Hi! Im 23F, fiancé 24NB roommate is 22F Location: Tennessee
TL;DR I agreed to sign a lease with friend and participate in their family custody court case. I changed by mind 8 months into it, she retaliated by trying to get me evicted and fiance fired and tried to intimidate me with her custody lawyer. Can I contact the judge overseeing her case about the harassment I’ve faced if she cited the court as the reason she’s harassing me with proof? Or could I face legal trouble by doing that? She doesnt have the money to go after me though. She told the court not to contact me, I want to be contacted.
almost a year ago we agreed to move with my friend and be apart of her family custody court case bc she lost her daughter. I didnt have the full context and my reasons for not supporting her anymore are irrelevant. I was very patient and kind with her when she decided to move out due to this, helped her move, and even refunded her + she had already moved out 2 months prior while pretending to live at our house (this was a discussion in the case).
After I asked if she could give me her key while we contacted the leasing office to update our lease like she asked us to do, she freaked out on me over text as if I were her landlord evicting her although I have SEVERAL screenshots of her confirming and being the first and only person to bring up moving out AND a cashapp transaction of her rent refund, titled rent refund, and a screenshot of her asking for it. I found out later she’d started drinking heavily from a mutual.
She threatened to blackmail me to our leasing office to get me evicted, and tried to intimidate me with her custody court lawyer by saying she was sending screenshots of me to him and telling me he’s confused (at 11pm, I think she was lying and drunk).
The next day, she called my fiance’s work and claimed they were high skinning and abusing cats and need to be fired ASAP as they’re a danger to everyone. their whole job is working with cats, it’s kind of like humane animal testing. Thankfully, my fiance is friends with everyone and the sweetest person, it wasnt in their policy to investigate it/ hold it against them either since it came from an anon caller who they noted was drunk. the call is documented by them!! we havent asked for the records yet or how to go about that.
Next, I’m almost positive she emailed our leasing office claiming we were drug addicts with drugs in our filters/air vents and extra animals off lease after reading their inspection conclusions email. YES We had the leasing office tour our house pretty much immediately after that.
When she got her stuff, she stole my huge 2 ft coin jar. I tried to talk to the officer that toured my house with the leasing office but she looked the other way. It’s whatever but it had a LOT of money in it. none of my neighbors have cameras : (
She still agreed to remove herself from the lease after that, but claims she doesnt get the email she has to reply to. Ive asked for her email to forward it, but she thinks im her landlord and tells me I know her email. I dont know her email.
I reached out to a lawyer for legal advice and they said I couldnt even get a no contact order. She REFUSES to give me the key. I’ve had to get alarms and cameras. this is HELL.
I’ve tried to communicate with my leasing office because they saw with their own eyes she doesn’t live there or pay rent. Their solution was to offer their attorney and then evict everyone afterwards. INSANE. They wont even change my locks (NO I cant change them myself, they implied I could get evicted) and advised against throwing out her abandoned vanity outside growing mushrooms. Yes, we’ve tried texting her.
So, im angry, im livid. She cited the court case as the reason she’s harassing me and tried to intimidate me with her custody lawyer from the court case. She’s STILL on the lease, do I have every right to contact the judge directly to inform them of the harassment I’ve faced because I refused to be apart of her case?? Like sure, snitching on her over a coin jar is petty, but it’s WAY more than that. She lied to the judge about the reason I didnt want to be apart of the case aswell.
Further, when I mentioned things over text to her after the key argument things that im not supposed to know/could seriously hurt her case, she replies like I COULD send it to the court.
Thanks!