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10. I came home from work, a number of years back...

Reply to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Fri Oct 22, 2021, 11:13 AM

Oct 2021

And my pot-smoking roommate and his girlfriend had left.

And they stole the stove and fridge, and this was a second-story apartment!
(No elevator)

In the nearly 30 years I've lived in my current apartment, I've had several landlords, only one sticks out as bad, since he was just lazy.
Went through two winters, the landlord wouldn't snowplow the driveway unless all four of us would complain.

And the snowplow operator must have been the cheapest he could find, he'd leave a coat of ice on the driveway.

Getting repairs unless emergencies, would take weeks.

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They didn't pay rent, then stole the fridge. Landlords deal with pandemic squatters [View all] Dial H For Hero Oct 2021 OP

If the facts here are as stated dsc Oct 2021 #1

There's a lot of this where crooks can use laws to protect renters Hortensis Oct 2021 #2

Yes, but many landlords run into that kind of tenant eventually. shrike3 Oct 2021 #4

Umhm. A number of times as an appraiser attorney-owners threatened Hortensis Oct 2021 #6

People have this notion that college educated means classy. shrike3 Oct 2021 #14

If I ever had that notion... Those who defaulted on their mortgages Hortensis Oct 2021 #15

You're probably right. shrike3 Oct 2021 #18

friends rented house to well paid engineer. He immediately ceased paying rent Demovictory9 Oct 2021 #11

I've had worse luck with landlords than tenants. Elessar Zappa Oct 2021 #5

My dad was a landlord. shrike3 Oct 2021 #3

I have been a landlord. Tenants are the same people you meet in real life. LakeArenal Oct 2021 #7

My worst tenants were wealthy young top level college grads. They punched cbabe Oct 2021 #8

Just imagine how much less slimey slimey people would be Hortensis Oct 2021 #16

Since the federal government put landlords in this position, it should pay the landlords. marie999 Oct 2021 #9

I came home from work, a number of years back... Archae Oct 2021 #10

Maybe one day, the rental market will collapse, with so many 'bad apple' tenants out there. SWBTATTReg Oct 2021 #12

With corporations buying up rentals, raising rents and putting Hortensis Oct 2021 #17

After the housing bubble popped in 2008, I had to rent out my condo. SYFROYH Oct 2021 #13