Hello,
I live in an Apartment Complex with maybe 500 apartments. Recently i asked the landlord to send the Maintenance guy to come over to fix something in my apartment. As i am working on weekdays i told them it is okey to enter when i am not there, they have done that many times before.
The other day i installed a camera to monitor my apartment when i am not there and to my suprise when i got home that night, the camera had caught the maintenance guy stealing stuff from my apartment.
The police came over and got the videos and said that i have a pretty solid case, but it will only be a misdemeanor petty theft as he entered the apartment with permission from me.
My question here is what are my options, can i hold the landlord and the apartment complex owner responsible in some way? Any input on how i should go about handling the landlord, and letting every other tenant know about the stealing. I bet many other tenants have had stuff missing as well throughout the years, but with no way of proving anything.
In any case the police said i shouldnot do anything until the investigator calls me.
Appreciate any input on this.
Thanks, Mark
I live in an Apartment Complex with maybe 500 apartments. Recently i asked the landlord to send the Maintenance guy to come over to fix something in my apartment. As i am working on weekdays i told them it is okey to enter when i am not there, they have done that many times before.
The other day i installed a camera to monitor my apartment when i am not there and to my suprise when i got home that night, the camera had caught the maintenance guy stealing stuff from my apartment.
The police came over and got the videos and said that i have a pretty solid case, but it will only be a misdemeanor petty theft as he entered the apartment with permission from me.
My question here is what are my options, can i hold the landlord and the apartment complex owner responsible in some way? Any input on how i should go about handling the landlord, and letting every other tenant know about the stealing. I bet many other tenants have had stuff missing as well throughout the years, but with no way of proving anything.
In any case the police said i shouldnot do anything until the investigator calls me.
Appreciate any input on this.
Thanks, Mark
