Worst landlord ever stories

Bambi985 · 26-01-2017 12:21PM #1

Mine is an all round nightmare.

She and her husband come to stay in the third bedroom at random, which is usually about 7 months of the year despite the room ad not mentioning this. When they're here they take over the house, her control freak nature makes any interaction a daily dread and the bathroom we share permanently smells of her sh1t.

She puts up the rent year on year and rearranges furniture or cancels/changes phone or internet or tv services as she pleases. She also has Daily loud rows with her estranged son on the phone and will b1tch about her daughter in law to anyone who will listen.

Why do I stay? Well, London. Budget. Location. Plans to move in with de fella that keep getting set back due to work schedules. And I'm determined to get a book out of the old wagon some day.

What are your worst landlord stories?

newacc2015 · 26-01-2017 12:24PM

Bambi985 wrote: »

Mine is an all round nightmare.

She and her husband come to stay in the third bedroom at random, which is usually about 7 months of the year despite the room ad not mentioning this. When they're here they take over the house, her control freak nature makes any interaction a daily dread and the bathroom we share permanently smells of her sh1t.

You aren't a tenant though. You have a license agreement meaning you are living with the owner, which means they aren't a landlord. So you aren't a tenant

xzanti · 26-01-2017 12:25PM

Are they allowed to come and occupy the house at will? Surely there has to be some rule against that. Unless stated in the lease? :eek:

I'd be on my toes.

punisher5112 · 26-01-2017 12:27PM

I guess you are just renting a room.
At least you get 5 months free from her.

So not all bad.

Bambi985 · 26-01-2017 12:29PM

xzanti wrote: »

Are they allowed to come and occupy the house at will? Surely there has to be some rule against that. Unless stated in the lease? :eek:

I'd be on my toes.

Checked the contract on it before alright and it said

"LANDLORD has right to come and occupy empty room for a

previously stated period of time. In such case LANDLORD will supply

TENANT(S) with no less than a week's notice of all times that LANDLORD

will be in residence."

Her son showed me the room as she spends the rest of the year in the US and Asia where they have homes too (they're minted old misers) and he said they tend to be in the house "for a month or two" as part of a casual conversation. Not much recourse on what was a non-binding verbal conversation from what I can see though.

will be out of there within a month or two, it's just been put off due to crazy busy work schedules and inability to save due to unforeseen expenses.

s4uv3 · 26-01-2017 12:45PM

I had one that was a right weirdo.
I rented a two-bed housheen from her, at the rear of a bigger unoccupied house that she also owned.
Anyway. I started seeing my now husband, and he used to stay over, as you do. As luck would have it, I left before him one morning so when she did one of her sly "inspections", he was there and I wasn't.
So I got summoned to a meeting and presented with a list of rules.

He wasn't to park his jeep in the yard incase it dirtied her "lovely tarmac". It, and all his work gear that was in it, was to be left out on the main road.
Rent was being increased by 30% due to the fact that I was now "sub-letting" (I wasn't)
I was to contribute a few hundred Euro to landscaping work she wanted done at the back of the house.
I was to close the front gate at all times and never leave a window open when I wasn't in (this one's fair enough).

I moved out a few weeks later, and the place is still empty

Lorelli! · 26-01-2017 12:47PM

A good few years ago, OH and I were living in a nice little cottage but it was in the middle of nowhere so we were desperate to get somewhere close to work and stuff. Went to look at a one bed apartment and it was alright on the surface and a good location for us so we had a small look around and signed the lease.

A month later, we moved in and when you looked deeper, the place was in bits. There were dirty dishes in the press, the floor was sticky! I don't know if the previous tenant had a party or something before leaving. There was a used toilet brush, ugh and there were children's clothes hanging in the wardrobe which was a bit creepy.

She popped round that day and I was so annoyed. Im fairly laid back but this was a joke. I took all the crap that was left and piled it up in the hall and called her to come and get it. I told her I was disgusted and spent the day cleaning other people's mess. She was very apologetic and looked embarrassed but she didn't really give a **** otherwise she would have had it cleaned. We did get on alright after that though. I never really liked living there though after my first impression.

philstar · 26-01-2017 12:59PM

Bambi985 wrote: »

She and her husband come to stay in the third bedroom at random, which is usually about 7 months of the year despite the room ad not mentioning this. When they're here they take over the house, her control freak nature makes any interaction a daily dread and the bathroom we share permanently smells of her sh1t.

when you say sh!t ...do you mean sh!t or do you mean her shampoo deodorant perfume etc ?

Bambi985 · 26-01-2017 01:04PM

philstar wrote: »

when you say sh!t ...do you mean sh!t or do you mean her shampoo deodorant perfume etc ?

haha no, literal sh1t. she stinks man. undiagnosed ibs or something i reckon. she's the loudest and smelliest toilet-goer you can imagine.

philstar · 26-01-2017 01:06PM

Bambi985 wrote: »

haha no, literal sh1t. she stinks man. undiagnosed ibs or something i reckon. she's the loudest and smelliest toilet-goer you can imagine.

oh joy

Graces7 · 26-01-2017 01:10PM

when I have a week to spare.... rolls up sleeves!

CeeCeeMack · 26-01-2017 03:21PM

Ugh mine was bad. This guy didn't technically own the house but this was in New York and the actual owner lived in Ireland so this guy was the house manager or whatever.

Signed a lease and moved in with my friend. Things got bad very quickly. The house manager was a big drinker and tried to kiss me and I refused because 1) he was gross and talked constantly about how much money he made and 2) thought it might make things awkward. It got awkward anyway. He actually lived in the apartment below and started letting himself into our apartment and stole ALL of my food, down to every last can of tuna. Before I had a lock on my bedroom door, he came in drunk and jumped on top of me and tried to demand sexual favors.

Then it got worse. He would get really drunk and verbally abuse us, my female roommate ended up punching him. Cops were called on her but no charges were brought as this happened in the Deli and the cops said he didn't really have a case as he'd grabbed her first so it was self-defense.

At this point we were desperately looking for a new apartment but it was the dead of winter, mid snow storm so no apartments available. House manager called landlord back in Ireland told him we were refusing to move so landlord called his buddy who was in a biker gang and had them wait outside the house at night for a few days to try and intimidate us into moving (A BIKER GANG. WE WERE TWO 22 YEAR OLD FEMALES).

Sorry for the long post but I swear there were so many incidents. He eventually got arrested for harassment and we moved out a few days later when he was at work.

Widdershins · 26-01-2017 03:27PM

I only had one landlord and he was as sound as a pound. He said he was increasing the rent with next tenant. He'd kept it the same because he was happy with me as a tenant.

I'd say it is stressful to be a landlord too.

GLaDOS · 26-01-2017 03:27PM

I've never met my landlord, it's great :pac:

Bambi985 · 26-01-2017 03:30PM

Widdershins wrote: »

I only had one landlord and he was as sound as a pound. He said he was increasing the rent with next tenant. He'd kept it the same because he was happy with me as a tenant.

I'd say it is stressful to be a landlord too.

pfft, not as stressful as living in a big city like london or dublin where landlords can increase rent as they please because the demand is so ridiculous and there's always someone willing to move in.

your landlord sounds decent though, not a money-grabbing sociopath like mine.

Widdershins · 26-01-2017 03:32PM

Bambi985 wrote: »

pfft, not as stressful as living in a big city like london or dublin where landlords can increase rent as they please because the demand is so ridiculous and there's always someone willing to move in.

your landlord sounds decent though, not a money-grabbing sociopath like mine.

Well..it's probably nice to be in a position of having property to rent out in the first place. Not the worst complaint. I have heard a few horror stories about them too.

fg1406 · 26-01-2017 03:33PM

Pretty much every landlord I've had in Dublin since about 2002 has been mad in one way or another. I've had everyone from cops, criminals, farmers as landlords. The worst was a guy with dementia (or at least I think he had it). He lived in a mews cottage next to the house and would regularly walk into our house thinking it was his own. One morning he walked into my bedroom and was just standing there staring at me. It was pretty freaky.

NoviGlitzko · 26-01-2017 03:51PM

Was going to college in UL. Moved into a house, but let the landlord know beforehand it'll be 2 weeks before I have the deposit. She said that wasn't an issue so I thought all was good.

Came down the following Sunday without a deposit thinking me giving it in a weeks time like I had agreed was perfectly alright. Got a phone call when I was just near the house to tell me had I the deposit. I told her I'd have the the following week as our arrangement was clear. When I told her that she said 'well I have your banjo so when you have the money for the deposit I'll give you it back'. The ****er had gone into my room and taken my tenor banjo that costs well over a thousand and had it in her house until I gave her the deposit for the house. I gave out hell to her. I told her that was illegal and I wanted it back straight away. She didn't budge. I didn't know what to do, and I couldn't ring my parents because they were out of the country at the time.

Eventually after a few hours I said I'm taking my stuff out of her house and I'll stay somewhere else and I wanted my belongings back. She met me and was seemed really jumpy. I took it, said nothing to her and stayed with one of the lads until I got sorted the following week. Lucky escape.

Laois_Man · 26-01-2017 04:22PM

Widdershins wrote: »

Well..it's probably nice to be in a position of having property to rent out in the first place. Not the worst complaint. I have heard a few horror stories about them too.

Lots of Landlords now are accidental landlords tho....and are still in negative equity from the crash, where the income from rent doesn't cover the mortgage but had to leave the house for various reasons. Not everything is always as it "probably" seems!

noaddedsugar · 26-01-2017 04:22PM

We had a landlord who decided to build another house in the garden of the house we were renting without letting us know. One day they just rocked up, drove a digger through the fence, crushed my kids swing set and set to work. They left the building site unsecured, our back garden was full of giant holes, it was just a mess. We had a toddler at the time and it wasn't at all safe. When we complained, he told us he would knock a 100e off our rent that month.

We ended up moving out over it and took him to the PRTB, We got a lot more than 100 off the rent.

fryup · 26-01-2017 06:01PM

GLaDOS wrote: »

I've never met my landlord, it's great :pac:

they're the best ones

steddyeddy · 26-01-2017 06:02PM

A lot of Irish landlords seem to have major issues handing over the keys and staying away from the property.

punisher5112 · 26-01-2017 06:03PM

So many are on usually to say its a business and that which is fine but then many seem to have some attachment to the property such as what's in it etc. This is where they need to detach away from that thinking.

Bazzo · 26-01-2017 06:14PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

A lot of Irish landlords seem to have major issues handing over the keys and ataying away from the property.

It's ****ing weird. Best landlord I ever had handed over he keys on the day I moved in and I didn't see him again until the day I moved out.

I don't mind them calling around to take a look at the place every now and again if they text ahead but some of them have the place ****ing haunted. Don't rent to people if you don't trust them not to collapse the building on itself!

26-01-2017 06:28PM

Been lucky with mine
Viewed places with total crazy people running them though

punisher5112 · 26-01-2017 06:29PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Been lucky with mine
Viewed places with total crazy people running them though

Crazy cat lady???

posturingpat · 26-01-2017 06:35PM

When i was studying we'd have 3-4 weeks off at Christmas so we all tended to head home for the few weeks.

One year coming up to the xmas break before we went we informed the landlady that there seemed to be a bit of damp in one of the upstairs ceilings and should we ask one of our friends in to look at it(Apprentice craftsmen studying nearby) she said no leave it she'd get the husband to sort it as he was a plumber.

We went off on our break and when we came back there was water coming down the stairs and upstairs the ceiling in my bedroom had collapsed through with the sheer weight of water, the telly in the sitting room had got soaked too and blown up and we were homeless for 3 weeks, luckily for us we had some decent friends and we all got sorted with couches to kip on and surely outstayed our welcome but could've been a lot worse :mad:

Can't imagine the money she must've had to pay to get the place fixed because the husband was too lazy to go up and have a look :rolleyes:

Aglomerado · 26-01-2017 06:53PM

I lived in a two bed flat with a friend in Galway, just off St Mary's Road. It wasn't a stand alone flat, it was a house that had been divided in two. Landlord (widowed man) in one part, tenants in the other. There was a connecting door between the two apartments. The kitchen was shared between both, and the heating controls in our part. So we had to put up with the LL cooking kippers at 7 am for his breakfast, and coming in ostensibly to adjust the heating. I only managed to stay for 3 weeks... He wrecked my head... We couldn't have friends over because he always barged in to the living room and wanted to know what they were doing there. On my last night we went to the pub and I ended up bringing a guy back who stayed the night.. passed out in my room with the lights on. LL looked in the window saw the beardy chap, exclaimed 'what the Fuk' and stormed in demanding explanations....... Guy helped me move flats!!!!

Laois_Man · 26-01-2017 11:21PM

Bazzo wrote: »

Don't rent to people if you don't trust them not to collapse the building on itself!

I'm a Landlord myself and there's hardly anything in the World I'd love more than to get a phonecall in the morning saying that place has burned to the ground!

(As long as nobody got hurt).

Mr. FoggPatches · 26-01-2017 11:26PM

When I was at uni, we moved into a house in Tottenham. Paid deposit and first months rent and no sign of the landlord for 7 months. We tried contacting him several times but his phone was dead. His wife called around during month 8 to collect the rent. We asked her where landlord was and she told us he was in prison for fraud. Made sense as red bills and solicitors letters were piling up in the hall for him. Under about 50 different company names.

Zaph · 26-01-2017 11:48PM

Had a landlord once who to be fair didn't bother us too much, but he was notoriously tight. Whenever something needed to be done in the house he'd find the cheapest way possible to do it. But one day, to our great surprise, he decided that the window frames needed painting. They were the sort of windows that had lots of small panes in them and they were in pretty poor condition. One day a guy arrived to paint them and we all headed out for the day. We came back later to find the doorstep, window sills and just about every other visible surface covered in paint splatters. On closer inspection we saw that the old paint hadn't been scraped off the frames and was just painted over. The following day someone went to open a window and couldn't. Every single window in the house had been painted shut. It turned out that the "painter" was actually a mate of the landlord and he was in fact a builder, who often are noted for not being the cleanest workers. It took several weeks to get all the windows sorted so that we could open them again.

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