These Places Will Just Hire Anyone
“I used to live in a rental townhome. The place was great. It was run by a big company but they paid an onsite super to run the office, coordinate repairs, et cetera. When I moved in it was this nice older retired couple.
A few years later, they moved on and the company hired these two young dudes. They were a*sholes. Recent college grads who looked down on the blue-collar tenants, threw loud parties all night, generally ignored the grounds, ignored maintenance requests, etc. But that’s not how I got them arrested.
In addition to renting the townhouse, you could rent a covered spot. If you did, they gave you a hang tag and if you didn’t have the hang tag you’d get towed. I had the same car, same spot, and same tag the whole time I lived there.
One day, I came out and my car was gone. It was towed for ‘no hang tag’ but in the pictures the tow company took it’s clearly there. I paid to get it out and complained to the two idiots. They had to call to authorize a tow, the company couldn’t just do it on its own. They gave me a half-assed apology.
About a week later, the same problem. Again, towed for no tag, again, the tag’s right there. This time I called the corporate office and complained. After that, it started happening nearly every day.
When I’d talk to the supers about it they’d just laugh. I knew they were doing it on purpose, so I did some research. The tow company gave me the names of the people who called it in and it was mostly one guy but some the other. The tow company wasn’t liable because the landlords had called them so that was out. But I did some research and found out that in my state calling for a tow when you know it’s not a legal tow is grand theft auto just like if you broke into a car. I also found out you can record conversations in my state without telling the other person.
So I went in to meet the two bros to talk about the situation. They told me (on tape) that the first two times were mistakes but after that, they did it on purpose and would keep doing so until I ‘learned my lesson.’ They stated that they knew I was okay to park there but they didn’t care
I took that recording and the list of calls to a buddy who’s an attorney and he helped me take it to the local police. Police were more than happy to have a couple of felony charges dropped into their laps so they filed charges and went to arrest them. Corporate fired them the same day, refunded ALL of my fees for getting my car out of hock, and gave me a rental discount for a few months.
They both ended up eating the felony and got probation. Last I heard they weren’t able to find decent jobs because of the felonies and also couldn’t pay their student loans. Both ended up working construction, a blue-collar job they’d sneered at, because that’s all they had left.”
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