The House that Insanity Built (Part I)

House tenants over the summer and how it all started:

First Name: Mike
Last Name: Brennan
Age: 25

First Name: Dale
Last Name: Gerbetz
Age: 23

First Name: Ryan
Last Name: Kelly
Age: 21

First Name: Lora
Last Name: Williams
Age: 35

First Name: Sehla
Last Name: Williams
Age: 5

First Name: Grace (american name anyways)
Last Name: unknown
Age: 38

First Name: Kyled
Last Name: unknown
Age: 40


Dale, Ryan, and myself have all been living in the house for a year. Two of our roommates had left for the summer and only 3 of 5 rooms had been occupied. Neither could afford paying rent with a 3 way split, so in an effort to lower the costs of the house, we put an online ad to find summer roommates only.

After a barrage of emails/calls, we finally found 1 person who wanted to stay for the summer only:

6/29/05
I'm moving to Buffalo to attend D'Youville for my MS, RD.

Oh cool! this is the apartment for $330 includes everything till end of August? Can you call or I'll call if you prefer so we can talk more? Thanks!

Lora :)

Seemed harmless enough so I wrote her back and we spoke on the phone. She said she need a place just for the summer...yada yada...and things seemed ok. Then she dropped the bomb. She had a 5 yr old daughter. She was able to tug at my heart strings and I told her she could move in. Expected move in date: 7/9/05.

On 6/30/05, approximately 10:30pm, my phone rang. It was a girl who spoke very poor english. I could hardly make out what she was saying. After 10 minutes i figured out that she was in a class with me the year before. She had a friend who needed a place to stay for 3 weeks only. They came over the same night and looked at the room. They left and i figured i would not see them again. I was wrong. Around 2am that night my phone rang. The woman wanted to move in on the 9th of July.

Being the classy guys that Dale and myself are, we thought it best to skip town the weekend of July 9th...we took off to go to Albany to see my sister. The time frame of details for the weekend are as follows:

9pm on the 8th: Ryan calls dale. he states that Lora contacted him and that her purse was stolen. She asked for his credit card info to rent a car. He wouldn't give it and he called us. We all thought it was a scam and she was not going to show up at all.

9:30am on the 9th: Lora calls ryan to state she is here. He goes to pick her up from airport.

11:30am on the 9th: Lora asks ryan if she can take him to buy groceries. She said that she heard of wegmans and asked if they could go there. They go there at noon.

1:30pm on the 9th: Ryan calls dale. Ryan states he has been in wegmans for 1.5 hrs. He says that Lora set him up and she was reallly there to meet her online boyfriend. This was the first official duping of anyone in the house.

3:30, 6:30, 8:30 on the 9th: Ryan calls dale to say how much he hates Lora.

Late at night on the 9th: The asian woman shows up to move in.

5pm on the 10th: Dale and I return home. We are welcomed home to a wall of odor. It turns out that the Asian woman was a 2-for-1 with a 40 yr old indian man. His cooking could be smelled from the 990.

We didnt' see or talk to any of the 4 people that moved into our house that day...but more was to follow...