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I hope you have been enjoying this story so far, if you haven't read part 1, which was titled I Never Saw That Coming, you really need to start there; otherwise, it's just not as much fun! You can go directly there by following this link, I Never Saw That Coming ! So, we left off with me heading to the property to deal with the tenant problem and Karen calling the police to send them to the property while I was in transit. If there was an actual assault that was going to be filed, I wanted to make sure I brought the police in and had some control of the situation. Especially if he was going to attempt to file some type of lawsuit against me as he stated. I was only a few blocks from the property when the dispatch office called and suggested for my safety that I not enter the property until the police officers arrived. He informed me they were on their way and should be arriving shortly, so I let him know I would wait outside in my vehicle for them. For more background on the tenant who was so upset, he wasn't a very large man. I am probably 50 pounds heavier and about six inches taller, so I wasn't too worried about a physical attack; it was more the instability that he seemed to present in his emails to me. Who knows what he might try, especially knowing how much larger I was than him. It was approximately ten minutes later that the squad car slowly drove up, so I waved, grabbed my paperwork and gloves and went to go explain what I knew. After a quick recap of everything that had gone on, the officer wanted to confirm with me why he as there and why he was entering the property. If you are a landlord, here is your handy tip of the day. While the assault, if it was a valid complaint falls under the criminal code, landlord/tenant issues fall under the Residential Tenancy Act which is Civil Law. Additionally any potential lawsuits also fall under Civil Law and the police do not enforce Civil Law. Although they do make very credible witnesses if someone files a lawsuit against you afterward or even threatens one!! The important tip is, if a landlord feels that he may be in danger when entering a premises he can request an officer to escort him inside the property. In this case, the officer was feeling me out, I believe anyway, to see if that was what I was looking for. I explained they were there in case there was an actual assault, but I also needed them to escort me in which was exactly what he wanted to hear and in we went. The tenant who called me was already waiting for us as his room faced the front and he probably saw the police pull up. He called down to the assaultee, who came up and started to rant tell us what happened and how he had been beaten by the other tenant and had the bloody finger to prove it. In his defense, his finger was indeed bloody and he had a mark on his face, but in my opinion that was a far cry from being beaten and looked more as if he had fallen down. Anyway, the officer proceeded to try and get his part of the story out of him. He kept on bringing up how I ignored his requests and how he had been viciously beaten.

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