yomama wrote on September 05, 2008 04:21 PM: I lived 2 doors down from this guy. When I rented my previous house, the owner advised me that I should contact this guy Emilio again the guy that lived 2 doors down on Tompkins. Emilio Showed the house on behalf of the owner at that time and we proceeded to rent it. He was a nice guy and said he lived with his girlfriend who I didnt see much but when I did see her she acted peculiar. After a few months of renting I got a notice that the house that I was living in was going into foreclosure. I moved out quick and called the landlord. She told me to give the keys to this Guy Emilio. He proceeded to move in to the house that we had just moved out of because he was getting kicked out of the house that he was living in 2 doors down from me which by the way he moved out in an awful hurry. These guys acted pretty strange. Emilio seemed like a nice guy though. His girlfriend 3o years younger which he said he just sort of helped her out because she had a boyfriend that used to beat her up looks like she is on drugs though. Only in Vegas. Weird place. Weird people. Oh well, Emilio, you know how the saying guys, "I fought the law but the law won".

Liz wrote on September 05, 2008 04:15 PM: I have to agree with jeezlouise, there are may people who live out of state and own homes in LV. Its not out of the norm. Its not the owners fault at all.

This is happening way too much here! My family has to move because our landlord didnt pay his mortgage and rented me my house knowing that it was going to be foreclosed on. Now in order to get any money back I have to pay more money to take him to court! There are no laws helping renters in these situations and its sad!

Liz wrote on September 05, 2008 04:10 PM: I have to agree with Jeezlouise... Its not the owners fault this happened. Many people from out of state own homes in Las Vegas, its not out of the norm. Unfortunatly this sort of thing is happening a lot. My family has to move out of a home we love in a neighborhood we love because our current landlord didnt pay his mortgage. We found out that when we rented the house in April, the mortgage hadnt been paid since January. He did it knowing the house would go into foreclosure. Lucky for us we found out before we got kicked out, no thanks to the landlord.Now to get any of our money back we have to file a suit which in turn costs more money! It is very sad there are no laws helping the renters in these situations.

Ron wrote on September 05, 2008 03:55 PM: "Legitimate landlords should be able to provide business cards." Real good investigative reporting/advice. I can make my own business cards with anything I want on them! ! Wake up people.

hilobamacaine wrote on September 05, 2008 01:27 PM: sounds like the guy really was a realator, had to think of a new way to make money

Deidre wrote on September 05, 2008 12:11 PM: They didn't put ads in the paper, they used Craig's list because it is free. They don't want to pay for an ad in the paper.

It would be a good idea for out of state home owners to pay some one to check out their rentals. It might help to keep some of the vandalism and theft down.

jeezlouise wrote on September 05, 2008 10:58 AM: Pedro- The owner "should be shot" You are a moron. Many people have vacation homes that they only use when they are- ON VACATION. If that is your answer to how to deal with a victim of a break in, you should go back to wherever you are from. We dont need any more violence in Vegas. People with your mentality need to go.

Pedro wrote on September 05, 2008 08:05 AM: What kind of home owner lives out of state and doesn't know someone is living in his house for over 6 months? The owner in California should be shot. How could a locksmith just go to any old house and change the locks when the person asking for the lock change obviously doesn't have one key from the old locks? Wouldn't THAT be suspicious? If there are other 'victims', I guess they won't be getting the call to meet to pay rent, so they are going to live rent free until they are caught by the owners. Ha! Ha!

easyaspie wrote on September 05, 2008 07:59 AM: These guys are pro's for sure. What they do is look thru all of the listings of homes for sale and scout out the ones they think no one checks on. These guys are smart so they have there ways im sure. Then they call there locksmith who they kickback hundreds to im sure because what they are doing is illegal. Then the locksmith changes all of the locks and wala you have a new house you can now rent out. Then they put adds in papers for unsuspecting people to come and rent the houses.

Justice wrote on September 05, 2008 07:00 AM: Maybe it's because I am a honest hard working individual and know nothing about criminal activities, but, How did they gain access to this house? They had to of had keys made up to give to the renters. It's not like when they were showing the house they would crawl through a broken window on the side of the house LOL. That's pretty ballsy what they tried to pull off. Crazy!

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