- Preventable Crimes Against Landlords
Landlords Murdered Over Rent
The cost of added measures to ensure the safety and welfare of landlords, site managers and tenants is minimal compared to the gruesome crimes committed against landlords during their daily activities, such as rent collection, noise complaints, and showing available units.
The articles are not meant to sensationalize but rather to educate and bring to light that in fact crimes against landlords and site manager happen more and more often as the economy suffers and financial anxieties increase.
Edmonton man escapes prison and kills landlord EDMONTON, AB, CANADA- - “…The pair jumped the landlord after luring him to a rented townhouse in September 1993. Wrigley’s friend tied the landlord’s hands while Wrigley wrapped a telephone cord around the landlord’s neck. The body was stuffed into a closet and discovered a day later by the landlord’s son” More
Landlord dismembered over rent CALGARY, AB, CANADA –” Calgarian Wendy Hewko was a giving soul who didn’t deserve to be killed and then gruesomely dismembered by her tenant, her sister said yesterday. “More
‘Nice guy’ landlord slain in Brooklyn NEW YORK, NY, USA “A retired correction officer who became a deep-pocketed landlord was found beaten to death inside his Brooklyn brownstone Tuesday morning, police said.” More
Landlord killed in hotel WEXHAM, UK “THE FORMER landlord of a pub near Wrexham has been found beaten to death in a hotel room near Heathrow Airport.” More
Pasco landlord alleges tenants beat her up NEW PORT RICHEY, FL, USA — “A landlord was beaten up Thursday afternoon after asking her tenants for their rent money, authorities say.”More
Gang held gun to landlord’s head ENGLAND “PUB landlord was beaten over the head with a shotgun by armed raiders who threatened to shoot him in a late-night robbery …”More
Man imprisoned for brutally beating landlord loses bid to go free “EDMONTON, ALBERTA — An Edmonton man imprisoned for brutally beating a landlord has lost a bid to get out of jail on constitutional grounds. …”More
…And now, for a little nostalgia
Landlord Beaten By Angry Tenants
(New York Times - May 9, 1919)
“Landlords were attacked by housewives who scratched and beat them, while one proprietor visiting a house was treated to an unexpected shower of water from a kettle manipulated by one of his tenants …” More
