They wish Teresa Martin well (sort of)
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Your daily Letter to the Columnist — March 4, 2013
Note from Dan: Teresa Martin, the house guest who wouldn’t leave, has apparently moved out of the Roanoke County home of Tony and Jeana Azar. Here’s an email I got from Tony on Monday.
To your readers and followers,
After my wife Jeana received a phone call from an old college friend claiming to be homeless and sleeping in her Jeep, my family and I opened our house and our hearts to a guest, Teresa Martin back in May of 2012.
Ms. Martin was sheltered and treated as a member of this family and had complete access to all amenities in the house for the past 9 months. For Ms. Martin’s gratitude and while I had gone overseas to be with my dying mother, Teresa swore out a protective order under false claims and lies , throwing my wife out of her own house escorted by Roanoke county police.
Hours later, she called 911 and summoned the county police to our house under fabricated accusations in hopes to drive my daughter. 18, and my son, 17, out of their own domain as well.
For all the lies Teresa Martin has told and all the drama she has displayed and all the trash talk about us and others, on behalf of my wife Jeana, my son Anthony and my 2 daughters Reema and Maya, we wish this soulless woman well and we will pray for her and those she preys upon.
Tony Azar
ROANOKE COUNTY
March 5, 2013 - 1:30 PM
Well played, sir. Is she out of the house yet?
Oh my duh. Just read the headline.
If he hasn’t already, he probably needs to change the locks on the doors to the house.
Well done, sir. May many blessings fall upon your generous and honorable family.
9 months??? Most people figure it all out after 1 month. If they are working and looking for a place to live after 30 days, they aren’t going to work.
I truly understand. I moved out my home from Dec 5,2012 to Feb 7,2013, due to threats from a “friend” and her dog! I gave shelter to since July of last year. The law and police were useless. So I spent 2 months out of my home, with the police telling me I was’nt even allowed to turn off utilities because ‘she’ would have been uncomfortable. I think this one of those things that goes undereported because people are embarrassed
Agree with Ron. Also, keep a close watch on your credit card statements & if you don’t already, shred all your discarded mail.
This is probably like some other “laws” that normal, decent people do not even know about but the grifters and leeches always do. Thanks to the Azar family for sharing their nightmare and warning so many people!
Henry is such a warm, understanding type of guy, isn’t he?
Mr. Azar might also want to put a fraud alert on his credit account. Someone can do a lot of damage in a very short time if they are so inclined.
Henry, trying to make it the dogooders’ fault. Just like a Freeper.
I, too, was in a similar situation a few years ago with a female who shared many of the same lunatic characteristics of Teresa Martin. It wasn’t a “landlord / tenant” situation, but (at the time) a potentially romantic relationship that, over a period of time, mirrored many of the Azar family’s experiences with Ms. Martin. I recognized the similar “diva” sense of entitlement alluded to the article (expecting to be waited on, not contributing financially nor physically to the overall benefit of the household, etc.), fabricating outlandish tales of physical and / or verbal abuse as reason to call in law enforcement (“I’ve planted drugs in this apartment; I’ve got nothing to lose and you’ve got a lot more to lose” “I’ve got these bruises on my arms from bumping into things at work, but I’m gonna say they’re from you grabbing on me”), and not only calling me “out of my race”, but being a racist as well.
The relationship ended (surprisingly calmly) when I met another woman on the opposite end of the spectrum who, coincidentally, shared the same name (as well as race) of the freeloader who had been making my life miserable for…too long.
We have since bought a house together and have been a committed interracial couple for the past eight years, working TOGETHER toward common goals, and being SUPPORTIVE of each other.
According to the article, Ms. Martin’s marriage allegedly ended in divorce after ten years; if she put her husband through anything close to what I (or the Azar family) experienced, it’s a wonder he put up with her for that long.
I wonder what HIS side of the story is…?