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75. UPDATE - that damn landlord is trying to come in again!

I found a call on my voicemail that was left by my landlord who once again is not scheduling a convenient time with me to come into the property to "do some work". She just announced that "we" are going to be coming tomorrow at around 11 a.m. to "do some work" so I have to let her in.


Last Saturday she did the same thing, showed up at the door and demanded entrance. Since I'd been advised by the police to call 911 is she showed up without my permission that's what I did. The officer that came I hadn't met before and had no idea what this ongoing issue was. I gave him the names of the other officers I'd spoken to, told him under no circumstances did I want her anywhere near me or the property and there was no way on God's earth I wanted her actually inside. I know she's trying like hell to fix the ceiling without fixing the leak and disguise any mold or dryrot or whatever. Not gonna happen. The officer talked to her and then came back to me to tell me that she told him that I had screamed at her on the phone and invited her over but then wouldn't let her in and called the police. The officer then made her leave since it was apparent that I didn't want her in or on the property.

Since then I hadn't heard anything from her and was just beginning to believe she was going to stay away after what happened last Saturday, and the nut is planning on showing up and trying to get in AGAIN! I've told her numerous times that as long as I'm the legal tenant she HAS to arrange a convenient time with me to come onto the property for any reason otherwise it's harassment. She doesn't care about the law or my rights or my time or anything else but herself.

So, today I got a message from her on my voicemail that said she was coming over tomorrow at around 11 a.m. to "do some work". I had to call her back and again tell her that, no she wasn't, and if she showed up again I was just going to call the police again. But this time I have proof on my phone from her voicemail that again I was not consulted about this visit but just TOLD it was going to happen. I had to call her again to try to tell her the same thing as before about my rights and the law, that I was still the legal tenant, etc. and she hung up on as she has with all of these phone calls as soon as I tell her no. So, I called her back and once again tried to explain this to her and I did get in that I had filed an appeal.

On the 7th I sent her the copy of the appeal info certified mail, but she wouldn't have gotten it yet. I had to also send one to the district court, but they'll just be happy that it's out of their jurisdiction and in the county court. Once she does get it and finds out that I have 9 months to stay here while putting rent money into escrow through the court, and she won't get her hands on one penny of it she's going to go completely ape and crap a ring around herself.

She also understands that the single biggest thing she needs to do right now (now that the sewage pipe has finally been replaced) is for the leak that's still raining water through the ceiling whenever I use the shower, and all she needs to do for that is call the plumber and tell him she wants him to do the work, then the plumber will arrange with me when he can come to find out where the leak is and arrange a time with me to do the work and how long it should take, etc. She doesn't need to be here or come here for ANYTHING particularly inside the house. And she's ALREADY been in here numerous times since the leak crashed through te ceiling and was here the morning of the day of the second hearing right before the hearing started doing the walk-through with the township inspector, so she already knows according to them that did nothing but glance at the ceiling and had no idea about the leak in the first place because the inspector wouldn't allow me to say a word or point things like this out to him.

I'm probably going to have to go to the police department again tomorrow and find out what I should do. This calling the police if she keeps harassing me on the phone or if she shows up unwanted just can't keep going on. Because she is nuts, I wouln't put it past her to come right in with her own key (that she's legally entitled to have, and I can't change the locks) especially if I'm not here.

Since the case is now in the county court I'm wondering if there's any kind of harassment filing or even advice I could get from them. Even now I could go over the the district court and file a harassment complaint against her, but then I'd have to deal with a hearing about that and with the same nincompoops at the district court and the same asswagon of a Repuke judge. But I also don't want to have to spend any money on this madness. The first police officer I talked to about this told me that if she's crazy enough to just barge in knowing Yoshi will be loose in the house and he attacks her, that's her problem. But I don't want him to attack anyone and I'm not sure he even would though he knows that I hate her guts and her being anywhere near me now makes my anxiety go through the roof which a dog registers as fear of her. And she IS that crazy to just use her own key and come in the house whether I'm here or not. But Yoshi might also do nothing and just let her in and do whatever she wants. Because she used to live here herself before I moved in her scent is probably still all over the house, so he might think she has a right to come in whenever. He also has a really good temperament, so I honestly don't know what he'd do.

I'm not just worried for me should she let herself in while I'm not here with all my most personal papers and things here and holy cow my computer! I'm really worried for Yoshi... she could hurt him or poison him or something. And she IS that nuts!

Can anyone recommend anything about what I can do to get through to her that she can't keep doing this harassment and trying to come into the house? Or where else I can turn to stop this crap? Two of the officers I talked to are convinced she's done this before to someone or several someones because she gets right up to the line but doesn't cross it by doing something for which she can be arrested. They also believed that she was likely to escalate the harassment and to tell the police after every incident so they have a record of all the times she's been harassing, whether it was by phone or in person, and what occurred. I've already thought with the incident when she came over last week, and the officer that arrived didn't know anything about this ongoing issue that I'd need to talk to the chief of the police department so all of them will know about this problem and that despite what she says I do NOT want her anywhere near this property and would NEVER invite her in.

A few minutes after I had called her back trying again to get through to her that she can't keep just telling me she's coming over whenever she likes and that I'm never going to let her in if she does she calls me back to tell me that "something came up" and she suddenly couldn't come over tomorrow after all. I'm not sure what to make of this but I do know it has nothing to do with "something suddenly coming up". For whatever reason she doesn't want to risk coming here again. I'm wondering if she realized that I have the voicemail she left on my phone and that's proof I could have an officer listen to so this time she wouldn't be able to lie to them like last weekend. She has to have figured out by now that if she does this again just like last weekend she won't be getting in, and I'll just call the police again. She lives about an hour and a half away, so coming all the way out here again is a wasted effort, and I'm not letting her in and will be calling the police. I really just cannot figure out why she tried to do this again in the first place.

This is what it's like dealing with her. You just CANNOT get anything drummed into her head. It makes no difference how many times you tell her XYZ, it's like talking to a brick wall. It just floats right past her brain. She's completely devoid of the most basic common sense. I can't even count how many times she's brought up fixing the ceiling, and every time I have to repeat that she can't fix the bloody ceiling without first fixing the damn LEAK. And there are almost countless other similar incidents like this, like when that hurricane several years ago tore off half the shingles on the porch roof.

I told her over and over that she had to have the shingles replace ASAP or she'd end up having to replace the whole porch roof. She let that go for YEARS until my next door neighbors finally had to give her the business about fixing it because without the shingles they were getting water damage to their enclosed porch. Their porch like many others on this street had been enclosed so that what used to be their porch is now an extra small room, and the front door is right where one would normally step onto the porch which is how mine is. These little rooms that were once porches are nice little room that have an archway into the living room and make a nice little tv room or den or reading room or even a spare sleeping place for a guest. One of my neighbors has their little room set up as a library with built in shelves full of books and their desk with their computer and stuff with a nice comfy Lazyboy recliner for reading or napping. It's also where they have their dog bed so their doggie can cozy up with them in the "library".

Once the neighbors bore into her about the missing shingles, she had them replaced, but by that time with several winters without the shingles underneath the new shingles is the wood of the porch roof that was already starting to rot. Eventually, just like I warned her, that porch roof is going to disintegrate, and she'll end up having to replace the whole thing, and it will probably fall down on someone's head first. She just does not get it that all these huge problems that are going to cost her a fortune in the long run because she's ignored them would never have GOTTEN to such a point had she just dealt with each problem when it was discovered. She just does NOT get it that a house needs to have regular maintenance to avoid huge problems down the road. AAAAAAGGGHHH!!! It's so maddening!

And of course, when she did send workmen to replace the shingles on the porch roof she never bothered to tell me they were coming. The porch roof is directly opposite the outside wall of the bathroom and on the same level. One day I got up and went to use the potty, and suddenly I can hear men talking just INCHES away from me right outside the bathroom on the porch roof. I KNOW they could hear me peeing and flushing as clear as a bell just as I could hear them talking quietly to each other clear as a bell. UGH! It was so humiliating!

Anywho, anyone have any ideas of what I might be able to do to stop her from this constant harassment? The phone calls are bad enough, but she's escalating to coming over and trying to get into the house. I've though of putting a notice on the outside of my front door, but the storm door has just a screen in the top section, and it would get wet from rain or just dampness, and besides, she could easily just tear it off and pretend it was never there. There isn't any way to lock that storm door. It DOES have a little locking mechanism, but it's never worked.