r/MaliciousCompliance - Karen Landlord Steals My Money, DARES ME TO SUE! Regrets It.

r/maliciouscompliance - OP tells a story about how he rented a place from a scummy landlord who tried to steal his money when he left! When OP asked for the money back, the landlord refused and told him to take him to court! This entitled Karen landlord had no idea that OP would call his bluff and makes him regret it big time!

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Stories in this episode of malicious compliance:

00:00 Intro
00:27 Story 1 (feeshta)
04:05 Story 2 (MelvinTheBrave)
07:20 Story 3 (Tasha S.)
11:22 Story 4 (MakinDo)
14:00 Story 5 (bripotato)
18:20 Story 5 (Muddy0258)
23:55 Story 6 (GardeningMonster)

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[condar]

Scummy landlord in the first story should be charged with forgery or 'uttering false documents'. He needs a nice criminal conviction and public shaming for this. There would be no jail but his reputation would be ruined.

[ajb]

The landlord is committing fraud, and that is a major no no. So get a shark of a lawyer and teach that landlord and his cronies a lesson.

[s.h.]

I love (said sarcastically) how landlords and schools are all "you participated in violence/bullying" and by "participated" they mean "a victim of"...

[christamillion]

I'm dealing with an entitled, crazy Karen landlord right now—actually a former landlord. I moved into a cozy two-bedroom, two-bath cottage. Initially, I was told that the place had an electric water heater but a gas heater for regular heat. I decided I would rather not deal with the gas - and I discussed this with the landlord. I should have saved the email because all I could find later was her warning me about water pipes bursting. I was always careful to make sure that didn't happen. Four months later, I had no hot water - and was screamed at by the landlord for not having the gas turned on. Also, she says we never discussed anything.

Her next battle was over my cats. I have a senior cat (who didn't always make it to the litter box). I always cleaned up her messes when I got home from work. I had a plastic heavy-duty mat covering the area to protect the floor. World War III started because my cat poops. Then the dishwasher broke down. It took them two weeks to replace the dishwasher. Then, despite the fact that I cleaned up the litter box before I left for work - there was a mess - and the LL said they were not renewing my lease. I wrapped my head around the fact that I was going to have to move again. Also, just to rub salt in my wounds, they were going to inspect the place once a week for a month and then every other week until I left.

I got a nanny cam and heard what she said on one of these inspections. I was done. My anxiety was shot. I found a new place close to work with two months free rent. This included a pool, workout room, balcony (on the good side, where I can see the fireworks on 7/4 and from our local baseball stadium), and an elevator.

I moved and decided to wait her out to avoid the drama - and just pay until the end of my lease (end of June). It's peaceful for three weeks - then she texts me (another inspection). I informed her that I had relocated but would continue to pay rent and utilities until the end of my lease. Inspection turns into a showing, then two weeks of arguing over a smell that only she can smell (no one else - including the professional cleaner could smell anything), crescendoing into her telling me that she isn't crazy and she wasn't good to show the place. Ironically she brought the owner over - and he couldn’t smell it either.

Anyway, I have one more month to go. She is allegedly showing the place on the 5/13th. I'm not holding my breath. My friends are taking bets on whether she will blame me for the wind blowing.
The cats and I are a lot happier.

[robertheinrich]

first story: just take pics of the signed contract. and then watch them squirm.

[EarthboundMisfit]

The only landlord I ever had was glad for me to do minor repairs. He would deduct anything I spent from my rent. It saved him the cost of hiring someone.

[DarkEinherjar]

How those landlords sleep at night? Easy: they don't view the tenants as human beings like them.

[merlinathrawes]

Break lease story: The devil's in the details. OP had a legally binding contract that read $1.50. The landlord can argue all day in court that it was a typo, but that's his fault.

Trailer repairs story: I would have demanded that they at least return to me the solar light I PAID FOR!

Painting apartments story: Trying to cover over BLACK paint and not have it bleed thru is the next best thing to impossible, even with primer coats.

Bare backyard story: Definitely NTA! After all, nothing done was permanent and the landlord certainly didn't offer to BUY any of what OP did from him at a fair price. He just thought he could profit from it. But nothing says that he can't restore it out of his own pocket.

[silverflight]

Painting story: Nothing like being so greedy that you want to throw out all of your tenants JUST because you want to renovate, up the value, and then re-rent, and your method was fabricating evidence that supposedly would get people evicted.

Honestly, I don't even know how the landlord thought it would work

[flutterrage]

Last story: what wouldn't you take your property with you.

[LadyLexyStarwatcher]

Dude, story 1.... That is illegal. You can't just go changing contracts like that. Land lord's company committed a crime. That could get them in big soup. OP should have reported it because how many other people got screwed over by that.

[angelamurray]

Last story, OP NTA. You made this garden with your money and sweat. They deserve nothing. Good for you OP. Good luck for the future 🙏🏻💐💐💐

[silverflight]

Story 3: Well, tenants wouldn't have to make their own repairs if the landlord wasn't so damn lazy.

Being a landlord doesn't mean free money, you still gotta fix your property.

[vahvahdisco]

Last story - Not the A-hole ! My garden had 4 bushes and ground Ivy in it when I first moved in 12 years ago. One of those bushes got damaged and got blown away in high winds about 8 years ago, one bush ‘grew up’ and became a tree, one had to be moved (into a pot) so I could put an Arbor in and the last is still growing where it has always been, along with some of the Ivy. I’ve also added a lot more pots of plants, bushes, climbers, fruit vines etc as well as planting another bush - a Buddleia. My Arbor has Honeysuckle, Clematis and Jasmine growing around it.
If I was to move, I would take all of the plants that were not rooted to the ground with me. I wouldn’t really want to leave my Arbor behind but as it’s not one that is just spiked in the earth but has a base which lies underneath the flagged pathway, then I would have to !
My landlord (Social Housing) states that the property has to be returned to the state it was in when I moved in - this can’t be done in full because I had a wet-room fitted by Social Services in 2015 - I didn’t pay for it myself and it means that my unit is fully equipped for another disabled person.

But as I’m not intending to move again then, I won’t have the hassle of dealing with all this after my passing which won’t be for another 25 years or so yet - I hope !

[tmntfangirl]

Story 2: And THAT is why you should always read and double check your lease carefully for things like this. Well done OP.

[suzyboyleanderson]

You bought your own stuff with your own money and built a wonderful backyard. The landlord saw money in their eyes over your new improvements. Then lie about you stealing their things, some nerve of them. And to the coworkers you are taking the landlords side and if they spent time at your former place in the garden and still think that they are going to spend more time at the garden in your new place, tell them to pound sand and hang out with the landlords they think you're taking advantage of

[jaredcastro]

My landlord sent a dude to do some work on our toilet. It needed a lot of work, but the dude barely snaked it then lied and said we caused the issues when nothing came out with his snake. She sent an actual plumber, and they said the blockage was due to buildup from years of it not being maintained by the previous landlord and it was all sludge.

[marylowther]

I had a lot of landlords before I bought my first house. The last were a couple named Lou and Helen, and they were great. When I retiled and repaired the fireplace on my suite they admired the work, and when I enclosed the back porch for a sun room they said thank you. Thirteen years I lived in that house and they seldom raised the rent beyond reasonable sums for increased taxes. When I became a landlord myself I tried to be that kind of person.

When I hear the stories about bad landlords I always think about Lou and Helen, who treated me well and never took advantage. Immigrants who worked like the blazes to make it, too. Just great people.

[Summertime-yewg]

We had a landlord that wouldn’t fix the dry rot in the bathroom. So anytime he was showing the place to a new renter we would start making complaints right in front of the landlord and where the renter was in earshot. Plus we would say we don’t appreciate being ignored. Eventually the wall got fixed after a month of no one showing up to see the property.

Plus a few years ago on Facebook my roommates and I were on a group on Facebook that would warn renters to avoid places due to Slumlords.

[meh]

5 gallons of paint costs over 200 dollars nowadays. Imagine how many buckets of paint had to be applied to gain the thickness they were describing.