My husband and I agreed to allow another couple to stay with us, in our Texas home, for a short period of time (they were only suppose to be staying with us till that weekend). Never did we think it would turn into the 3 weeks from hell. My husband is serving in the United States Army and is currently deployed with this certain woman's husband. Before my husband left there were certain rules established including: absolutely no one at the house, that she could not walk in the house after 2 am, and absolutely no smoking in the house. He also made it quite clear that if any of these rules were broken, she would have to leave immediately. I went to spend time with my family for about a week, and I came back to a destroyed home. The person had thrown a party in my home and destroyed it, along with many of my belonging: there were cigarettes put out in my new title floors, bleach stains and burn holes in brand new carpet, broken beer bottles everywhere, piles of garbage everywhere and all of my belongings that were left at the house where either missing or had been rummaged through in my bedroom (including my filing cabinet). Not to mention I had locked my bedroom door before leaving. I do have pictures of my destroyed home. I asked the woman to leave considering that she had broken all of prearranged guidelines for her staying here, while our husbands were gone. She has never paid rent to us (considering we own the house), or helped with any of the utility bills.
At first she refused to leave my house. Finally, she did end up leaving and took all of her belongings for the house, while I was not home. After she had left, I noticed that A LOT of my belongings are missing including military credit cards. A few days later she started threatening to come after me, as well as destroy my marriage with lies. She also wrote slanderous bulletins on the internet using my full name, and will not stop sending vulgar text messages and harassing phone calls. And if this wasn't bad enough, she also vandalized my husband's truck. I went to the police and they told me that I had basically no rights, and that I had to let her live here for 30 days because this was her legal residence. How is that possible considering she had never paid any money - and therefore was not a tenant, so tenant/landlord laws do not apply?? What can I do??

