Ok, proving that helping people can bite you in the butt. My brother and SIL, the ones who were staying with us after moving to Seattle from Florida created chaos and havoc. In addition to their financial problems they apparently have drug and criminal problems that I was unaware of when I opened my home to them. To make a long story short they were escorted from my house by the police on Weds after my SIL caused a huge domestic dispute when asked to clean up their room so it did not smell like mildew and then from my mothers on Thurs. They were so obnoxious and threatening in front of the police that the police encouraged us to secure a protection order against them and told us the motel address they dropped them off at so that we could have them served. They are in a motel, paid for by charity voucher, till their transitional housing spot opens later this week. I feel awful for the kids but when push came to shove, my son and husband and the rest of our family had to come first. Believe me, if I could have helped the kids more I would have but they have.
After they left, we discovered a number of personal papers had been gone though and a number of papers relating to my FILs estate were missing, along with some checks. We have taken care of the accounts but are concerned that since these people are desperate and have our social security numbers (they went through documents containing them), our DOBs and naturally know things like my address and my mother's maiden name. Is there a reputable service we could sign up for to watch our credit records for identity theft? Should I contact the credit reporting agencies? We are ripe for credit fraud as we have no debt but a mortgage and decent scores that would make it easy to obtain just about any type of credit or note.
I can't understand why they would do this to us.
: On a related un frugal note, they trashed the carpet in their room in our BRAND NEW house to the point it needs to be replaced and they put a hole in the closet door and made it so the walls need to be painted. And it goes without saying we have to get the locks changed (even though we never gave them a key, my keys have gone missing). 
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After they left, we discovered a number of personal papers had been gone though and a number of papers relating to my FILs estate were missing, along with some checks. We have taken care of the accounts but are concerned that since these people are desperate and have our social security numbers (they went through documents containing them), our DOBs and naturally know things like my address and my mother's maiden name. Is there a reputable service we could sign up for to watch our credit records for identity theft? Should I contact the credit reporting agencies? We are ripe for credit fraud as we have no debt but a mortgage and decent scores that would make it easy to obtain just about any type of credit or note.
I can't understand why they would do this to us.
: On a related un frugal note, they trashed the carpet in their room in our BRAND NEW house to the point it needs to be replaced and they put a hole in the closet door and made it so the walls need to be painted. And it goes without saying we have to get the locks changed (even though we never gave them a key, my keys have gone missing). : 
