Can I report a bad ex-neighbor to her employer?

[Texas_Bill]

What is the name of your state? Texas

Hello,

My upstairs (duplex) neighbor was just evicted. She is a 43-year old single mom who sent her daughter off during the summer and proceeded to terrorize us by bringing all sorts of trashy, drug user types into her living space at all hours of the night. This neighborhood is very high class; median home price is about $1 million.

She violated the terms of her lease by having these people stay with her (sometimes seven adults at a time) for weeks; they parked their junky cars on our driveway and sometimes even worked on them there. They littered our drought-parched lawn with cigarettes that they tossed while still burning. They brought all sorts of pets (owned by these transients) into the property and they urinated and defecated on our patio furniture in the backyard (she had no provision in her lease for pets of any sort). They disturbed all of the neighbors around us for months. I documented the cars, people, pet remainders, and litter with photos.

When they were moving her stuff out some of these "dear friends" of hers (most 15-20 years younger than she) got in a fistfight in full view of the neighbors working in their yard. I photographed that. I also photographed the eviction notice on her door.

She happens to work as a computer support person at a major university just half a mile down the road from us. My desire is to share the FACTUAL events of her eviction as well as the photos that I took over the summer of the detritus of her "alternative lifestyle" with her superior where she works. My hope is that they would think twice about employing such a person; perhaps at minimum they would ask her to submit to a drug test.

Is there anything illegal about what I wish to do? I don't want this person anywhere near my family, not even in the same city. All I wish to do is present documented facts to her boss.

Thanks!

Texas_BillWhat is the name of your state?

 

[moburkes]

Wow! You are a piece of work!

 

[racer72]

Do you have a lot of money to waste on lawyers? Even if you are in the right, that would not stop potentiel lawsuits. You are lowering yourself to her level. Be an adult and get on with your life. What you want to do is childish and immature.

 

[Texas_Bill]

Why is it immature to not want her anywhere near my family?

She runs with dangerous people. She has no respect for property or the "quiet enjoyment" that was MY right to experience with my own tenancy. I don't see how any of what I want to do is childish or immature. I view it as helping protect my neighborhood and community.

BTW, you did not address how she would have grounds to sue me for my sharing documented FACTS with her boss.

 

[BelizeBreeze]

She runs with dangerous people. She has no respect for property or the "quiet enjoyment" that was MY right to experience with my own tenancy. I don't see how any of what I want to do is childish or immature. I view it as helping protect my neighborhood and community.

And the court will view it as a nosey neighbor slandering another party. Are you sure you're not a jewish mother in drag?

 

[fairisfair]

She runs with dangerous people. She has no respect for property or the "quiet enjoyment" that was MY right to experience with my own tenancy. I don't see how any of what I want to do is childish or immature. I view it as helping protect my neighborhood and community.

BTW, you did not address how she would have grounds to sue me for my sharing documented FACTS with her boss.

Dear Mrs. Kravitz,

Just be happy she is gone and you will soon have another tenant in your multi million dollar duplex to spy on. What is your need to exact revenge on a family that already apparently has enough problems?

 

[moburkes]

Not to mention the lawsuits. Maybe you can sell your million dollar house (I'm sure that was the most important part of the post*) to pay off the judgments.

*I'll tell you that when MY parents lived in a million dollar house, they didn't go to freeadvice.com for their legal advice. They contacted the attorneys that had on retainer to handle their legal issues!

 

[Texas_Bill]

you guys cannot read

I said nothing about the price of the house that I RENT. I said only that the median price for homes in the neighborhood was $1 million. The only purpose for mentioning that was to give a sense of what kind of neighborhood these low-lifes were messing with. The duplex I rent is 80 years old and has window units and gas heaters. OK? there's a variety of old and new here. You guys are way too fixated on the wrong details.

 

[moburkes]

Exactly my point. So if the median home price was $100k, then the situation would be different? Get a life. Move on. Your neighbors certainly have. Goodness.

 

[cbg]

Speaking as an employer, if I were to receive such "facts" from my employee's neighbor, all I would do with the information is dump it in the trash can. Until it starts affecting her job, what she does on her own time is none of my business. Nor would I have any reason to believe you were telling the truth; I don't know you from Adam.

 

[Texas_Bill]

finally, a level-headed answer.

thanks, that's the kind of perspective I was seeking that no one else who responded could muster.

 

[BelizeBreeze]

thanks, that's the kind of perspective I was seeking that no one else who responded could muster.

Maybe because this isn't grade school and we don't have the time or inclination to play games with the school yard bully

 

[annegg]

Maybe because this isn't grade school and we don't have the time or inclination to play games with the school yard bully

Excuse me but this person and the rest of the neighbors were clearly the ones being bullied by these druggies and their ladyfriend. I applaud them for standing up to them. One does not expect their home life to be reduced to a school yard by such creeps.

 

[moburkes]

Excuse me but this lady and the rest of the neighbors were clearly the ones being bullied by these druggies and their ladyfriend. I applaud her for standing up to them. One does not expect their home life to be reduced to a school yard by such creeps.

Maybe I missed something. What did OP do to "stand up" to the neighbors?

edited to add: I don't see that OP reported it to the landlord. I don't see that OP reported it to the police.

 

[Texas_Bill]

I am the Original Poster...

I DID report her to the landlord - I sent photos of all these people and events as they unfolded. This eventually resulted in her eviction. The only thing I can complain about regarding the landlord's actions is that they didn't realize the seriousness of the situation until it dragged on for far too many weeks. Then key people were on vacation; then the landlord's lawyer thought he could get her out without a formal eviction notice (just by yelling at her), and we had to suffer a week longer because of that.

During the course of the summer, I had the police over no less than 6 times. Often, she would not answer the door. They never wrote a citation for her after-hours loudness. They deemed it a civil matter, between us and our landlord. Even though I KNOW they had drugs up there, the police could not demand to examine the property. I was sure that one night someone up there would drop a lit cigarette or a lighter, pass out, and set the place on fire. Then WE would be out of a fine place to live.

We have been model tenants for 10 years; my son was born in this house. We have a strong connection to it. This is the first time we had such trash, and, as mentioned earlier, this is not the demographic of where we live.

The owner brought the police over to get her out of the property (prior to the eviction notice) and she had about seven people inside plus a pit bull and she refused to open the chained door. The laws are all in the favor of tenants, no matter how bad, in these situations.

I have children at home; who knows what one of these scum might have done in a certain mood to my 10 year old son or 20 year old step daughter.

That's the background on this scenario. All the laws were in her favor.