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‘Here's your electricity bill, then': Landlord pays thousands in electricity after IT business owner gets even with him for refusing to pay $400 in HVAC building maintenance

‘Here's your electricity bill, then': Landlord pays thousands in electricity after IT business owner gets even with him for refusing to pay $400 in HVAC building maintenance

With great power, comes great responsibility, or so they say… well, obviously that quote is lost upon 99 percent of people who actually hold any real power, because oftentimes, with power comes greed. And greed can make you blind to your responsibilities. In this case, OP was an IT business owner, who was renting an office in a fairly nice building, and even though there were a few minor issues here and there, they were fixed, albeit a bit slowly. Then the AC unit that happened to sit above OP'…
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Tenant Gets £2000 Stolen When the Landlord Gives Burglars a Key to Her Apartment; the Whole Internet Rallies to Bring Justice

Getting robbed is a traumatizing experience. Not only was the privacy of your home violated, but there's also a sense of trust in humanity that gets extinguished. In this case, a tenant who had had it with their living situation was on the verge of moving out when her landlord did the unthinkable.
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‘You rented out my home’: Landlord Airbnb's tenant's home while he's on vacation, refuses to cover costs of missing items

‘You rented out my home’: Landlord Airbnb's tenant's home while he's on vacation, refuses to cover costs of missing items

When you're on vacation, the last thing you'd imagine happening back in your home is other people living in it, as you continue to pay rent according to your lease. OP went on vacation for a couple of months to spend some time with their family, and when they arrived back home, they immediately realized that someone else had been there… a lot of OP's things were missing, which struck OP as odd, as there was no sign of forced entry. After filing a claim with the police, OP asked around, searchin…
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'Landlord is ignoring my notice to vacate': Woman deals with landlord who doesn't want to lose her

Man worries about getting evicted, even though he gave notice to his landlord.
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Top 21 Mildly Infuriating Flops of the Week

Top 21 Mildly Infuriating Flops of the Week

That sucks.
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'My landlords have moved in': Tenant lets landlords stay in her apartment one day, turns into all month

'My landlords have moved in': Tenant lets landlords stay in her apartment one day, turns into all month

Landlords may be known for their shady practices, but a full-on role-reversal situation is not what we're accustomed to… Before we get into this new drama, let's all take a moment to acknowledge that landlords simply should not be able to get away with most of their ridiculous antics. Whether it's raising the rent well above market value and refusing to negotiate or whether it's refusing to acknowledge your fifth email this month about the roach problem and the need for a major roof repair, we…
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'I took detailed pictures and videos of the apartment when I moved in': Landlord demands extra month's rent on move out, tenant shuts them down

It's unacceptable for landlords, or anyone really, to behave dishonestly in order to extort others from their hard earn cash. Unfortunately, the tenancy and leasing process leaves a lot of grey areas where landlords can do exactly that. Seriously, who thought it was a good idea for there to be a part of the tenancy process where the landlord gets to hold onto a sizable chunk of the tenant’s change and then gets to decide whether or not they want to keep it at the end of the tenancy? That’s like…
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Top Roommate Stories of the Week (June 29, 2023)

Top Roommate Stories of the Week (June 29, 2023)

They say having a bad roommate builds character.
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Update: 'I moved out and took everything': Group makes their roommate to move out, roommate leaves the house empty

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 their story to r/ MaliciousCompliance . In their story, the OP writes that their roommates had ganged up to try and get them to leave the house they all shared. Why? So that one of the roo…
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'Send us a check': Landlord refuses to take $0.02 payment in cash, tenant maliciously complies

'Send us a check': Landlord refuses to take $0.02 payment in cash, tenant maliciously complies

Insisting on adherence to process when it does nothing but create an inconvenient obstacle is a tactic that the power-hungry love to wield like a fork at Sunday dinner—and I'm not saying they only use it once a week, but rather that they do so with ravenous vigor. It's silly, really, that someone should make such a big deal out of nothing—but trust anyone who is desperate to justify their existence in this world to do so. When this couple moved from their apartment complex, they received a foll…
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'All that just to spite [a jerk]:' "Really rich guy" buys apartment complex and fires manager who was rude to him

'All that just to spite [a jerk]:' Really rich guy buys apartment complex and fires the manager who was rude to him

It pays not to be a jerk—well, being a jerk can also pay because the annoying ethical limitations of kind and empathetic folk won't bother you, leaving you to do whatever, whenever, and wherever you want. Still, we'd like to think that all of that bad karma will come back to bite you eventually and that one day you'll receive your just deserts. That may be what happened to this apartment manager, who decided to be unbearably rude to someone who was applying for an apartment. Whatever it was, th…
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'You can't order me around anymore': Tenant gets even with property manager after getting elected as board member for housing organization, property manager quits

'You can't order me around anymore': Tenant gets even with property manager after getting elected as board member for housing organization, property manager quits

Low-income apartment complexes often have housing organizations that help tenants rent homes cheaper than they would be able to in an open market. This particular housing organization owned 500 units in over 20 complexes in OP's area, and unfortunately, OP's property manager was the last person you'd wish to be responsible for anything. For some reason unbeknownst to OP, this property manager, who, for the sake of this article, we'll call Karen, had it out for OP. Karen made OP's life miserable…
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Top Landlordiest Landlords Leeching Their Tenants This Week (June 16, 2023)

Landlords are the worst. Those monopolizers that took over entire neighborhoods to exploit us poor folks keep taking two-week vacations instead of fixing the dang toilet seat like we asked them to a month ago. Obviously for most landlords, renters and their well-being is an afterthought. It doesn't matter if there's paint over the door hinges or mold growing in the bathroom, as long as they get that check every month.
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'I have no way to get into my house': Landlord refuses to help after woman gets locked out of apartment while roommate is on vacation

'I have no way to get into my house': Landlord refuses to help after woman gets locked out of apartment while her roommate is on vacation

We've all had a situation like this before but perhaps the results were less drastic.
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'It's a weird thing for my landlord to ask me': Renter conflicted over landlord's request for her to care for his kids indefinitely

'It's a weird thing for my landlord to ask me': Renter conflicted over landlord's request for her to care for his kids indefinitely

One landlord's plan is so strange that this woman turned to the internet to figure out what she should do. As u/ismylandlordweird wrote to r/AmItheA**hole, her landlord has suddenly put her in an incredibly awkward situation. The OP shared that she has been living in the basement of a family's home. She got along well with them at first, writing that she mainly keeps to herself. But then suddenly, the landlord left the country , claiming he had a parent who needed urgent care. At first, he brou…
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UPDATE: 'This is my property': Tenants stop paying rent after landlords fail to do repairs, tenants win in lawsuit

Every so often, you come across a landlord tale that actually turns out alright for the tenant in the end. This update was posted to Reddit's r/LandlordLove subreddit by u/Upbeat-Poem-1284 , who shared that after putting in several requests for almost a year and after several attempts at completing those repairs went wrong (see the original poster for details), the Redditor and their roommate decided to stop paying rent. According to OP, it is within the tenant's rights in their city to withhol…
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