I once lived in an apartment complex that went into receivership, and there were two "owners" arguing over our rent payments, e.g. they both wanted us to pay them, and were both threatening immediate eviction if we didn't. I didn't pay any rent until things were clarified through the city, so I paid what I owed, gave my notice, and moved. I did get my deposit back.
Our last landlord was a cheap prick. The place had roaches on day 1 and we never could kill them off. It was riddled with mold. All they would do about it was paint over it. We pointed out a green spot growing in the carpet and they ignored it. That carpet was so grimy. We had to tell them to bring the window ac unit on move in day. It was the middle of summer. And in winter we discovered the heater didn't work and we spent a while seeing our breath in the livingroom. The real kicker was despite this place being as disgusting as it was they were strictly no pets. Joke's on them. We moved in with 2 cats and left with 3. And we fed the strays for good measure. Screw you Karl.
TL:DR-Landlord used house we rented as hookup locale with his mistress one Sunday. Dad told him, “Either we go to the police OR you waive our lease break fees and return our security deposit in full immediately.” The jerk complied and we (temporarily) moved into my grandpa’s house the following week.
I had lived in an apartment building in a furnished unit for 13 years. One day I was passing the management office and on the door was a notice that. New company was assuming management duties and that “We look forward to working with you!” About three days later every apartment door had a notice on it: “NOTICE OF LEASE TERMINATION.” We were all being thrown out so they could renovate the building as student housing for a nearby university, and of course raise the rents. We were given about 28 days. Many of us were elderly and had nowhere to go- a guy of my acquaintance ended up living in his car for 3 days. This, incidentally, was during Covid. Eventually, we found new places, but we all swore that we would never rent from that predatory dirtbag outfit. I said I would live in a tent in the woods first.
He would sit across the street from the building in his car and spy on us. He was using our apartment to store furniture. No, it was not a furnished apartment, this was furniture we were not allowed to touch. In the dead of night while I was at work, my wife, who was in bed on the second floor, heard someone downstairs. She went down to discover the landlord's daughter in our living room using our phone. This was in the days of land-lines. She had a key and had just let herself in in the wee hours to make a call. Fuses blew every day. We called in an electrician who told us to get out immediately because the building could go up in flames at any moment. The toilet (which was on the second floor) leaked. We called a plumber who told us to get out immediately because the second floor might collapse at any moment. The water heater exploded and was spraying water everywhere, literally turning the ground floor into a giant puddle. The landlord refused to do anything about it. We warned him the floor would literally rot. He did not care. We got that fixed ourselves, although the carpet never recovered. The kitchen was a one-story extension on the back of the building. There was a hole in the roof big enough for a man's foot to fit through (because that's how it happened) which he did not think needed repaired either. In winter the pipes froze because they were totally exposed, and we had no water for a couple of weeks. He rented the apartment next door to a group of students coming to the states from India, lying to them that it was furnished. The day they arrived the previous tenants were in the process of moving out, and a fight erupted because the Indian students thought those guys were stealing their furniture.
My landlord's parents live below me. The mother comes into my flat with nothing more than a single knock if she wants to talk to us about the leaking they didn't fix for months. The landlord himself completely ignores my messages and did not have any fire/gas alarms here for months. To top it off, our boiler is broken, leaking gas :D Has been for months. Fortunately, the gas isn't poisonous.
I have one but since it's too late for Reddit I'll just post here. COVID happens and I send my landlord the declaration of hardship and a judge says "cool he can stay". Landlord files eviction again but uses "apartment unfit for humans" and claiming water pressure is bad. Judges says declaration can't prevent eviction since it's an exception. But requires landlord to pay me 3 months rent back and deposit. Scummy landlord.
I guess I’m pretty lucky that my current landlord never contacts me for anything and gets plumbing issues taken care of quickly. I remember living in an apartment where I lost everything to bedbugs and had to send a hamster to live with a friend when they dragged on fixing the broken AC in the middle of a summer heatwave... 😓
The building is collapsing due to a complete lack of care from the landlord, he claim it's because we have cats. There's black mold in almost every room, ceiling and wall leaking, no insulation, door falling off the wall, holes in the roof, mouse and wasp everywhere, the bathroom vent are broken, pretty sure they never worked so they are basically holes in the ceiling, right above the bath and toilet, we had to tape them shut to prevent him from looking at us. All of this is because we have cat according to him. He steal our water, admitted to spying on us, admitted he took pictures of our underwear, broke into the appartement dozen of time, threatened us. He's daughter is our neighbors as well and she's been making our life hell, screaming until midnight, breaking my mother car, banging on the wall, harassing our dog and then complain about him barking. He's been telling lie about us to the whole village so we can't find a new appartement nearby BUT he gave us a notice to move out that's so completely illegal the lawyer freaking giggled at the easy case it would be. If we sue it's gonna get even worst so we just want to leave as fast as possible but the constant lie from this *sshole make it harder
Our old landlord sold the place to a new guy who gave us an ultimatum to move out by late July of this year (fortunately we’ve found a place). We live in a building with three units - one on the ground floor, one on the second level (ours) and one split between the two. New guy is turning the whole place into airbnbs, and currently we’re the only residents left in the building. Every single night a new group of obnoxious douchebags comes to party loudly into the wee hours of the morning. Apparently the neighbors have been threatening to submit complaints to the city because the building’s new owner didn’t notify anyone of what was going on.
Gods, I'll admit, this is a lot better than most, as a lot of these people HAVE learned to look up your rights to find out if the other guys has a legal leg to stand on, so only one or five stories are about people taking WAY too much. It still hurts to hear them though.
My first apartment. When I was viewing it I noticed some discoloring on the living room ceiling. Asked him if there was water damage. Was told, the previous renter use to run a humidifier 24/7 and never aired out. 6 months later,we're hit with a rainy season and I notice it's dripping in from the ceiling. Proceed with 4 months of calling him daily to take a look at him where he's trying to gaslight me into thinking I'm imagining shit. Finally get a carpenter out to look at in. My apartment is right under the roof, so the guy crawls up, takes a minute to look at it and comes back. He asks me if I'm over on that side of the room often. I tell him it's the living room, I'm everywhere. He tells me to stay away from that half of the room because EVERYTHING on that side is rotten. He won't even crawl in there. I call Teddy (yes that's his name, and it was Vejle Denmark. FU Teddy, you deserve to be outed) and he keeps gaslighting. When I finally moved out, there was a 1,5 meter long, 7 cm wide crack in the ceiling that ruined my couch and the kitchen light started dripping water. Years later I learned that his name is infamous within construction and everyone from electric to building contractor to painter hate his effing guts..
My hot water heater broke, flooded my apartment, my dumb ass didn't have insurance, and then they charged me for moving out early. They said it was liveable after 4 inches of water sat for 2 days. Then, said I broke it on purpose. The Bloom in Cartersville, Ga. They have others in Ga, too, so be careful.
Those are black and red, and yes, completely harmless. Annoying as hell, though. They swarm on warm places near the trees they like (box elder and maple trees) such as houses, and COVER them with poop. The poop can remove paint. Animals don't eat them because they taste and smell awful. The only way to get rid of them completely is to remove the tree that attracts them, although I've had luck culling their numbers by spraying them with soapy water when they're clustered together.
Apartment building. The washer and dryer had everyone in the building including the super, whining about it to the landlords. The washer was one of those old 80s washers, and you can barely fit 4/5ths of the washer to turn it on without shit happening, and they were so soaked beyond belief, it would take 3 dryer runs before it would be dry. Then it's the fact that it broke down. all. the. damn. time. And they still refused to get new ones. Why? "Then we'd have to get the new ones to be coin operated, that way when it breaks down, we can afford it." Bitches, you'd save more money if you actually bought a new set. And they also had the temerity to raise the prices by a dollar. Landlords, if your washer is older than Millennials, then it's time to get a new washer and dryer. I want to be able to wash more than just one day's load at a time.
I lived in my last place for 10 years. My heat went out right before Christmas in 21. Then the dishwasher went out. I did get the heat fixed until, mid March. Same with the dishwasher. I could not wash my dishes for almost three months. No heat for three months. Then this year he raised the rent and I had to move. I could not afford to pay him half my income. I am currently homeless. With the prices where I live, I can't get a place. If I wanted to drive two hours one way for work, and making $17 an hour is NOT worth the time, that would be how I get a place. Touble is, leaving my job is not an option. The health insurance is far better than I could get anywhere else. He was slow to get things fixed, and many things I needed fixed never were.
i lucked out so much with my landlords dear gods. They tell us we can do essentially anything we want with the place provided we don't trash it and they are super chill about pets. I don't think I could make it through a lease with some of these people without going to jail
Mom threw the landlord's daughter out the door. she had thing that since her father owned the place then she could do what ever she wanted and look threw what ever she wanted. Not with my mama. Now my mom was not a tall woman but she had the blood of a Scottish Border Rever and Blackfoot in her veins and you do NOT ever come into her place of living without her permission EVER not even the landlord could do that, not even the cops could do that. She grabbed the brat by her hair dragged her to the door and without a care in the world threw her out. Mom told her landlord that if anything like that happened again she would call the cops on his daughter as HE was the landlord not her. Mom and dad moved out a little while later but the girl never tried that again.
If only there were more channels that did this and put in effort to check for errors. People want to listen to this stuff. Not stop to have to read because of an error. Ugh.
in 2019 our landlord kicked us out when we were on vacation in New York City because we didn’t wanna extend our lease and while friends were packing our belongings, he sent cops to the house to kick them out and essentially gave us one day to pack up a three bedroom, two bath two-story house that was occupied by me, my mom and dad and my brother and sister
As someone who will own property in the future, I never understood why funds earned from renting a property aren't put back into the same property being rented. That and I couldn't imagine my only form of income coming from rent alone. These properties are investments, and any money earned needs to be put back into them for upkeep, improvements, and quality of life for the renters
I once lived in an apartment complex that went into receivership, and there were two "owners" arguing over our rent payments, e.g. they both wanted us to pay them, and were both threatening immediate eviction if we didn't. I didn't pay any rent until things were clarified through the city, so I paid what I owed, gave my notice, and moved. I did get my deposit back.
Our last landlord was a cheap prick. The place had roaches on day 1 and we never could kill them off. It was riddled with mold. All they would do about it was paint over it. We pointed out a green spot growing in the carpet and they ignored it. That carpet was so grimy. We had to tell them to bring the window ac unit on move in day. It was the middle of summer. And in winter we discovered the heater didn't work and we spent a while seeing our breath in the livingroom. The real kicker was despite this place being as disgusting as it was they were strictly no pets. Joke's on them. We moved in with 2 cats and left with 3. And we fed the strays for good measure. Screw you Karl.
TL:DR-Landlord used house we rented as hookup locale with his mistress one Sunday. Dad told him, “Either we go to the police OR you waive our lease break fees and return our security deposit in full immediately.” The jerk complied and we (temporarily) moved into my grandpa’s house the following week.
I had lived in an apartment building in a furnished unit for 13 years. One day I was passing the management office and on the door was a notice that. New company was assuming management duties and that “We look forward to working with you!” About three days later every apartment door had a notice on it: “NOTICE OF LEASE TERMINATION.” We were all being thrown out so they could renovate the building as student housing for a nearby university, and of course raise the rents. We were given about 28 days. Many of us were elderly and had nowhere to go- a guy of my acquaintance ended up living in his car for 3 days. This, incidentally, was during Covid.
Eventually, we found new places, but we all swore that we would never rent from that predatory dirtbag outfit. I said I would live in a tent in the woods first.
He would sit across the street from the building in his car and spy on us. He was using our apartment to store furniture. No, it was not a furnished apartment, this was furniture we were not allowed to touch. In the dead of night while I was at work, my wife, who was in bed on the second floor, heard someone downstairs. She went down to discover the landlord's daughter in our living room using our phone. This was in the days of land-lines. She had a key and had just let herself in in the wee hours to make a call. Fuses blew every day. We called in an electrician who told us to get out immediately because the building could go up in flames at any moment. The toilet (which was on the second floor) leaked. We called a plumber who told us to get out immediately because the second floor might collapse at any moment. The water heater exploded and was spraying water everywhere, literally turning the ground floor into a giant puddle. The landlord refused to do anything about it. We warned him the floor would literally rot. He did not care. We got that fixed ourselves, although the carpet never recovered. The kitchen was a one-story extension on the back of the building. There was a hole in the roof big enough for a man's foot to fit through (because that's how it happened) which he did not think needed repaired either. In winter the pipes froze because they were totally exposed, and we had no water for a couple of weeks. He rented the apartment next door to a group of students coming to the states from India, lying to them that it was furnished. The day they arrived the previous tenants were in the process of moving out, and a fight erupted because the Indian students thought those guys were stealing their furniture.
Ffs he was an @hole. Sorry, laughing at the man's foot hole 😂
My landlord's parents live below me. The mother comes into my flat with nothing more than a single knock if she wants to talk to us about the leaking they didn't fix for months. The landlord himself completely ignores my messages and did not have any fire/gas alarms here for months. To top it off, our boiler is broken, leaking gas :D Has been for months. Fortunately, the gas isn't poisonous.
if you haven't already file a lawsuit and have the place claimed as uninhabitable by the inspectors.
I have one but since it's too late for Reddit I'll just post here.
COVID happens and I send my landlord the declaration of hardship and a judge says "cool he can stay".
Landlord files eviction again but uses "apartment unfit for humans" and claiming water pressure is bad.
Judges says declaration can't prevent eviction since it's an exception. But requires landlord to pay me 3 months rent back and deposit. Scummy landlord.
So you just wanted to stay for free? Gtfo
I guess I’m pretty lucky that my current landlord never contacts me for anything and gets plumbing issues taken care of quickly. I remember living in an apartment where I lost everything to bedbugs and had to send a hamster to live with a friend when they dragged on fixing the broken AC in the middle of a summer heatwave... 😓
I know more terrible tenants than slumlords.
I don't know where the first one lives but i'm pretty sure that BS breach of contract fee is totally illegal.
The building is collapsing due to a complete lack of care from the landlord, he claim it's because we have cats. There's black mold in almost every room, ceiling and wall leaking, no insulation, door falling off the wall, holes in the roof, mouse and wasp everywhere, the bathroom vent are broken, pretty sure they never worked so they are basically holes in the ceiling, right above the bath and toilet, we had to tape them shut to prevent him from looking at us. All of this is because we have cat according to him. He steal our water, admitted to spying on us, admitted he took pictures of our underwear, broke into the appartement dozen of time, threatened us. He's daughter is our neighbors as well and she's been making our life hell, screaming until midnight, breaking my mother car, banging on the wall, harassing our dog and then complain about him barking. He's been telling lie about us to the whole village so we can't find a new appartement nearby BUT he gave us a notice to move out that's so completely illegal the lawyer freaking giggled at the easy case it would be. If we sue it's gonna get even worst so we just want to leave as fast as possible but the constant lie from this *sshole make it harder
Our old landlord sold the place to a new guy who gave us an ultimatum to move out by late July of this year (fortunately we’ve found a place). We live in a building with three units - one on the ground floor, one on the second level (ours) and one split between the two. New guy is turning the whole place into airbnbs, and currently we’re the only residents left in the building. Every single night a new group of obnoxious douchebags comes to party loudly into the wee hours of the morning. Apparently the neighbors have been threatening to submit complaints to the city because the building’s new owner didn’t notify anyone of what was going on.
Gods, I'll admit, this is a lot better than most, as a lot of these people HAVE learned to look up your rights to find out if the other guys has a legal leg to stand on, so only one or five stories are about people taking WAY too much. It still hurts to hear them though.
The first one seems iffy since they could break contract and punish YOU
My first apartment. When I was viewing it I noticed some discoloring on the living room ceiling. Asked him if there was water damage. Was told, the previous renter use to run a humidifier 24/7 and never aired out. 6 months later,we're hit with a rainy season and I notice it's dripping in from the ceiling. Proceed with 4 months of calling him daily to take a look at him where he's trying to gaslight me into thinking I'm imagining shit. Finally get a carpenter out to look at in. My apartment is right under the roof, so the guy crawls up, takes a minute to look at it and comes back. He asks me if I'm over on that side of the room often. I tell him it's the living room, I'm everywhere. He tells me to stay away from that half of the room because EVERYTHING on that side is rotten. He won't even crawl in there. I call Teddy (yes that's his name, and it was Vejle Denmark. FU Teddy, you deserve to be outed) and he keeps gaslighting. When I finally moved out, there was a 1,5 meter long, 7 cm wide crack in the ceiling that ruined my couch and the kitchen light started dripping water. Years later I learned that his name is infamous within construction and everyone from electric to building contractor to painter hate his effing guts..
I feel incredibly blessed to have a good landlord
Much like werewolves, it's only a matter of time until he turns.
My hot water heater broke, flooded my apartment, my dumb ass didn't have insurance, and then they charged me for moving out early. They said it was liveable after 4 inches of water sat for 2 days. Then, said I broke it on purpose. The Bloom in Cartersville, Ga. They have others in Ga, too, so be careful.
Surely the contract in that first story couldnt be legally enforceable
This is why I never want to move into an apartment, ever.
Story at 13:00, the bugs I think are box elders. Annoying but not dangerous out right I think.
Those are black and red, and yes, completely harmless. Annoying as hell, though. They swarm on warm places near the trees they like (box elder and maple trees) such as houses, and COVER them with poop. The poop can remove paint. Animals don't eat them because they taste and smell awful. The only way to get rid of them completely is to remove the tree that attracts them, although I've had luck culling their numbers by spraying them with soapy water when they're clustered together.
Apartment building. The washer and dryer had everyone in the building including the super, whining about it to the landlords. The washer was one of those old 80s washers, and you can barely fit 4/5ths of the washer to turn it on without shit happening, and they were so soaked beyond belief, it would take 3 dryer runs before it would be dry.
Then it's the fact that it broke down. all. the. damn. time.
And they still refused to get new ones.
Why? "Then we'd have to get the new ones to be coin operated, that way when it breaks down, we can afford it."
Bitches, you'd save more money if you actually bought a new set.
And they also had the temerity to raise the prices by a dollar.
Landlords, if your washer is older than Millennials, then it's time to get a new washer and dryer. I want to be able to wash more than just one day's load at a time.
I lived in my last place for 10 years. My heat went out right before Christmas in 21. Then the dishwasher went out. I did get the heat fixed until, mid March. Same with the dishwasher. I could not wash my dishes for almost three months. No heat for three months. Then this year he raised the rent and I had to move. I could not afford to pay him half my income. I am currently homeless. With the prices where I live, I can't get a place. If I wanted to drive two hours one way for work, and making $17 an hour is NOT worth the time, that would be how I get a place. Touble is, leaving my job is not an option. The health insurance is far better than I could get anywhere else. He was slow to get things fixed, and many things I needed fixed never were.
I'm sorry you're going through that. I wish you well in finding a place - either renting or buying.
i lucked out so much with my landlords dear gods. They tell us we can do essentially anything we want with the place provided we don't trash it and they are super chill about pets. I don't think I could make it through a lease with some of these people without going to jail
Mom threw the landlord's daughter out the door. she had thing that since her father owned the place then she could do what ever she wanted and look threw what ever she wanted. Not with my mama. Now my mom was not a tall woman but she had the blood of a Scottish Border Rever and Blackfoot in her veins and you do NOT ever come into her place of living without her permission EVER not even the landlord could do that, not even the cops could do that. She grabbed the brat by her hair dragged her to the door and without a care in the world threw her out. Mom told her landlord that if anything like that happened again she would call the cops on his daughter as HE was the landlord not her. Mom and dad moved out a little while later but the girl never tried that again.
If only there were more channels that did this and put in effort to check for errors. People want to listen to this stuff. Not stop to have to read because of an error. Ugh.
in 2019 our landlord kicked us out when we were on vacation in New York City because we didn’t wanna extend our lease and while friends were packing our belongings, he sent cops to the house to kick them out and essentially gave us one day to pack up a three bedroom, two bath two-story house that was occupied by me, my mom and dad and my brother and sister
Is.... is this a re-upload?
Yup
Many land lords are predators
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Landlords these days are doing it to make passive income. If my hard earned money funds your life and second home some respect is due.
As someone who will own property in the future, I never understood why funds earned from renting a property aren't put back into the same property being rented. That and I couldn't imagine my only form of income coming from rent alone. These properties are investments, and any money earned needs to be put back into them for upkeep, improvements, and quality of life for the renters
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