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Just curious (from a point in the beginning of the thread) why do you ask if people are arrested instead of asking if they've been convicted? I guess having been in that situation it bugs me a bit more. I was arrested once but not convicted (the judge dismissed the case), so it makes me feel like some sort of deadbeat when it is not the case at all.
I may of used arrested as a general word. Should be convicted or on record. I simply ask if I run a BG check am I going to find something on the criminal record check. Surprisingly most are truthful on this one. I had a tenant and ROOMATE tell me he and a buddy were pulled over and there was a pot pipe in the car when they were young kids. Nothing showed on check so the cop probably just took it away. They were renting from me for two years. One got married and moved the other moved too . Although I ran checks and arrests do sometimes show.
I may of used arrested as a general word. Should be convicted or on record. I simply ask if I run a BG check am I going to find something on the criminal record check. Surprisingly most are truthful on this one. I had a tenant and ROOMATE tell me he and a buddy were pulled over and there was a pot pipe in the car when they were young kids. Nothing showed on check so the cop probably just took it away. They were renting from me for two years. One got married and moved the other moved too . Although I ran checks and arrests do sometimes show.
I'm always happy to give the truth but i guess it just is a pet peeve of mine when people ask more about arrests than convictions. Between job applications and rental applications, it seems split half and half if its arrest or conviction questions. I hate having to mark i've been arrested despite not being convicted. Granted, in my case it was like 6 or 7 years ago, but still bugs me to have to put that little mark there when i dont even have a speeding ticket against me in the 16 years i've been driving or never been late on rent, etc.
I'm always happy to give the truth but i guess it just is a pet peeve of mine when people ask more about arrests than convictions. Between job applications and rental applications, it seems split half and half if its arrest or conviction questions. I hate having to mark i've been arrested despite not being convicted. Granted, in my case it was like 6 or 7 years ago, but still bugs me to have to put that little mark there when i dont even have a speeding ticket against me in the 16 years i've been driving or never been late on rent, etc.
Understandable. Have you actually ever pulled your criminal record and see what you actually have on record?
My comments are in red as we have heard these sob stories often and are nothing then deadbeats not paying on time and blaming others for wrong doing.
If a tenant really experiences a bad LL which can happen they will mail their rent through bill pay, get a receipt or mail it certified to have proof.
Every story of entitlement people is usually what it is :bogus and mad at everyone else except taking responsibility for not paying the rent. However they will pay the cable bill and make sure they will have internet connection so they can stay in touch with everyone EXCEPT to stay in touch with the LL since they won't take calls from the LL.
Wow, I don't know where to start with this, so I'll take your comments in the order you made them
The drunk is not the owner, he is a middleman who pays house rent to the owner and makes a profit while also living in the house for free, by charging room rents. Is the drunk really a LL? Oh, and he has not worked one day in the past six years - first he collected his full99 weeks of unemployment, then he went on partial veterans' disability, then he went on Social Security disability (which pays him more than his partial veterans' disability did). And he has lived in the house for free while making money off the rest of us while creating a violent unsafe environment by letting his drunk (sequential) girlfriends move in and fight three times a week (with police calls and DV arrests along the way). At one point the owner kicked him out of the house because a female resident had a restraining order on him. He stayed at his brother's and returned to the house when the restraining order went away.
Looks like he's the one with the sense of entitlement in this house. He is so entitled that he consumes all the freezer space.
How am I in default? I have lived in the house six years and have paid the rent on time every month, first to the owner and then to the drunk. I have no control over when they deposit my checks.
As for doing good business and being very legal, in my experience, most landlords do not knowingly allow this practice, as that middleman profit represents money the landlord/owner is not receiving, and often entails overoccupancy or overcrowding as is the case where I live.
The owner has multiple properties and receives many rent checks. He is quite solvent and prefers to make one trip monthly to the bank. I pay my rent before the drunk pays his rent. If I am in default, is the drunk not in default?
Why should I have to make a special trip to the post office and pay extra for the privilege to prove when I mailed the rent check? The owner would be happy to verify that he always received my rent checks timely. And I'm pretty sure the drunk would never accept his money through a middleman like bill pay.
Go pull your criminal record. If there is nothing on it then there is noting to disclose is there.
I wouldnt even know where to go for that, but either way, I've never had to explain my arrest to anyone (nor have i ever been denied employment or renter status for it), so i guess it must not either come up or matter to anyone On any app that requests arrest history, i truthfully write i was arrested but not convicted with the date. Seems good enough for anyone!
I guess you have no clue what bill pay is! Check with your bank! If you have a bank account!
Hi,
I don't know if you have the option to edit your thread title or not yet just for the record it's, "lose" your money and not loose your money!
Thanks for the great thread and very valuable information!
Kind Regards,
SD
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On any app that requests arrest history, i truthfully write i was arrested but not convicted with the date. Seems good enough for anyone!
