This morning I met with the Lowell building inspector, Mr. St. Hiliare. He emphasized that I have a huge problem to deal with and explained what happened at the property. As I mentioned in my previous post, I explained to him that I was only aware of one incident involving the police. He explained that the Massachusetts law says that he can throw me in jail for a year, vacate the 53 Ware St property, place all the tenants in a hotel for 1 year and make me pay the bill. He also said there is "no way in fucking hell" he is going to put a landlord in jail and a drug dealer in a hotel. So he said as long as I'm willing to work with him, he's willing to work with me. He provided me with evidence to use in court to evict the tenant, George Alicea. First he gave me a news paper clipping to read: Police: Stepmom slashed woman on face in fight. Then he gave me the police report:
As if that wasn’t enough, he also gave me a list of each of the times the police were called to the property since December 2005:
So I called Larry Hickey today and asked if he could serve the 48 hour notice for me. When I told him the street address and the tenant’s name, he said he wasn’t surprised and that he’d dealt with that tenant many times. He went over there today and served the 48 hour notice. Hopefully the tenant will move out and I won’t have to go through the whole court process.
And you thought my sister had problems with her tentants….
No kidding. I obviously have much bigger problems than her. One might suggest selling the house; but oh wait, it’s been on the market for 9 months now.
Gangster.