My son got ripped off for $4000 and made me proud of him. [View all]

My son shares a house with some graduate students, one of whom is Chinese. He is responsible for collecting the rent for the landlord from each of the sublease holders.

The Chinese graduate student may have lost her stipend - I think she may be a marginal graduate student - for whatever reason, has stopped paying rent, while saying she'd get money from her family in China but it didn't happen.

The lease is coming to an end - my wife and I told him not to have taken responsibility for collecting rent - and my son is not renewing but is moving in with his girlfriend. His girlfriend thinks he should take the woman to court.

My son is concerned the student may have overstayed her Visa and if taken to court may end up in a detention camp. He told us he could not live with himself if that happened over four grand. He's going to try to get her to pay, but if she doesn't he'll eat it and chalk it up to experience and being the victim of a petty crime.

I'm proud of the way his mother raised him.