Ah, landlords: you can't live without 'em!

This is what living with Norman Bates looks like.

Ah, the wonders of Christmas morning: Family gathering around the tree, coming from near and far in order to enjoy a day filled with mirth and cheer — all to the tune of the landlord's new concrete driveway being poured and leveled. What a wonderful time of year.

If you don't pay rent, you don't get a say.

Who wouldn't want to earn a passive income that directly pays off the assets required, which themselves appreciate value at an alarming rate? The only trade-off is that you have to be willing to do it by stepping directly on the necks of others. That's what being a landlord is, if you're able and willing to join a group of persons who are directly disadvantaging other people then look no further than investing in real estate!

It's no secret that landlords have a reputation for being manipulative lizard-people who will take any chance possible to extort or exploit tenants for a little bit more profit. It's akin to when you've made a few too many whiskey sours and are really trying to take that same lime for as many laps as possible. You futilely keep squeezing and squeezing the dang thing, determined to get out a little bit more juice, despite it already having as much juice left as a politician has morals. Anyways,…

“He definitely owes you money.”

As if renting could get any worse

It's no secret that landlords can be shady. Whether it's doing the bare minimum to fix a leak or implementing unnecessary rules for you to follow that aren't real. In this case, the latter situation happened.

We live in a society

This predatory landlord has attempted to extort their tenant out of an additional month's rent and employed shady strategies to try and keep their deposit. This story was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by Reddit user u/YerTime, who shared the story of their compliance with their landlord's exploitative terms. Comments focused on the legalities surrounding this shady practice, which far too many opportunistic landlords utilize. “In some states what they did is blatantly illeg…

It's the worst.

Oh, they had to go.

Wonderful strategy.

Whoa buddy that's a lot to unpack.