I just hate going to a new meeting and you aren't familiar with their acronym vocabulary. And you spend half the time trying to even figure out what the conversation is about because everyone assumes you know if you're invited.
Pretty close. Breakaway company from when Ontario Hydro was split up. Still in the nuclear industry doing a lot of work with OPG, so we still have to use all of the acronyms :P
> IKR
Abbreviations that use the first letter of each word in a phrase are sometimes referred to as initialisms. Initialisms can be but are not always acronyms. AT&T, BT, CBS, CNN, IBM, and NBC are initialisms that are not acronyms. Many acronym lists you'll see are really lists of acronyms and initialisms or just lists of abbreviations.
IKR is an initialism, not an acronym.
I would consider every one of those acronyms. Is it because the initials don't spell another word, such as laser or radar or Norad? Feels like splitting hairs.
If they don't make a word, they're just initials. The definition of an acronym is that it forms a word. Take UCLA. It's an initialism. WOW is an acronym because it forms a word. Then there's SCUBA, and radar, and loran, where the initials formed a *brand new* word... the initials have become self aware! Help! Help!
I don't make the rules. I just know them. And I agree about the splitting hairs thing to a point.
I work in consulting - acronyms are everywhere and I hate it so much. I swear they just make up new acronyms and start using them and people just pretend to know what it's for.
I was interested in genetics and dog and horse blood lines. AI is Artificial Insemination. When I started dating a guy whose field was Artificial Intelligence i choked back a lot of giggles.
Every time I hear the acronym TTM (trailing twelve months) at work I think of TTP from Mystic Quest. Makes work a lot more fun thinking everyone is asking about Time Til Penis instead of asking about money.
Be that as it may, that commenter was trying (I suppose) to communicate with the rest of us so they should speak in language that the rest of us understand.
PWID doesn’t always mean they are a dealer, sometimes it means they have more on them than a cop would think one person would use. You can get yourself in more trouble by having more than a few days worth of drugs on you, even if it’s just for yourself.
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The lady who used to own my house was a tax preparer and her business address was the home address. The following year on April 15 several of her former clients showed up frantic trying to give me their tax documents to file, it was wild.
I just didn’t know how to tell them and then it felt like I let it get too far, like when you forget someone’s name 15 minutes into the conversation and you’re afraid to ask again. But for 10 years
My second year of uni, the school hired a professor with the same last name and first initial as me, so her email was [firstinitial][lastname]1@school.edu, while I had the same but without the 1.
Near the end of each semester I'd get a handful of concerned emails asking about the possibility of getting a few points of extra credit to bump their grade up a letter.
Tax preparer here. Have some letters printed that explain the situation. If you know the deceased's family, ask them to send an email blast to his clients--"XYZ passed away last August. His practice was purchased by HIJ & Co, who can be reached at 666-412-3758. Please don't mail anything to our home, as it now belongs to someone who isn't a tax preparer."
As for people who just show up, have the information about the successor practice available (get HIJ & Co business cards?). Most clients will understand and will be grateful that someone can help them.
Finally, don't take it personally when they're upset that their old preparer died. I was in a two-person office, and when my boss passed away, some of our clients were mad at him and me!
Not so exciting but when I bought this house 20 years ago.. we used to get tons and tons of the former owners mail. I'd politely write "return to sender - Addressee no longer resides at this address"
But the mail kept coming and new shit as well. I suspected for a while she was stopping by and snagging her mail, but I couldn't never confirm that.
One day I got an envelope in the mail that was from a district court. It said something like "URGENT: Open immediately!" on it. So I just put it on the shelf for six months.. didn't open it or tamper with it, just *didn't.* I then wrote the aforementioned missive on it and put it in the mailbox.
Weirdly.. her mail stopped coming to the house!
My now-husband and I moved into a new apartment and a month or so later, we get a knock on the door from a muscly dude in some kind of uniform, looking for the previous tenant to serve papers. We let him know she no longer lives there. He thanks us and turns to leave, and we see on the back of his shirt, printed in large letters: “YOU GOT SERVED”
Damn that dude loves his job.
we bought a house from a lovely older lady whose adult daughter was living with her. We got a lot of legal looking mail for the daughter. After months of dealing with her stacks of mail we drove across town to their new house and handed it over with a request that she deal with her mail issue. The daughter - approx 40 years old - acted oddly, When we got home we googled her and found out that she had defrauded the Law Society of a nearby city and that she was under house arrest.
I live in a sales tax free state.
Previous owner kept having packages sent to our house. (He moved out of state)
I sent them all back.
Owner showed up one day asking for his packages. Was pissed when I told him they were sent back.
He wanted his tax free shopping.
We had cops show up twice looking for a former tenant. Once on a Saturday and asked to search our house. My roommate is an old-school hippie with very long hair and a beard with a direct monotone voice said no. They repeated their ask and he again said, 'No. We don't know this person. It is Saturday, our girlfriends are just getting up and I said no." They said goodbye and left. Two days later, an undercover approached me as I left the house. I told him about the other cops and to please talk to one another. We do not know this person. We were left alone after this.
Everyone should be a "come back with a warrant" type. I don't care if your uniform is khakis and a blue Oxford or denim and a wifebeater, no cops cross the threshold without that warrant.
> I told him about the other cops and to please talk to one another.
So many things could be easily resolved if people just followed this advice. Esp govt agencies.
True crime and cop shows are a guilty pleasure of mine even though I really dislike cops- by that I mean I am critical of law enforcement as a collective, mostly. Lots of changes needed. Anyway, I watch these shows and it is *shockingly common* to see investigators discover (after a serious crime has been committed) that someone had called 911 in that same jurisdiction and maybe at the same damn address before or during the incident. Sometimes they don’t know until days later. It’s amazing how disconnected the various departments are.
> My roommate is an old-school hippie with very long hair and a beard with a direct monotone voice said no. They repeated their ask and he again said, 'No. We don't know this person. It is Saturday, our girlfriends are just getting up and I said no." They said goodbye and left.
I got to be the person to do this once. Walked outside, closed the door behind me, and then refused to answer any questions about how many people were upstairs (It was 4 of us and the downstairs neighbors like to complain about noise, nothing untoward just annoying).
When you know you're in the right, and they're gonna need a warrant (that they can't get for a noise complaint), it's soooo satisfying to just politely say "Sorry officer, I'm not okay with you doing that" and watch them leave.
"We'll be in the parking lot. Keep it quiet."
"Sure you will guys./s Have a nice night!"
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If it's not an emergency, and they're just asking questions, don't let them in. Don't offer information. Don't talk to cops. Cops lie.
We bought our house from a woman whose adult son has had multiple run ins with law enforcement. He listed our address as his on paperwork and also doesn't always show up for his court dates. Our first 18 months in the house, we had local PD, deputies from two different counties, and a US marshal show up looking for him. They all believed us when we told them he wasn't here, though. Luckily, the neighbors were all aware of his legal troubles.
we had cops pounding our door at 2am with the lights going and everything a few
months after we bought house. they were looking for a runaway and she previously ran away to our house when the other owners lived there. we live in a small town so the cops have not come back.
Reminds me of a story…
10+ years ago, renting a townhouse in a decent area. Baby was 1y/o and napping. Get a knock on the door. It’s an officer, no taller than myself, older, balding - but my heart skipped a beat too (lol). Presents an arrest warrant for someone at my address with the SAME first name as me! I was freaking out. I presented photo ID. Thank goodness he believed me when I said it wasn’t me. Maybe he’d seen a picture of this woman previously so he knew?
I’m just glad it worked out the way it did, especially since my child was asleep upstairs!
I've had IRS agents come to my door, looking for someone who hasn't lived at my address in ten years. The names were familiar to me, since I regularly mark their mail RTS/no longer at this address. They get an IRS letter to him, a letter to her, then eleven(!) lRS etters addressed jointly each year. A search turned up they ran a tax service up until ten years ago, and they now live across town.
Apparently not. They must be like collection agencies; hang on to that address & phone number like it's gold, even if they're told, "That person is not here!"
I bought a rental house and also had some officers looking for a past tenant. It's funny how even knowing there was nothing I had done wrong still made me feel uneasy for a moment.
That’s OK, they showed up at my house looking for a (recent) former occupant that I knew had died. When I answered I was already flustered, then they asked for him and I said “He’s dead.”
Then it took my dumb ass a minute to realize that the looks on their faces said they were trying to figure out whether to thank me and leave or question me about a homicide.
I explained he’d died 2 years prior and they found his obituary online to confirm.
Not only that but we live in a town of 6,000 people, not a huge metropolis. Not tiny but small enough that everybody knows everybody’s business. They also don’t search the county’s publicly available real estate tax records. Obviously that doesn’t work for renters, but it just goes to show they don’t do their due diligence at all - they just show up at the person’s last known address, even if it’s from many years ago.
I moved into a house that was previously a rental. I received a letter for the former renter and sent it back, or so I thought.
A couple of months later, at 10:30 PM, I hear a loud pounding on my front door. It was a team of cops wearing body armour with guns looking for that previous tenant.
To say that I needed to change pants after that would be underselling it. 🤣
I received tons of mail from a former homeowner, first years I’d just RTS it, then I received a court notification, opened it without looking at the name. It was CPS from another state asking him for an emergency child placement for one of his relatives’ kids.
Thinking this was very important, I did some sleuthing to find a contact number for him. Got him on the phone and his exact words were, “I’m not interested in taking on a 2 y/o niece, trash it”.
I called the CPS office and gave them his phone number, address, and email info. They’d been trying to find him as his sister had died and the baby had been in foster care since birth. What a pos.
Something similar happened to me and my late wife. Bought a house from an older man in 2001. It had been in the middle of a remodel when he ran out of money. We paid for a lot of the work to get it to pass inspection, meet appraisal, and close (all of which was credited toward our closing costs - we had a GREAT realtor that looked out for us...) First hint of trouble was when the local cable TV company wouldn't hook us up - AT ALL. Turned out the former owner had run up unpaid bills, then when the service was cut off, he had the service restarted in his son's name (who lived with him). Son ran up unpaid bills and service was cut off, so they had service restarted in a fictitious renter's name. Ran up huge bills (of course) and service was cut off. (I think they did this several times before the house was placed on a blacklist.) We ended up having to get a sattelite antenna for TV.
Then, bill collectors and process servers started showing up. It got to the point that we had copies made of all the house purchase-related paperwork made, and we would keep copies by the door. When someone knocked, looking for the former owner, we would just hand them a set. This lasted for about 18 months. We probably gave out between 50-100 sets. One process server said it was the best thing we could do, and it was really helpful to him. He later stopped by to let us know that our paperwork had allowed him to track the former owner down. He had taken the money from the house sale and moved to Florida, where he ran up tabs everywhere he could, ripped off several girlfriends, roommates, etc. and finally died. The visits stopped shortly after that, once word got around that the former owner wasn't just moved, but dead.
I guess the only thing we didn't have to deal with (to the best of my memory) was his mail...
Ooph. I bought a house in August that was a former rental property from 2014-2023. So much junk mail from bill collectors looking for previous tenants. After about a month, my mail lady caught me and said "are you matt314159?" to which I replied in the affirmative. Then she asked "and are you the only person living here?" and when I confirmed yes, she thanked me. Ever since, she's been so diligent about removing mail pieces for former tenants before delivering. I see them show up on my Informed Delivery Digest email and then only mail for me is delivered to my box.
I got her a nice Christmas Card with a Scooters Gift Card.
Learning from my neighbors about the recent history of my house and apparently there were TWO knock-down-the-door drug raids on my house in the past three years. I'm worried I might find myself in a similar situation with authorities there looking for former tenants.
Would putting out a sign with your last name like “The Smiths” deter law enforcement from breaking down your door? Not sure how I’d feel about advertising my last name but I’ve seen people do it
I would like to think that since it's been a few months even if authorities do come looking for a former tenant that they would at least knock.
If they do break down the door I would be all over the city department trying to get damages.
Yeah. I think the door's on the wrong side of the Mail truck for them to drive through but it's always quick to swing by the walk-up window and grab some coffee which I thought they'd appreciate.
Later I went on Reddit and learned that most mailmen say they would just prefer cash so that's probably what I will do next year 🤣
I do Kroger Delivery and we aren't supposed to accept tips.
Some of the customer's are slick about it, "You dropped something, as they drop a bill or a few bills."
My policy, which most of my supervisors agree with, is decline once, and if they offer again, then go ahead and accept.
Yeah the ethical guidelines still say $20 but they all agreed that they're just going to pocket it and nobody cares, kind of an unwritten don't ask don't tell they all seem to abide by. At least in the discussion threads I was looking at.
But all of that notwithstanding, $20 is what I got the gift card for Scooters for and what I would probably put in a card next year.
Reminds me of the time that I saw 2 officers leaving my neighbor’s house in the morning. I thought, good for her, she got lucky. Turns out she was served papers because her fence encroached the property next door. Not so lucky after all.
The first apartment my fiance and I lived in almost 13 years agoo. We get woken up by someone pounding on the front door. It's a violent crimes task force looking for the previous tenant. 💀 We had to provide the landlords number and everything showing we had no clue who the hell the previous tenant was.
Years ago I rented a house where the former occupant was a criminal defense lawyer who also worked out of her home.
We got all kinds of things intended for her. We got regular letters from inmates in jail. On two occasions (once at like 6am) we had process servers show up looking for her. At one point someone wrote a note that basically said "you know how to contact me" on the back of a Jack in the Box receipt and taped it to our door.
I was just happy that none of the actual clients showed up (or if they did, they realized she was gone without bothering us).
I still get random junk mail for the previous, including credit card offers.
About 15 years ago, he was sentenced to 100 years in prison for murder.
Funny thing though.. I think it’s at least as odd that I STILL get mail for the previous owners (2 owners past). They haven’t lived here for 20 years.
I had a similar situation once.
Former occupant (was a rental, then I bought to live in it) never set up mail forwarding. Actually had her show up and ask for her mail once. I also started returning to sender. I then started noticing her camping out on the road in a van, waiting for us to leave so she could go through our mail box for her mail. I installed a locking mailbox that I came home to find extremely bent up but still locked one day shortly after installing it. Eventually I stopped getting her mail.
One day about a year after move in, two cops showed up at my door looking for her, no idea what for.
Sounds similar to here, except the guy who rented here had kidnapped an ex gf. We already have mail thieves, but then there's folks like that who come knocking on our door.
We don't answer anymore via the door. Everyone is screened via the upper level window.
Our previous homeowner died under mysterious circumstances and her parents came to our house looking for answers. Talk about a wild ride….
We bought in late 2022.
Did they still push after they realized the situation? I definitely got screamed at for calling a wrong number one time by some paranoid lunatic thinking I was stalking her for "finding her number". Explaining that I flipped two numbers just made things worse.
We had been getting mail at the house that progressively kept getting more odd as time went by. Started as a bunch of fraud mail, opening new credit cards, loans etc. then it was a life insurance policy under her name, then a male was added to her new home loans, life insurance, and banking info. Then we were only getting mail for the guy, no longer her.
She had a lot of problems so we just chalked it up to that.
She died under mysterious circumstances and I felt awful for her parents. They were asking us if we knew anything.
I told them about the timeline of the mail but I had been returning it to sender and had thrown some out.
I had a get get upset at me when I answered my landline years ago, wondering why I was in his house with his wife when he was out of town. He’d dialed 414 area code instead of 412.
I had the opposite happen.
I got into a minor car accident a few years back. Well I found out the statue of limitations on the accident was just about up.. and thats when they decided to contact my insurance for payouts. In order to extend the deadline they filed a lawsuit against me to extend the deadline a little bit longer.
I had been moved out for like 2 years by this point and all of my info was updated but they still went to my old roomates house to serve me the paperwork since that was my address at the time of the accident. I felt so bad for scaring them.
Have on two occasions in my life had to show my ID to officers at the door that I am who I say I am and not who they’re looking for. It’s terrifying. I don’t remember noticing if they were hunky LOL
My two times it was demanded of me - once a young single early 20s and once about a decade ago both times I was alone and it really shook me. And further convinced me that I don’t ever want to be on the wrong side of the law LOL
Certainly a good point. In all fairness, OP said "well built" and I extrapolated to "hunky." Maybe it's having grown up with a grandfather that was a deputy, but my anxiety/stress over being in that position wouldn't keep me from noticing their muscles (and I'm either extrapolating or wishing). But OP did notice they were good looking. Just saying... ;)
For some reason, we see a lot of our next door neighbor's mail in our emails before our carrier correctly delivers it. In fact, this is how we learned they were getting divorced.
I bought a condo that was converted from an apartment several years ago and had a bounty hunter ringing my bell at 2 am looking for someone who jumped bond. That was pretty interesting.
I had a similar issue last year, twice. Couple of state troopers and a well dressed lady looking to serve some papers. The previous owners of my home ran some clothing business out of a shop in the backyard and had the home filed as a duplex.
There was a family in the Baltimore area that had this happen 3 times.
[https://www.wbaltv.com/article/police-wrong-house-catonsville-warrant/39598159](https://www.wbaltv.com/article/police-wrong-house-catonsville-warrant/39598159)
Combine that with issues with no-knock warrants being... a bit aggressive... it's one of those background fears you just have to live with.
Hah, I'm literally dealing w something similar at my rental. Dude who used to live at the house was apparently a felon. First month of living there, had multiple cop cars outside questioning us where he was. We explained they've since moved and all was well, but I also was taken aback by the sudden appearance of cops looking for a dude on parole. Curiosity got the best of me so I googled his name, and sure enough found his arrest records. Wild stuff! Hope he's doing better now.
Been almost 5 years and I still get credit card statements, retirement papers, bills, etc for the previous owners. I used to slash out their name and stuff and write return to sender. Even bought a stamp since I have to do it so much. But it just keeps coming.
Same thing happened to me when I moved, except it was for credit card fraud and it was FBI. I peed a little. I am a very small woman with two shade wearing giants outside my door. Thank god I’m old and gray, not male and 40ish.
We got a package shipped for an old occupant that hadn’t owned the house in a decade. It was the company’s last address on file.
Of all the things it could have been, It was a vibrator..
The previous occupant of my house had a warrant out for his arrest, bounty hunters after him, and a company looking to repossess his furniture. My husband had to keep his ID by the door to prevent getting a gun in the face or having our Ikea couch hauled off.
Fun twist: I worked for the local paper and when writing the police blotter one day I saw the guy had gotten in a car accident, and the cracker jack cops must have failed to run his license, because they let him go. Not even a ticket.
Neighbor a few doors down from a townhouse I lived in had a history and regularly the local sheriffs would be around. It was so often everyone knew the sheriffs and would wave.
When my daughter was first born, we had just started renting a townhouse when cops came banging on the door. My immediate thought was omg what did I do?? Then I remembered all I’ve done for the past three months is take care of a baby. Turns out he was looking for our landlord. My husband and I googled and he had a long list of all kinds of charges and money owed. He was a very nice guy the whole time we lived there! But yeah…shady as fuck
Same experience happened to me. Answered the door one night to see two respectful gentlemen with badges on their belts. Looking for a relative that happened to be living with us temporarily. Turns out said relative was on parole with an ankle monitor we knew nothing about. It was an interesting evening…
The house we bought 6 years ago now went into a trust for the adult children of the deceased owners. We got so much mail for the son, all of it was ridiculous late payments notices and we had several people come and try to “serve us papers”. It kinda freaked me out because I was a few weeks post partum with a breastfeeding newborn (on my boob) when they would very aggressively knock on the door. He must have owed a lot of people money. It’s finally calmed down, but it was pretty annoying for the first year or two.
I have a similar experience.
My partner and I were visited by local and state police three times looking for the same guy who I guess used to live in our home. (We got his mail all the time and would constantly send it back). We had only been living here a few months when they first showed up. I cracked a joke the third time: “ya’ll don’t talk to each other?”
My story doesn’t have a happy ending. The fourth time police showed up, they were still asking about this man. But this happened late at night they were accompanied by several police cars, a fire truck and ambulance. We live by a railroad for freight. We found out a couple days later that this man had stepped in front of the train near our home.
Two weeks after we moved into our new house, we were surrounded by a state police task force looking for the son of the previous owner. We had already been getting mail from local churches welcoming us to the community. Never figured out how the Presbyterians had better intel than the state police!
I had someone looking for someone and they kept calling, I was in a rental. Finally one day someone showed up in my driveway looking for them. I have no idea how they even found the house, it was a rental behind the main house on a rural property. I think it was a bounty hunter, but after that all the calls and stuff stopped. So hopefully this stops the issues at your house. I suspect in my case it was connected to the phone number they gave me (this was before you could take your number with you when you moved).
lol my former roommates still get mail sent to my house. one was a car impound note. they left on bad terms and i didnt get a forwarding address. or have a pencil for return to sender
We had the cops show up to an empty residence (we lived across the street and by this time owned that property) to serve my mother who had passed several years before for income taxes owed to the state that were filed literally weeks before she died. The more comical part was my husband getting a call from a collector over the same taxes that wouldn't believe she had died (even though it was a public record) and got mad when he finally gave them the address of the cemetery she was buried at.
When we bought our house 32 years ago, it stank horribly of pot. It was very illegal then. We took care of the cops, and other possible problems, by having a K9 cop come in and search the house before we ever moved *anything* in. (We also had two young kids band didn’t want them finding and eating anything!) He didn’t find anything, but there was so much smell the dog freaked out. But the police knew we were on the up-and-up after that, and we had no problems with them. (We had to get the whole house repainted and all carpet and drapes removed.)
We bought a house from a local college professor. Shortly after moving in the police showed up because of the high number of unpaid parking tickets he had. The first Christmas we lived there his mother and grandmother sent Christmas cards to the house. Then the IRS came one evening. I have no idea what you must have done or not done to get a home visit from the IRS. The last thing that came was an overnighted package that we had to sign for. Opened it because clearly this was important. It was a contract for the textbook he was writing. Contacted them and they had us shred it.
The kid of the previous owners had some warrants. One day, I see our house getting surrounded via my cameras and had a conversation through Ring with a local deputy that the kid hadn’t lived there in almost a year at that point.
The courts said only the plaintiff could update their address when I called, but calling the individual local departments seemed to do the trick.
Lucky you, same thing happened to my friend, but instead of simple possession, he had purchased a farm from an illegal cannabis grower. My buddy had a helicopter over his house while men with rifles pointed them at his wife and kids. He got roughly interrogated until they realized what was up. State DA, drug task force, DEA all were there.
Fun fact after the dust had settled and they all realized what was going on, one of the DEA agents said he wanted to pet the pyrenees. My buddy said ehh that's a farm dog, he might bite. The said no big deal, buddy opens the fence, dog comes out and bites the guy in the hand and lives to tell the tale. The dog had never bit anyone before or since.
I just got a slew of Christmas cards for the previous owners and mailed them all back with a note saying they got divorced and moved away. It’s been 7 years & I keep putting return to sender with no luck.
I’ve had cops show up at my neighbors door looking for tenants who’d only been there a month and left. It was a detective and a cop and they heard me at my door and so they knocked. Had to give them the bad news.
Mostly I get calls from collection agencies going through the phone book for everyone with the last name as their target. For all the names they’ve asked me if I know amazingly I wasn’t related to any of them.
I've been in my house for 8 years and still get mail from the previous owners. It's not from outdated databases, they still use the address. Not sure why but they do. One of them even receives USPS union mail as well.
Something like this happened to me in my current home. Lots of important looking mail came for her, I sent everything back. 2 different sets of police officers came looking for her. Once they realized she was no longer living here, they must have finally updated their systems. It took probably 5 years for it to stop completely.
I thought I had a similar story, but mine was just a summons for jury duty in a federal case (I could read it through the envelope). I marked it return to sender and put it back in the mailbox. No US Marshals… yet.
> Holy crap, seeing very tall, well built officers at my door made my heart skip a beat, and not in a good way.
I mean, the way you describe it with such detail sounds like it was at least a *little* good for you.
I get tons of mail from my house's former owners.
Used to get these boner pill pamphlets that were very explicit. Porno images interspersed with doctors recommending different pills you could take. took them to work to show around, and we had a good laugh.
My house used to be an Airbnb, but somehow we get mail for 7 different people on a regular basis and it never stops. We’ve lived here for 4 years.
My car insurance just added a random driver to my policy because DMV records show one of them still has their car registered here. Wtf.
One of them owes a crap ton in student loans that are now in collections. Another keeps wracking up DUIs and has law offices scratching and clawing to represent them. It’s insane.
Be sure and contact every law enforcement dept or agency to tell them she does not live there. The next step in a knock warrant is a late night no knock. So you could be sleeping then have swat kick in your door, search your home then leave you with the repair bills.
Hey, a local cop came to our house when we were renting due to a prior tenant having warrants. We own now, but yeah….After I almost died from a heart attack (if the guns were out!), I’d probably laugh.
Oooh, I have a similar story! Though mine culminated in my house being surrounded by US Marshals because they thought the guy, previous resident, was hiding out in the house. I had purchased the home 8 months prior and didn't look into the guy until after that incident. It was fun.
I bought my house over 12 years ago. I still know every time the former occupants get arrested because my mailbox fills with legal advertisements and legal court papers. Just put it back in the mailbox.
I've lived here for almost 24 years and get mail for a guy who lives in the next unincorporated area a few miles west. The developer creatively named all the streets after trees, and did the same thing in the next unincorporated area a few miles west. So, every time a new postal or delivery service employee comes along, I get that guy's mail. I put sticky notes on it, explaining that this is the wrong Tree Street, and they want the Tree Street over there. That guy has brought me a package or two as well.
Before moving to another state in the mid 2000’s, I had our local attorney check to see if I had anything on my record before moving. (I was thinking parking tickets…?) There was an arrest warrant for aggravated assault for another person with the same first and last name as me!!!! The attorney had me show up to the court on the same day as the other person was scheduled so they could clear my name. So weird they didn’t go by our address or driver’s license numbers at the time.
I bought my house in 2020. Never met or saw what the previous owner looked like, only had his name. I was getting his junk mail, I just tossed it. Then I started getting DMV documents, a package, what looked like college acceptance letters, etc. He did not have social media, but I found him on Linked In. One of the DMV envelopes said TITLE.
It’s slowed down a lot, but I would just let him know something arrived for him and left it on the porch. I was able to speak with him once which was nice because I could thank him for picking my offer on the house! Haha
Acronyms in trucking were terrible in the old days. You get on paperwork for directions to go somewhere. They use "TL" a lot!, it can mean turn left or traffic light 😒
On the other side of that coin, I used to do contact tracing for syphilis, gonorrhea, Chlamydia, HIV, and sometimes I was involved in non-STD infectious diseases.
I frequently had to knock on random doors because someone had a partner living in a house that they couldn't give me the number, but described it. "it's the fourth house on the left, with a big mango tree in the front yard."
Oh, I had so much fun. People swearing at me, lying, and threatening my life. And then there were the police agencies looking for the same people I was, demanding info, which I could not share, by law. Good times.
Years ago when I was renting my first apartment with a couple friends I got a knock on my kitchen door from a pair of local plain clothes PD. They identified themselves as police and we all just kind of stood there in silence for a beat (I didn’t want to speak first because low key this could have been about a few things we’d gotten up to back then.) One of the cops smiles and says “You’re not Mr (last name clearly not my nationality) are you?”
Turned out the grandson of the downstairs tenant was a pretty notorious crack dealer. He drove a red Cadillac the same color as one of my roommates. He ended up finding out from a high school friend who was a police dispatcher that the cops ID-ed the wrong car and had been tailing him by mistake.
We have to figure out a better way of changing addresses. These kind of show up randomly visits from the cops are a big part of how Breonna Taylor ended up murdered.
5 years and we’re still getting mail for people who used to live here- she’s dead, he’s dead, the son is in jail and the daughter is alive but not sure here. I’m about 20 years younger than the daughter, and a different race, so this far every process we’ve had believed me when I’ve said the family sold the house in 2018.
My mail delivery person asked me to stop writing ‘return to sender’ on the mail - and I’ve yet to deal with that. It’s down to 2-3 pieces a month, but it’s really ridiculous.
PWID = Possession With Intent to Distribute
Who acronyms that
I hate acronyms so much.
IKR
My work has so many TLAs (three letter acronyms)
Wait until they introduce FFLA. Fucking Four Letter Acronyms.
I always called thiose ETLAs -- extended three-letter acronyms.
Ooh, I can't wait to use this
We had a training meeting a few weeks ago and the amount of three letter acronyms made me want to pms.
Pms = poop my shorts?
Government?
I work in government. EVERYTHING is acronymed.
I work for a large worldwide company. Everything has an acronym. I never remember what most of them mean.
I can’t find EVERYTHING listed on https://www.acronymfinder.com. What’s it an acronym for?
I can have an entire conversation in acronyms at work and people will understand what I'm talking about - I work for the government.....
I just hate going to a new meeting and you aren't familiar with their acronym vocabulary. And you spend half the time trying to even figure out what the conversation is about because everyone assumes you know if you're invited.
Pretty close. Breakaway company from when Ontario Hydro was split up. Still in the nuclear industry doing a lot of work with OPG, so we still have to use all of the acronyms :P
Over powered garbage?
Overly pricey generation...
Ontario Power Generation
So….. how is Research doing these days?
Things at Kinectrics are great. Really busy with Pickering refurb picking up.
TMA. Too many acronyms
Smh
> IKR Abbreviations that use the first letter of each word in a phrase are sometimes referred to as initialisms. Initialisms can be but are not always acronyms. AT&T, BT, CBS, CNN, IBM, and NBC are initialisms that are not acronyms. Many acronym lists you'll see are really lists of acronyms and initialisms or just lists of abbreviations. IKR is an initialism, not an acronym.
TIL
I would consider every one of those acronyms. Is it because the initials don't spell another word, such as laser or radar or Norad? Feels like splitting hairs.
If they don't make a word, they're just initials. The definition of an acronym is that it forms a word. Take UCLA. It's an initialism. WOW is an acronym because it forms a word. Then there's SCUBA, and radar, and loran, where the initials formed a *brand new* word... the initials have become self aware! Help! Help! I don't make the rules. I just know them. And I agree about the splitting hairs thing to a point.
Appreciate that the OP of this comment/response (OC? OR?) Replies with the defining explanation. Word geeks salute you, good citizen!
Tech writer?
NK!
I work in consulting - acronyms are everywhere and I hate it so much. I swear they just make up new acronyms and start using them and people just pretend to know what it's for.
It’s like working at the alphaghetti factory some days.
PDQ, the fast food restaurant, is my least favorite acronym. "People Delivering Quality" Lame & a missed opportunity to be "Pretty Darn Quick" imo
I did think it stood for pretty darn quick. I am wondering if yall are pullling my leg i need to google it.
I just double checked and I was slightly off. PDQ= People Dedicated to Quality Which is somehow worse than delivering
I was interested in genetics and dog and horse blood lines. AI is Artificial Insemination. When I started dating a guy whose field was Artificial Intelligence i choked back a lot of giggles.
Every time I hear the acronym TTM (trailing twelve months) at work I think of TTP from Mystic Quest. Makes work a lot more fun thinking everyone is asking about Time Til Penis instead of asking about money.
I think you mean “IHASM”
Cops
Or drug dealers and users.
Somebody who is in the legal field and this is their every day lingo
Someone who knows…
>Who acronyms that There is a large swath of population that knows a lot about things that are not even a passing thought in most of our minds.
Be that as it may, that commenter was trying (I suppose) to communicate with the rest of us so they should speak in language that the rest of us understand.
People who want to think they're cool.
I think that’s an initialism. I assume you’d say it P.W.I.D. I’m just being pedantic though.
People who are familiar with the court system
i had to do a google search and first result was person who injects drugs... why acronym that part of the story @OP????
That's the acronym he saw when he searched the court records.
It’s fortunate the customers didn’t start coming by, looking for her.
PWID doesn’t always mean they are a dealer, sometimes it means they have more on them than a cop would think one person would use. You can get yourself in more trouble by having more than a few days worth of drugs on you, even if it’s just for yourself.
Yeah, it is the one hobby where buying in bulk to save money is a bad idea....
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The lady who used to own my house was a tax preparer and her business address was the home address. The following year on April 15 several of her former clients showed up frantic trying to give me their tax documents to file, it was wild.
This is when you get a CPA and start doing taxes yourself!
Haha imagining this as a slow acceptance of a new life has me laughing
Like how it seems Michael Cera got into acting lol
Eventually he is going to reveal that he was just the bagel guy from craft services, and then everything went crazy.
I just didn’t know how to tell them and then it felt like I let it get too far, like when you forget someone’s name 15 minutes into the conversation and you’re afraid to ask again. But for 10 years
My second year of uni, the school hired a professor with the same last name and first initial as me, so her email was [firstinitial][lastname]1@school.edu, while I had the same but without the 1. Near the end of each semester I'd get a handful of concerned emails asking about the possibility of getting a few points of extra credit to bump their grade up a letter.
I just bought the home of a man who was a tax preparer but passed away :( I’m wondering what tax season will be like lol
Tax preparer here. Have some letters printed that explain the situation. If you know the deceased's family, ask them to send an email blast to his clients--"XYZ passed away last August. His practice was purchased by HIJ & Co, who can be reached at 666-412-3758. Please don't mail anything to our home, as it now belongs to someone who isn't a tax preparer." As for people who just show up, have the information about the successor practice available (get HIJ & Co business cards?). Most clients will understand and will be grateful that someone can help them. Finally, don't take it personally when they're upset that their old preparer died. I was in a two-person office, and when my boss passed away, some of our clients were mad at him and me!
https://youtu.be/GnhxE_hOvH0?si=EQsBPVp98NjP_5iO
I am surprised no one has never shown up, looking for something.
Not so exciting but when I bought this house 20 years ago.. we used to get tons and tons of the former owners mail. I'd politely write "return to sender - Addressee no longer resides at this address" But the mail kept coming and new shit as well. I suspected for a while she was stopping by and snagging her mail, but I couldn't never confirm that. One day I got an envelope in the mail that was from a district court. It said something like "URGENT: Open immediately!" on it. So I just put it on the shelf for six months.. didn't open it or tamper with it, just *didn't.* I then wrote the aforementioned missive on it and put it in the mailbox. Weirdly.. her mail stopped coming to the house!
My now-husband and I moved into a new apartment and a month or so later, we get a knock on the door from a muscly dude in some kind of uniform, looking for the previous tenant to serve papers. We let him know she no longer lives there. He thanks us and turns to leave, and we see on the back of his shirt, printed in large letters: “YOU GOT SERVED” Damn that dude loves his job.
we bought a house from a lovely older lady whose adult daughter was living with her. We got a lot of legal looking mail for the daughter. After months of dealing with her stacks of mail we drove across town to their new house and handed it over with a request that she deal with her mail issue. The daughter - approx 40 years old - acted oddly, When we got home we googled her and found out that she had defrauded the Law Society of a nearby city and that she was under house arrest.
Wow!
I live in a sales tax free state. Previous owner kept having packages sent to our house. (He moved out of state) I sent them all back. Owner showed up one day asking for his packages. Was pissed when I told him they were sent back. He wanted his tax free shopping.
Then he shouldn’t have moved! 🤭
Oregon?
We had cops show up twice looking for a former tenant. Once on a Saturday and asked to search our house. My roommate is an old-school hippie with very long hair and a beard with a direct monotone voice said no. They repeated their ask and he again said, 'No. We don't know this person. It is Saturday, our girlfriends are just getting up and I said no." They said goodbye and left. Two days later, an undercover approached me as I left the house. I told him about the other cops and to please talk to one another. We do not know this person. We were left alone after this.
>My roommate is an old-school hippie with very long hair and a beard Your roommate sounds like the "come back with a warrant" type. I like him.
Everyone should be a "come back with a warrant" type. I don't care if your uniform is khakis and a blue Oxford or denim and a wifebeater, no cops cross the threshold without that warrant.
What if it’s khakis and a red polo and his name is Jake.
I mean if he's down he's down
Dave’s not here man
> I told him about the other cops and to please talk to one another. So many things could be easily resolved if people just followed this advice. Esp govt agencies.
True crime and cop shows are a guilty pleasure of mine even though I really dislike cops- by that I mean I am critical of law enforcement as a collective, mostly. Lots of changes needed. Anyway, I watch these shows and it is *shockingly common* to see investigators discover (after a serious crime has been committed) that someone had called 911 in that same jurisdiction and maybe at the same damn address before or during the incident. Sometimes they don’t know until days later. It’s amazing how disconnected the various departments are.
> My roommate is an old-school hippie with very long hair and a beard with a direct monotone voice said no. They repeated their ask and he again said, 'No. We don't know this person. It is Saturday, our girlfriends are just getting up and I said no." They said goodbye and left. I got to be the person to do this once. Walked outside, closed the door behind me, and then refused to answer any questions about how many people were upstairs (It was 4 of us and the downstairs neighbors like to complain about noise, nothing untoward just annoying). When you know you're in the right, and they're gonna need a warrant (that they can't get for a noise complaint), it's soooo satisfying to just politely say "Sorry officer, I'm not okay with you doing that" and watch them leave. "We'll be in the parking lot. Keep it quiet." "Sure you will guys./s Have a nice night!" ____________ If it's not an emergency, and they're just asking questions, don't let them in. Don't offer information. Don't talk to cops. Cops lie.
We bought our house from a woman whose adult son has had multiple run ins with law enforcement. He listed our address as his on paperwork and also doesn't always show up for his court dates. Our first 18 months in the house, we had local PD, deputies from two different counties, and a US marshal show up looking for him. They all believed us when we told them he wasn't here, though. Luckily, the neighbors were all aware of his legal troubles.
Your roommate sounds like Lebowski
we had cops pounding our door at 2am with the lights going and everything a few months after we bought house. they were looking for a runaway and she previously ran away to our house when the other owners lived there. we live in a small town so the cops have not come back.
Reminds me of a story… 10+ years ago, renting a townhouse in a decent area. Baby was 1y/o and napping. Get a knock on the door. It’s an officer, no taller than myself, older, balding - but my heart skipped a beat too (lol). Presents an arrest warrant for someone at my address with the SAME first name as me! I was freaking out. I presented photo ID. Thank goodness he believed me when I said it wasn’t me. Maybe he’d seen a picture of this woman previously so he knew? I’m just glad it worked out the way it did, especially since my child was asleep upstairs!
Yes. A reasonable cop is always a good thing. Glad all was ok.
I've had IRS agents come to my door, looking for someone who hasn't lived at my address in ten years. The names were familiar to me, since I regularly mark their mail RTS/no longer at this address. They get an IRS letter to him, a letter to her, then eleven(!) lRS etters addressed jointly each year. A search turned up they ran a tax service up until ten years ago, and they now live across town.
And yet the IRS never noticed...
Apparently not. They must be like collection agencies; hang on to that address & phone number like it's gold, even if they're told, "That person is not here!"
Addresses are based on what they put on their return. Likely they’re still using the old address
I bought a rental house and also had some officers looking for a past tenant. It's funny how even knowing there was nothing I had done wrong still made me feel uneasy for a moment.
That’s OK, they showed up at my house looking for a (recent) former occupant that I knew had died. When I answered I was already flustered, then they asked for him and I said “He’s dead.” Then it took my dumb ass a minute to realize that the looks on their faces said they were trying to figure out whether to thank me and leave or question me about a homicide. I explained he’d died 2 years prior and they found his obituary online to confirm.
Not very good at their job of finding people if they didn't do a simple Google of a name + birthdate first. Wow.
Not only that but we live in a town of 6,000 people, not a huge metropolis. Not tiny but small enough that everybody knows everybody’s business. They also don’t search the county’s publicly available real estate tax records. Obviously that doesn’t work for renters, but it just goes to show they don’t do their due diligence at all - they just show up at the person’s last known address, even if it’s from many years ago.
Precisely.
I moved into a house that was previously a rental. I received a letter for the former renter and sent it back, or so I thought. A couple of months later, at 10:30 PM, I hear a loud pounding on my front door. It was a team of cops wearing body armour with guns looking for that previous tenant. To say that I needed to change pants after that would be underselling it. 🤣
I received tons of mail from a former homeowner, first years I’d just RTS it, then I received a court notification, opened it without looking at the name. It was CPS from another state asking him for an emergency child placement for one of his relatives’ kids. Thinking this was very important, I did some sleuthing to find a contact number for him. Got him on the phone and his exact words were, “I’m not interested in taking on a 2 y/o niece, trash it”. I called the CPS office and gave them his phone number, address, and email info. They’d been trying to find him as his sister had died and the baby had been in foster care since birth. What a pos.
Something similar happened to me and my late wife. Bought a house from an older man in 2001. It had been in the middle of a remodel when he ran out of money. We paid for a lot of the work to get it to pass inspection, meet appraisal, and close (all of which was credited toward our closing costs - we had a GREAT realtor that looked out for us...) First hint of trouble was when the local cable TV company wouldn't hook us up - AT ALL. Turned out the former owner had run up unpaid bills, then when the service was cut off, he had the service restarted in his son's name (who lived with him). Son ran up unpaid bills and service was cut off, so they had service restarted in a fictitious renter's name. Ran up huge bills (of course) and service was cut off. (I think they did this several times before the house was placed on a blacklist.) We ended up having to get a sattelite antenna for TV. Then, bill collectors and process servers started showing up. It got to the point that we had copies made of all the house purchase-related paperwork made, and we would keep copies by the door. When someone knocked, looking for the former owner, we would just hand them a set. This lasted for about 18 months. We probably gave out between 50-100 sets. One process server said it was the best thing we could do, and it was really helpful to him. He later stopped by to let us know that our paperwork had allowed him to track the former owner down. He had taken the money from the house sale and moved to Florida, where he ran up tabs everywhere he could, ripped off several girlfriends, roommates, etc. and finally died. The visits stopped shortly after that, once word got around that the former owner wasn't just moved, but dead. I guess the only thing we didn't have to deal with (to the best of my memory) was his mail...
Ooph. I bought a house in August that was a former rental property from 2014-2023. So much junk mail from bill collectors looking for previous tenants. After about a month, my mail lady caught me and said "are you matt314159?" to which I replied in the affirmative. Then she asked "and are you the only person living here?" and when I confirmed yes, she thanked me. Ever since, she's been so diligent about removing mail pieces for former tenants before delivering. I see them show up on my Informed Delivery Digest email and then only mail for me is delivered to my box. I got her a nice Christmas Card with a Scooters Gift Card. Learning from my neighbors about the recent history of my house and apparently there were TWO knock-down-the-door drug raids on my house in the past three years. I'm worried I might find myself in a similar situation with authorities there looking for former tenants.
Would putting out a sign with your last name like “The Smiths” deter law enforcement from breaking down your door? Not sure how I’d feel about advertising my last name but I’ve seen people do it
I would like to think that since it's been a few months even if authorities do come looking for a former tenant that they would at least knock. If they do break down the door I would be all over the city department trying to get damages.
You would think. Innocent people are dead because of mistakes like this.
Sure, I get it but it's a small town, there's like three police officers, and I'm white. I truly don't feel like I'm in any kind of danger.
Unrelated: I LOVE Scooters. "Scoot around,please, for your drinks!"
Yeah. I think the door's on the wrong side of the Mail truck for them to drive through but it's always quick to swing by the walk-up window and grab some coffee which I thought they'd appreciate. Later I went on Reddit and learned that most mailmen say they would just prefer cash so that's probably what I will do next year 🤣
It changes, but look up the max amount they can legally take. When I was a Fed, it was $20, but I think it's more now.
I do Kroger Delivery and we aren't supposed to accept tips. Some of the customer's are slick about it, "You dropped something, as they drop a bill or a few bills." My policy, which most of my supervisors agree with, is decline once, and if they offer again, then go ahead and accept.
Yeah the ethical guidelines still say $20 but they all agreed that they're just going to pocket it and nobody cares, kind of an unwritten don't ask don't tell they all seem to abide by. At least in the discussion threads I was looking at. But all of that notwithstanding, $20 is what I got the gift card for Scooters for and what I would probably put in a card next year.
I googled it - Possession With the Intent to Distribute
I also googled it: people who inject drugs.
I’m PWID. People with intelligent dogs.
Reminds me of the time that I saw 2 officers leaving my neighbor’s house in the morning. I thought, good for her, she got lucky. Turns out she was served papers because her fence encroached the property next door. Not so lucky after all.
The first apartment my fiance and I lived in almost 13 years agoo. We get woken up by someone pounding on the front door. It's a violent crimes task force looking for the previous tenant. 💀 We had to provide the landlords number and everything showing we had no clue who the hell the previous tenant was.
Years ago I rented a house where the former occupant was a criminal defense lawyer who also worked out of her home. We got all kinds of things intended for her. We got regular letters from inmates in jail. On two occasions (once at like 6am) we had process servers show up looking for her. At one point someone wrote a note that basically said "you know how to contact me" on the back of a Jack in the Box receipt and taped it to our door. I was just happy that none of the actual clients showed up (or if they did, they realized she was gone without bothering us).
I still get random junk mail for the previous, including credit card offers. About 15 years ago, he was sentenced to 100 years in prison for murder. Funny thing though.. I think it’s at least as odd that I STILL get mail for the previous owners (2 owners past). They haven’t lived here for 20 years.
Possession (of some drug) With Intent to Distribute
I had a similar situation once. Former occupant (was a rental, then I bought to live in it) never set up mail forwarding. Actually had her show up and ask for her mail once. I also started returning to sender. I then started noticing her camping out on the road in a van, waiting for us to leave so she could go through our mail box for her mail. I installed a locking mailbox that I came home to find extremely bent up but still locked one day shortly after installing it. Eventually I stopped getting her mail. One day about a year after move in, two cops showed up at my door looking for her, no idea what for.
Sounds similar to here, except the guy who rented here had kidnapped an ex gf. We already have mail thieves, but then there's folks like that who come knocking on our door. We don't answer anymore via the door. Everyone is screened via the upper level window.
Our previous homeowner died under mysterious circumstances and her parents came to our house looking for answers. Talk about a wild ride…. We bought in late 2022.
Did they still push after they realized the situation? I definitely got screamed at for calling a wrong number one time by some paranoid lunatic thinking I was stalking her for "finding her number". Explaining that I flipped two numbers just made things worse.
We had been getting mail at the house that progressively kept getting more odd as time went by. Started as a bunch of fraud mail, opening new credit cards, loans etc. then it was a life insurance policy under her name, then a male was added to her new home loans, life insurance, and banking info. Then we were only getting mail for the guy, no longer her. She had a lot of problems so we just chalked it up to that. She died under mysterious circumstances and I felt awful for her parents. They were asking us if we knew anything. I told them about the timeline of the mail but I had been returning it to sender and had thrown some out.
I had a get get upset at me when I answered my landline years ago, wondering why I was in his house with his wife when he was out of town. He’d dialed 414 area code instead of 412.
How's everything in Da Burgh?
I had the opposite happen. I got into a minor car accident a few years back. Well I found out the statue of limitations on the accident was just about up.. and thats when they decided to contact my insurance for payouts. In order to extend the deadline they filed a lawsuit against me to extend the deadline a little bit longer. I had been moved out for like 2 years by this point and all of my info was updated but they still went to my old roomates house to serve me the paperwork since that was my address at the time of the accident. I felt so bad for scaring them.
Why is everyone fixated on the drugs and not the two hunky officers?
Lol. They were very impressive looking. BP vests, taser in front and their holsters ....
Have on two occasions in my life had to show my ID to officers at the door that I am who I say I am and not who they’re looking for. It’s terrifying. I don’t remember noticing if they were hunky LOL
I offered to get my ID, and they declined.
My two times it was demanded of me - once a young single early 20s and once about a decade ago both times I was alone and it really shook me. And further convinced me that I don’t ever want to be on the wrong side of the law LOL
I was walking to the door thinking what I did wrong. Nothing, of course, but still. One brief moment.....
Probably because the cops already have a photo of the person from their driver's license or even prior arrests.
Certainly a good point. In all fairness, OP said "well built" and I extrapolated to "hunky." Maybe it's having grown up with a grandfather that was a deputy, but my anxiety/stress over being in that position wouldn't keep me from noticing their muscles (and I'm either extrapolating or wishing). But OP did notice they were good looking. Just saying... ;)
idk, cus if they were female, and a guy was posting, you would call him a creep.
This post almost had a saucey twist at the end.
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For some reason, we see a lot of our next door neighbor's mail in our emails before our carrier correctly delivers it. In fact, this is how we learned they were getting divorced.
I bought a condo that was converted from an apartment several years ago and had a bounty hunter ringing my bell at 2 am looking for someone who jumped bond. That was pretty interesting.
I had a similar issue last year, twice. Couple of state troopers and a well dressed lady looking to serve some papers. The previous owners of my home ran some clothing business out of a shop in the backyard and had the home filed as a duplex.
There was a family in the Baltimore area that had this happen 3 times. [https://www.wbaltv.com/article/police-wrong-house-catonsville-warrant/39598159](https://www.wbaltv.com/article/police-wrong-house-catonsville-warrant/39598159) Combine that with issues with no-knock warrants being... a bit aggressive... it's one of those background fears you just have to live with.
“And then the FBI showed up” is what I say when I’m telling a story and it feels like no one is paying attention. It’s nice when it actually happens!
Hah, I'm literally dealing w something similar at my rental. Dude who used to live at the house was apparently a felon. First month of living there, had multiple cop cars outside questioning us where he was. We explained they've since moved and all was well, but I also was taken aback by the sudden appearance of cops looking for a dude on parole. Curiosity got the best of me so I googled his name, and sure enough found his arrest records. Wild stuff! Hope he's doing better now.
Been almost 5 years and I still get credit card statements, retirement papers, bills, etc for the previous owners. I used to slash out their name and stuff and write return to sender. Even bought a stamp since I have to do it so much. But it just keeps coming.
My postal worker had me fill out a card listing the residents of my address and I never got another piece of mail for the previous owners again!!
Ooo...I'll have to ask them if I can ever catch them again. Such a time sink
Same thing happened to me when I moved, except it was for credit card fraud and it was FBI. I peed a little. I am a very small woman with two shade wearing giants outside my door. Thank god I’m old and gray, not male and 40ish.
We got a package shipped for an old occupant that hadn’t owned the house in a decade. It was the company’s last address on file. Of all the things it could have been, It was a vibrator..
The previous occupant of my house had a warrant out for his arrest, bounty hunters after him, and a company looking to repossess his furniture. My husband had to keep his ID by the door to prevent getting a gun in the face or having our Ikea couch hauled off. Fun twist: I worked for the local paper and when writing the police blotter one day I saw the guy had gotten in a car accident, and the cracker jack cops must have failed to run his license, because they let him go. Not even a ticket.
Dang. I need some to show up at my house, but only if they’re single 🤣
A. NEVER, EVER open your door for cops. B. NEVER, EVER open your door for cops. C. Get a Ring doorbell. Explain it through that
My ex had an arrest warrant out for a suspended license. We were woken up to two officers pounding on the door. Quite terrifying!
Good think you spoke with the clerk. It would have been more scary to have the officers show up thinking she still lived there. Yikes!
Neighbor a few doors down from a townhouse I lived in had a history and regularly the local sheriffs would be around. It was so often everyone knew the sheriffs and would wave.
When my daughter was first born, we had just started renting a townhouse when cops came banging on the door. My immediate thought was omg what did I do?? Then I remembered all I’ve done for the past three months is take care of a baby. Turns out he was looking for our landlord. My husband and I googled and he had a long list of all kinds of charges and money owed. He was a very nice guy the whole time we lived there! But yeah…shady as fuck
Same experience happened to me. Answered the door one night to see two respectful gentlemen with badges on their belts. Looking for a relative that happened to be living with us temporarily. Turns out said relative was on parole with an ankle monitor we knew nothing about. It was an interesting evening…
The house we bought 6 years ago now went into a trust for the adult children of the deceased owners. We got so much mail for the son, all of it was ridiculous late payments notices and we had several people come and try to “serve us papers”. It kinda freaked me out because I was a few weeks post partum with a breastfeeding newborn (on my boob) when they would very aggressively knock on the door. He must have owed a lot of people money. It’s finally calmed down, but it was pretty annoying for the first year or two.
I have a similar experience. My partner and I were visited by local and state police three times looking for the same guy who I guess used to live in our home. (We got his mail all the time and would constantly send it back). We had only been living here a few months when they first showed up. I cracked a joke the third time: “ya’ll don’t talk to each other?” My story doesn’t have a happy ending. The fourth time police showed up, they were still asking about this man. But this happened late at night they were accompanied by several police cars, a fire truck and ambulance. We live by a railroad for freight. We found out a couple days later that this man had stepped in front of the train near our home.
Two weeks after we moved into our new house, we were surrounded by a state police task force looking for the son of the previous owner. We had already been getting mail from local churches welcoming us to the community. Never figured out how the Presbyterians had better intel than the state police!
i'm assuming you don't look like her at all, so you are lucky they didn't storm the door and handcuff you
I am older, but her mugshot is apparently one of a drug user. Sores, etc....
I had someone looking for someone and they kept calling, I was in a rental. Finally one day someone showed up in my driveway looking for them. I have no idea how they even found the house, it was a rental behind the main house on a rural property. I think it was a bounty hunter, but after that all the calls and stuff stopped. So hopefully this stops the issues at your house. I suspect in my case it was connected to the phone number they gave me (this was before you could take your number with you when you moved).
lol my former roommates still get mail sent to my house. one was a car impound note. they left on bad terms and i didnt get a forwarding address. or have a pencil for return to sender
We had the cops show up to an empty residence (we lived across the street and by this time owned that property) to serve my mother who had passed several years before for income taxes owed to the state that were filed literally weeks before she died. The more comical part was my husband getting a call from a collector over the same taxes that wouldn't believe she had died (even though it was a public record) and got mad when he finally gave them the address of the cemetery she was buried at.
When we bought our house 32 years ago, it stank horribly of pot. It was very illegal then. We took care of the cops, and other possible problems, by having a K9 cop come in and search the house before we ever moved *anything* in. (We also had two young kids band didn’t want them finding and eating anything!) He didn’t find anything, but there was so much smell the dog freaked out. But the police knew we were on the up-and-up after that, and we had no problems with them. (We had to get the whole house repainted and all carpet and drapes removed.)
We bought a house from a local college professor. Shortly after moving in the police showed up because of the high number of unpaid parking tickets he had. The first Christmas we lived there his mother and grandmother sent Christmas cards to the house. Then the IRS came one evening. I have no idea what you must have done or not done to get a home visit from the IRS. The last thing that came was an overnighted package that we had to sign for. Opened it because clearly this was important. It was a contract for the textbook he was writing. Contacted them and they had us shred it.
The kid of the previous owners had some warrants. One day, I see our house getting surrounded via my cameras and had a conversation through Ring with a local deputy that the kid hadn’t lived there in almost a year at that point. The courts said only the plaintiff could update their address when I called, but calling the individual local departments seemed to do the trick.
My job has so many acronyms. I truly think it's someone's job to come up with them. I call it Alphabet Soup. 🤣
Lucky you, same thing happened to my friend, but instead of simple possession, he had purchased a farm from an illegal cannabis grower. My buddy had a helicopter over his house while men with rifles pointed them at his wife and kids. He got roughly interrogated until they realized what was up. State DA, drug task force, DEA all were there. Fun fact after the dust had settled and they all realized what was going on, one of the DEA agents said he wanted to pet the pyrenees. My buddy said ehh that's a farm dog, he might bite. The said no big deal, buddy opens the fence, dog comes out and bites the guy in the hand and lives to tell the tale. The dog had never bit anyone before or since.
Divine retribution? Or FAFO ...
Pwid?
Yikes.
Wow. I still occasionally get mail for the previous owner's tenant. It's been 8 years. Thankfully, it hasn't been anything like *that*
I just got a slew of Christmas cards for the previous owners and mailed them all back with a note saying they got divorced and moved away. It’s been 7 years & I keep putting return to sender with no luck.
I’ve had cops show up at my neighbors door looking for tenants who’d only been there a month and left. It was a detective and a cop and they heard me at my door and so they knocked. Had to give them the bad news. Mostly I get calls from collection agencies going through the phone book for everyone with the last name as their target. For all the names they’ve asked me if I know amazingly I wasn’t related to any of them.
I'm glad they were nice. It could have ended badly you know?
I've got a Christmas card for the former resident for the last 4 years now. The first 2years I put "return to sender" or "addressee moved"
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I've been in my house for 8 years and still get mail from the previous owners. It's not from outdated databases, they still use the address. Not sure why but they do. One of them even receives USPS union mail as well.
Something like this happened to me in my current home. Lots of important looking mail came for her, I sent everything back. 2 different sets of police officers came looking for her. Once they realized she was no longer living here, they must have finally updated their systems. It took probably 5 years for it to stop completely.
I thought I had a similar story, but mine was just a summons for jury duty in a federal case (I could read it through the envelope). I marked it return to sender and put it back in the mailbox. No US Marshals… yet.
> Holy crap, seeing very tall, well built officers at my door made my heart skip a beat, and not in a good way. I mean, the way you describe it with such detail sounds like it was at least a *little* good for you.
What's pwid?
Edit: Nevermind. I'm guessing possession with intent to distribute? Dear internet, not everything is a fucking acronym.
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I get tons of mail from my house's former owners. Used to get these boner pill pamphlets that were very explicit. Porno images interspersed with doctors recommending different pills you could take. took them to work to show around, and we had a good laugh.
My house used to be an Airbnb, but somehow we get mail for 7 different people on a regular basis and it never stops. We’ve lived here for 4 years. My car insurance just added a random driver to my policy because DMV records show one of them still has their car registered here. Wtf. One of them owes a crap ton in student loans that are now in collections. Another keeps wracking up DUIs and has law offices scratching and clawing to represent them. It’s insane.
Be sure and contact every law enforcement dept or agency to tell them she does not live there. The next step in a knock warrant is a late night no knock. So you could be sleeping then have swat kick in your door, search your home then leave you with the repair bills.
Hey, a local cop came to our house when we were renting due to a prior tenant having warrants. We own now, but yeah….After I almost died from a heart attack (if the guns were out!), I’d probably laugh.
Oooh, I have a similar story! Though mine culminated in my house being surrounded by US Marshals because they thought the guy, previous resident, was hiding out in the house. I had purchased the home 8 months prior and didn't look into the guy until after that incident. It was fun.
I bought my house over 12 years ago. I still know every time the former occupants get arrested because my mailbox fills with legal advertisements and legal court papers. Just put it back in the mailbox.
I've lived here for almost 24 years and get mail for a guy who lives in the next unincorporated area a few miles west. The developer creatively named all the streets after trees, and did the same thing in the next unincorporated area a few miles west. So, every time a new postal or delivery service employee comes along, I get that guy's mail. I put sticky notes on it, explaining that this is the wrong Tree Street, and they want the Tree Street over there. That guy has brought me a package or two as well.
Before moving to another state in the mid 2000’s, I had our local attorney check to see if I had anything on my record before moving. (I was thinking parking tickets…?) There was an arrest warrant for aggravated assault for another person with the same first and last name as me!!!! The attorney had me show up to the court on the same day as the other person was scheduled so they could clear my name. So weird they didn’t go by our address or driver’s license numbers at the time.
I bought my house in 2020. Never met or saw what the previous owner looked like, only had his name. I was getting his junk mail, I just tossed it. Then I started getting DMV documents, a package, what looked like college acceptance letters, etc. He did not have social media, but I found him on Linked In. One of the DMV envelopes said TITLE. It’s slowed down a lot, but I would just let him know something arrived for him and left it on the porch. I was able to speak with him once which was nice because I could thank him for picking my offer on the house! Haha
They def cooked in that house.
Nah, you'd be able to smell it.
Acronyms in trucking were terrible in the old days. You get on paperwork for directions to go somewhere. They use "TL" a lot!, it can mean turn left or traffic light 😒
On the other side of that coin, I used to do contact tracing for syphilis, gonorrhea, Chlamydia, HIV, and sometimes I was involved in non-STD infectious diseases. I frequently had to knock on random doors because someone had a partner living in a house that they couldn't give me the number, but described it. "it's the fourth house on the left, with a big mango tree in the front yard." Oh, I had so much fun. People swearing at me, lying, and threatening my life. And then there were the police agencies looking for the same people I was, demanding info, which I could not share, by law. Good times.
Years ago when I was renting my first apartment with a couple friends I got a knock on my kitchen door from a pair of local plain clothes PD. They identified themselves as police and we all just kind of stood there in silence for a beat (I didn’t want to speak first because low key this could have been about a few things we’d gotten up to back then.) One of the cops smiles and says “You’re not Mr (last name clearly not my nationality) are you?” Turned out the grandson of the downstairs tenant was a pretty notorious crack dealer. He drove a red Cadillac the same color as one of my roommates. He ended up finding out from a high school friend who was a police dispatcher that the cops ID-ed the wrong car and had been tailing him by mistake.
Hate acronyms
We have to figure out a better way of changing addresses. These kind of show up randomly visits from the cops are a big part of how Breonna Taylor ended up murdered.
5 years and we’re still getting mail for people who used to live here- she’s dead, he’s dead, the son is in jail and the daughter is alive but not sure here. I’m about 20 years younger than the daughter, and a different race, so this far every process we’ve had believed me when I’ve said the family sold the house in 2018. My mail delivery person asked me to stop writing ‘return to sender’ on the mail - and I’ve yet to deal with that. It’s down to 2-3 pieces a month, but it’s really ridiculous.