One thing that could completely ruin your renting experience is a bad landlord. One crazy schmuck could make even the most amazing community pool have about as much value as your kids’ blow-up version.
After asking some of my friends about their worst landlord experiences, I have to say, I have been downright lucky with mine. Here I was whining about my landlord who took a week to come fix a broken light (I apologize Mr. Maxon … you’re awesome), when these ladies had some seriously crazy landlords.
I challenge you to top these six …
Creepiest Landlord:
My last landlord was stalkerish. He would randomly show up and even entered my apartment without giving a 24-hour notice.
Biggest Ick Factor:
One time, we had our friends over after we’d all gone to pick up a Christmas tree, and we were standing outside talking when he came out the backdoor (we lived upstairs, he lived downstairs), walked across the lawn, and proceeded to drop trou in the middle of the lawn and start taking a leak.
Most Likely to Become Paparrazzi:
One of my landlords hit on my roommate because he thought she looked like Reese Witherspoon. It was hella awkward … he was an ugly 55-year-old fat man.
Laziest:
Shortly after Christmas one year, we had a fire in the ceiling — started by the fireplace in the apartment above us. An ILLEGAL fireplace. The end result was a big-ass hole in our ceiling for about four months while the landlord got around to fixing it. His excuse was that he couldn’t get anyone to come in the middle of winter. Meanwhile, we lived with this horrid hole and pretty much lived with the people upstairs since you could see right up there and there was no noise barrier. And he refused to lower our rent.
Biggest Pain in the Ass:
We had a landlord who went away all the time and we could never get in touch. He was skiing in the middle of winter when our pipe burst and filled our place with water, but no one would come and fix it without the homeowner’s approval, which we could not get. Also, this same guy told us no dogs, so we moved to another apartment that would let us have our dogs. Later, he lowered the rent for the new tenant and let them have their dogs. I am still bitter. The place was so nice.
Worst Overall:
My last landlord charged us for some sneaker drying rack that he said we took when we moved out. We had no idea what he was talking about, but he said he knew it used to be in the apartment because he would come down to dry his shoes when we’re weren’t home. Mind you, this was the dryer IN our apartment that we paid utility bills to run.
What’s your worst landlord story?
Source: http://thestir.cafemom.com/home_garden/108969/6_landlord_horror_stories_can
By Mary January 27, 2015 - 5:42 am
These are all incrdible stories. I had a crazy landlord who tried to be my father! He would try to tell me what time to go to sleep, not to come home late, what time to wake up, etc. I came across a great website, http://www.ratespaces.com. You all can share your story there about that particular apartments where you had these experiences.
By Danielle April 5, 2016 - 9:05 pm
my bf and I just moved into our place 3 weeks ago, there were tell tell signs that the landlord was a lazy cheap asshole such as: 1 instead of buying a shelve for the fridge in the unit, we went out and bought another fridge (in much worse condition)that STILL HAD MISSING SHELVES, broken drawers and did not spit out clean ice or water. 2. he said he would have the broken window in the living room fix and until after we moved in to fix it (mind you there was a month time between the time we signed the lease and moved in)
we asked him to caulk a hole in the ceiling because he had connected a pipe from the stove to the attic to vent the smoke from the house …. NEVER DID THAT EITHER
3. day #4 we wake up and there’s water all over the living room, dining room and kitchen floors, my bf pulled out the dish washer and found mold in the space where the DW is so we thought that the kitchen floors and cabinets had to be replaced, so when the professional mold person came to inspect the house It was much worse then we thought.. APPARENTLY the whole house from the master to the kitchen had water damage and now the entire floors have to be ripped up and replaced… this guy knew the whole time all the underlying issues of this house and that it might potentially have mold under the floors and still allowed me (a pregnant woman) and my bf to move into this house. this whole experience has been a complete night mare..
all the while he hasn’t apologized or offered us a prorated amount on our rent bills,
ohhh I forgot to mention that we have not had a kitchen sink since the day the water leak either, we have been washing dishes in our guest bathroom..