I thought McAwful is asking felons to vote.
I live in Portland and the list of what a maid stole from me is up to about 20k and I can’t get the police to even do anything...detective finally called the owner of the maid service after I sent him the phone number and apparently all he did was listen to the owner’s spiel about how hard they try to prevent stealing. I was told unless I had them on camera stealing there was nothing I could do.
My stuff is gone, they were the only ones with access except my husband and myself and yet I can’t do anything except complain.
Hire a lawyer. Yesterday. Only way you’re going to see any results.
sorry to hear of your ordeal with this.
Did you get any benefit from homeowner’s insurance for the theft?
This also happened to me, but fortunately the amount stolen wasn’t anywhere in the neighborhood of 20k, more like around $600.
I called the owner of the company - who proceeded to tell me no one but me had ever complained of theft before - and that all of his employees were very carefully vetted.
He asked if my kids had taken what I listed as stolen (jewelry), or perhaps I had misplaced the items in question - items my kids did not have access to (they were babies at the time so the premise was ridiculous) - and the items were in a box, certainly not misplaced.
I got about $500 of free housecleaning as a “courtesy” from the company - which I promptly dropped. I wasn’t on Yelp at the time but would have posted it there.
I now use a very small, local, family-owned company and have had no problem whatsoever.
My guess the stuff stolen was marketable stuff. It is either for sale on e bay or at some pawn shop. Any “detective” worth his salt should know that and at least held out some hope of being able to put two and two together albeit the stuff may never surface.
On the other hand, bet if you told the dolt you were out hunting for the thief, the local swat team would show up and off you would go, either in cuffs or on a gurney.