"Lisa J. Saliture signed a lease on my one bedroom lake house in Paddock Lake, WI on May 24th, 2008. The agreement was for her to pay her rent of $950 in two half payments of $475 on the 1st and the 16th of each month.
During the first year she paid nearly on time, but the second year she began paying late with excuses. To make sure I got my rent with a receipt, I went to her bank and opened a savings account in my name. I instructed her that from then on, she was to deposit her rent into that account and that I would not take her check or cash for the rent, but that she could transfer it from her account easily.
The second year, from April 1st , 2009 until she vacated the premises on September 15th, 2010, she was late with her rent on 23 occasions. It was agreed that the $50 late fee per occasion would be deleted from her security deposit upon move out. When she vacated the premises she owed more in late fees then she had as a security deposit.
It was also agreed that any damage done by her 2 German short haired dogs would be paid by her upon move out. The damage done by the dogs exceed $2500.
Lisa Saliture started paying her rent sporadically in January, 2010. She would break up her rent into 3 or 4 payments always giving excuses and promises of when the rent would be paid. She paid her June 16th rent payment on August 2nd 2010. She promised that her Dad was going to loan her the money to catch up on her rent.
I went to the house with my wife and my realtor on July 4, 2010 to look over the house. Lisa let us in, she quickly put her dogs in and locked the bedroom door, apparently so we wouldn’t go in the bedroom to see that one of the 4 mirrored closet doors was broken. When we entered the lower level family room, I noticed that the blue 14 x 20 wall to wall carpet was gone and the gray linoleum floor was visible. She said she removed it and she would put it back. The carpet never reappeared.
We noticed that the louvered doors in the foyer were broken and she said she would replace them. She even hinted that she and I could easily buy and replace them from Menards. There were a total of 5 broken louvered doors in the house.
Lisa moved out of my lake house on September 15th, 2010. I began working on the house to restore it to a better condition that it was when she moved in. And I cataloged the damages that occurred over the time she occupied the house.
Lisa’s dogs did most of the damage. I replaced 7 panes of glass, 2 doors, removed dog hair from under the refrigerator, under the stove, in the air intake vent, in the furnace, and in the dryer. The dog hair filled a 5 gal. Home depot bucket. I repaired the surface of 4 other doors that had dog nail scratches on them, repaired the entry doors where they were kicked in by someone who locked themselves out of the house. The worst problem was to get rid of the Dog urine smell. I had to remove all the carpet in the house, the foyer had the same blue carpet, the stairs into the lower level had blue carpet, and the bedroom had cream carpet that was wet with dog urine. I had to pay my landscaper to add a half a yard of dirt to fill the holes in the yard that the dogs dug. And it cost $250 for topsoil, seed and straw to make the yard green again. All the blinds in the house were destroyed along with the drapes.
She spoke of a water leak in the house in her complaint, but it was due to a leaky bath tub faucet that needed a new cartridge. It only leaked when the shower was running and dripped slightly into the basement laundry room where the dog cages were stored. Lisa’s computer was always at her tiny desk at her bedside. I never saw any camera equipment in her house. I would be surprised if she was smart enough to use one.
She left behind a broken TV, a variety of broken furniture that no one would take from the trash at curbside. She also left behind a plastic garbage can with 100 lbs. of dog feces. That was a dirty job to remove and discard.
I filed suit against her on October 27, 2011 in the Kenosha County Court system. The process server went to her apartment at 3101 W Drexel Avenue, Unit 206, Franklin, WI, and a young woman answered the door and said Lisa moved out 2 months ago. However, the process server had never seen nor met Lisa Saliture, so he didn’t know what she looked like, and he believed her. As far as I know, that was Lisa that answered the door, and she still lives there today.
The Kenosha County court awarded me the full amount I asked for because Lisa never came to court. She did however know about the suit I filed against her because she texted me numerous times about the court action and she told me she had filed an online case against me. Obviously this was a retaliatory move on her part.
I asked the court to award me $6875.00 for the unpaid rent in the amount of $3,250.00, late fees of $1150 and damage to the premises that amounted to $3,425.00 minus the Security Deposit of $950.
Kenosha county Court awarded me $7,037.14 for damages and court costs. My judgment has not been satisfied nor have the other 5 outstanding judgments from other parties every been paid.
To this day Lisa Saliture thinks she is the perfect tenant. I spoke to her previous landlord whom told me she also "trashed his house in two years and moved on like a locust."
The web page that rebuff this information can be found at: http://wcca.wicourts.gov/caseDetails.do;jsessionid=B42EB09D7D0036A5D95F1CFE460D2580.render6?caseNo=2011SC003363&countyNo=30&cacheId=7FD8C747A9768A168E7041ABE354B95E&recordCount=6&offset=0"