I've been here before...asking how to get rid of a person renting a room in my house. Well...she's finally gone, well...*she* and her subletter is gone, all of her possessions are gone, but she keeps coming back! Yeah, I know. Get a restraining order. Problem is, they're not really effective. This parasite moved around the corner! They're harassing me over some mirror she actually gave to me 6 months ago, stealing my mail, watching my house, trying to break in - the messed up thing? The police won't do a thing. Why? Because they still consider her living here. The police say that's still her mirror even though it's been hanging on my wall for 6 months. Do I even want it? No. But the nerve of her demanding it back has pissed me off. After everything she's stolen from me and my invalid mother, she don't need to have it. Why should she have something she wants when she's stolen me blind of things *I* wanted that were mine long before she ever got here? She's stopping my mailman up the street and getting my mail -cops won't do anything. She's coming to my door threatening me - cops wont do anything. She's watching my house, running up to people who come here looking to rent the room she moved out of, scaring them off with lies. Shes out on the public street, so shes technically not on my property - the cops wont do anything. They're trying to break in at night, peering through my windows. I can see her letting my dog out, playing with him to get teeth marks on her arm to get him taken away from me...she's already threatened to call animal services on me. She just won't go away. She's a vindictive, dangerous person and in this situation, a restraining order isn't going to be worth a damned. Shes already running from the law with an active warrant out on her for non payment of child support. Lovely woman, right? But I've called the cops on her repeatedly and they won't even arrest her. So what do you do to protect yourself when they have moved out but still keep coming back harassing and threatening and the police won't lift a finger against her? When she moved right around the corner and will be in and out before cops ever get her anyway? I mean, who sticks around waiting for cops to get them on a restraining order after they've committed a crime? Is there ANY recourse?

I live in Contra Costa County, California.