Apartment broken into!!! Nothing stolen???

Originally Posted by Scrappah

Hummmm .... it's a puzzler. You see the door jimmied like that and you would think that someone broke in to rob the place. It could have been like that for weeks and nobody passing by took anything ? Are you sure you aren't talking about a certain island just off the coast of Maine ? ( I never lock my doors. That way they can't break in. )

The thing about breaking in for whiskey doesn't seem to fit. I've heard of guys drinking sterno and just about anything with alcohol in it to stave off the DT's.

It could have been a homeless person. It's pretty cold out there. You can't really blame somebody for seeking shelter. It's better than dying from hypothermia.

I have to wonder if they broke in for some other reason. You said it was a fleabag and that it was cut up into four apartments. They probably did a half assed job of breaking it up.

Does every apt have it's own thermostat ? If the thermostat in your place controls the heat in the other apts they might have forced their way in to turn it up.

Is there any sign that they've recently been working on the plumbing ? Freeze ups & pipe breaks are pretty common in the dead of winter. Sewer lines catch and back up. Sections of baseboard heat sometimes go air bound and have to be bled. We used to get quite a few freeze up calls after the power had been out for a day or two.

The building code is a PITA in regard to smoke detectors. They're supposed to be hard wired so that when one goes off they ALL go off. Sometimes the detectors go bad or just get dust in em'. If the bad one is inside a locked apt there's only one way to re-set it.

Is the circuit breaker -or- fuse panel in your apartment ? They might have had to come in to re-set a circuit that runs through one of the other apartments. Heaven forbid it was the furnace that went out ....

Could it have been somebody checking on your well being ? Maybe they hadn't seen you in weeks and were wondering if you had died ?

Lastly .... i hope you aren't one to go off and leave the TV running. If i was in the next apartment over and had to listen to CNN 24/7 i would either shoot myself or go in and shut the darn thing off.

I have to wonder if the kid knows more than he's letting on. Have you talked with the other neighbors ? Maybe something happened while you were gone ?

Yikes... where to start with all this. Island off the coast of Maine??? Are you referring to Marxist Vineyard? I'm just a simple rube from the dakotas.

Homeless? I doubt it. Homeless people are weeded out this time of year. Plus if it was a homeless person, he/she would still be here when I showed up.

Yes, every apt. has it's own thermostat. It is an old house that someone made into 4 apartments. Two upstairs, two downstairs.

No, plumbing is fine. Nothing froze up, if it was the landlord has a key.

No on smoke detector, again landlord.

No on circuit breaker. In a different apt.

Nobody would be worried about my well-being. Friends and family and landlord know where I am.

And no, I don't leave the TV on CNN. In fact I don't even have TV here. I'm too German and Cheap!!!

No, I haven't talked to other neighbors. According to the cop who came over they are just as sketchy as the kid next door. LOL.



It's the low rent district. $260/mo. That kind of rent attracts the riff-raff.