Continued from Tony Perez's Electronic Diary (October 19, 2018 - March 12, 2019) http://tonyperezphilippinescyberspacebook41.blogspot.com/

Photo by JR Dalisay / April 21, 2017

Friday, November 11, 2022

Watched all five episodes of the U.S.A.'s 2022 Worst Roommate Ever. Four cases are presented: "Call Me Grandma," about Dorothea Puente, a former prostitute and madam who committed six murders, all of them to obtain money, valuables, and Social Security checks from her victims; "Be Careful of the Quiet Ones," about Asian-American K.C. Joy, who murdered his landlady Maribel Ramos because she kept rejecting his love for her; Youssef Khater, a Danish-Lebanese who lied and conned his way to Chile to pretend he was a marathon runner only to milk people of their money; and, over the last two episodes, "Roommate Wanted," about serial squatter Jamison Bachman, who made life miserable not only for the apartment owners he stayed with but also for his family.

The documentary reveals how the most apparently decent and impressive tenants turn out to be monsters. It also informs us of the U.S.A.'s flawed tenancy laws, which make it difficult for home owners to evict unpleasant tenants. Thank God, there are different tenancy laws in the Philippines, perhaps due to awareness of the proliferation of unpleasant tenants and their wily ways.

"Roommate Wanted" must have been sequenced last because it had the happiest ending.

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