Pacific Heights

In the movie, “Pacific Heights” by John Schlesinger, the landlords are given three signs of potential problems with their tenant. The first sign was when the Carter Hayes, Michael Keaton, lies to the landlord about meeting his wife. The landlord asks his wife later about Cater Hayes meeting here and she responds very objectively no. Why would Carter lie is the first question. I think it was to give the landlord some comfort about who he is because if his wife had no problem with him would should he. The second sign would have to the refusal to fill out the application. This document is used to make he would pass a simple background check which would include a credit check. Carter refuses and hands the landlord a slip of references for him to contact later. All of the contacts except one come back false. The only contact that he was able to talk to was his old landlord which told him he was a great tenant and was very adamant about getting Carter’s address. If that was the only contact that I could speak too this to me would have thrown up some flags. Later in the movie Carter shows up to the apt and has already started getting comfortable with is stuff scattered throughout the place. The landlord shows up and see’s him already inside without prior meeting or key to enter. I would have thrown the man out that instance for breaking and entering and trespassing on private property. In conclusion if the landlord would have stuck by the background checks and legal documentation this situation could have never taken place. Instead, the landlord has to hire an attorney and fight in court to have the tenant removed. So far, the tenant can‘t even be served because he is never available.