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Tenant spends ten hours scrubbing an apartment spotless before moving out, landlord withholds $500 of her security deposit claiming sun-faded paint is "excessive wear and tear": '[He said] I should have rotated my furniture to prevent uneven fading.'

Inés Soubrie

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Arizona Landlord informs tenant that the parking included in the lease won't be available until August on move-in day, after collecting $3000 and handing over keys

Etai Eshet

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Guy accused of being a noisy neighbor gets landlord to look at footage that actually proves the complainer is the problem, gets him evicted: ‘My name was clear… My neighbor was evicted about a month later.’

Elna McHilderson

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Overbearing landlord adds invasive monthly photo inspection rule, demands images of every room, zooms in to critique minor mess, leaving tenant feeling constantly monitored: ‘It feels like surveillance’

Cata Holmes

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Landlord forces a resident to change their doormat for ruining the “welcoming atmosphere,” tenant doubles down with new decor: 'It’s a $12 doormat from TJ Maxx… It’s a joke'

Inés Soubrie

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‘It feels gross having to "prove" I am a good tenant every 30 days’: Landlord demands timestamped monthly photo reports from an always-early, perfect tenant

Etai Eshet

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Landlord restricts laundry room to 9am-6pm and sells a "$40 VIP pass" for after-hours use, residents refuse to comply: ‘Those hours are exactly when most people in the building are actually at work’

Inés Soubrie

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Renter walks away from well-priced apartment after landlord reveals extreme rules and preference for a tenant who barely exists: ‘Ideally someone who’s not around much’

Cata Holmes

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Landlord introduces a $20 per night guest fee, then demands $100 prepayment and a registered ID for a tenant's sister coming to help them: 'They have cameras in the hallway'

Etai Eshet

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Landlord demands using tenant's apartment for showings, then backs down when tenant asks for rent deduction in return: 'He was never going to give us money'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Tenant’s sewage complaints get ignored for over a month, organizes neighbors to flood the management phone lines, and gets the pipe fixed by Monday morning: ‘The change in their attitude was instant’

Etai Eshet

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Renter finds a dream apartment only to discover that the landlord is a nightmare: 'My dream home: a place where I can’t eat, exist, or turn on lights'

Brad Dickson

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Landlord turns a tenant’s apartment into a 3-month-long renovation experiment, then raises rent because the unit is now considered upgraded

Etai Eshet

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Landlord charges every tenant a flat $500 move-out cleaning fee for years, hits 3 families at once, they group, sue together, and win every cent back plus legal fees: ‘We stood our ground. We filed a collective action, and yesterday we won’

Etai Eshet

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'Enjoy your spa evening': Landlord swoops in to settle a neighbor dispute after the downstairs tenant tampers with the shared hot water heater

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Pennsylvania couple arrives at their new rental house and discovers another family already living there and is paying a fake Facebook landlord: ‘Their lease was a single page and their rental payments make no sense’

Etai Eshet

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