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Tenant Screening – Freeman Arrested, Landlady Finally Gets Her Duplex Back

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013

 October 1st, 2013

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Self-proclaimed sovereign arrested at the rental home he declared his embassy

We wrote about the horrible situation facing Rebekah Caverhill. 

She is the Calgary landlord whose story we called “Landlord Feels Like a Prisoner After Freemen On The Land Declares Rental Property His Embassy.”

Some Good News

As reported last Friday in the National Post the almost two year battle for Caverhill was finally coming to an end.

According to the Alberta Landlords Association Calgary police moved in at around 2 am and made an arrest. The tenant was arrested on  several outstanding warrants issued by courts in Quebec.

Tenant Andreas Pirelli was charged with pushing a landlady down a flight of stairs in Montreal in 2007.

An arrest warrant was issued in May 2010 when he failed to show up during his trial.

Police said Mr. Pirelli will remain in custody until he is transported back to Quebec.

Landlady Returns To Her Duplex

Caverhill was nervous about the opportunity to finally get back her home.

According to the Calgary Sun she said “I don’t know what I’m walking into when I walk in there, but that’s nothing. Bricks and boards can be fixed but there are some things that are far more precious then bricks and boards — that’s the idea of freedom and standing up for what you think is right.”

When she went into the basement unit on Monday she was met with a letter saying the Freeman had put a lien of $17,000 against the property.

This is the second lien he filed against her.

When she began to see what had happened to her rental property the Alberta senior broke out crying.

Looking at the mess and led her to say it was extremely painful for her to see what was left over. She was extremely upset.

Screen, Screen, Screen

What happened to Rebekah Caverhill can happen anywhere in Canada and is a wake-up call for landlords across the country.

She rented to this ‘Tenant from Hell’ based on the recommendation of a friend and didn’t sign a lease with him.

One of the lessons police are urging to public to take from this incident is the important of full background checks on potential tenants.

“It’s really important to contact prior landlords and check all references for people who are potentially going to be renting your property,” said Calgary police.

Calgary landlords are aghast at what happened. But it’s a situation that can happen anywhere in Canada at any time.

Remember to thoroughly screen your tenants before handing over the keys to your rental property.

Good screening includes a credit check and a criminal check.

Protect yourself, your family and your rental property investment. Spending a relatively small amount of money at the beginning can save you thousands of dollars later on.

Canmore renters must pay in $19,000 in damages after dog pee destroys carpet

Sunday, November 14th, 2010
Calgary Herald November 3, 2010

Not even the surprise attendance of a harmless-looking Yorkshire terrier could persuade a judge to exercise leniency on Tuesday in Canmore small claims court.

Provincial court Judge Les Grieve stood his ground when a former tenant pulled the male pooch, named Boo, from inside his coat and tried to claim innocence regarding his landlords’ badly soiled carpet. The proof, according to the evidence, had already trickled into the rug.

Grieve then awarded Cochrane landlords Bonnie White and Bryan Niles $19,182 in damages — more than half of it to replace the damaged carpet caused by the former tenants’ dogs repeatedly peeing on it. The carpet, he concluded, was so ruined that it had to be replaced.

Grieve ordered Sylvia Wilson, Lori Hersey and Michael Hersey to fork over $10,000 for the carpet, $1,800 for one month unpaid rent last April, $5,400 for another three months lost rent while the GlenEagles house was uninhabitable, and carpet cleaning costs and other repairs.

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Canmore+renters+must+damages+after+destroys+carpet/3768690/story.html#Comments#ixzz15JkVdVLv