David Kathary wrote:
>I manage rental property and everyone lies
Don't get me started about rental property. If I'm ever on a witness
stand and am asked if I know what the penalty for perjury is, I'm
going to say "nothing," no matter how much it might suggest that it
will make me feel more free to lie. The last tenants who rented my
wife's house blatantly altered an e-mail I sent them detailing what
they had paid and what they owed, at one point explicitly reversing
the words "owed" and "paid." They brought that to court, which gave
them another month or two of free rent when we couldn't immediately
prove it was altered. Then they brought in fabricated receipts for
rent payments, which included forgeries of my wife's signature. Under
oath, they said they were authentic. In ruling in our favor, the
judge even commented that the signatures looked more like theirs than
my wife's but they were charged with neither forgery nor perjury as
they got another month of free rent by appealing to a higher court.
After we started trying to evict them, I discovered that they had been
doing this to landlords for 7 years. Whenever I consider helping
anyone, I remember that they are in the same human race as these
tenants.
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