Tenant from hell being tracked down again
12:00a.m. 6th September 2008
Jason Douglas outside the Mooloolah property he has been given notice to leave.
The Sunshine Coast’s ‘tenant from hell’ is being hunted down again, but this time it’s not the out-of-pocket landlords he left in his wake.
A private investigator has been hired to track down bowler and father of four Jason Douglas to serve documents about a compensation claim dating back to 2000.
Mr Douglas, and his partner Karen Morley, owe nine Sunshine Coast landlords $30,000 and they owe other people close to $2000 in debts the Daily could substantiate.
Mr Douglas has used various names including Morley, Douglia and Cameron.
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When the Daily tracked down Mr Douglas in January, he attributed his behaviour to alcohol abuse and promised to pay his debts when he received a compensation payout for a back injury at work in 2000.
Investigator Garry Harding said he had been hired by NRMA to find Mr Douglas and serve him with papers for a Compulsory Third Party (CTP) claim related to a back and foot injury in NSW on July 14, 2000.
He said initial investigations usually included electoral rolls, phone listings, old neighbours or family but he had not turned anything up.
“They need to find him to serve the documents to take action,” he said.
“He’s going to trial for the accident before he can settle the money so he needs to be found.
“I’ve done all the usual inquiries but he’s not appearing anywhere and he’s not coming forward so we don’t know where he’s living now.
“He does have a few different names so hopefully this will flush him out.
“If he can settle this claim, at least he’ll have some money and he might pay a few people back like he claimed he would.”
Mr Harding, who often investigates CTP and public liability claims, asked for Mr Douglas or anyone with information to phone him at Verifact on 3808 2651 and quote reference number QCT08070453.
Recent Comments
This is why people lose trust in others and let's hope that the law catches up with him. He needs to be stopped.
He should be MADE to pay his debts off with this money he apparently is getting.
Karma.........it will get him eventually.
I wounder wy there is a rental problem.
Sell your rental property and get more return from intrest and not have to put up with tenants from hell that are breeding at a alarming rate and know there rights better than most land lords.
My piece of advice for all landlords (or prospective) is to have a reputable agent manage your property to minimise the risk & take out the necessary insurance. The costs are a lot less than the amount of repairs required, and it is all deductible.
1. Signed a 2 year lease. The owner returned from o'seas 6 months later and wanted her out so he could live in his house.She lost her bond becos the Real Estate refused to refund it on the basis she had signed a 2yr contract.
2. The landlord who wanted to rent his out [$$] so badly that he lied and said he would fix the fence and gate if the prospective tenant took the lease and her dog would be secure. When he refused to do so after she moved in and she returned from the local corner store to find the dog bailing up a kid in the street he wanted her out. She did her bond and again had nowhere to live, no resources to fall back on.
3.The real estate who upon finding the tenant decided to break her lease stole the woman's bulk possessions - photos, garden plants et al and denied it]
4. The landlord who, upon renting his house out to the woman, frequented 'her' home nightly after 9pm demanding a drinking companion and when she turned him down sent his mates into her the house in her absence and without her knowledge to go through her possessions which would have included personal banking details, literary, unpublished manuscripts, legal documents, eftpos and more. Imagine her HORROR when upon returning 'home' from a day in town she went to unlock the front door and a couple - male and female stepped opened the door from the inside. Their excuse? 'We're the real estates' when in fact they had no right in being there. No reason. When she objected [more like refused to drink leading to sex] the owner kicked her out. She had installed a new airconditioner there with his blessing and he refused to refund the bond and kept the airconditioner.
5. The same tenant was having a massage by a friend and heard something - a noise. Her friend said, 'What's that?' Upon investigation she found two people - real estates standing in her lounge. Had unlocked the door and let themselves in, No lawful reason.
6. She rented a house and a week later, was laying beneath the ceiling fan scantily clad on the lounge room floor. Two men from the real estate appeared at the top of the external steps knocked and demanded entry because the house was for sale. The owners had failed to advise the prospective tenant of this both before and after she moved in and had instead, used her tenancy as a point of sale/marketing strategy, advertising the sale of the house immediately after she took over tenancy as 'Currently rented out at $270.00 a week" When the woman refused entry the two bullies threatened her with, "We'll get the police - we'll come back with the police and force entry." A woman alone, she was terrified, arranged for her possessions to be removed and left. Again they got her bond and advanced rent.
...So it goes. The thing is, upon reporting every single one of these events to the authorities including the Housing tenancy etc...she was totally ignored. She was only a single woman alone, with no family, no support, and still to this day she has been gravely wronged by the real estates, owners, real estate institute, tenancy board and so on. Still to this day she has been robbed with no recourse to what is right and just and this lead her to struggle to pay the bills, struggle to eat, to study, to live. But that's OK?
When the time came for her to purchase a property, a stranger turned up on the doorstep saying she had been sent by the solicitor to take photos of the inside of the house.The former tenant found the woman to be an employee of the real estate bullies and refused to allow her to take photos of her property. The woman in turn jabbed her finger at a phone number on her pad demanding to know, Is THIS your number? Is THIS yours?' When the former tenant looked she saw that it was an old number from the rental house in another town some hours away that she had vacated upon being threatened.
This proves that everyday people in real estate have access to [old and new] otherwise personal details of [former] tenants.
I doNOT agree with tentants from hell and htey ought to be dealt a fair slice of justice, by LAW. However, a woman being abused as I have mentioned - her life, her well-being, her peace and quiet, her finances, her livelihood, is NOT FAIR.
That no-one helped her and she [still suffers the effects of]suffered such anguish and great loss is unforgivable.
Thank you.
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