The Sneaky Ones

At this time I would like to write about the millions of unreliable people who lounge on their butts all day doing nothing and hoping things will "somehow work out." They live off the resources of others, exploit them, rob them of their money, and then pack up- never to be seen again. People like this exist all over. Granted, sometimes their plight isn't their fault, and sometimes their actions are only a method of survival in a cruel world. Other times, they are plain lazy and manipulative.

There is a woman from this group of people who has made the lives of my parents more agonizing than any person ever has. I will call her "The Fox," because while she was running her plot, she was sly enough that none of us realized it until it was complete.

My parents own a duplex in Clearfield. I would like to start by saying that she knew what she was doing from the beginning, everything she had planned became clear to us when it was over. The Fox had been evicted five times before moving into my parents duplex. Now, she knew no person in their right mind would allow her into their house with the background she had. So she employed the method of "piggybacking" her way into the house. The tenants renting the house before her were decent people, paid the rent on time, kept things in relative order, etc. Now, wife living there before had a brother who needed a place to crash with his girlfriend and her son. Of course she and her husband agreed, and my parents didn't know about it for a while. When they figured it out, they were assured they wouldn't be a trouble and the rent would keep coming. Well, without us being informed, the husband and wife moved out, leaving the boyfriend, The Fox, and her son. Then she kicked the boyfriend out, leaving herself and her son in our house. When we learned of this, my parents initially objected, but agreed eventually when she promised she could still fulfill the cost. See how she works? She got into the house innocently enough by making the transfer through other people. My parents mistake was neglecting to do a background check, since she had been living there for several months already.

Things went downhill from there. For over a year she played a little game, never paying on time, avoiding calls, "forgetting about" conferences with my parents, pretending not to be home.... but never doing anything totally wrong. The rent came- ALWAYS late- but it came, the mission to get another job to pay the rent put off JUST LONG ENOUGH that my parents were always frazzled, but never wronged. Every promise to change something was a lie, every action one only to throw them off for a few days longer.

The toll this took on my parents was enourmous. I have heard spiels from them time and time again, frustrated, annoyed, angry, hopeless, depressed. They fought more often, and were angry at the kids more often. They were losing money, little by little, and their nerves fraying. Finally, after her being out of work for over two months and owing over 2000 dollars in rent, they threatend to kick her out. Then she pled with them "Not during the Christmas season!" So they waited, in which time she still didn't go get a job. They made the decision to evict her after Christmas. But whats this? The eviction process can take a month or more? She actually pointed that out to them, as if smugly saying "your stuck with me for another month."

Finally, after legal fees, lots of heartache, and tons of anger. She was gone, but not really. Upon arriving at the house, they found the garage and basement full of junk she "was going to come back for later." THAT HOUSE WAS NOT HERS ANYMORE. It took her another week to remove her things.

That landed us in the position we were at two weeks ago. We looked at the house, it reeked of smoke and cat urine. She was not allowed to smoke, and never paid a pet deposit. Every room had visible dirt and garbage deposits on the floor, showing how long it had been since she vaccumed. The grime on the toilet and bathtub was disgusting. The stove was covered in pieces of singed food in such great number they accumulated in the pans under the burners inches deep, it was a wonder it even worked. The fridge had old onions and french fries stashed in the drawers. Holes covered the walls. One room must have been devoted to drinking soda, for it was littered with dozens of old bottles- some only half consumed, and spilled- and cigarrette packs. You could see urine stains in virtually every room of the house. There was cat poop all over the basement!!!! WHY WHY WHY could she not have even cleaned the house a little? How did she live with it like that? The place was absolutely trashed.

After many days of cleaning and painting, its almost ready to rent again. Me and Lars have dubbed it "The poo hole" because of the cat poo smell in the basement. The Fox has disappeared to who knows where, never to be seen again, leaving many hundreds worth of damages plus the still unpaid two months of rent.

The question is, why would she do this? She knew exactly what she was doing from the beginning, and could easily have improved her situation with a little effort. She never did get a new job, or even try for that matter. She obviously didn't clean her house at all during that those two months either. And now she has run away with my parents money, off to bother some other unwitting victim. How many other people has she done this to? Obviously at least five, because of her other evictions. How many other people around us are doing the same thing? Living off of other people's resources then disappear, leaving a trail of destruction behind them. Honestly, could she not fathom how wrong this is? If she had even had a job for the past two months she could have some credit to her name, but no, she sat at home watching tv, wasting her time and her life.

This was mostly venting. Forgive me, but I really don't like this woman at the moment. Can you not see though, she made my parents lives awful for the past year, and our whole family has been affected, and she doesn't even care.