I lived in Las Vegas for 5 years. The crime there is incredible, but it mostly doesn't get into the news because it would be bad for the tourism. I had a police scanner, and the dispatchers hardly had time to take a deep breath. The residents would like the Mafia to take a more obvious position, but it hasn't happened. And if you don't gamble, it's the most incredibly boring place on the planet.

I lived in Las Vegas for one year, 1975. It was smaller and kind of fun. Part of the year I drove a Montgomery Wards Service van around fixing A/C and appliances. Back then I only worried about crime if I had to go on calls into North Las Vegas.
It was a pretty place, back then.
No, I didn't like to gamble but I stayed busy dating the local gals.

I know just how those visitors feel about their room invasions.  Here in AL if you are a tenant your landlord can enter your home at any time.  All they have to do is provide a reason.  If they say something like I was inspecting the property and "thought I heard a cry for help....a scream.....smelled smoke.....heard water running......saw the door unlocked....etc"  Anything that places them in a concerned citizen scenario & just trying to help.  

They can also take pictures of the interior and your personal property.  They also do not even need to tell a tenant they have been in their home.  This is not just for people in subsidized housing it affects any tenant hear in AL.  At least it did a few years back when I consulted a lawyer regarding the numerous scheduled Home Invasions in the housing complex where I live.  He also advised at the time that he felt that I had a good chance of filing a home invasion case.  Has anyone else here ever entered your home and something felt a little off, maybe something not exactly in the same place you always put it? 

During my divorce someone came into my home and stole money, electronic equip. and 3 gold and diamond wedding rings.  Grapevine TX PD refused to even take fingerprints.  In the 1970s in Tx someone was entering my home and somethings disappeared.  This was during a 2mo period while my Grandmother was dying, I was working while we were being evicted. Over 15yrs later I learned who at least one of the people was.....I saw a picture that had been in our living room all my life hanging on my Mothers bedroom wall here in AL. Go figure.

Las Vegas is on my wanna see someday list I wonder if they check RVs on casino lots?

JewellAnn

(08-13-2018, 12:00 PM)Putts Wrote: I've been going there in early January for the Consumer Electronics Show every year for the past 25 years. 

I always had the CES on my bucket list, but rooms there were way too expensive during the event.

Of course, way back when, the Adult Film Industry was a big drawing card....

(08-14-2018, 05:36 PM)Texjbird Wrote: During my divorce someone came into my home and stole money, electronic equip. and 3 gold and diamond wedding rings.  Grapevine TX PD refused to even take fingerprints.  

    I had a few firearms, a laptop, expensive camera, tv, and a little bit of cash I had on hand stolen out of my apartment in Mass shortly after moving in.  Someone entered with a key, landlord never changed the locks. Though he claimed he did.  

     Reported it all stolen and I expected them to take fingerprints as well, the detective told me it's not like on the movies and people rarely get caught and items almost never get recovered.  

      Gee thanks,  wondered what the purpose of filing a police report was for,  he made me feel like I was wasting his time.  And he just told me they don't ever catch anyone, so I can't imagine he needed that time to do anything else!

Tenants should change the locks, or at least remove the locks and have them re-keyed. With a guard left behind, of course. People need to stop thinking that everyone else should do the work.

We buy locks for our rental doors that you can re-Key. That way we don’t have to change the locks every time. Sure is cheaper to just change the keys.

When I was a landlord, I rekeyed my own locks. I had a system for master-key, sub master key, and unit key. 3 keys for any lock. I would seriously come down hard on any tenant changing those locks!

When someone moved out, I just re-keyed for the unit key...leaving the master and sub- master still working. Never bought new locks...didn’t need to.

Ron's been telling me how bad U.S Cities were since day one when i arrived. I couldn't at that time comprehend as to why. Even though i have heard of horror stories from friends and their experiences. I guess I was just naive to think that every country is safe with very little crime, but i guess they're not. Anyhow regardless of what hotel i go to in my travels i never leave any valuables in the room. Hell I never even leave any valuables at home either for the same reason. You just don't know who'll break in and when. Call me paranoid but it's kept me safe this far. And here i was wanting to live in an american city.

(08-14-2018, 05:36 PM)Texjbird Wrote: I know just how those visitors feel about their room invasions. Here in AL if you are a tenant your landlord can enter your home at any time. All they have to do is provide a reason. If they say something like I was inspecting the property and "thought I heard a cry for help....a scream.....smelled smoke.....heard water running......saw the door unlocked....etc" Anything that places them in a concerned citizen scenario & just trying to help.

They can also take pictures of the interior and your personal property. They also do not even need to tell a tenant they have been in their home. This is not just for people in subsidized housing it affects any tenant hear in AL. At least it did a few years back when I consulted a lawyer regarding the numerous scheduled Home Invasions in the housing complex where I live. He also advised at the time that he felt that I had a good chance of filing a home invasion case. Has anyone else here ever entered your home and something felt a little off, maybe something not exactly in the same place you always put it?

JewellAnn, that happened to me, this week, under particularly bad & sleazy circumstances.

Do you (or anybody) have advise as to who to report it to?
It's a motel in Wisconsin.
The operators also appear to be running a tax refund fraud (i.e. they are not refunding taxes paid on the first 30 days of continuous residency).

I'd prepaid, and was too much of basket case to punch out immediately, but will leave Friday.
Back to Rest Areas for a bit. :\

I'm still in limbo on the job front.