I live next door to a Con Artist!

@missybal (4489)
United States
July 2, 2008 10:05am CST
Okay the people next door to me have always gotton just a little under my skin but it just keeps getting worse. We've lived her for 2 years. It's a small apartment building, only 4 apartments and nice and all. But these people get to me. The woman is on Disability. I don't know what for because she seem perfectly fine to me. Her boyfriend who is younger than her has been trying to get on disability for back problems...yet I've seen him carry things upstairs that I couldn't lift in a million years and he did it just fine. My landlord has a very long lease agreement and one of the main things is on pets. We are only allowed dogs if we have a double security deposit. I got a dog last year and gave him the second deposit before bringing the dog home. Well for the first year and a half I didn't know that the woman next door was not suppose to have a dog. She has had three that I have actually seen and I believe she has had a lot more than that during the whole time that I lived here. I recently found out why. Well she always complains about money and looking for a handout. I found out she tells people she is this lonely woman who wants a dog but can't afford to get one. So people give her these dogs because they feel sorry for her. Then she turns around and sells them to people saying the landlord won't let her have one and that she's so poor she needs money. This came to the attention of my neighbor downstairs who someone called her apartment looking for this other person because she was going to give her a dog. She said that the woman had been upset talking about how her dog recently died and she was so lonely but couldn't afford to get another because she wanted this purebred dog. The lady downstairs told this person that this woman had been telling everyone this sob story so that she can get a dog for free than sell them and that the landlord has let her know she is not allowed to have a dog at all. It really makes me sick!
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@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
2 Jul 08
You REALLY need to turn this lo life in to the social security office and NOW! The reason I say this is because I can't get disability because I haven't worked in over 10 years meaning I don't have enough points to get it. I have a ligitament reason to get it but I can't. Damn these people!! How dare they abuse the system!! Tell me who they are and I'LL be glad to turn them in!!
@missybal (4489)
• United States
2 Jul 08
Well for what I heard from the landlord she has something blood related that got her disability. I think it's something to do with diabetes or something like that, however she can work part time if she needs extra money (you are allowed to make $600 a month and keep disability)... So far the guy has been denied disability however he is still trying. Trust me if he gets on it than I will be talking to someone about all the things I've seen him doing. I see no reason at all for him not to be working but he lives off her disability. I think he is on medicaid and food stamps though, which in NY state that is pretty much everyone. I know the people downstairs reported him, but all you have to do is not be working and you get those things in NY. So our hands are tied. Together they go bike riding and play racket ball in the yard and are always going out to eat and doing all sort of things. I've seen their kitchen once and they has stacks and stacks of canned goods and all from the food pantries. It's like they are preparing for the end of the world. I have health problems too and I could go after disability if I wanted to but I can manage. Luckily my husband is a good man and supports us for the most part because my health is not good enough to work outside the home but I do my part. There is no reason to live off the system unless you really must.
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@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
2 Jul 08
I completely understand for I've lived in NY for almost a year and learned a lot on how the state works but I do agree with you, a person shouldn't sponge off the state unless it's really needed and then it's not called spongeing.
@mclendon (308)
• United States
2 Jul 08
I don't why I'm responding to this because that was just a rant and I'm not in a good, supportive mood today; but I can say that losers like that eventually get caught or ensnare themselves somehow. We used to live across from a guy who was on disability for awhile and went hunting, fishing, mudding, etc day after day. His parents moved in with him and helped him pay the bills even though he was in his 30s and had a child and looked perfectly healthy and fit. He even bought a new truck. One day I look out and there are a marshal and deputies hauling out the furniture. He had a perfectly good job and decided to try and cheat the system rather than get back to work and he ended up getting foreclosed on. He owned that house 10 years. There is really no excuse for that. There were three able-bodied adults in that house.
• United States
2 Jul 08
Stay away form the situation and HIM! Fences make great neighbors? but since an apartment building can't have them..but nice and wave or walk by and smile, but son't engage on any conversation. In the end, you want a peaceful life and what others do isn't your business! Stay out of it and avoid them! (Have peace!)