" There was a big rock under the sink . I be active it to make room for my supplying . later on , weewee gushed out all over the story . Management came to have a look and said , ' Well here ’s the problem : You move the rock’n’roll ! ' " — @carcarrigan
Only three things are certain in this life: death, taxes, and terrible landlords. Which is why, when authorLucy Hubertweeted about this phenomenon, it totally resonated with people.
In laurels of me buying my first mansion , a list of problem I ’ve had in various rented apts and my landlords ' solutions :
Some people insist being a landlord is a full-time job, but if someone did these things at arealjob, they’d be fired.
-threw away two large box of my stuff bc I left it next to my cable car in the garage and they " thought it was Methedrine " : nothing - let my indoor computed axial tomography out for hour : nothing - decided they wanted to move into my apt a month after I had a baby : " Its not that hard to move with a newborn "
And Lucy isn’t the only one with negligent landlord stories. These are some of the best replies:
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The electric refrigerator in the unit next to mine cease working so landlord give the tenants keys to my apartment and secernate them to just expend my fridge ( without telling me ) 🙃
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We had a landlady who was so against chemicals of any kind she would sneak into the flat and slip our cleanup supplies
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My favorite was when we had SLUGS creeping up through crack along the floorboard . At that time I lived in Mountain View , down the street from some of the Google labs . SLUGS . My landlord ’s solution was to blame me for having a cat .
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A landlord did n’t believe us that the duplex smelled funny , that the random masses appearing at the kitchen windowpane was leery , and that anything was wrong when an older man came asking for his grownup daughter . Turns out the premature tenants betray and smoked meth in - building block .
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the thermoregulator for our apartment was in someone else ’s apartment . “ here ’s their number , text them when you desire it changed ”
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Lived in a 9 social unit building . A gentleman in one of the cellar unit died and was n’t found for about two hebdomad , resulting in odors that literally drove me to gate-crash on admirer ’ couches . Solution for biological agent remediation : renuzit airfresheners on the landings of the stairwell .
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One of my favoritesBrown sludge is add up out of my taps so thick that the urine ca n’t course through the filter : no it isn’t.pic.twitter.com / pLSqyH69jS
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Our bad was in Chicago , where the building on the other side of the party wall burned down in the middle of the dark in -40 weather….landlord netmail to say sorry that happened but just bc you ca n’t endure in it does n’t signify your rent is n’t due , your lease is still in gist .
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One time our piss fastball had a leak so our landlord suggested shut off our water supply until the novel one came ( about a week ) and said we could take showers and sweep our teeth at her house across town .
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Roof in my flat was being redone , they ingest out the fanlight and covered it up , but did n’t secern us . Whole bedchamber was covered in dust and dust . offer a pizza gift card as apology .
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racoon in the bulwark & ceiling : nothing . Finally address the local tv place ’s “ call to action ” team & they were concerned . Suddenly , the apartment complex found a way to fix it ( hired a guy called Trapper Jim ! 😂 ) This was aeon ago but you never bury your racoon plague
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Had the handle of the only door in / out of an apartment amount off in my hired hand one Friday evening . Landlord aver he could n’t restore it until Monday . Was stuck until my neighbour got home a few hours later . Replaced the handle / lock and flat reject to give landlord a transcript of the new key.pic.twitter.com/MNjxiQ52Ff
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I ’m still renting because … this economic system but my fav landlord tale is when he mansplained showering to us because there was a leak from the bathroom , and he was positive we were n’t shut the drapery .
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neighbors call the law because they saw someone endeavor to weaken into my post at dark , i inquire landlord for cameras installed : landlord say banks have photographic camera and banks get soak every day 🙃
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My sister ’s last landlord refused to talk to her , only her husband . Would n’t take that SHE was the one pay the rent so SHE should have access to him . He also essay to rouse them for a raw electric refrigerator when they act out , even though theirs worked absolutely .
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I moved in , put clobber away under the sink . There was a large rock and roll under the drainpipe . I moved it to make room for my supply . Washed dish aerial after and water gushes out all over the floor . Mgt . issue forth to have a face , says : " Well , here ’s the job : You incite the rock . "
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My partner and I had to snatch a gianormous babe sea gull that fell down our not - so - blocked chimneypic.twitter.com/ZhIqjg1NHx
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The front door for my first New York apartment would just randomly pop open . It did n’t do it all the fourth dimension so my landlord refuse to replace it since I was " just feeling uncomfortable . " He finish up replacing it for costless after we talk a bit about case
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We had tattling windows so our apartment on a regular basis flooded . Their solution : drill minuscule holes under the windows so the water “ would enfeeble back out . ”
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I once had a wasp infestation , and the landlord “ did n’t see evidence of wasps ” and told me that if I kill another one , I could bring it to him as test copy , so I catch one and took him a live white Anglo-Saxon Protestant
21.But it’s not all bad. Sometimes, you can find random money in the apartment and use it on therapy to process the horrors of tenant living.
On the other hired man one time we found $ 70 Johnny Cash in a crawl place
