Beware Lori K. Wat*s (D.C. Subletter) and vet Facebook landlords at all costs
I got tipped off by a post in this sub about Lori K Watts and Jacob Diamond being hostile to people apartment hunting in D.C and want to add my warning to fellow students. I know bad landlords are aplenty so I hope this post is allowed.
I’m a Georgetown student and I was searching for housing in the (unaffiliated) uni housing search Facebook group. Jacob left a comment saying his friend Lori had a place available and connected me. She offered a stay of two weeks while I wait to secure long term housing. I stupidly decided that this sounded preferable to an airbnb and sent Jacob a deposit to hold the room two days. She said it’d be a nightly rate of $79 and we can draft a contract upon my arrival.
Less than a day after is when I looked her up and found a Reddit post and forum posts with allegations about her behavior. My family didn’t feel comfortable anymore, and I passed off contact to my dad (my guarantor). He told them my plans changed and I won’t be moving in, and requested that they return the deposit before saying they can just keep it.
Here’s a kind voicemail she left:
“Believe me, you will pay, and I've already notified your university. Who the hell do you think you are, you little stupid introvert that doesn't know how to handle anything? So you stick your dad on people. That's ridiculous. And then he lies for you. and say that you didn't even come to town. Shame on you, shame on all of you. You're lucky we let you in our country. I think you may be better off going back to China if you're going to screw people this way. Shame on you. Shame on you. That like a country takes you in, and then you take advantage of the people who are from here, shame, shame. You give your country a bad reputation, that you're a conniving little unscrupulous pig. **** you.”
She has been spamming me from No Caller ID numbers, leaving voicemails telling me that she knows where my mom and I are, threatening to take me to court, cursing at me, that I owe her a months rent, and that she won’t leave me alone. Jacob is just as bad because he left my dad on read for messages reiterating that I won’t be moving in, and I assume proceeded to tell Lori, because she’d call me and even MY BF while refusing to engage with my father. She commented on Facebook sharing our private convo and said to beware of me. What a grand operation the two of you are running.
I 10000% never should’ve engaged with a private third party before vetting them. It’s horrible that they’re trying to get other students. It’s been days and I can’t use my phone normally. Be smarter than me. Save yourself AND DO NOT ENGAGE
Forum posts: https://ip-address-lookup-v4.com/email/c2Jlcm1hbjQ1QHlhaG9vLmNvbQ==
Reddit posts
https://www.reddit.com/r/washdc/s/8BcE9CYqAi