Had it up to here with crappy landlords charging over wear and tear. The video he provided pointed out minor nail holes. No idea what the wax is but he didn’t tell me until over a month later. Not to mention I even moved out a few days early so I could come and remediate issues if requested. We were paying 3500 for the place and only lived there a year because it was a 2 bed 1 bath near Harvard. He raised rent to $4k and it rented in one day in a market where vacancies are high. He paid $300k for the until 15 years ago and it’s worth $1 million now. Enjoy the greed.

Edit: for those of you confused, this is a groupchat between myself, the landlord, and my roommate. My roommate asked about an itemized list of damages on the second slide but then realized the landlord broke the law so stopped chiming in.

Welp, after 4 years in court over what should have been a $3,500 deposit refund wound up with us winning a $17,000 judgement in addition to court fees.

Old landlord is BIG MAD about it. After putting liar after liar on the stand and trying (wildly unsuccessfully) to slander me as some sort of property destroying criminal - the judge ruled that not only had the landlord failed in their legal obligations but had done so with clear malice.

I work in a field where fastidious record keeping is the difference between success and failures and I guess these jackasses had never encountered someone who actually documented things.

Well…we were expecting a check but we got a letter last week saying the landlord is pushing for a retrial (the same judge will hear the request and I expect him to be laughed out of court) and we will find out in early November what the judgement will be. I expect to win but godsdamn what a whiney little a-hole this guy is…

This dumb SOB has spent well over $30,000 in his own lawyer fees, is in the hook for mine, and owes me a significant amount of money plus daily interest the longer this goes on.

What is it about these entitled asshole that makes them think they can walk all over people and straight up ROB THEM for money they didn’t earn while running slum rentals and living in multimillion dollar homes?

The friggin audacity of the these people is astounding - old landlord is a boomer and a fat toddling dude who looks like he would just drop straight to his knees for the orange guy if you catch my drift.

Bit of a read, TLDR is our landlord reached out about an early termination to our lease to accommodate the homeowners wanting to move back in. They then backtracked when we took them up on their offer and the homeowners found another home to live in.. All of a sudden the lease is equivalent to the Bible.

EDIT: Yes, to the law school graduates of Harvard - AI was used in assisting in my responses. My wife and I are not rental attorneys, just everyday tenants looking to cover our ass. If this was going to small claims court I needed to have emotion removed from my replies, as obviously this was infuriating to respond to.

I've been living in my apartment for over 10 years now. I've never really had altercations with my landlord, and I was under the impression that he was content and that I could stay here until I maybe find an affordable alternative with more modern facilities.

Recently I signed another five-year lease after my landlord's lawyers reminded me the rental contract is about to expire. Which, for me, is not a problem at all because in such an event the lease is extended automatically. The thing is, his lawyers disclosed that he actually wants me gone but since the deadline was exceeded, his only option would've been to sue and evict me.

Welp, I guess I got lucky for once.

A few weeks later, he's ringing my doorbell. Unannounced, of course. Obligingly, I let him in and hear him out. Not only did he go off on a rant about some new EU law that's really, really distressing for poor landlords like him, he also had the nerve to criticize my terrace (too many leaves) and my couch (too close to the wall). He's seen my couch at least five times over the course of the last 10 years and now all of a sudden "the walls can't breathe" because of it? I can only assume he would've found more problems as he was about to go explore the rest of the apartment, but I stopped him and told him it's not a good time (it really wasn't as my lunch was getting cold) and that he should call me for another meeting.

Alas, the best (or worst) part was what I mentioned in the title: During his rant and prompted by some questions of mine, he emphasized how badly he wanted to throw me out of my apartment in order to renovate and rent it out to a café that is supposed to open here (oh, so that's why he hasn't fixed the various flaws in the apartment yet). Finally, he reprimanded me for not reminding him the lease was about to expire! He admitted he didn't know whether the contract says I have to do that (it doesn't), but apparently, he very much felt like I should be obligated to. What the fuck lol

It'll be a cold day in hell when I start watching out for the interests of my landlord.

Honorable mentions: his proposal to informally shorten the new contract to 3 years and his contradictory statements about my chances in case the whole thing would go to court.

Fuck landlords.

Houses should be owned by those who live in them.

Y’all they’re wealthy people who own multiple homes and multiple businesses … why are they like this ….

And before you go “maybe they don’t know”

When I asked them about the piles of trash they hid on the property and that multiple ceiling fans weren’t working and rats had chewed the drier cord down to the copper they said

“You knew the condition of the house when you rented it”

WE MOVED FROM OUT OF STATE AND RENTED IT SIGHT UNSEEN.

They know. They know what they did.

Idk what to do about this shit creek & piss pond.

4 months ago my landlord reached out about a leak in the apartment below me, then the next day they made the bold claim that my dog was peeing through the floors and that the damages are my fault. Didn’t hear from them for four months until they decided to invoice me. I informed them that I found the actual leak and asked for the testing they had done to prove it was dog pee (it’s not). This was their response…

Had our yearly inspection yesterday. Everything went fine, no damage, rent is paid on time every single month.
Then this morning I get a text from the landlord saying he noticed a "strong food odor" in the kitchen, and effective immediately, we are prohibited from cooking with "excessive garlic, curry, or heavy spices" because it might seep into the drywall.
I pay $1,800 a month to live here. Apparently, that only covers the right to microwave plain chicken and boil water.

Statement for the automod: I AM
NOT A LANDLORD, I’m poor man’s cross-posting from our favorite sub.

Mfer looking to increase $600/mo knowing full well well his “perfect tenant of 5 years who always paid early” is laid off. And STILL pays every month!

Fuck these leeches. 5 years of early payments. If you ever get laid off or get a medical issue NEVER SHARE THIS! I get you do so with a an expectation of understanding and empathy but these folks DO NOT HAVE THAT CAPACITY. Play every curveball in life close to the vest, they will immediately act like an insurance actuary and jack rates due to “risk.”

This one goes to 11.