Ex-Tenant + Worthless Check = Jail
This afternoon, I received a phone call from an ex-tenant who mentioned that he needed to come to my office and pay some money he owed and get a receipt.
The background of this story is that this joker mailed me a worthless check for the last month’s rent and about 20-days worth of late fees then proceeded to disappear leaving the house a total mess. And all this after I offered to let him out of his lease.
When I say, “mess” this included the lower-unit of an outboard boat engine, car tires, non-working rear-projection big-screen TV, various car parts, a mountain of trash and a ruined in-sink garbage disposal unit among other things.
Apparently, this degenerate was recently pulled over by the police, for who knows what, and taken to jail because there was a bench warrant out for his arrest due to the worthless check that I filed with the Florida state attorney.
Basically, the court probably read him the riot act and ordered him to make good on the worthless check. The blog worthy part of this is that after he handed over the cash he owed and got the receipt, he proceeded to try to negotiate with me to get back part of the security deposit. (WTF?!)
I told him that he would have to take me to court for the deposit. If he does take me to court, it will be my pleasure to present to the judge the before and after photos and the unopened, certified “disposal of deposit” letter which I sent him and was returned because he tried to “disappear” without paying his bills.
