Q: We allowed a friend to stay with us for a temporary amount of time and eventually we decided to buy a car off of him.
The trade was that we would pay him $150 a week and we could drive it with him holding the title. He excepted money for the car when the title was not in his name. As the time went by we started noticing that things in the house went missing and we were supposed to go to the DMV to switch the title to his name but he bailed on us about that. We decided that we weren’t going to buy the car so we told him we’d give him the key back when we get our $150. Just recently we found out by a neighbor that he has been stealing all of our things and these are things that is worth an amount of money. He says he knows because he bought something from him that he knew belong to us. And I came home today and noticed that somebody had stole our battery and we also Found out that that was him because he said he never came over to our house that day but we know it is that his trailer was gone and I was there just yesterday. What can we do about this
A: contact the police and make a report. if you have homeowner's insurance report it to your company
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