Landlord Takes Revenge On Tenant
So I recently ran upon this article about some local landlord/tenant shenanigans. In short, the article is a story about a software engineer who worked at NASA and used his work computer to fill out online loan applications in the name of an ex-tenant who owed him all of $200 in back rent thereby trying to temporarily ruin his credit.
I mean, come on! You use you WORK computer at NASA to do a dirty deed on the INTERNET??!! At what point did you not think you’d be found out? I think this guy is the first software engineer who does not understand how the internet works.
In the course of taking on a lease with a tenant there is a lot of personal information gathered from the tenant and I think it goes without saying that the landlord has a responsibility to protect that information.
In my opinion (and from my experience), tenants who just can’t seem to wrap their head around the concept of financial responsibility are their own worst enemy and revenge by the landlord is unnecessary. Case-in-point would be these geniuses who proceeded to write a bad rent check, leave the unit a disaster and then put my name down as a reference on a rental application a little over one year later. DUH!
Anyway, to all my readers: This is the last post of 2008. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you all for reading my humble landlord blog and let’s all bid adieu to a dismal year and welcome another dismal one (from what I read.) The only positives I see from here are that things can only get better and we at least will have a shiny new president who has a brain and values advisers who are smart (i.e.- No horse show judging attorneys in the cabinet.)
