What's key is that the data is close but not identical to the recorder's general index.

In an identical future case, this could establish the presence of the appliances before and their absence after a tenant moves out.I'm in agreement with other posters here... go after the ex-tenant in civil court (yeah, theft is a crime... yeah, it sounds like your cops are lazy... it could be worse) but as others have pointed out it's much easier to obtain a judgement in civil court. 

I thought Tenant Cloud was $9 a month with $2 to verify identity?

I like them in standard letter size (not in legal size) and the carbon copy makes it really easy to fill them out quickly and have identical copies with signatures for you and the tenants.The main advanatage is in their popularity.

NJ Landlord Identity LawEdit: Here's a quick list for other landlord-related laws if it helps.

You can sync all your calendars so you update only one and the others update automatically, thus assuring all calendars are identical.

They should have been vetted via identical criteria.

I asked my attorney that very question, and she provided an almost identical response to Jessica Zolotorofe's. 

By using a trust as the ownership entity, our identities are protected from the borrower while we retain ownership via the private trust agreement.

I agree the question does not express the identity of the parties well.