This is what I find to be a humorous vlog entry from my life (July 1-3, 2024) in property management with a basement tenant using in-time video correspondence with other people in my life about my ongoing situation.
Including a Con's list stemming from my experience with this current inmate. 😂 Since every motherf*cker that has a problem with me threatens to sue me, going public is my first line of defense.... 🤔
...in case said tenant brought his gun to work with him today. 😉
Posted Thursday, July 4th at 12:45pm
Posted Thursday, July 4 at 2:38pm
Conversation Illustrating Uselessness of Lawless Institutions
Sound Memo audio quick-record with clerk to appear in lobby of Magistrate's office with me (MJ Cincotta) on 7/7/24
I'm sure the Magistrate enjoys all his holidays after issuing me with a Temporary Detention Order for mine, i.e. Memorial Day weekend, 2023:
Read More:
Eviction completed in 24 hours on 7/7/24
Text conversation between landlord and evicted tenant.
So as Doug and some helpers removed his shit from my curb, he proceeded to finish off the rest of the unripe fruit from my apple trees 🙄 while (as I said it would be...) "stealing back" th partial payment I devised from my contract in removing the hammock and swinging chair from my front yard. He did call the police, and I was delighted to allow Officer Izzy to come inside and hold Doug's TV while I unmounted it off the wall, and put it back in its original box to return to him.
Doug did, however, bring the Department of Cable and Consumer Services into the argument over a matter of the $550 he paid as partial rent. If I had $250,000 for every time someone has terrorized ME and then later threatened to sue me or take me to court in the past year, I'd have $1 million. 😂🙄
I just thought I'd share the dumbass drama that ensues in my correspondence with Christine Reedy over Doug's sour grapes.
Here was our lease. I've highlighted every house rule that Doug had violated in the last 4 months:
Email reply sent on Sat, Jul 20, 2:38 AM to Christine.Reedy
Re: Douglas Lewis (Record number C-2025-00038)
Christine Reedy
Consumer Specialist II
Department of Cable and Consumer Services
Consumer Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 433
Fairfax, Virginia 22035-0045
Dear Christine Reedy,
My soon-to-be-ex-husband, Jarrett Laskey, delivered your letter by hand to my attention on Friday, July 20, 2024 that was for some reason addressed to him, who hasn’t lived here for a year (instead of me) while also using an incorrect phone number.
On behalf of my soon-to-be-ex, I would like to address your concerns about the “alleged lack of Maintenance/Essential service(s) or Code VIolation” filed by the complainant, Douglas Lewis.
After getting to know Doug for the 4 months he rented my basement and subsequently being threatened by him to sue me unjustifiably over the issue of which resident living here between the months of March-July of 2024 was using the basement toilet during that time and being negligent in regards to my lease, I would like to submit the following statements of facts.
His lease for the basement apartment rental was modified by and stated “care of Ilona Kirzhner of Hammer and Nails.” Ilona, who was arranging for Doug’s living situation, had opted to not have included a security deposit and lied about Doug’s access to a vehicle for transportation to his place of work in Leesburg (being the first and main concern I addressed upon considering him as a tenant.)
After just a few weeks, Doug’s transportation to work was no longer affordable to him, and he repeatedly made this issue MY problem on a regular basis which involved me taking my time and gas to drive him to work to avoid the $50 Uber fee.
Doug would even come around the house to my front stoop where I smoke quietly at 3AM to beg me for cigarettes or a ride to the 7-11 even in the middle of the night.
After mistaking a spa back for a strip dancer at Hammer & Nails by slipping a dollar into her thong at work, I believe he decided to leave that barbershop in search of a closer one. And for the next three months, attempted working at 3 other barbershops due to some falling out occurring during his employment.
Needless to say, the stress of having a 6 foot (also later disclosed) gun-toting tenant in my basement getting angry at me on a regular basis if I didn’t drive him to the 7-11 and subsequently initiating drama by requesting my time and presence for dinner at Outback Steakhouse with him in order that he hand over the rent money became too high-maintenance for me.
But the plumbing issue was the last straw. Even when he accidentally smeared shit on the wall while reaching for the toilet paper during his first week staying at my place, and it was never cleaned then, I really didn't know what to think of this 65-year-old ex-convict.
On July 1st, Doug insisted I take a look at his toilet in the basement. And I did.
Inside was an 8” tall pile of shit that was unfathomable to think it had occurred in a single day. I was horrified and plunged the crap down the toilet myself for the sake of the plumber that would be needed to come after me. And I told Doug on July 1st that yes, he would need to call the plumber, because whatever was clogged further down the pipe, in my opinion, required a plumber's snake to free.
I assumed Doug flushed cigarette butts down there, because he had at least a pack a day habit and continued to disobey my lease and smoke cigarettes indoors after I told him not to, or smoke in the open doorway of my sliding basement door no matter what utilities were running (AC/heat) because he was too hot or cold to go outside.
But it may also have been these plastic scent gels he would toss down the new garbage disposal I installed for him when he complained that it wasn't working in March.
Either way, Doug was in violation of a number of items on the lease after 4 months.
These were:
Damage to Property:
Doug removed a piece of wood from the entryway door to the apartment that I had to replace upon his eviction and inspection.
Doug tampered with another doorknob of the bathroom door by removing the handle from inside so that unlocking from the outside was possible.
Doug left spats of brown goo on nearly every wall and ceiling of the apartment requiring special remover, tools, and repainting.
Doug left a smear of poop on the wall for 3 months.
I let Doug use some of my paint and a brush one night and he must’ve stepped on some because black paint smudges were left all over the common area basement floor (that I cleaned up) in April or May.
Maintenance:
Doug must have not flushed or plunged at least a week’s? worth of shit because he didn’t want to call the plumber himself. And proceeded to run electric air fresheners at migraine nausea while smoking cigarettes in his apartment. (I can smell it through the vent in my bedroom upstairs every time.)
Additional Clauses: (Lease clearly states in BOLD that:)
TENANT NOT ALLOWED TO TAMPER WITH ELECTRIC FUSE BOXES LOCATED IN APARTMENT.
And he did.
I posted a notice regarding a plumbing issue resolution on July 3rd after I called and paid in advance for the plumber to clear the pipe in order for Doug to “Own His Shit” and be held accountable of the irresponsible and disrespectful manner in which he was violating my property in order for us to come to an understanding about what IS and IS NOT allowed in the basement, and its pipes, before being allowed to use the toilet again.
I posted and reposted it (each day he ripped it down) for 4 days (since July 3rd, 2024) while Doug continued to break and enter each night, without my permission, and illegally squat in my basement as my own personal domestic terrorist during that time.
Though I told him to sign the contract and leave it on the dryer each day or else HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO STAY. He did not want to sign the agreement, so I evicted him.
And, just because this letter is from the Fairfax County Department of Cable and Consumer Services, I will also mention that the lease did retain (even after Ilona’s extensive edits) under Utilities and Other Charges:
The Tenant is also responsible for the following utilities and charges: IF FURTHER CABLE/INTERNET NEEDED, BEYOND WHAT IS PROVIDED, ADDITIONAL COSTS WILL BE INCURRED.
[I argue that WiFi is NOT in any way an essential service, it is a luxury that can be attained monetarily AFTER you can afford to respect the cost and rational implications of using indoor plumbing responsibly.]
And since June of 2024, Doug’s Rent Receipt contained this Pay or Quit notice:
Pay or Quit Notice for Unlawful Detainer Action
Any partial payment of rent made before or after a judgement of possession is ordered will not prevent your landlord from taking action to evict you.
You can visit my website link for the daily vlogs of this incident including text messages, videos and photo evidence at: https://www.beintrigued.com/post/when-you-re-not-gonna-put-up-with-any-longer
And stay tuned for more additions to it when I explain my dismay upon my visit to The Magistrate on Sunday, July 7, 2024 when I learn that “restraining orders” have been replaced by a useless Petition for Protective Order that hinges on whether someone has ALREADY PHYSICALLY HURT YOU (and you apparently survived) AND are only good IF you know your assailant’s birthday.
And you have no rights to protect your personal property.
Doug told me his last employer would guarantee him $1,500 a week. And he told me he was also receiving several government health care payouts, however, I suspect Doug lost most of his money to scratch offs and online gambling and owed Ilona a bundle.
If Doug STILL does not acknowledge that he left an 8" pile of shit in the toilet due to some previous behavior of his own and that I paid for the plumbing service ($438) and would like to instead reimburse me for the additional cleaning, carpentry, locksmith, repainting and my lawyer fees on repairing the damage to my property and addressing his bullshit claims, I will accept $2,500.
He can also give a nice $50 tip to Herndon's Officer Izzy for holding his 50" TV for me so that I could remove it from the wall and return it to him the same day.
Sincerely,
Mary Jeanne Cincotta
Comments