‘Time to move, I guess’: Careless landlord empties tenant’s fridge, leaving everything to spoil

Your fridge is your sanctuary. It’s where you keep your most precious memories (leftovers) and where you plan your most ambitious visions for the future (fresh produce). The state of my fridge reflects the state of my mind. Sometimes it is full of possibility– zucchini waiting to be sauteed, eggs ready to be fried. It’s …
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‘How do you get furniture in’: Cramped New York apartment hallway sparks jokes and disbelief

When most people start looking for a house or apartment, high on their priority list is a decent amount of space. Sadly, there are certain places in the US where this comes at a premium — and New York City is one of the areas most infamous for this. Ask many New Yorkers about their …
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Shady Landlord Meekly Refuses To Fix Tenant’s Heat Until Next Year

Heat and AC are two very different entities depending on the city and situation you live in. I’m from an area of Texas where basically no buildings from before 1970 exist, and consequentially, it’s Air Conditioning Town USA. Every school, store, and home I ever went into during the summer months was being pumped with …
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Slimy Landlord Charges Additional $500 in Rent For Paltry ‘Deck’

Most posters who go viral for some incendiary take do not do so intentionally. A few brilliant and skilled Twitter users have mastered the art of making people consistently angry, and recently, @sweatystartup has proven himself to be part of this group.  You might not recognize this guy from his username, but he has been …
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People Share Their Roommate Horror Stories

Everybody has had a bad roommate; if you haven’t, you’re probably the bad roommate. It is not that hard to clean up after yourself, communicate, and be considerate of the people you live with, yet many people struggle with it.  I’ve heard so many roommate horror stories through the grapevine that are almost hard to …
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Greedy Landlord Thinks Tenants Should Tip Landlords Instead of Service Workers

We can all agree that of all the slimy jobs in the world, being a landlord is one of the slimiest. I would go as far as to say that it is a fake job. They act like they’re doing you such an excellent service by allowing you to live in their building when they …
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Horrible Subleaser Accuses Tenant of «Gaslighting» For Asking Him To Pay $100 For a TV

There’s nothing worse than having an impenetrably bad roommate. They refuse to budge no matter how much you ask them to clean or pay their bills. I feel like I could tolerate a roommate that is bad but owns it. Like yeah, they are never around and don’t do much around the house, but they …
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Urbanist Memes For Public Transit Enjoyers

You can be many different kinds of guys as an adult. Once you stop being a silly little student (a nerd, a jock, etc.), it’s important to consider which type of guy you’d like to be.  You can be a wife guy or an open-mic guy, but one of my favorite types of guys is …
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Dude Gets Dunked On For Proposing Housing Developers Start Building Underground

It doesn’t take a genius to realize that we’re in the midst of a housing crisis right now. Numerous major cities are pricing out many of the people that live there with extortionate and ever-increasing rent prices, and that’s only if there are enough places to live for everyone who needs them (spoiler alert: there …
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Apartment Complex Ignites Debate By Publicly Shaming Households Late On Rent

Realistically, most of us are only a couple of missed paychecks away from not having a place to live. It’s not a nice thought, but it is an unfortunate reality — one that some people have a lot more experience with than others.  Dealing with many landlords can be a prickly experience at the best …
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