We live in a rented property, have done for about 2 years now, slowly we found out the back-story of the property, finding children's items and the owners property stored in various places, talking to neighbours apparently the owner was a nut-case who had a massive fight with his then wife, they split, and the house has been on the market ever since, the owners estranged wife has since been trying to sell the property but renting it out in the meantime, as 50% owner of the property she was in bitter dispute with her ex-husband about it.
We had a disturbance last year about 3am, both me and another flatmate were too scared/asleep to investigate, but it woke us both, lots of banging and shouting, we kind of dismissed it off-hand though, maybe next-doors?
ANYWAY. Fastforward to last night and her ex-husband decides to pay our neighbourhood, and us, a visit. The guy is paralytic. I heard banging and shouting, then a discussion outside, with our neighbours. When I got out of the shower my housemate was talking to this guy in the hallway. Turns out he had gained entrance to our place through the back door, stole some spirits from our bar, and then knocked on the door after necking some of them (we we'rent aware of this at the time though).
He was friendly & polite in his own way, but obviously pretty dodgy. He told us how much he paid for the house, when he bought it, all the work he'd put into the house, and some vague anecdote about how one day he'd been chucked out of his own house, that his wife had cheated on him with a friend.
He was drinking a bottle of sugar syrup from our bar??? he thought it was alcoholic. Myself and my housemate talked to him for a while, offered him a drink and generally tried to relate to him, he mentioned being a dangerous character, being involved in crime, and being an ex-service man aswell as making a threat to his now ex-wife, I took it all with a pinch of salt owing to how drunk he was but he definitely looked the sort.
The encounter ended with him being remourseful and maybe a little embarassed, he was looking for his daughter, the house still reminds him of the family he lost, and to all extents and purposes, the property is his, he bought it with his own money, but he can't have it owing to circumstance and signing the lease away to his daughter. He hadn't seen his daughter for 4 years, and wanted to find her, to see her, we were understanding, but didn't offer him any advice, it wasn't our place to say and we didn't want to antagonise him at all.
I've told our other housemate who wasn't there we won't be reporting it to the letting agency or the landlady for now as we don't think the guy is a threat, and doing so may put us in a position where we become involved in the whole sordid affair. This may change if we see him again or something more serious happens, but it is worrying non-the-less. We wouldn't want to antagonise the guy as obviously this is a very emotive circumstance, he knows where we live and it wouldn't take long to put 2+2 together.
We'll definitely be making sure all the doors are locked even when we are at home now, I just wanted to share and to ask if anyone would have / would do anything differently, I don't want to be made complicit obviously, some serious threats were made to his ex-wife but I thought we have handled it correctly.
We had a disturbance last year about 3am, both me and another flatmate were too scared/asleep to investigate, but it woke us both, lots of banging and shouting, we kind of dismissed it off-hand though, maybe next-doors?
ANYWAY. Fastforward to last night and her ex-husband decides to pay our neighbourhood, and us, a visit. The guy is paralytic. I heard banging and shouting, then a discussion outside, with our neighbours. When I got out of the shower my housemate was talking to this guy in the hallway. Turns out he had gained entrance to our place through the back door, stole some spirits from our bar, and then knocked on the door after necking some of them (we we'rent aware of this at the time though).
He was friendly & polite in his own way, but obviously pretty dodgy. He told us how much he paid for the house, when he bought it, all the work he'd put into the house, and some vague anecdote about how one day he'd been chucked out of his own house, that his wife had cheated on him with a friend.
He was drinking a bottle of sugar syrup from our bar??? he thought it was alcoholic. Myself and my housemate talked to him for a while, offered him a drink and generally tried to relate to him, he mentioned being a dangerous character, being involved in crime, and being an ex-service man aswell as making a threat to his now ex-wife, I took it all with a pinch of salt owing to how drunk he was but he definitely looked the sort.
The encounter ended with him being remourseful and maybe a little embarassed, he was looking for his daughter, the house still reminds him of the family he lost, and to all extents and purposes, the property is his, he bought it with his own money, but he can't have it owing to circumstance and signing the lease away to his daughter. He hadn't seen his daughter for 4 years, and wanted to find her, to see her, we were understanding, but didn't offer him any advice, it wasn't our place to say and we didn't want to antagonise him at all.
I've told our other housemate who wasn't there we won't be reporting it to the letting agency or the landlady for now as we don't think the guy is a threat, and doing so may put us in a position where we become involved in the whole sordid affair. This may change if we see him again or something more serious happens, but it is worrying non-the-less. We wouldn't want to antagonise the guy as obviously this is a very emotive circumstance, he knows where we live and it wouldn't take long to put 2+2 together.
We'll definitely be making sure all the doors are locked even when we are at home now, I just wanted to share and to ask if anyone would have / would do anything differently, I don't want to be made complicit obviously, some serious threats were made to his ex-wife but I thought we have handled it correctly.
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