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Ms Much, until then a tenant of our Pulheim (Rhein-Erft-Kreis) client, reacted defiantly after her landlady had actually dared to terminate the tenancy without notice following three months of unpaid rent. Those who defy authority often see themselves as morally justified. Accordingly, Ms Much considered it only fair — and, of course, extremely clever — not to disclose her new address to the landlady. The latter could simply see for herself how she intended to serve her claims.
What Ms Much had not anticipated was that her landlady would indeed take matters into her own hands by instructing our detectives in Pulheim to observe the tenant during the move-out from the property and follow her to the new address. The detective costs incurred would subsequently be added to the existing claim as an additional item, thereby representing a considerable extra burden for the defiant tenant.
As the target person did not own a vehicle and generally used public transport, one of the two corporate detectives deployed prudently purchased a day ticket for local public transport in advance in order to ensure uninterrupted surveillance should a situation-related ticket purchase become necessary. Upon the investigators’ arrival at Ms Much’s former residential property, two women were just carrying items out of the building and loading them into an Opel Fiesta. As our private detectives in Pulheim had not been provided with a photograph of the target person by the client, it could not yet be conclusively determined whether one of the two women was Ms Much. However, the client was due to arrive half an hour later to conduct the handover of the flat and would then be able to confirm whether one of the two women was indeed the target person.
Until the landlady arrived, the observation team also noticed that the two women repeatedly spent time on a balcony in the attic storey. As the client later explained, the associated flat was vacant, and the tenant — previously resident on the ground floor — should not have had any access to it whatsoever, especially as the flat was normally kept locked at all times. Fortunately, the investigators had taken precautionary photographic evidence of the time spent on the terrace. Ms Much could therefore potentially also face a criminal complaint for unlawful entry.
After the client of our corporate detective agency in Pulheim had completed the handover of the flat, she confirmed to us that the blonde of the two women (the other was brunette) was the target person. Shortly after the handover and approximately one and a half hours after the start of the surveillance, the two women drove off in the Ford Fiesta and our detectives took up the pursuit. The journey initially led from Pulheim to Chorweiler, where various small DIY items were purchased at a hardware store. The target vehicle then drove to a multi-occupancy building in Pulheim-Sinnersdorf. The two women and a male helper unloaded the items from the Fiesta into the residential building.
In order to determine whether the target person would actually remain at the identified address and not visit another property after all, the observers from our private detective agency in Pulheim remained on site until the late evening hours. The man and the driver of the Fiesta left the building in the afternoon without the target person and did not return before the end of the operation.
Ms Much herself was seen several times at an open window on the second floor, enabling our detectives to identify the associated residential unit beyond doubt. This could also become important for the service of claims, because after nightfall the investigators, during a discreet check of the doorbell labels and letterboxes, found that the target person’s name was not listed anywhere. Admittedly, this is not unusual when someone has only just moved in; however, to be on the safe side, our corporate detectives in Pulheim checked the names on the labels that could be assigned to the residential unit in which Ms Much had previously been observed. An online search for this rather unusual name revealed numerous profiles on social networks featuring photos of the target person’s face. It therefore appeared to be a self-chosen pseudonym that Ms Much used both in the virtual and in the analogue world. The choice of name was probably intended to seem particularly “cool”; clever it certainly was not, because finding a specific “Lisa Schmidt” or “Maria Müller” online is far more difficult than locating a “Pussy Maxpower” (a figurative adaptation of the actual pseudonym).
Armed with knowledge of the new address, the precise residential unit and the pseudonym, the client of our detective agency in Pulheim would ultimately be able at least to serve her claims (the target person did not leave the property again before the end of the surveillance). Whether, in the not unlikely event of continued refusal to pay, there would actually be any seizable assets to recover from Ms “Maxpower” remained an entirely different matter beyond our control, especially given that a Ford Fiesta served as the removal vehicle.
To safeguard discretion and the personal rights of clients and target persons, all names and locations in this case report have been altered to the point of complete unrecognisability.