point where she's not afraid to damage your car, and she's confident that she'll get away with it.
Here are a few thoughts I had when I read your post: You aren't having problems with the landlord, you're having problems with the female tenant. Try to avoid talking to her or even looking at her. She is obviously wackadoo
and has friends with guns who are threatening you.
If your landlord has not repaired the damage to your door yet, give him a few days. But I suspect that you may need to keep after him to get it taken care of.
1. Start Keeping a Record of Events: As soon as possible go out and buy a spiral notebook. As well as you can remember, start keeping a record of what has been happening. Put the date of the day the lady hit your car at the top of the page. Then below that write down what you remember happened. Turn the page and put the date you talked to the landlord at the top of the page. Write down what you can remember about the conversation. Every time you talk to someone, like the police, make a record of it. Keep your notebook in a private place. You may need it as evidence in the future.
2. Does the video you took have a date stamp on it for the date and time she hit your vehicle? In the video is it easy to see who is driving? Were you able to videotape her license plate?
A. Important: You need to file a police report regarding the damage to your car in the landlord's parking lot. If you have trouble getting the police to come out, keep calling them on their non-emergency telephone number. When they arrive you tell them what happened but do not give them the videotape because you will need it for the insurance company investigator. Be sure you get a paper copy of the police report about the incident.
B. Insurance company: Are you going to report the damage to your truck to your insurance company? If you do, they will need a copy of the police report. I would tell them that you have a videotape of the incident. You may get a good claims adjuster who will investigate the incident and go after her insurance company to pay for the damage.
3. Apartment Door With Gunshot Hole: it's good that you have a picture.
A. Report the gunshot damage to your apartment door to the police while you are reporting the damage to your car. Get a copy of this report.
B. Make another report to your landlord about the damage and ask him when the door is going to be repaired.
C. Put a curtain over the front door window so that the lady doesn't know if you're in your apartment or where you are in the apartment.
4. Parking: do you have an assigned parking space? Are there any towing signs in the parking lot? If you do have assigned parking, find out from your landlord what towing company he uses, get the number and tow her car from your spot. Since the woman has been pretty aggressive towards you, I believe that she will continue her bad behavior. Another idea is to do nothing. Though I suspect that if the insurance company goes after her she will retaliate.
5. Plan B: Get out of Dodge and find somewhere else to live as soon as possible. Rent a room from someone for a month. Sleep on someone's sofa for a month. But as someone else said, it doesn't seem like a great neighborhood.
6. If you don't move, keep taking notes about what is happening.
Let us know what happens and good luck!
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