I don't even have my own doorbell. The wall between the two 18-20sqm "apartments" is so thin I can hear my neighbor talking everyday. I've been blamed for the cockroaches that came with an old piece of kitchen electronics he'd bought used for this place; the toilet breaking because of construction waste in it (he said I was..putting it there on purpose...where would I even get a piece of construction material to put in the damn toilet??); unwashed dishes when he came unannounced.

Every time he comes to take rent money it's an hour-long talk about how I should live my life. He's threatened to put a camera overseeing the door so that he could see if I'm sleeping around inviting people over at night.

I can't move out yet because all of this shit is cheap at least. I pay in my mental wellness instead.

It's not normal to get jitters and adrenaline fight or flight response when signing a lease.

Context: I've been living in a van for 3 years after a landlord wrecked my credit, destroyed my life and got me fired.

America!

So it wasn’t a major problem. Super slow leak and it’s probably causing mold in places we can’t see. But everything was functional and I could just put some Tupperware underneath and it was fine. But the leak was also behind the sink and it caused the ceiling to fall through on the apartment right below us. Now they’ve got a much bigger problem to deal with. But at least our sink will get fixed. Fortunately that apartment is empty and no one got hurt, and our floors seem solid enough.

Hi all, I didn’t know what else to do because my landlord is refusing to install a fly screen door and our share house is just riddled with flies every day no matter how many times we spray and kill them.

My landlord is refusing to install a fly screen door when we have all requested it be installed to keep our children safe (there’s 3 families and 3 children inside the share home (the kids are 1, 5 and 11) and to keep my cat safe from another tenants dog who lives in a bungalow out the back who’s dog constantly gets out and runs into our home trying to jump on the children (I have brought this up with my landlord and her go to each time is “I’ll talk to him but she never does”

We also cannot lock the front door without a key which in my mind is the most unsafe fire hazard I have ever seen. Like what if a fire happens and we need to get out asap? We can’t sit there fiddling with our keys trying to find the right one to get out of the house in time, it’s just not safe at all

Her so called “reason” for not installing the fly screen door or adding a proper lock we can unlock without a key is that tenants are not caught up on rent, or haven’t done this or this etc. just making up excuses but I feel as if this is not fair at all because this is just a massive safety risk for everyone that lives here

Does anyone know if there’s any laws against what she is doing? We’re located in Ballarat, Victoria

My friend was served with a kick out notice. She was late on some rent and was trying to watch it up. She paid like $1500.00 to catch her rent up. But the late fees totalled another $1100.00. So, she was served a letter to move out. Hey is on HUD and found another place. She talked to the manager and he had her turn the lights on and the gas on the new apartment. She was moving in on the second. One day later then when she had to be out. She was fixing to start moving her stuff this weekend. When the manager said what about the $900 deposit? Why did he have her do all this stuff without asking for the deposit first. She asked he would work with her till she can come up with the $900 and he said he couldn't give her the keys to the apartment till she paid Now she has three days to figure out. What the hell to do now. Any ideas?? Please comment!!

Howdy Reddit,

I have been renting this small house for about 10 months. I'm terminating my lease early. Here's why: in January the house was inspected by the county in order to be approved to be rented out. My land lord was told in no uncertain terms that she had to fix a shattered window and the furnace as it didn't heat the house up to code.

I was told by my social worker (I'm a disabled vet) that she was given the green light to rent the house but had a list of things she had to fix in a timely manner. My landlord agreed to fix the windows (one had s broken lock) and the furnace.

I was told that these issues would be fixed shortly after I moved in. I waited and waited and winter turned into spring. I set up my bedroom in the livingroom as that was the only room in the house yhay got proper heating. I moved my bedroom into the bedroom proper when spring came.

Now that winter has come back she has still yet to fix the windows or the furnace, which i have been heckling her about and my social worker has reminded her monthly. She said she didn't have the money. Which I find odd because she was going to charge me 1/2 what she's charging me now before she found out I was on a housing program.

I started moving out a couple weeks ago and about 5 days ago I moved bedroom and kitchen stuff. I came back today to clean and I found some one had left the porch lights on. Thrown a towl my deceased grand mother had given me in the bleached shower, ruining it. Along with pulling up pieces of the $.50 lanolium tiles in the bathroom and tracking a wad of chewing gum inside. Also moving my plant i had in the window, and some one having turned on the dehumidifier in the basement, putting a door aor flow stopper in a moldy window (because they all need to be reaplced since the all leak) ruining it, and a few other things. I told her I'd be out by the end of the month and until then I'd be moving things out and cleaning.

I have a sneaking suspicion my land lord broke in (without notice) and just kinda acted like she didn't give a damn. I'm thinking I need to file a police report for a B/E and tell her I filed the report. Whatchall think?

Hoping to get empathy and ideas for legal guidance. I moved in March 2024 and signed a one year lease. Apt rent $2600 month. I'm a low-income senior, section 8 (hud, US federal govt) paid $2410 month of the rent. Deposit was $2800. In August 2024 I found bedbugs in common (filthy) laundry room (I never used that laundry again). August 28, 2024 I got a full infestation of bedbugs and jumping bugs in my apartment. It turned my life upside down and was a total nightmare. I wanted to escape but I was afraid of the lease and was told I had to stay. Jumping tiny insects were in my apt, my body and car. All my money went for laundry and anything that might help. No one believed me or realized the suffering I was in. Slumlord sprayed (twice, useless) and wanted to charge me and blamed me. I contacted all agencies for help and got zero empathy, zero help. I finally saw a free lawyer and she practically screamed at me to get the hell out of that apartment because it was uninhabitable. I moved out Nov 3, 2024. Trashed all my belongings. Apt was left spotless. I'm living in my car now. I still have some bugs living in my skin and a few still jumping in car. Three months of hell. Doctor doesn't believe me but has helped a little. Background: I had researched prior to moving in but didn't find anything negative about the address or landlord (he cloaks identity). Apt is 12 units and rent is now $3000 a month for a basic 1/1. All units are poor seniors on section 8 and now homeless veterans through a non-profit. Slumlords are wealthy from this government rental income - multi-millionaires. Every complaint in existence has happened from day one: rats, bedbugs, zero tree and garden maintenance for decades, black mold, paper thin walls and floors, arrests, 911 calls, filth, spider infestations on all the grounds and in cars, stalking and spying mentally ill neighbors. Slumlord family is Mahboob. Santa Barbara, California. Friend of a congressman. I will see free lawyer again for next step if any. I don't know if I was kicked off section 8. They always keep everyone's deposits. These slumlords shouldn't be allowed to own rentals. Thank you in advance for any insight.

24 of us live on a block of land in refittied shipping containers stacked in a high crime area for an absurd rent

We are considered tertiary homeless and as lodgers have massively reduced rights

This not is from 2021 but still up today

They won’t allow cooling or heating

I eat out of an air fryer

We have no possibility for internet connection

AUD 300 a week

I have no idea why I’m even surprised

(Might be tame or even my fault, but needed to vent) Yesterday evening I had the brilliant idea of cleaning the shower drain and stupidly unscrewed the top and forgot to turn off the water, which poured onto the drainage pipe and to the sides (underneath the shower). I noticed my mistake a few minutes later and by my calculations about 30l of water might have gone down. It was in the middle of the night and of course my landlord, who lives below me rings the bell. I sheepishly explain my mistake and apologise about 20 times. He does seem distraught, but tries to keep it together and just says to me to not lose sleep over it. I of course am losing my shit and haven't slept a wink, searching for an industrial dehumidifier and ways to paint his ceiling and if worst comes to worst profusely checking my insurance, if it would cover it. In the morning I take my small dehumidifier downstairs and apologise for the disturbance in the middle of the night. He wanted to check my drain and afterwards I insisted on seeing the damage. There was NONE. He has a wooden ceiling and all the water leaked down and you couldn't tell at all. I went shopping and when I came back, he rung again and asked to see the Syphon. In his opinion I've been neglecting it (mind you I clean it every month and just cleaned it, it isn't spitshine clean but for a drain it's absolutely ok). I then tell him I'll make sure to clean it better, then he goes on a speech how he gave us a renovated flat and now the shower seal is wobbly and the calk on the side has started discolouring.(It's been a couple years at least but maybe he did have a point). Then he started moaning that the sink has water stains (I clean it at least once a week, because the water is very very hard, every 2 days it starts showing white stains on the blackish sink). At this point I started getting annoyed and told him that when we moved in the pipes were so dirty that the washing machine couldn't pump out the drain water and the sinks and shower weren't draining completely. He told me that wasn't true and that he had hand scrubbed them himself and after a short pause said that maybe I should look for a new flat (we live in Germany so either I have to give him a 3 month notice or he has to have some legitimate reason for evicting me also with a 3month deadline) I was furious at this escalation, also found it very funny that the water issue was solved without much fuss, but then he uses my upkeep as a reason. Mind you I've been somewhat of a good tennant, everything has been paid on time and even extra payments have been paid quickly, he asked me to use a specific bin so that we try to get rid of flies in the summer (but it seems like it's just for me), he wants me to close all the windows and shades completely when it rains because his drain system is askew and it sometimes goes in his flat, he asks me to park to the side so that his son can use the near parking space and he still hasn't fixed his roof where there are cluster flies, which are always in the flat (they are harmless but it's disgusting to hoover 30+flies daily). I then decide that enough is enough and ask him if there is any issue with the water damage, he says no, then I ask him if his problem is my upkeep, he says yes, I ask him if he wants me to find a new flat, he says yes again and then I usher him to the door and tell him to have a good day a couple of times whilst he tries to interject with something else. P.S. I don't know if it even fits in this sub, I just needed to vent, because it's a very messy situation where I find the escalation unnecessary

Homeless is not a product of mental illness. Kanye West is mentally ill and lives in a house.

Homelessness is not a product of doing drugs. Johnny Depp is a drug user and alcoholic and lives in a house.

There is nothing intrinsic about mental illness or drug use that prohibits a person from living in a home. We might call these things orthogonal from living in a home.

What does prohibit many people from living in homes is price. Once our society decided to allocate housing through markets, dictated by supply and demand, it became inevitable that some people would—through absolutely no fault of their own—not be able to sell their labor for enough wages to purchase access to housing.

That’s it! There’s no mystery to it.

When me and my roommates signed the lease, we signed with this very nice woman who gave us a great deal - utilities included, monthly cleaning crew, parking, furniture; everything - for a decent price in our college town. She was to the point, organized, and communicative about the house. Then, she tells us that she is handing over the house to her son. None of us in the house had ever interacted with him, nor communicated with him in any way.

After we've all moved in, the son shows up out of the blue to check the house (looking for damages, taking inventory of furniture and kitchenware, all that stuff). He introduces himself to all of us, and we all get the immediate impression that he is a certified a-hole and d-bag. He immediately starts to brag about when he lived in that house during college, talking about how he had sooo much sex, threw crazy parties of 300+ people, never did any schoolwork, and just on and on and on.

Once he finished checking the house in the evening, he comes up to a few of us and blatantly states he'll be crashing in an extra room for the next two days, since he'll be visiting friends and working on getting the house in better shape. We didn't care too much, as long as he actually worked on the house and just went about his own business.

The first morning, I get up to make breakfast and walk in on him in the living room, shirtless, teaching an online yoga class. Then while I'm cooking, he's telling me all about this ancient form of yoga that was lost in time that he now teaches. Weird.

The second day, I don't see him until I get back from work around 3pm, where I walk into the dining room where he is drunk from the bar after doing yoga in the park. He has food from a restaurant, pestering me to try it, and then starts going on about how Miami has the most amazing food in the world. He was suppose to leave that day, but he never did. He continued to crash out the house for another week.

The third day, he has all of the roommates gathered up in the living room to watch this "hilarious" YouTube video from like 2009. Nobody gave a shit. Then he starts telling all of us about crazy new AI and how he uses it for everything, and then starts talking about crypto.

The fourth day, all us roommates are working on the house more, getting our bedrooms setup and moving furniture around to make it more homely, while he is trying to help us. Instead of actually helping, he is telling us exactly what to buy off of Amazon to have the best parties in the house (everything he told us to get was well into the hundreds of dollars). When actually moving furniture, he is making it a million times more complicated, flipping things upside down, running it into walls, and constantly suggesting better ways to do it that ended up just damaging everything.

The fifth day, he starts telling us all about his life. Born and raised in Miami, went to our college, did some bullshit degree, and now is a real estate agent, yoga instructor, stocks trader, and holistic food psycho or whatever. He's showing us photos and videos of his house in Miami, the one with the biggest yard. He's showing us random girls he's brought over, all the meals he cooks, his outdoor shower, etc. Genuinely just creepy.

The sixth day, he starts acting like a landlord. Reminding us about rent, the utilities "he" is providing, all the perks of the house, so on. Then he starts getting on us about the damages the house has, even though he already knew it was the old tenants that made them, and that he is the one that added onto it when trying to help us with furniture. Mind you, this whole time not a single thing was fixed (not holes in the walls, torn carpet, water pressure, etc).

The seventh and final day, he's packing up to leave. He has his car ready, tells us all to have a great school year, have lots of sex, party hard, etc. Says he wants to come back for one of our parties. Then right before he leaves, he says "oh yeah I've got some people from FaceBook Marketplace coming to pick some stuff up; just some mattresses, desks, chairs..." The mattresses, desks, and chairs, were all ours.

The only contact we've had with him since was asking to fix the water pressure and damages, which he always says "I'll get right on it." It's been four months.

TL;DR: D-bag Miami landlord crashes at house for a week, does yoga, talks about sex, crypto, AI, and gloats. Gets drunk. Doesn't fix anything. Sells our stuff, then takes off.

Title says it all I got up and heard what sounded like somebody struggling to get out the door get closer and it almost sounds like a rat is trying to break in get even closer and it defiantly sounded like somebody mixed up our unit with theirs I go to confront the guy and it's the property manager two feet away from the door and he asked if we have a leak what was his big plan break inside and start looking around this early can't imagine what he was thinking

Edit: the more I think about it I'm pretty sure he was trying to get into our apartment the whole time and when I unlocked the door he tried to bolt for it as he was two steps away from the stairwell of course I make eye contact and he turns around and asks if we have a leak

Genuine question, Why won't people come together and buy a single apartment via mortgage (Joint property ownership), Yes you'll have to live somewhat like in an army hostel with bunkbeds and all but it is an investment and there won't be any landlord you have to put up with, For intimacy there are options like motels and airbnb while self storage facilities can take care of the limited space, Please be mindful to keep the discussion pragmatic and solution oriented, Thank you.

We all hate landlords. I don't want to be one. I don't want to have one. I have the opportunity to opt out, but there's a moral dilemma standing in my way.

A home got listed for sale an amount that I can afford (if I'm not also paying rent) and I was about to put an offer down but apparently, the seller decided to rent it out and just found a tenant and signed a lease. So if I buy it, I either become the landlord or I have to kick someone out of their home. Both seem like they'd be wrong, but how else, other than buying the place I can afford, do I escape from renting from landlords? Is there inherent virtue in having one less property collecting rent?

I need some guidance on what to do in this situation.

I have lived in my apartment since April, and the air conditioning was broken when I moved in. I wasn't aware of that before I moved in. My landlord provided two AC windows units, so that was sufficient to cool in the summer.

Obviously now I don't need those, but he still can't fix my air conditioning for heat. I looked up my tenant laws in my state and he should have had it fixed by October 8th.

What's my move here to get him off his ass?

I intentionally avoided renting from a big complex due to predatory fees and corporate greed.

I found a house and informed the landlord my intention is to buy within the next year. He said it would be no problem he just would need transparency and 60 days. In sept I called him and informed him I had started my house search. Again, he said no problem.

I found a house and offer got accepted, in currently going through the closing process. I called him to let him know and he said “I recall our agreement was 60 days…. Hmm but at this point i think you’ll stay until the end of the lease, let me check finances”

I then sent him an email statin late Jan I would vacate property, and this was my official notice. I also included my willingness to help find a new tenant. He has ignored my communication since that phone calls.

Details: all agreements were verbal (I thought men could still conduct business on handshake deals)

My state recognizes oral agreements as legally binding (tenant friendly)

Lease is up mid March. So it would really be a month and a half early from lease termination.

What would you suggest?

Edit* I have no idea what’s up with the misspelled words and poor grammar. I Used auto fill, which is apparently not the best.

I'm not rich to buy my own house or rent my own apartment. So, I'll have to be a roommate in someone's house. I'm searching for rooms for rent in Facebook groups (roommate search, etc.) and Craigslist, and boy, it's a mess. I have experience renting rooms and it's never been good, it's always been slumlords and/or bad roommates. But now in 2024 looking at these ads it's gotten ridiculous.

They either don't post any info or post their whole life story. They're all expensive for what you get. They're unresponsive. If you're a male, you're out of luck, they're looking for females only. They want you to be within a certain age range. They even 'prefer' that you share their personality type/hobby/profession/politics/etc. They want you to have a full time job - and not a remote job (It really means: Be out of my house as much as possible and just pay me you peon!).

They ask for first, last, deposit, credit check, application fee, 3x income and pay stubs, etc., FOR A ROOM! You can't have pets, smoke weed, have visitors, or use the kitchen. You are limited to being in your room, nothing else. You have to share the house with 5+ people and the bathroom with 3+ people. They have rules for you but none for them. You have to deal with the BS of everyone who lives at the house, tolerate their pets, loud music/noises, etc. and just suck it up.

It has become like applying for a job or dating. I don't want to know your life story. Just be a decent person and have a little consideration to not make my living in your house be like I'm in prison. I just want a place to sleep, cook my own food daily, have some peace and quiet after work, and not endure any crazy/inconsiderate behaviors.

Link to 1st update (https://www.reddit.com/r/LandlordLove/s/uAuNKiNtip)

Link to first post (https://www.reddit.com/r/LandlordLove/s/568zDz8fsE)

Our landlord filed the court case incorrectly as a wrongful detainer. They did try to lie and say that they didn’t know that we were living there, but thankfully we had proof of rent payments, and the case was dismissed. I wouldn't say I worried for nothing because they just need to file it properly, but this does give us more time to figure something out. I'm mainly trying to find resources that can assist with the process of moving and stuff that can help financially at least until January 2025 since I should have a job by then. I am looking into food & clothing Pantries to help with costs for groceries and clothes, and luckily there's one near where I currently reside. I mainly wanted to ask if anyone knew any resources I could look into that could help with anything relating to the above, and what I should do next

Hi guys there is a lot too this and i apologize just would love some advice. we first moved into our apartment of sep 2023 and on our move in sheet i put that we need new windows, ours leaks condensation on inside windows the air flow im getting rn just by laying in bed is crazy yk. my bedroom window also gets water in between the 2 pains of window. anyways earlier this summer i put in another request for new windows, from that our leasing office maintenance came out said we need new windows and the seals are broken then came out a window company who also told me we do infact need new windows, when the window company came the first time they left after doing an inspection came back 20 minutes later and told me they got approved, had another person come out from the same company a couple weeks later and told us they would fix them in 4-6 weeks. it became the 6th week and i called my leasing office to see when they were coming. they now are saying they never once approved the winodws and they are having another company come out. another company came out and said that the windows do need replaced. so we got 3 different companies 6 different people saying they need replaced but they just wont. what do i do am i allowed to be angry? its end of november and i live in a colder climate i wanted this to be done before winter it was supposed to be but now im laying cold in my bed

Rule 4 could not be more clear:

4. No Landlords & No Bootlickers - This is a tenant space in which Landlords are not welcome. Bootlickers will also be banned. Landlords hold significant wealth and power in our society--they don't need you defending them. Furthermore, this sub supports housing-for-all initiatives and subscribes to the socialist ideal that housing is a human right.

People playing "devil's advocate" are not necessary or wanted.

There are no good landlords. We don't care about your "alternative perspectives" or your special, specific circumstances "that totally make it okay for you to garnish the paychecks of the working class."

Your perspectives aren't "alternative", they're mainstream and we're sick of hearing them. The rest of the world is a safe space for landlords. This space isn't.

We will show love to the landlord/rentier class by eliminating it!

A big thank you to those of our fellow tenants for taking the time to try and educate landlords and their simps.

Please remember to report any and all landlords and bootlickers you see for violating Rule 4.

Edit: I got 6 reports for "Hate against identity or vulnerability" 🤣🤣🤣 these leeches think they persecuted!

Edit 2: It's gone up to 15 reports, lmao

Title says it all please don't remove this I just need any level of assurance or idea of how to get this I filed a provincial wage claim and they scrap it because it's federal you go federally and they need it to be done online you tell them " I don't have a computer I don't have a printer and I don't have a place to send you these physical papers " " ok no worries" 4 days later " w this is to diffficult here's the paper work for you to do "

So my boyfriend and I moved into a 3 bedroom 2.5 condo at beginning of October. Shortly after, we decided to test out one of the showers upstairs and discovered a big leak that went into the downstairs main bedroom. 1/4 of the ceiling was wet, etc. The toilet upstairs also didn't flush well at all. We notified our landlord of course and she had someone come work on the leak and replace the damaged drywall in one day. He suggested to the landlord to have the toilet replaced but she said no at the time. The repair guy hasn't finished painting and now the toilet upstairs is leaking when in use. We just decided to not use the shower or toilet upstairs at all for now until the landlord takes care of it. We've been messaging the landlord asking when the job is going to be finished and all she says is she will have the repair guy in contact with us soon (she's been saying this for weeks now, it's been a month since he started the job). The repair guy hasn't contacted us at all since. She refuses to have anyone else come do the work either.

Is this considered an 'annoyance' repair rather than unhabitable since we still have 2 other working toilets and 1 working shower? How fast should this kind of work be done? Our last landlord always has someone out within a day or so and at least finished the job in a timely manner. Is there anything we can do to get her to just finish the darn job? 😩 We'd like it fixed some day in case we have a guest over, and also part of the ceiling in our bedroom is just non painted dry wall and a couple leak stains, doesn't look too great.

Any advice would be helpful..

So, I am fearing that my land leeches might show up this thanksgiving weekend. They have a vacation home nearby and are spending thanksgiving there. I told them I just want to relax this thanksgiving when asked what I'm doing for Thanksgiving. (Hoping not to be bothered by them).

Knowing they lack proper boundaries, love to show up and do unnecessary maintenance for hours on end I doubt they got the hint. (Meanwhile I had to wait a week to get the toilet fixed). Most likely they'll have some excuse like they want to see how the paint is drying or they just want to bring by a gift. How sweet.

I'm planning on blocking their numbers and not answering the door if they show up. Instead of planning thanksgiving, etc, I'm dreading this so much I can't focus on anything else. Every interaction with them leaves me drained for hours, sometimes days.

I don't know what's worse dealing with them and coming up with excuses why I don't want to let them in which at that point they most likely get passive aggressive and somewhat hostile which they have in the past when not getting their way. Or just completely ignoring them and pretending I'm not home? I just hope they don't call the cops saying they're worried about me or find some other way to retaliate. I'm wondering if anyone else has or had to deal with something similar. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you