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Ex-Roommate Stole all my stuff!!!

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arguablysane

Junior Member
What is the name of your state? <b>NH</b>

I was invited to come live with a friend of mine I'd known for six years when I became homeless a few months back. Long story short, I had nearly everything I owned moved in there, was setting up, had a verbal agreement with the landlord to start paying rent by a set date, and everything was working out fine. One night I came back to an ambush, although I had seen her earlier in the day and all was fine. The outer storm door was locked, I had to slice the screen door to open it, I could hear both my roommates inside, no one answered the phone or the door, etc. Once I entered the room I was accosted with all kinds of screaming and yelling to get out, and she called the police and told them I had threatened to bring a gun in her house, which never occured. I don't own a gun and I haven't even fired a real gun before in my life. After she'd said that on the phone I went outside scared to death because the police were coming thinking I had a firearm on me!

Basically as it went, I was completely cooperative with the police, they saw I had nothing on me, and my roommate that wasn't the crazy one screaming put some clothes in a bag for me and I left to stay at a friend's house. The next day I started talking to the landlord about getting my stuff out, that went on in games of phone tag for over a month before I finally was told I could come over and get all my stuff. Half of it wasn't even there! She stole over six-thousand dollars worth of my belongings, and once I had tallied it all up for the landlord, who'd been nothing but my friend beforehand, he completely hung me out to dry, after telling me to deal with him the whole time.

I'm absolutely at my wit's end. She stole my entire CD and DVD collection, a 2,000 dollar violin that was a gift from my mother that meant a lot to me, my computer, and several other very valuable possessions. What do I do? Can I file criminal theft charges against her? Please help!
 


BL

Senior Member
What did the Police say about your rights to stay there ?

What proof do you have of any of these items you are talking about , and their worth , as of the time you had them ( not New ) ?

Sure you can take them to court . Be prepared to prove and convince the Judge they stole these Items , and their worth at the time of ownership .

Look up small claims for your State .
 

JETX

Senior Member
arguablysane said:
Can I file criminal theft charges against her?
Yes. Go ahead and file and let the police investigate.

Also, if you can lower your claim to $5000, you can file in your state small claims court.
 

arguablysane

Junior Member
Blonde Lebinese said:
What did the Police say about your rights to stay there ?

What proof do you have of any of these items you are talking about , and their worth , as of the time you had them ( not New ) ?

Sure you can take them to court . Be prepared to prove and convince the Judge they stole these Items , and their worth at the time of ownership .

Look up small claims for your State .

The only thing the police ever told me was when I called them to escort me to retrieve my stuff, and she wouldn't answer the door although I knew she was home, was that they couldn't make her open the door and the only thing I could do was try and get her to agree to have a police escort to get my things... how that was supposed to work when she wouldn't even answer the phone, door, or an e-mail must have escaped them...

The only thing I have to convince the judge of my belongings being there is the word of about 8 eyewitnesses, my friends, that I had had over to visit several times during the month+ that I lived there. After being homeless I didn't really expect to have to take pictures of my stuff being there or anything... the only other thing I can think of is that my fingerprints are all over the house, since I did a lot of cleanup work to pull my weight while I wasn't employed.
 

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