Complaint Review: Dominic Nock - Nationwide

 Do not rent or hire Dominic Lee Nock. I will relate everything exactly as it happened so I can NOT be accused of libel. He is a con man and thief and cheated me out of six weeks rent, but that may be his modus operandi, he told me one of things that he liked best about a female friend in Oregon is that she allowed him to stay with her for a month free (I didn't find out this much later or I wouldn't have let him stay.) He is on this liars cheaters website for that reason NOT because he's a former lover. What I write is very long, so if you don't want to read more, just know he CHEATS people out of the rent that he owes them and if he's liable to do that, if he's in a work position that allows access to money, he may be liable to steal.  He DID take his roommates car who thought he was selling it for $500 with payments totaling 10K, Dom never paid his roommate after he moved out, and his roommate considered him a good friend he could trust.

He had advertised in the Los Angeles room wanted section of Craigslist. He had a very poignant story on there, a friend in CA. had invited him to come out from Maryland to stay but once he got there, the friend wouldn't answer his phone calls, he got a google voice number and he got through and his friend told him that he was staying with his girlfriend and she was paying the rent and did NOT want someone she didn't know to live with them. He had another friend he was staying with, but that other friend made him feel very unwelcome as he wasn't happy that he was living there and not paying rent. He wrote very well on his ad and I talked to him and he was very eloquent. He seemed also to be very honest, he told me how when he lived with a friend in MD. he felt that the rent was too low so he paid him more and he said at his own expense, he wired the place. He also said in his ad, that although he could not pay anything now, he was getting a job and he would pay with a refund he was getting soon.

He seemed sincere and honest and he told me that when he sent his picture in that some people stopped corresponding with him. I had suspicions then but told him to email his pic and I was right, he was black. I thought hard about this, as three black people I trusted cheated me, but I thought I should not judge a person by the color of their skin and knew that as a black person, he would find more difficulty finding help. I told him that I had a fixer upper that I was going to sell soon, so was not looking for long term, regular renter, I would rent to him, under a special circumstance, I would still want him to pay rent (I am not rich, and have to pay property taxes and HOA dues) but was willing let him defer the rent as I would trust him to pay me later, and furthermore, he could pay me in payments later, even after he moved if he wanted to save up his money to pay rent and deposits in North Hollywood where he said he was to be hired which was two hours by public transport from my place in the South Bay, I would trust him as I have others. He seemed to clearly understand that.

We, the roommate he was going to be living with in the rental and I picked him up at the Metro station. When we brought him back, I let a terrible mistake happen. When the roommate moved in, I told him he couldn't smoke and he said he would quit, and when we picked up Dom., he said he smoked and I said that I did not want smokers but when we got back the roommate Phil said he wanted to smoke on the balcony, I was quite surprised and so was Dom, but Phil said he just wanted to finish his pack and so said Dom and too my everlasting regret I acceded.

Dom. got a job quickly and was looking for another one. He seemed hard working and nice and I was very supportive of him. I also made mistakes with him that I should have nobody but myself to blame because I was cheated before, I allowed him to borrow money before he had paid the rent. He needed a bicycle and not just any one but a bike worth over 1K that cost $240, again, he wrote a very eloquent email (*** men are VERY good at expressing themselves) as to the reasons why, so I lent that to him and since he didn't get his EBT rewards from Maryland, I lent him some food money, but since he DID have a job and was very polite and nice, I again, trusted him. Since he found a job nearby he quit his job in North Hollywood although in might have been Studio City, and concentrated on the area near where he lived. Initially he was to pay $400 and help, but when I saw his commute would be 4 hours round trip I asked if he rather pay $600 as he would be to exhausted from going back and forth, he agreed. When he got the job here, he never mentioned working in lieu of rent, so thought that he would just pay rent, it was still less than the other roommate. He had dental problems and at one time, thought of letting him pay less rent now so he could get his dental work done and pay more later.

I felt motherly towards him as his mother from what he related not a good mother. She not only would probably NEVER lend him money but would borrow it from him (he told how when he sold his car, he gave her half the money but she kept wanting more.) On his birthday, I made sure it was special and he was treated to a special meal, his own MOTHER did not acknowledge it. He also said his mother never praised him, I did, not out of pity or to be condescending, but because I thought he WAS smart and clever. I don't know why his mother was that way, but she was white and he as a bi-racial child like Obama and Halle just looked black and I often wondered if that's why his mother treated him the way she did.

After a few weeks we had a meeting and I was unhappy to find that the two of them still were smoking. Dom's attitude had changed quite a bit and although he did pay $100 towards the bike and $300 towards half the rent, he still had not paid for the current month he was living. He suddenly told me that I had agreed that he wouldn't have to pay anything for the first 30 days and that I wrote emails to him stating that fact and he was scrolling through his computer to find that. (I would like to point out that the only other person who offered to help him, one  wanted his Apple laptop which was practically all he owned.) He could not find it, but somehow subdued he said that he would catch up with the rent for that month and pay in full the next as he now was working overtime. I had no choice but to believe in him although I was starting not to trust him. When I DID ask him for rent after that, he had a private talk with me and actually SCOLDED me for telling him not to smoke as it was none of my business and that since he knew that someone in my life owed me more that I shouldn't worry about what HE owed. Not only was that none of his business but since unlike Phil he still owed me rent he should have been MORE respectful towards me. He also was giving veiled threats, about how although he hadn't paid rent, how this was under landlord/tenant laws.

I had a very bad day once, and already irritated with him, I again ask if he could pay the rent. Instead of simply responding no, he write me a very long eail chastising me, which I did not respond to. He then wrote me a very long email demanding a meeting, already upset at the situation at hand, I (in a profane way) told him to stop sending me emails, if he could then pay it and if he couldn't don't. He found out later from someone staying here, what had happened but instead of being understanding about it, he chose to sulk and wouldn't respond to my emails (he had gotten a new phone number which he chose NOT to give me.)

It was this time that the trust who actually owned the condo wanted to sell and I told them do it now. It was a week before they had to move, I was fed up mainly with Dom and was going to let Phil move in with me. I found a place for Dom with a friend who would rent to him by the week with no deposit and by his work. No other landlord would make such an effort especially for someone so disrespectful but I DO try to help others. I also wrote a letter explaining not actually apologizing for the way I wrote to him before and how hurt I was that he not only claimed that I had misled him (he said that he would've never moved if I had not made that offer,) I told him in his ad and in our phone conversation, he made it very clear that his friend did NOT want him staying there, probably knowing him better than I, he felt he would probably not pay the rent, I was the ONLY one offering to help him. I told him I helped him in many ways and when he insulted and said things that hurt me, I let it go and he should do so also and not sulk, when I met him, he had no job and no place to stay and with my help, he had both. Instead of being grateful that my friend (who he had met when we took him out for his birthday) was also willing to help, he CHOSE to be resentful, saying he didn't know him. My friend lives in a very large house and he would have his own room, where he stays in all the time anyway.

He told me that he would pay me on the first when he moved out, with the "refund." He wanted to keep the mailbox key which I had to agree to, so I could get the rent he promised. He said he would leave the bike there, and I told him that I could take the value of that and he could just pay the difference in cash for the rent. Imagine my astonishment when I found out that he took the bike because the roommate (stupidly, I feel) sold him a 10K car for $500 down and he put the bike in there. He said that they have something in writing but since Dom was leaving his job and the state, it would be hard to collect.

I sent him many emails telling him that if he was looking for other places to live, I would accept the rent, in payments, so he could use the money he now had to find another place, I also told him that I was trusting his integrity and character to pay me back what he said he would and by not paying me back he would lose both, more important than money. HE responded with threats saying he would find a lawyer to sue me as I didn't give him 30 days notice, and that I was lucky that he gave me ANYthing. I of course, reacted angrily to that given all that I did for him, and that he felt ENTITLED to cheat me, and told him off. Of course he has never paid me what he owes, and because the supposed "rent" money went for the bike and food, he got to live in a decent place for $100 for six weeks.

He is pretty much of an ingrate. He always said that his past landlord cheated him, when I asked why, he said that he landlord's house went into foreclosure so he had to move. He said instead of using his rent payments to pay the mortgage, the landlord used it for his living expenses. I asked him when he paid the rent, was he able to live there and he said yes, so I told him, as long as he lived there for the time the rent was paid, he was not cheated, it is the landlord's perogative what he wants to do with the place NOT him. I do feel somewhat better that Phil's first roommate who IS slowly paying me what he owes, told me since Dominic never paid me rent any tenant lawyer would laugh him out of the office.

I have attached his resume, as I said do NOT hire or rent to him, unfortunately there are deadbeats like him and he won't go to prison for what he did to me or may possibly due to others, but if I can make sure that he doesn't get anything but fast food jobs and lives with horrid roommates that's good enough.

Academy of Art Institute / San Francisco, CA / BA in Architectural Design [2016 - 2021]*

Howard Community College / Columbia, MD / CompTIA A+ Certification [2005 - 2007]

Franklin Sr. High School / Reisterstown, MD / Diploma in General Studies [1998 - 2002]

EXPERIENCE

Papa Gil’s Pizza & Pasta \ Owings Mills, MD \ SERVER, CASHIER, DRIVER [7/2015 - 12/2015]

Pizza Hut of Maryland Inc \ Columbia, MD \ MANAGER, COOK, DRIVER [5/2014 - 7/2015]

FreeGEEK \ Portland, OR \ CONSULTANT [7/2012 - 7/2013]

Pavement Maintenance Inc \ Portland, OR \ MARKER [7/2012 - 12/2012]

A.M.I.T. Solutions \ Baltimore, MD \ TECHNICIAN [3/2009 - 5/2012 & 8/2013 - 4/2014]

Innovationz Squared \ Owings Mills, MD \ PROPRIETOR, TECHNICIAN, CO

CONNSULTANT [9/2007 - Present]

Dept. of Recreation and Parks \ Baltimore County, MD \ MANAGER, DESIGNER [8/2006 -8/2007]

Under Armour LLC Warehouse \ Curtis Bay, MD \ FORKLIFT OPERATOR [12/2005 - 6/2006]

EBY-Brown LLC Warehouse \ Baltimore, MD \ SUPERVISOR, FORKLIFT OPERATOR [9/2003 - 12/2005]

LANGUAGES

English - Expert \ Russian - Beginner

SKILLS & CERTIFICATIONS

ServSafe Certification

Microsoft Office Suite PC/MAC

ATSSA Registered Flagger

Advanced PC/MAC Disassembly*

Inventory Control