The tenant/landlord relationship is one of the most fraught relationships there is in this life. It’s a power imbalance that often goes out of whack. There’s a @calebsaysthings tweet that stays with me that stays: «first email to landlord: hey dave l’m sure you’re busy and I hate to be a bother but we noticed…» …
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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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Controlling Landlord Forces Tenant to do Laundry at The Same Time Every Week
I’m so lucky I’ve only had two landlords in my life, and they haven’t given me much grief. The first was a big, impersonal company that provided off-campus housing for students. The other is my current landlord, who sent over a guy with a can of Raid when we told him we had bugs. Neither …
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Cowardly Tenant Refuses to Deal With Bird in Building Hallway, Gets Roasted on Twitter
Just like anybody who’s had to rent, I’ve had my problems with landlords over the years. I’m no stranger to sending numerous despairing emails because they refuse to do basic maintenance on the apartment that is supposedly their investment. However, I’m also of the belief that there are some things in a rental property that …
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Update: ‘I moved out and took everything’: Group forces their roommate to move out, roommate leaves the house barren
Getting back at scheming roommates was this person’s goal, and they truly succeeded! Finding the right roommate is key. If you end up not getting along with them, like this person did, you’re just out of luck. Unless, like this person also did, you find a way to get out of the agreement. U/Nymyane_Aqua shared …
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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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Petty Property Manager Makes Tenant Mail a Check for Two Cents, Malicious Compliance Ensues
Property managers, like the bureaucratic tendrils of any given organization, seemingly exist to slow down processes to the point of absurdity. When one redditor received a bill from their apartment manager for a whopping two cents, they did what any normal person would do and went to the manager’s office to settle their minuscule debt …
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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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Scammer ‘Head Tenant’ Gets Blasted for Letting Roommates Pay Their Rent
There’s no getting around it: most of the time, renting sucks. Landlords aren’t known for being the most helpful and sympathetic of people, and if you have to share with roommates, there’s even more potential for drama. Living together can easily make enemies of the closest of friends, and things can get even uglier when …
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Sociopaths Brutally Bully Roommate Into Moving Out, Roommate Leaves and Takes Half the Apartment With Her
Most people who have had to spend a large chunk of their adult lives renting have likely experienced some version of the roommate from hell. Whether it’s someone who seems to thrive in their own filth and garbage, or a mooch who eats all your groceries while you’re at work, or someone who likes to …
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