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Rosebunse t1_iwvj0t9 wrote

Reply to comment by Jugales in Man has home 'stolen' as property and everything inside sold from under him by Aggravating_Pie7747

One of the worst things about drug users are the random people they will bring into your house. I lived with my brother, he like pot and really liked Adderall, and he would just bring in the most random people. Thankfully, most of them left. But this was always one of my fears, that some of them just wouldn't leave.

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stevewm t1_iww4iq2 wrote

You aren't kidding!

I allowed my cousin to stay in my house temporarily as I had an extra room and she and her 4 year old son had nowhere to go. We had grown up together, I thought of her like my own sister.

This turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes of my life. That temporary situation turned into nearly 3 years of hell. She would bring random people in at all times and sometimes they would stay days (without permission), moved 2 boyfriends in without asking. One of which completely took over my garage; had it piled so high with junk I could barely get my car in. They never paid for or contributed anything.

I tried to kick her out, she called the police, as under state law she was considered a tenant. I had to start legal eviction procedures to get her out. It took months; she knew exactly how to game the system. Continuance, after continuance. I felt trapped, they completely took over my home. Every other week was a big scene, between her boyfriend and/or random people. Police had been to my house so many times. I started to stay in hotels occasionally just because I didn't want to be there anymore.

The room she lived in was destroyed. She had let her son poke hundreds of holes in the drywall. One of her boyfriends was trying to charge a battery and caught fire and burned a hole all the way through into the crawl space. Another one punched holes through the walls and into the doors. Near the end of her stay, she started bringing in a dog, that she never let out, it pissed and shit all over the room. I had to completely gut the entire room; drywall had to come out, and even the entire OSB subfloor. I ended up completely re-doing my entire house, new flooring and all, because the destruction had started to spread outside her room.

I am never letting someone move into my home ever again.

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Rosebunse t1_iwwo3x9 wrote

My brother is legally barred from renting an apartment because of the damage he did to one. Like a Hoardes episode. Then he moved into my mom's sun room because I was living in the second bedroom and his kids had taken the third (I was living at my mom's to help her take care of my late stepdad.)

He covered the windows and sliding door in cardboard and just left trash and drugs everywhere. He stole my Darth Vader compact mirror to use as a little crack mirror. I could make a whole post about that

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stevewm t1_iwwrgxv wrote

Yeah, I hadn't intended to make the long post I did... but once I started typing, it just came rushing out. My cousin for a while was basically ostracized from the entire family after I finally got her out of my house. They all got tired of the lying, the begging, the stealing. Everyone tried to help her, but she would just take advantage of them in any way she could.

Surprisingly, something finally seemed to click.. For 9 months now she has held a steady job, as has her boyfriend. They are even getting ready to move into their own place. For the first time in her entire life (she is 39) she finally seems thing have things together. I only hope it holds.

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Rosebunse t1_iwws5gz wrote

I'm happy she's doing better, but fuck, dealing with someone like that is traumatic!.

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JaxCaliber007 t1_iwygs3r wrote

Quickest solution was to Theos her out and Change the locks. After first time telling to leave, its trespassing. - tenants pay rent. My perspective

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SellDonutsAtMyDoor t1_iwvp39u wrote

I remember my ex-girlfriend getting into drugs when we kind of split apart (cause of my mental health deteriorating at the time). I met her at a house party (drink only) the next year and she was going on about how she got so into drugs at one point that she was doing them pretty much every night and waking up in random strangers' houses without remembering how she'd gotten there. Fuck that. I imagine she was always quite eager to leave after waking up.

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Rosebunse t1_iww356a wrote

A binge can go on and go. And many of addicts are homeless.

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