Hey guys,
I got another question. This is about a tenant, his son, his girlfriend, and her two children, who recently moved into my folks' house on the Windward side.
These are not the tenants I was talking about in my flying ant thread, as they are nice and live on our current property in Manoa area.
Anyhow, the guy recently moved in this past weekend. When I first met him to show him the Windward house, he seemed nice and friendly. He's a local Japanese guy. Same for his new girlfriend. I selected him to move into my parents' home based on his "selected" references. He signed the contract and pertinent paperwork this past weekend. My mother was there on the day he signed the lease paperwork, andd she didn't like him right off the bat because he seemed shady and very cold and standoff-ish. He only paid for the pro-rated rent for October, and told me that he will give me the security deposit in the middle of October. I found that weird.
Fast forward to yesterday, my parents and I went over to the property to trim the grass because it was growing pretty long, and we never trimmed it for almost two months. Same for branches that needed trimming.
Rather than coming out of the house to greet us, the guy and his son stayed in the house. We initially thought that they weren't home....although the running washing machine gave it away that the guy was doing laundry yesterday morning before we arrived at the property. When i was cutting the grass on the side of the house away from the washing machine, the guy quickly darted out of the house after the washing machine turned off, threw all of his clothes into the dryer, and darted back into the house without saying "hi" or acknowledging our presence.
I then went to the otherside of the house where there were long growing grasses, cut the grass, and the guy and his small son, closes the front door, locks it, and proceeds into the car without saying hi to me. He then took off with his son.
Two hours later, he came back home. He saw that I was cutting grass in front of the house. Rather than come out of the car, he stayed in the driver seat with his son seated in the passenger seat.
I didn't have any ugly Halloween mask on....so I don't know why he was frightened of me. My tenants in the past usually say hi, or at least give my parents and I water to drink if we come to maintain the yard.
He finally got out of the car 10 minutes (I kid you not) after arriving on the property.
He unloaded a mini refrigerator and took it into the house.
Half and hour later, the girlfriend arrives in her 'large' white SUV. You would think that she would greet my parents and me...right? Wrong! She got out of her car, and told me, "ey, where is XXXXX...tell him move his car." I was like "sheesh."
She went into the house and slammed the door.
After my parents and I were done cutting the grass with the weed wacker, as well as doing other yard work, we simply left. Since the guy and his girlfriend were very cold to us, we didn't even bother to tell them good bye.
Fast forward to today, I get my criminal background check result back from an online company I use to screen my tenants. When I did my background check on this tenant guy two days ago, the online company stated that he has good credit....etc. However, what's funny is that a different name shows up on the address history list. It has a Filipino person's name on the previous address list area of the report. So I am wondering if this guy has stolen somebody's SSN, and is using it?
Getting back to the online background check, criminal case section of the report, there was one hit of a criminal case against the guy - a class C felony of theft.
I got more curious about this new tenant so I Googled around on the internet, and came upon a website called Ho'ohiki. It is a website linked to the Hawaii Judicial system that has past criminal cases upon people in Hawaii.
There was a long LONG list that populated when I entered his lastname and firstname. ALL of them were linked to him.
First give cases were divorce cases. Can you believe this guy has divorced THREE different women?
Two of the three even filed TRO's against this guy. Now that is giving me the creeps.
Next, I look at the other cases, and they are linked to the Felony Theft Class C case that showed up on my internet background check. I don't know what kind of conviction this guy got.
Now get this. The next six links that populated under his name relate to landlords and apartment owners going to civil court to sue him for property damage. That's when i realized that "oh, I am f--ked."
This guy has LIED to me on his rental application about his previous resident addresses.
He has been sued by a large apartment company in downtown, which I will not disclose, and they're doing wage garnishment on him.
Two others are sole mom and pop type of landlords, like my family, who rented their houses to this guy,....all addresses in the Windward area.
So the question is guys........what can I do in this case? By looking at the DAMAGES he has done to previous landlords' property, I cannot risk having this guy wreck my parents house.....especially since it has been renovated very nicely couple of years ago.
His second job is an instructor at a gun-shooting school on Oahu.....so he's a type of guy you might not want to f--k around with. He also has prior army reserve training and bragged to me about shooting many kinds of guns.
His primary job is a security guard at a private school on Oahu....which I will not disclose.
My sole concern is that this guy and his girlfriend is going to do the same thing and damage my parents' home. What can I do??????!!!!!
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