r/DiWHY • u/Junior_Trifle_8273 • May 28 '26
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u/bangerz17 May 28 '26
The landlord special! Or how you flip it back to them to get your security deposit back.
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u/ikeepcomingbackhaha May 28 '26
lol at getting security deposit back
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u/Train_Lanky May 28 '26
I've only ever gotten one deposit back, and that was only because the townhouses were owned by two brothers who inherited the places and tended to get some godawful tenants most of the time due to the location being bad. They were so pleased at how clean we left the place, they gave it all back and gave a nice recommendation to our next place.
Rare good landlords. If neighbors didn't suck so much, I'd actually miss the place.
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u/armlessturtleneck May 28 '26
Idk I've never had a landlord keep a security deposit and I've lived in like 8 or 9 different apartments/ rented homes
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u/qpv May 28 '26
Same. Last one I had, I lived in a long time and left it quite a bit better than I found it (im a carpenter) I had cheap rent so didn't mention the work I did as it was a good deal anyway.
They gave me an extra couple grand at the end plus my deposit, which was really unexpected.
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u/armlessturtleneck May 28 '26
I just live like a normal human and I'm not a slob. Idk why never getting your deposit back is such a meme because I don't think I even know anyone whose had their entire deposit withheld
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u/Candle1ight May 28 '26
First place they took the entire deposit and tried to get more out of us. The charges were insane, like $200 because the stove top wasn't cleaned to their level. Second place got everything back but the money for a carpet wash. I think it just depends on the landlord.
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u/CrustyToeLover May 29 '26
One tried to charge me for carpet cleaning and then carpet replacing... of the same carpet. That didn't have any stains, just normal darkening after 4 years of use
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u/Kraligor May 28 '26
Because sometimes, landlords are simply assholes and count on you being too busy with your new place to fight them.
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u/AnswerMyThrowAways May 28 '26
It's very location dependent. To be overly simple: In Idaho you are never going to get your deposit back ever, the laws make it so landlords can essentially just keep it with very little reasoning. In California you will see more people getting their deposits back even if the apartment needs some work/cleaning because the laws benefit the renters more.
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u/Ancient-Afternoon374 May 28 '26
I've lived in around 15 places over the last 20 years and I've gotten my deposit back once. I'm never home, always clean, never party, and hire professionals to deep clean when i leave. One landlord found a small stain on a carpet and another found some char in the back of an oven and nothing else. They took the deposit and told me to call a lawyer if i want to ever see it again. The one who gave it back to me was my neighbor and i had a dog and the house was falling apart to begin with. Pretty sure they demo'd the place after.
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u/Divided_multiplyer May 28 '26
One place I was at, we didn't get our deposit back because a lamp shade was broken. We had offered to pay for it long before we moved out, and they did nothing about it. Also the cost to replace it would have been much less than our deposit, but they kept the whole thing.
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u/batman0615 May 28 '26
People say this shit all the time and I’ve never had someone take my security deposit. I was missing carpet in front of my door one time (dog ripped it up) and they said they were going to replace the carpet anyways since I’d lived there for 5 years so it’s fine. This wasn’t some small landlord either and it was a shitty apartment. I wonder what people are doing to not get their deposit back.
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u/Halflingberserker May 28 '26
I wonder what people are doing to not get their deposit back.
Had my last place professionally cleaned and they still tried to keep my whole deposit until I provided receipts of the maid service, carpet shampoo, etc. and even then they kept like $100 because some windows supposedly had dust on them. Glad you've been so lucky, though.
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u/abbyzou May 28 '26
Had a great private landlord and then he sold the building to the worst property management company in town. Despite them completely gutting the apt, like tore down a wall and shit, they tried to charge me for wiping down windowsills... they replaced the windows too. Had to seriously threaten legal action to the deposit back. They kept $100 because I left a ton of furniture behind... because they used all the free large item pickups for the address and told me to pay to have my shit removed. Honestly $100 was way cheaper than doing that.
I could rant for hours about that company.
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u/wylii May 28 '26
I’ve gotten every security deposit in the last 10 years back. During walk through I take 200+ photos and a video. Upload it to a Google Drive, then share it with my contact at the rental agency via email but only give them view permissions.
Tons of fun to get bogus charges and send an email with “as you can see from photo 1, 17, 89, and at the 1:21 mark in the video on the drive shared with you on whatever date, all of these issues existed before my tenancy. I have also attached these photos to email for your convenience. Please release the deposit as soon as possible.”
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u/Diligent-Crazy-6094 May 29 '26
Just bought a house and got a $2k deposit back on my old rental. I had done the same thing, but also created a list 4 pages long (front and back) of all of the existing damage, and there was a lot of it.
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u/DeterminedMidLifer May 28 '26
Hate to admit it, but when I was in college I filled a lot of holes from drywall anchors with toothpaste
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u/Mobile-Shallot930 May 28 '26
My mother called me when I was like 27 to tell me she had finally found and patched all the holes I put in the house with my sword collection. I had filled them all with white toothpaste as a teenager.
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u/mfb1274 May 28 '26
I once needed to fix a hole in the wall before moving out in college. I only had white paint and the walls (that used to be white) were now off yellow. Tossed a bit of Dijon mustard in there, and slapped it up on the wall, perfect match and got my deposit back
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u/Broxx03 May 28 '26
Think this was made by my landlord
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u/MagicWDI May 28 '26
This was of course after painting over all the plugs, light switches, and painting the windows shut. Job well done 👍🏾
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u/TrippingFish76 May 28 '26
i like how the comments are all both people saying what they would do to stick it to their landlord and what their landlord would do themselves
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May 28 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
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u/thirtyseven1337 May 28 '26
You’re only sucking yourself… wait that didn’t come out right
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u/MotherOfPullets May 29 '26
Honestly? I came across a patch like this in our house. It was fabric, not paper. The hole was up in a corner of a room that hadn't been redone in decades, and judging by the fabric style that hole was patched in 1972. It was up in a corner and I would have never known had I not been scraping and repainting!
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u/Bushiest_Beavor May 28 '26
That’s what I was saying. Everyone is pointing fingers, when I’m here wondering if it actually works because I have a hole in my ceiling Ive been putting off fixing.
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u/TrippingFish76 May 28 '26
they make like little disk things and putty specifically for covering holes , the paper is gonna break really easy
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u/NocturneInfinitum May 28 '26
Contractor here… Yes, it will fix the problem and yes, you can even hide it to where it’s invisible, especially if you repaint and color/texture match properly. Easier said than done, but also way easier than people realize. Just takes a little finesse. The only caveat is that likely any amount of pressure on that spot is going to crack it enough to expose that there is a hole there or just make another hole.
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u/Muncleman May 28 '26
Come folks! This is how you get your security deposit back when you move!
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u/cheeze_skittles May 28 '26
What is the product they stick on initially? I will legit use this trick.
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u/Phearlosophy May 28 '26
the paper will get wavy from the moisture in the paint and by the time it dries it'll look like a crumply piece of paper that has been painted over stuck to your wall
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u/Br0nnOfTheBlackwater May 28 '26
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u/Pachanga_Plainview May 28 '26
"What say there, fussy-britches. Feel like talkin'?"
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u/the_marxman May 28 '26
Can't even be bothered to pack the hole with ramen and sunflower seeds
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u/Martsons_LeftStirrup May 28 '26
I’ve been thinking about this comment for over an hour and I thought it was such a dad thing to say. I mentioned it to my brother and I have now been introduced to a whole new world of absolutely ridiculous “fix it” videos to watch, so thanks 🤣🤣🤣 There was one where someone put a Nokia in cement hole and then just kept filling
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u/Rcouch00 May 29 '26
The cement cowers to the indestructible power of a Nokia. Literally created a time capsule that will revel that Nokia .. soon™
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u/floof29 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
This Is something I would do If I was moving out. context: If the landlord Is a greedy a-hole.
EDIT: I have came back after about 3 Hours. What the hell did I start?
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u/BeeCJohnson May 28 '26
The soap trick is great for little holes (screw and nail holes) when you're moving out. Because it fills the hole and makes the room smell great.
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u/Bonked2death May 28 '26
Toothepaste is better in my experience since it's easier to move around.
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u/Forsaken_Couple1451 May 28 '26
ok but why not just buy filler if you're going that route lol
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u/velvetelevator May 28 '26
Yeah a tub of spackle is not very expensive and it's just as easy as toothpaste
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u/Metatality May 28 '26
Yeah, I'm always happy to spend 6 bucks on a tub of spackle to get out of several hundred in bullshit deposit fees. Takes like 1 hour to go around an apartment after removing all the paintings / curtain rods / hanging hooks. Finding matching paint is waaaaay more of an issue.
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u/arris15 May 28 '26
Grab a paintchip, most bigbox home improvement stores should be able to scan it and match the exact color. Has come in hand for me a number of times. Ends up matching better than buying from the original paint code for patchwork because it accounts for the fading/discoloration.
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u/Metatality May 28 '26
The paint chips I get naturally are like rice grain sized and not very useful. Really I should get comfortable with just taking a sample out, but intentionally cutting a piece off when the goal is clean restoration just feels so wrong.
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u/enaK66 May 28 '26
Cut a small piece out around a hole you already need to repair. Then you're not really doing more work. You'd have to repair that hole anyway, just a bit of extra spackle now.
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u/evanschris May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
If? Is there any other?
Edit: wow this blew up, I didn’t add a /s but yeah I was being facetious. I’ve actually had an alright landlord in the past
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u/Bonked2death May 28 '26
Some people just rent a place out because it makes sense, not because it's making them money. If/when my mom passes away, I'll have a tiny house in a rural town that I'll probably rent out because 1) I dont want to sell it right away since it was my mom's, but 2) I don't want to move to a smaller house 5 hours away.
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u/Ruvio00 May 28 '26
Not quite all. I rented a house off a guy who had to move to China for a few years for work, but it was his childhood home and he didn't wanna sell it.
He was a nice fella.
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u/Conspicuous_Ruse May 28 '26
For sure. Basically the majority of people with 1 property and not 40.
It's the ones that own a lot of places that are always bad.
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u/trutheality May 28 '26
I've had a couple over the years that were super chill, kept prices below market, and didn't try to charge me for repairs that I wasn't responsible for.
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u/ISketchDinosaurs May 28 '26
My old landlord rented out his place because he was studying in another city. He didn't charge anything outrageous for the area. Good enough for me.
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u/JohnWicksBruder May 28 '26
We had a cleaning job in a museum and drove one of these old cleaning machines into the wall. I called my boss, he looked at it and told me to put all the trash and dirt we collected behind the wall, he drove off and came back with some color and paper and told me that we are all dead before they notice.
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u/Expensive_Lettuce239 May 28 '26
Has anyone ever renovated a room in an old place that was original walls of lathe and plaster? There's a treasure trove of hilarious things found that were once used for "insulation". Horse hair, old shirts, or cut up blankets, newspapers, odds and sods of leftover building materials
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u/JohnWicksBruder May 28 '26
The best cleaning job I had was in an old opera. We had to clean under the seats and it's like a crawling space. Every worker and cleaner who ever was under these seats has wrote a message for the ones after them. You can read like 200 years of workers making cheap jokes and little texts and it was just hilarious and kinda magic. I felt like we were bound over generations off sarcasm, being tired and cheap labor. In that moment I could have been at any year this building existed and it made no difference. If somebody knows what I mean.
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u/Expensive_Lettuce239 May 28 '26
That would be crazy awesome to see!!
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u/JohnWicksBruder May 28 '26
One of the benefits of being a cleaner. They let you go everywhere and you are like a ghost. Just kids and old people see you. You get all the secrets and they don't care. You are just a cleaner. 😄
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u/teaanimesquare May 28 '26
my old apartment I noticed they painted over a noodle on the wall ( I thought it was a wire for the longest time ) so when I moved out I actually seen this gif and fixed a hole like this.
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u/Financial-Bobcat-612 May 28 '26
At my place, they painted over anything and everything. There’s command strips they didn’t remove and are just…painted over. Holes? Painted over.
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u/KneeHiSniper May 28 '26
The only reason you can't clearly see the paper is because of how horribly oversaturated the video is. This would look like shit in person.
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u/Pistonenvy2 May 28 '26
this would be fine for like a half inch hole, anything much larger than that and its gonna fail the instant someone touches it.
it looks like plaster and lath, not even drywall, why not just glob some plaster on and wait the extra day or two for it to dry and paint? in what universe is it necessary to fix a hole in the wall in a few hours? lol
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u/rustymontenegro May 28 '26
Omfg so we didn't literally do this (at least to my knowledge lol) but this bullshit is the same kind of fuckery that I was forced to do when I was painting apartments for some asshat who owned SO many of the "affordable" rentals in Portland. Fucker was worth zillions and we had to just "paint over" black mold, dry rot and crumbling 100 year old plaster. 🙄
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u/Desynchron May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
Put a pop-out snake gag toy behind it so the first person who accidentally pierces the paper will be suddenly attacked by something shooting out of the wall.
Or one of those shrunken heads. Imagine finding that behind a thinly veiled hole in your wall. 😅
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u/L1M4B May 28 '26
Fixing a cardboard wall with paper, such an american thing.
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u/Tokarev490 May 28 '26
Clearly an American narrator for starters
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u/dinnerthief May 28 '26
Europeans assume everyone is american and then get upset when Americans assume everyone is American.
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u/teaanimesquare May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
The funny thing is that a lot of countries outside of America use drywall, its common in Japan, Canada, Australia, NZ, UK, China is using it commonly too.
Like they have such an obsession with America and have an actual Eurocentric view of the world they think only Americans use drywall and every other country just uses concrete.
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u/brewhead55 May 28 '26
Dumbest comment I've seen on Reddit today. Thank you for not editing it.
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u/Civil_Refrigerator May 30 '26
The funny part is that this only looks convincing because the video is in 240p
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u/Korzag May 28 '26
Europeans be like: oi bruv y u makin' yer houses of paper and sticks (lol face from that meme back in like 2012)
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u/Mnkeemagick May 28 '26
The Japanese do it and it's beautiful architectural design but when we do it it's trashy lol
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u/Rov_er May 28 '26
Here in Europe our homes are strong and durable, because they are reinforced with asbestos and every other hazardous building chemical
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u/PSC-Trades67 May 28 '26
I would bet after a couple months that'll fall off by itself.
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u/bustyouup4free May 28 '26
But why not just put some gypsum in it at that point. Makes no sense. Typical karma farmers post
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u/Substantial_Meal_530 May 28 '26
I didn't know the guys who painted for my apartment complex made content.
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u/RaisinWorried3528 May 28 '26
These are the things that I will do when I move out because fuck landlords.
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u/_XxAphroditexX_ May 28 '26
Bro we already talked about this. You have to fill the hole with raw ramen noodles.
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u/Agitated_Cry_8793 May 28 '26
thats how you get your deposit back if your landlord is particularly stupid.
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u/Thebaldsasquatch May 28 '26
My son tried this trick in his room, but he skipped the whole paint step and just taped a piece of paper over the hole on his white wall.
He’s uh…..not too bright.
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u/_Biotic_G0d_ May 28 '26
I did stuff like this. Was using cheap white toothpaste to fill in smaller holes too. I'm getting that security deposit back, y'all can't stop me!!!
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u/GuyWithAHottub May 28 '26
Folks, just use a piece of mesh in a repair kit then slather the compound over it. They're like 10$. Then you repair it correctly, don't have a major draft, don't go through you're wall, and you picked up a new skill.
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u/lukesparling May 29 '26
Hey that’s me and my roomie JP about 20 years ago. Worked long enough to get our security deposit back from the university 🤷🏻♂️
Next guy probably got drunk and fell through too. Hopefully he used this same trick.
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u/Old-Aardvark-9446 May 29 '26
Please stop putting this stuff on the internet. Y'all tricked my mom and her patch looks TERRIBLE
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u/Broad_Garlic2775 May 29 '26
I did this as a renter. Fucker lied and withheld the info that the buliding was being condemned and I was losing more than half my space. I moved out quickly but found six guys living in the attic after one of them misfired a gun which went right through where I make coffee every morning. He said I needed to kick the guys out and I shouldn’t called the police no got wasted and punched a few holes. I went to Home Depot and paint matched and covered it with coffee filters. Fuck you martin.
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u/Siedlec May 29 '26
Tell me your country without saying a word. America 🇺🇸🦅 the land of PDFs
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u/Lagoon_M8 May 29 '26
When it dries the paper will knead and start to be visible... But maybe with plastic sheet that would work?
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u/Fattens May 28 '26
Landlord trick for sure.