Than C Munzke Than Munzke Tina Munzke Vandalism, Theft, and Scammed Rent with Bad Checks Shakopee Minnesota
March 2015, a man in his 40's, claimed to be in the U.S Army (later confirmed as Sgt. 1st Class Than Munzke, a National Guard Recruiting Officer). He wanted to lease out 3 of the 4 rooms in my house for his wife Tina who was out of state. He, himself claimed to have been from Minnesota, but he had Nebraska plates on his silver 2002 Alero sedan. He further claimed to have moved to Colorado for a permanent job as a card dealer at Blackhawk Casino and his wife would be coming over in June 2015.
The finalized agreed leasing terms, was month-to-month at $1400 a month, first months rent and deposit was to be paid upfront. Unfortunately, he gave me a sob story of how he's pay $2000 rent for an apartment in Minnesota for his wife because the lease isn't up yet and he's unable to pay the deposit now. Being that he claimed to be in the U.S Army, I took pity and allowed him to pay rent then, and a deposit the next month when he's settled. He then leased out 2 of the 3 rooms he leased from me to two other out-of-state people. One was a lady who was rude and disgusting, the other was a young male who took my daughter's new mountain bike without permission and trashed it. Than Munzke defended his "tenent friends" and ended up cornering me, saying I'm not allowed in my own home.
April came around, he gave me a late rent payment in the form of a check from a bank that has no physical location, Extrade Financial. That check, ended up as a bad check and bounced, my bank charged me overdraft fees because I used that check to pay the property tax. I pleaded with Than Munzke to pay me, he apologized and wrote me a check for May's rent and promised to pay the desposit and April's rent in cash, but it will take him 2 weeks. The 2nd check bounced and I was charged overdraft fees again, this time I get a warning letter from the state charging me extra for the check I wrote them after finding out the check Than Munzke wrote me bounced again.
So already, April and May rent has not been paid, deposit hasn't been paid either. While Than Munzke keeps finding excuses that he's funds will be coming and not to worry. Unfortunately, I had to leave the country to visit my ailing mother, so I was gone towards the end of May and told my two daughters to follow up with Than. Than again swindle out with more excuses, agreed to put some of his things on as collateral, which my daughter ended up not taking because he was in the Army and she trusted he wasn't the scamming type.
While I was out-of-country, my ex-boyfriend came and stirred some issues, which led to Than and his tenant friends to ultimately pull a scam with my ex-boyfriend. The locks to my home were changed and the garage sensors were removed. Access to the house was no longer available to my daughters, my personal mail as well as theirs were unaccessible since the mail slot goes into the house. So my daughters stopped trying to get into the house and decided to live with their father and wait until I came back to handle the situation. During this time, Than Munzke and his tenant accused my family of stealing his things. How does a person out of the country during the time of the crime steal physical things from a tenant thousands of miles away? Also, how would the landlord steal things from a tenant if the tenants changed the locks and not give the new keys to the landlord of the house?
I finally came back in June 2015 and found the doors to my house locked, locks changed. So I had to break into my own home. To my horror, the place was ransacked, left in complete filth, beer cans littered my porch and the door frames to one of the room ripped out of the wall. I reported the crime to the police. I was asked what was stolen, but at the time, I couldn't remember what was missing. I was so ticked off that not only did Than C Munzke not pay rent, but he vandalized my home with his tenant friends and fled without letting me know or leaving any of the keys to the new locks behind. The untility bills also came and it racked over $300. He owed $2,800 in rent, and extra $94 in overdraft fees the bank charged me, in which he's agreed to cover over text messages. Since it was his fault he gave me bad checks.
Not only does he owe me rent, utilities, and overdraft money; he even had the nerve to steal from me. Original paintings on my walls are gone (I had only recently noticed when I sat down at the dining table to eat and looked up to see the painting mount and no painting) then I started going through my storage and began noticing things gone. I had purchased 3 new laptops that I intended to bring with me to Vietnam and donate to the orphanage, but they were gone and no longer in the chest I hid in the garage. I also had nail salon items, since I used to work in a salon and had bought the items from my former boss when their place closed down. The expensive foot massage was gone, my expensive vaccum cleaner, my new nice high heels are all gone (obvious for his wife, Tina). Some of my furniture was even taken.
I've tried to calling him, left him messages to answer me, but no response. Then in July 24, 2015, my eldest daughter had enough of me being stressed out with all this, she texted him with the number he provided, and called him out as a thief and attempt to evade the police. He laughed in her face and said he left Colorado in June for Kentucky to Ft. Knox and if she was capable, try and get the police to get him. I've yet to hear from my local police about this investigation. So I posted a warning of Than Munzke's scams on Craigslist, so other landlords don't face a similar injustice. Than Munzke needs to face justice and pay for his crimes on the American people whom he swore to protect when he joined the Army. He's a disgrace to the U.S Army and the government needs to bring this to justice.
SCAM NOTES: Than Munzke and his wife, Tina Munzke doesn't live at an address for more than 3-12 months at a time. They often move from place to place in short periods of time. Their checks are stamped with a home address in Minnesota, yet their license plate is registered in Nebraska. Than Munzke and his wife leaves Colorado for Kentucky just before I come back into the country. What's the coincidence of that happening? His tenant friends also fled. Than Munzke believes that because he is in the U.S Army, the government will protect him while he continues to scam the American people.
PROPERTY NOTES: The house in question is owned by two owners, my daughter and my ex-boyfriend (who scammed me in putting him in the title, but that's another issue). Transactions were made with me with my daughter fully aware. My ex-boyfriend denied ever threatening to kick Than Munzke and the other tenants out of the house, he also denied ever telling Than Munzke that he didn't have to pay April and May's rent. He did claim to calling the police on them for not paying rent and wanted the money in his pocket instead of my daughter's, who is the primary owner of the house.
4 Updates & Rebuttals
Who actually wrote the rebuttal?
#5Author of original report
Sun, March 20, 2016
Let me point out, that it's a bit fishy that the two rebuttals (one claiming to be an uninvolved consumer, the other the wife of the scammer in question) written against my original post happens to be posted on the exact same day. The author of the rebuttal is somehow "Real Truth" I'm sure any smart person can deduce that husband and wife, the two person who scammed me wrote them. But I'll gladly rebuttal each rebuttal.
Property Details: The house in question was first owned by a single owner, myself when I bought it in 2008. I then passed on ownership of the home to my two daughters by means of a quit claim deed. 2012 a man named, Hung, proposed to marry me and gave me a wedding alimony. Believing him, I ordered one of my daughters to surrender her share of the house and put in my boyfriend's name instead. At this time, my daughter and I had a falling out where I believe that she was going to destroy the family by racking up debts and then my house would end up being taken away. She had warned me about my boyfriend being a con artist, but I didn't believe her and demanded she surrender her share, out of rage, she did and told me that I've set myself up for a storm.
The moment my daughter signed a quit claim deed of her half to Hung, Hung dumped me and threatened to kick me out of my own home if my other daughter didn't sign her half over to him so that he would have full shares of the home. He then continued to stalk and harass my family, eventually driving my eldest daughter away, who moved out.
2013, the house's title is officially under my youngest daughter and now Hung, my ex-boyfriend. He continues to come around and one time, threw a rock through my glass door. Police reports were filed and Hung is not allowed to stop by to harrass me anymore. Due to hardships, I asked my daughter to lease out some of the spare rooms in the house to make ends meet.
Video footage from an autumn 2014 roommate shows Hung attacking me and stealing my keys. Hung was jailed and is currently facing trial for assault.
If one were to review state records on who pays property taxes and any related utility bills, it will show that the checks are either made by me or my youngest daughter. Even though my ex-boyfriend has his name as a secondary owner on the house, he takes no responsibility. Not only so, I've spoken to some lawyers, and he is currently on parole with a hearing for domestic assault, harrassment, forgery, and fradulent documents with risks of being deported to Vietnam because he's not an American citizen. In case you're wondering, I am have my American Citizenship.
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Now for the relevant matter at hand, both owners of the house has been fully aware of the renting out the rooms from the start. One owner, my daugher is allowed to enter the premises freely, the other owner, Hung is not allowed near the house if I'm there because of warrnings from the police that if he stops by and harrasses me, he can get jailed. Tenants have been dealing with myself and my daughter mostly because there is a temporary restraining order that bans Hung from being near me.
Then, Than and other renters have rented the rooms with no issue of Hung at all. The moment I'm out of the country, Hung suddenly shows up to harass the tenants then changes the locks to keep the other owner (my daughter) out of the house because I'm not there. See a pattern now? Hung then comes up with excuses saying he doesn't know about the tenants leasing out the rooms, so can you explain why he knows exactly when to show up before a tenant goes to work, or exactly after I'm out of the country? First off, how would he know I'm out of the country if he wasn't informed of? He knows I was out of the country, because I told him I was going to visit my sick mother and he needs to stay away from my daughters and the tenants. Granted, I was stupid for telling him.
So this statement, "Then they go out and rent the house to people knowing that they don't own the house so don't have full legal rights to rent it out without conscent from the other owner" is void because there is consent from BOTH owners. The catch, one is not allowed near me, so tenants don't interact with him at all.
"I bet there are other renters out there that fell for same scam this lady doing." -- Explain to me what am I scamming from people? Am I not paying rent? Oh, wait, I'm the mother of the owner of the house in which the renters are renting. In exchange for a roof over your head and a room to sleep in, you pay rent. When you don't pay rent, you are ripping off the landlords. Now, if the renter pays a deposit, and leaves when their lease is up and the leased room returned in the same condition it was when they rented it and the landlord refuses to pay back that deposit, then the landlord is scamming the renter. Which my daughter didn't do because the deposit check that Than Munzke wrote was cancelled due to insufficient funds. Wow! That means I never got a deposit and with Than not paying rent as well, it means I'm scamming the renter? Bravo for the thief's logic!
Miltary Couple Continues to Lie about their scandal in Rebuttal
#5Author of original report
Sun, March 20, 2016
Obviously your husband has been lying to you. I have a text message of him claiming to still be on "Army Active," which I'll gladly share to the world. This will void your remark of "first off the person who wrote this report pulled all the information of my facebook page and used out dated information about my husband and myself. My husband is in the army he left the National Guard Recruiting over 6 years ago."
Secondly, I'm glad you pointed you that I can barely speak, read, or write English. It makes my case for the fact that because of this, you and your husband are able to easily harass and scam me. Unfortunately for you, just because I am illiterate in English, doesn't mean I can't find someone who will help me voice the injustice that you and your husband has done to me. Just because your husband is in the military, doesn't mean he has a "right" to con people and get away with it.
Your husband didn't just con me. He conned a bank, and unfortunately for him, that bank is filing a case to sue him. I didn't know about this until his bank sent a lawyer out to my home and asked for Than Munzke so they can serve him some court papers.
In regards to a lease agreement, I've given him the lease documents, emailed him, called him, and you know what he told me? Simply paraphrasing, wait until my wife comes to Colorado first, then I'll sign, otherwise, I won't sign anything, but I'll pay rent at the beginning of each month as agreed. Do I have proof of some of this you may ask? Why YES! I do! I have an email, dated of when I sent him in regards to collateral he promised because he was falling behind on rent. That email, also records the two checks he wrote that were no good.
Checks? Did your husband tell you about the multiple checks he wrote to pay rent then got cancelled because there were "insufficient" funds?
You want to know why I come by the house so often? It's because I live there. There are a total of 4 rooms in that house, I only leased out 3 of the 4 rooms. Let me clarify that, your husband leased out the rooms, not the house. Room leases, NOT house lease. Not sure what he told you, but he's obviously been lying to your face.
I didn't leave for vacation. I left to visit my mother whose health was on the decline, otherwise, I wouldn't have left and stayed to make sure your husband wouldn't have ditched rent and stolen stuff out of my house. Who in their right mind would go on vacation, knowingly aware that their current tenant is $2k+ late in rent?
I find it hard to believe that you got a written notice to vacate the premises. When I asked your husband, he said he never gotten any paperwork and that the Hung guy, only verbally threatened him to leave. When I checked with the courts, no eviction papers were ever filed. But if it has, and what you claim is true then I implore you to prove me wrong.
Sold Hung half my house? My dear, if you know how to use your head then you'd know, that you can't buy half a house in a neighborhood with homes valuing at $170,000 for just $40,000. One, that's not half. Two, that's not buying. I'm sure he produced a handwritten scribble, he claims is the "bill of sale" He's been pulling that paper out in my domestic court case every time. What you don't know is that he wrote that and forged my signature on it. Not to mention, the house at that time was under my two daughters name, as is the land deed. He didn't know that, and was under the assumption that I was so he forged my name which has no bearing.
You say your husband spoke with my daughter, I don't deny that. I do deny that my daughter telling him "not to worry." What she told him was, we're trying to get things sorted out and that Hung can't legally evict them without filing proper paperwork with the courts and pay the sheriff's department out to evict them. She also told him that I would be returning in a few weeks, which would end Hung's harassments to the property. Not once did she say, not worry. She however, advised him to not listen to Hung because Hung is capable to violence and forgery. Unfortunately, instead of calling my daughter, who has proof of ownership of the house out to confront Hung, your husband simply thought that with all this commotion, "why not just rip out Mrs. Nguyen and not pay rent!" That's an idea, and so the elaborate scheme of pretending to talking to a lawyer who he said would contact my daughter (who never did), then the "I won't pay rent until ownership of the house is set straight" (knowing that the court system in America takes years).
We never hired an attorney, we sought the assistance of one who looked into the case. He didn't drop us as a client, we didn't hire him because we found out that he's friends with your husband's lawyer. In law, that's called a conflict of interest. Don't worry, you'll hear from another lawyer soon, with a letter of demands.
As for the theft of my things, you claim you didn't. So why did you and husband fled Colorado to Kentucky? You say he's no longer in the military, so why did he tell me that he is? You guys fled after changing the locks or collaborating with Hung to change the locks to keep my daughters out then you cry wolf that your stuff is missing? I have text messages from your husbanding suspecting it's one of the roommates he allowed onto the lease. Now you try to pull a fast one and accuse my family? One, I wasn't even in the states yet. Two, my daughters did not have access to the house anymore since the locks were changed by someone else. Your husband claimed to have not known the locks were changed, yet he was able to get into the house without a problem, where my daughters had to knock on the door because their keys didn't work anymore, only face his female roommate who slammed the door in their face and called them a thief.
It would appear that scamming, not paying rent, and running away from state to state isn't your first rodeo. Also, this report was filed in July of 2015, a month after you and your husband fled the state. You finally writing a rebuttal now means that my investigators are hot at your tail. I look forward to justice paying out in the end. Theives will always be on the run, which is why you guys don't stay at a residence or a state for more than 3-4 months at a time, especially when you've broken the law and are on the run to start over. Bonnie and Clyde you two are. They get busted in the end.
Real truth
Golden,Colorado,
USA
Who is really getting scammed
#5Consumer Comment
Thu, March 17, 2016
It's interesting that they are claiming to be scammed by the renter and also by the other owner of the house. So to get this straight first she was scammed by exboyfriend to put his name on the tittle. Then they go out and rent the house to people knowing that they don't own the house so don't have full legal rights to rent it out without conscent from the other owner. Then they happen to get renters who scamm them out of rent? Or does it make more sense that they tried to pull a fast one on some people and it backfired? I bet there are other renters out there that fell for same scam this lady doing.
titv1976
Golden,Colorado,
USA
False reporting by scam artist
#5REBUTTAL Individual responds
Thu, March 17, 2016
This rebuttal is in regards to terrible and false claims this person is making regarding myself and my husband. first off the person who wrote this report pulled all the information of my facebook page and used out dated information about my husband and myself. My husband is in the army he left the National Guard Recruiting over 6 years ago. Second whoever is writing this report wasn't the person who negoiated the rental agreement since Mrs Ngyuen could barely speak, read or write enlglish she was an older lady.
That being said when my husband origianlly rented the house it was under the understanding that he was renting it from the owner. not partial owner or from someone who wasn't even on the tittle. Appearenly Mrs. Nyguen and her daughters had sold half the house to a person they now claim is Mrs. Nygen's exhusband. My husband recieved authorization to sublet the rooms in the house until june when I would move to there. however after the first 3 weeks in which my husband paid rent in cash we gave Mrs Ngyuen a deposit check and he rented out the other 2 rooms at which time Mrs Nyguen started coming by the house almost every other day for some reason. in mid April Mrs Nyguen left for vacation and a few days later a man arrived at the house claiming to be the owner of the house and demanded that my husband and his room mates move out right away as he didnt authorize anyone to live there and he had the deed to the house proving that he was part owner. My husband called Mrs Nyuen's daughter who was suppose to be handling the affairs while she was one and was told not to worry about it they would get a restraining order for him. He had me confirm the gentleman was telling the truth. The guy came around again 2 days later and we called an attorney and ask our option. My husband was advised that since he was an owner he had a right to kick us out if we were given a written noticed. My husband spoke with the guy and the next day he was given written notice to vacate the house within 1 week. He also told my husband he needed to recover the rent from April and First week of May from Mrs Nyguen since he had to reimburse his roommates thier depsoit and April rent as well.
He relayed this information to Mrs Nyguen's daughter who told him not to worry about about it and that she would take care of it. Again my husband spoke to lawer who advised him to cancel checks put money in escrow account until they settle dispute then make proper payment to rightful person. This is what we did. A week before my husband and his roommates moved out the gentleman came by changed the locked on the house, my husband again informed Mrs. Nyguen's daughter who then claimed they went by the house but couldnt get in. When he arrived home from work my husbands things were missing, so he called the police and filed a police report. The police report is on file with the Lakewood Police department. You may verify the ownership of the house with the Jefferson County Clerk.
It would appear that Mrs Nyguen and her daughter have pulled a scam on not only us but on someone else by selling him half a house then trying to rent it out with out thier conscent. They are filing this report because they were unable take this to court. My husband spoke to thier attorney explained what he did and thier attorney has never followed up with him again and dropped them as a client. Also we had asked for a written lease agreement but Mrs. Nyguen never wrote one up for us.
As for Mrs. Nyguen claim that we stole anything from her we think she should be asking her so called exhusband.