I have been contemplating on writing this predicament of mine and sharing it with you. Numerous times have I found myself deleting it before I can ever post the thread. But because my husband is the only person I can hang on to at this point, I thought it really wouldn't do me any harm if I share it with you.
2 months ago, I thought I would die when my husband found a pinhole camera in the attic pointed directly into our bedroom. He immediately called the Landlord who said "If you call the cops, you won't get the house, Do you want to get the house?" and "If I'm your friend you won't do it, Kim". Now tell me, does that mean innocent to you? I was crying, furious and hysterical. We called the authorities and they have extracted the equipments including three pairs of underwears that I didn't recognize!!! The detectives called us the following day and asked us to catch him taped saying something that would blow his cover. Well, it didn't happen. I guess he was too clever for that. They found his prints inside the DVR and cannot prosecute him!!! It;s almost 3 months now but the detectives doesn't have anything new to tell us. This horrible man is our landlord and we are still here in this pitiful house. He won't return the money we have added monthly so that the closing purchase on the house won't blow our bank account. The monthly payment is supposedly $1195.00 He made us sign papers that said we'll be adding another 650 monthly to help us close on the house. Since we have a lease-to-own option on it, we agreed because we really want the house. Well, he won't return almost 9,000 that we have given him. To make matters worse, the realtor who put the property on the market is his ex-wife. Apparently, they're still good friends. She's making it very complicated because she will be showing the house to potential buyers and anyone related to that horrible man entering the house just gives me the creeps. That's why I installed security cameras in the house.
I have called local media and felt so sorry for myself because I couldn't even say one word straight because I was crying. They told me that if we were willing to talk to them, they'll do a story on it. But our lawyer advised us not to or we might face a slander lawsuit.
I know this is too much to share, but I couldn't even tell my parents. My mom has heart problems and because of the severity of the matter, it might just give her a heart attack.
A month ago we have decided to look for a house to buy or lease. We found one for sale and have gone through the process of closing on the loan... We got denied
because my husband recently moved to a new company and because his previous job which he only works part time now, switched him to a 1099 instead of a w2. I was crushed. And to make matters worst, the homeowner asked us to go through their mortgage company and try again(or they'll take us to mediation), well, it looked promising because the underwriter kinda assured us we'll be getting it. He said that the first loan was approached wrong... But just before the closing, we get a phone call telling us we got denied again.
2 days after that, we heard my husband's grandma's house burned down.
Two days from now, we'll be moving to a house that we have leased. I don't know what's stored for us there. But a new beginning on everything really wouldn't hurt. We're a very young couple. Nobody believed, except for our immediate family, that we would amount to any success because I got married so young.
We're holding on to our savings because we might need all of it to pay our civil lawyer once the criminal case is out for this man. We were advised that it would be alot easier on us if we waited til then to pursue a civil case against him.
I'm not asking for you Yters to feel sad for me... I just need your advise. Please, if you know anybody that can help us bring justice to what happened to us, let me know.