Worst landlord ever stories

The_Valeyard · 26-01-2017 11:50PM

Wow, some of these stories makes me feel so lucky with the landlord I had.
Bit of a contrary fella, but left us alone and was fair.

MrRolex · 27-01-2017 12:12AM

I have had the best and worst landlords (and landlady's) over the years.
And I have been a landlord myself so see things from both sides.
So I have had the best and worst of tenants too.
That is just to be expected really. Houseshares can work well, and sometimes be a nightmare for all concerned.
But one thing I have learned the hard way is, never live with an alcoholic, or drug addict (or both!) This applies to both tenants and landlords as I have lived with both.
And never live with a house owner. Renting a room in a houseshare is one thing, but living with your landlord is another.
Cutting those things out, solves most of the common problems for both tenant and landlord.
But don't get me wrong, I am no angel either. I nailed one landlady's daughter. That didn't go down well, but she didn't kick me out.
However when I nailed another one of her daughters at a house party, that really crossed the line and she kicked me out. Fair enough I suppose, I was having my cake and eating it. It was good fun in that house while it lasted though. Some of the house parties were memorable.
My worst landlady used to steal my food, and charge me for heating oil that was never delivered. She also loved altering the heating so cold showers in the mornings. It reached breaking point when she used a whole litre of milk I bought, before I had a drop.
The next morning I found out when I had no milk for my breakfast, despite buying a litre for that specific reason the night before.
And so I moved out. Then she tried to withold my deposit for electric. Things got nasty then. Suffice it to say, I got my full deposit back.
Lesson learned.

Teddington Cuddlesworth · 27-01-2017 12:42AM

Was living in a big enough house a few years back. There was 5 of us lads living there, all of us childhood friends.
We were young, 22/23 so it was a party house at it's quietest.
In the local one night and we met the landlady, she was half cut, things escalated and she came back to the house for a party.
Things got wild.

Woke up in the morning to someone trying to kick my door in. I got up and opened it, there's the landlady....in her 17 stone glory showing every bit of herself.

After I went to bed, according to sources, she went to bed with one of the lads (he's like that, he doesn't say no) after they finished she decided he wasn't enough. When no one else would sleep with her she thought it'd be a great idea to burn all her clothes in the fireplace.

Funnily enough we never saw her after that. When we were moving out (about 3 years later) we discovered she had a husband, who gave us our deposit back, and deeply thanked us for looking after the house so well.

philstar · 27-01-2017 10:56AM

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

BS

Teddington Cuddlesworth · 27-01-2017 11:17AM

philstar wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

BS

She was a lunatic.
When we first moved in she used to let herself in whenever she wanted, usually a Sunday morning.

She made it very clear at the initial viewing of the house (before we moved in) that she liked younger men.
She would periodically text one of us looking to strike up a conversation too, before the incident of course.

And, the neighbours said she had a bit of a reputation. They never elaborated but insisted on staying out of her way, they were a young couple only a few years older than us.

pilly · 27-01-2017 11:19AM

Teddington Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Was living in a big enough house a few years back. There was 5 of us lads living there, all of us childhood friends.
We were young, 22/23 so it was a party house at it's quietest.
In the local one night and we met the landlady, she was half cut, things escalated and she came back to the house for a party.
Things got wild.

Woke up in the morning to someone trying to kick my door in. I got up and opened it, there's the landlady....in her 17 stone glory showing every bit of herself.

After I went to bed, according to sources, she went to bed with one of the lads (he's like that, he doesn't say no) after they finished she decided he wasn't enough. When no one else would sleep with her she thought it'd be a great idea to burn all her clothes in the fireplace.

Funnily enough we never saw her after that. When we were moving out (about 3 years later) we discovered she had a husband, who gave us our deposit back, and deeply thanked us for looking after the house so well.

That is so funny.

:D:D What was she thinking setting fire to the clothes.

Your Face · 27-01-2017 11:35AM

CeeCeeMack wrote: »

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).

A biker gang?!
That landlord is a child.

redbel05 · 27-01-2017 01:39PM

I've been both the landlady and tenant so I know both points of view.

Worst LL I had once gave the key to our house to a group of guys who were working on a wall at the bottom of the garden + cutting the grass (keeping the large garden was her responsibility as she put it in the tenancy agreement). She gave them the key without telling us, and told them that they could go in to make themselves a cup of tea whenever they wanted.... We came home to find the place full of strangers, muck all over the floors, doors wide open with all our valuables/ private stuff on display.

We were there less than 6 month anyway. Our parting gift from her was to accuse us of stealing all her furniture and sending the Gardai to us at our new house (same area). We had rented her house unfurnished, but she must have liked the look of our stuff and hoped we would leave it. Luckily we were still paying up for a few pieces having bought them 6months before so nothing came of it after showing the Gardai those receipts.

check_six · 27-01-2017 02:26PM

Ah yes, furniture. Bloody furniture! Many places I've rented have been full of ultra-rubbish old, or cheap, or broken (or all three) bits of furniture. And yet many of these pieces are treated as some kind of magical heirloom by the LL when you ask them to replace or simply remove the offending article.

Moved into one place that had six chairs along with a sofa and armchair in a small living room of a small flat. Also there were two broken lamps. We had to beg the LL to remove the dining table chairs (there was no dining table!), but they point blank refused to remove the broken lamps. We put the lamps away in the storeroom, but lo and behold when we went to move out one lamp was supposedly worth hundreds of euros which was now going to come out of our deposit even though it was recorded as broken the day we moved in.

They even started arguing the toss over the number of plates that were left. We'd replaced all the crockery with brand new stuff as opposed to the old chipped crap that was in the place. We were leaving our stuff behind but there was more dinner plates and one less side plate and that simply wouldn't do according to the LL!

Lesson learnt though. Every new place I moved into since has had all the cutlery, plates, glasses, lamps, etc. boxed and stored so that the LL can have all that junk back in pristine condition. Still having issues with having to house busted old furniture though. You offer to just buy your own, but this won't do either apparently. Mad stuff.

TerrorFirmer · 27-01-2017 02:42PM

Never really had any difficult landlords in fairness but there was one particular guy who let the house to us in a very unclean state - but we just got on with it and spent a full day before we moved in hoovering, mopping, cleaning, dumping rubbish, etc.

When we went to move out two years later, we gave it another deep clean to basically leave it spotless - the exact opposite of how we'd taken it.

He then texts us to say the place has been left in poor condition and the cost of cleaning will have to be taken out of the deposit. I was speechless at the sheer neck of him.

He didn't get a cent though. Current landlord is nice, sorts things out quickly and is easy to deal with but he also gave the house to us in a seriously unclean condition....you'd think that landlords would have the house cleaned before letting it again?

DrPhilG · 27-01-2017 04:38PM

I hope my tenant is reading this to know just how good he has it, lol. I never see him, he never sees me. I don't raise the rent because he's a reliable tenant and I'd rather keep him.

I've only rented twice and both times the landlord/lady was sound.

Had a few fun housemates though. One was an alcoholic who used to sit up all hours roaring at God. Then gave out to me one time for being too noisy closing my door in the morning when leaving.

The day his equally drunken brother dragged him out into the street and beat the tripe out of him was a joyous one.

lawred2 · 27-01-2017 04:42PM

Lorelli! wrote: »

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.

not much of a story really

lawred2 · 27-01-2017 04:42PM

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.

haha

Parchment · 27-01-2017 04:42PM

In university we had a horrible landlord who refused to give us back our deposits for no real reason. He was a Garda and made sure we knew that.

A few weeks after we left one of the large front windows in the house got smashed, very unfortunate. Must have cost him a lot to repair.

lawred2 · 27-01-2017 04:47PM

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.

lived in Dublin for over ten years now (owner now) but every single one of my landlord's was a decent skin.. Never any unwarranted rent increases - in fact every review was a two way discussion so as to agree a mutually satisfying rent (which usually meant no increase), no unannounced arrivals or inspections, any problems sorted instantly.

Each and every one.

To be fair - we'd have been good tenants too.. Always kept the property and grounds in great nick. Would even have painted internal walls at our own expense - often replaced/repaired the odd household item at our expense too.

Bazzo · 27-01-2017 04:49PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Never really had any difficult landlords in fairness but there was one particular guy who let the house to us in a very unclean state - but we just got on with it and spent a full day before we moved in hoovering, mopping, cleaning, dumping rubbish, etc.

When we went to move out two years later, we gave it another deep clean to basically leave it spotless - the exact opposite of how we'd taken it.

He then texts us to say the place has been left in poor condition and the cost of cleaning will have to be taken out of the deposit. I was speechless at the sheer neck of him.

He didn't get a cent though. Current landlord is nice, sorts things out quickly and is easy to deal with but he also gave the house to us in a seriously unclean condition....you'd think that landlords would have the house cleaned before letting it again?

Was this in Galway? Did we have the exact same landlord? Had to threaten the bastard with the prtb before he'd give the deposit back (wanted to keep 500 quid for cleaning!). Place was in a filthy state when we moved in including half of the floors being ripped up, thoroughly cleaned before we left.

lawred2 · 27-01-2017 04:54PM

Bazzo wrote: »

Was this in Galway? Did we have the exact same landlord? Had to threaten the bastard with the prtb before he'd give the deposit back (wanted to keep 500 quid for cleaning!). Place was in a filthy state when we moved in including half of the floors being ripped up, thoroughly cleaned before we left.

got stung for a cleaning/repair bill in Cork once by a letting agency..

We took over the lease of a property half way through the lease - this was facilitated by the letting agency - there were a few issues with the apartment when we moved in that weren't particularly intrusive so we just ignored them for the duration. There was also a bag of clothes from previous tenants in a cupboard that we just ignored too.

When it came to moving out - the place was spotless but the original issues when we moved in were still there obviously. We got stung for the repair bill for the lot. Held responsible for any damage that happened during the entire course of the lease.

We also got told it would cost us €100 for the disposal of the bag of clothes. I just said I'll come collect the bag and take them to the charity shop myself - you know - save them the hassle.. Bit of fluster then followed by an obvious lie saying that the cleaning company had already disposed of the bag.

Yet it was the letting agency that let the place - showed us around and everything. I even remember yer wan noticing but ignoring the bag of clothes.

Rather despicable carry on.

Lesson learned though. Never touched an existing lease after that.

REM76 · 27-01-2017 04:56PM

Rented for many moons in Dublin, never really had a bad landlord. Most of them were actual landlords, rather than amateurs.

One example was a guy I had in Rathmines. Washing machine broke down with all my clothes in it, rang him, he had a new machine installed within 2 hours. These are the professional ones. He was taking about 3k a month from his flats, so he didn't mess you about if you were a decent tenant.

I would never have stayed with an owner-occupier or someone who became a landlord through awful financial decisions, luckily I could smell these chancers a mile off!

Likewise in UK, some great landlords. I was never any hassle, so never got hassle in return. Estate agencies on the other hand....

lawred2 · 27-01-2017 04:57PM

REM76 wrote: »

Rented for many moons in Dublin, never really had a bad landlord. Most of them were actual landlords, rather than amateurs.

One example was a guy I had in Rathmines. Washing machine broke down with all my clothes in it, rang him, he had a new machine installed within 2 hours. These are the professional ones. He was taking about 3k a month from his flats, so he didn't mess you about if you were a decent tenant.

I would never have stayed with an owner-occupier or someone who became a landlord through awful financial decisions, luckily I could smell these chancers a mile off!

3k or 30k?

REM76 · 27-01-2017 05:01PM

lawred2 wrote: »

3k or 30k?

3k, there was about 4 flats paying around 750 each. Small, but nice flats. I was very happy living there. When I bought my place at the time, he shook my hand, wished me well and asked me to contact him if I knew of anyone looking to rent.

I gave his number to a friend of mine and him and his girlfriend moved in to one of the flats later that year.

It was his livelihood, we were his customers. That's the way it works with professional landlords.

REM76 · 27-01-2017 05:07PM

I worked with a fella who would "brag" he had three lodgers. Truth of it was the poor thick couldn't pay his mortgage and these guys were keeping his head above water.

He talked about them like he was doing them a favour, giving out if they stayed the weekend or had their girlfriends over. It's people like that that give real landlords a bad name. These guys are reluctant amateurs. The government has made this worse with their tax-free incentives and no proper lease to 'lodgers'. That's their answer to a housing crisis, two fingers to the tenant.

Off topic - back to slagging landlords now please

REM76 · 27-01-2017 07:34PM

Not all letting agencies are ***** though, rented in Manchester with a letting agency called Urban Marmalade. They were amazingly good. We had two babies at the time and boiler packed in.

Bedtime without hot water is a full-on nightmare for parents.

One call and he sent out plumber to fix, which he did in about 60 mins.

When we were leaving, they pleaded with us for other tenants, but we were going to Oz. As a thank you, we left them an LCD tv for the next tenants.

That agency were a dream to deal with and there was mutual sadness when we were leaving. When we got to Oz, they gave us a glowing reference and made our move so much smoother. You get what you give.

REM76 · 27-01-2017 07:41PM

The vast chasm between professional landlord and amateur shmuck, who can't pay his bills, is illustrated so clearly in this thread and yet they get bracketed so unfairly in the same category.

Ironic that a thread set out to slag off landlords, becomes a thread where they receive the most plaudits and compliments.

Maybe we should have a thread for thick Dubs who have mortgages on ****ty houses.

27-01-2017 07:44PM

MrRolex wrote: »

Renting a room in a houseshare is one thing, but living with your landlord is another.

REM76 wrote: »

I would never have stayed with an owner-occupier

Viewed a few places before that advertised they were not owner occupied.
One at the end of the viewing I asked what's the landlord like.
Oh. haha. I am the landlord.
Oh right I wish you'd been up front with that in the ad, I've no interest in living with a landlord
Huh. Why not.

Because it's not a tenancy? It's something completely different where i'd have zero rights? Plus you're always living in THEIR house.
Like do you actually not get the difference
Also you lied in the ad sooooo see ya

Bambi985 · 27-01-2017 08:33PM

Yeah it's pure and utter bull. I am essentially a house guest in my own home when she comes to stay for how ever long she pleases and it's one rule for her, another entirely for myself and the other tenant.

The worst thing is in London you can get away with doing whatever the hell you want and could raise the rent by 1000 percent while reducing the services or mod cons you provide to your tenants and there'd always be someone desperate enough to pay it

Mr. CooL ICE · 27-01-2017 08:55PM

REM76 wrote: »

Maybe we should have a thread for thick Dubs who have mortgages on ****ty houses.

Mod:

You've been on a long trolling spree today. Any more nonsense from you and you're gone.

ArnoldJRimmer · 27-01-2017 09:15PM

Lived with a mate in a flat straight out of the comedy series Rising Damp. An old dilapidated building with as many tenants crammed into the house as possible. The joys of Celtic Tiger renting

The living carpet was so old and mank that we used to play guessing games as to what colour it may have originally been. The window frames were so rotted that we had to tape them up in the wintertime to stop a breeze from entering the rooms. The landlord had control of the heat and only had it scheduled for a couple of hours a day, leaving the place freezing at times.

The landlord tried the same cr*p as was already mentioned on this thread about cleaning charges when we were leaving. We replaced he grill in the kitchen out of our own pockets as the one left to us was rusted, but he used the fact that it wasn't pristine when we left as an excuse to charge us.

The real kicker was the bathroom. We repeatedly complained about a leak in the ceiling of the bathroom, wasn't a huge deal, it was more to warn him about the structural damage to his house. And he would always complain that it was the people upstairs not using their shower curtain, missing the point entirely. He had the cheek to try and charge us for the damp in the bathroom when we were leaving.

Anyway, this guy wasn't the brightest and told us all about this before we had paid the last rent installment, so we just didn't pay it and got our deposit back that way. As it was all cash in hand with no written contract, nothing he could doo about it. A few months later, I called in to see if there was any mail and the landlord answered. Apparently the ceiling caved in while the people upstairs were having a party, a direct result of the water damage we had highlighted. Luckily the place downstairs was empty at the time. The landlord, ever the tight fcuker, was in the house fixing it himself instead of getting a builder

MilesMorales1 · 27-01-2017 10:37PM

When we first moved here, the house we lived in had no heating or hot water, you couldn't lock the back door, couldn't flush one of the two toilets, we had a hole in the ceiling. Complained to the landlord more times than we could count, never did anything, and we couldn't afford to move for a year and a half when we finally put the cash together for a deposit. Absolutely awful, specially considering the rent she was charging.

Nekarsulm · 27-01-2017 11:11PM

I was the letting agent in a country town agency. Some very odd/unsavory landlords out there. One chap had a lovely 4 bed detached house in a nice estate near town centre. I got him a lovely Lithuanian couple and all was well for a few weeks. They were looking like great tenants, house was never cleaner and they weeded and replanted the borders and flowerbeds. With LL's permission, the husband replaced rotten parts of the fencing and even put down very professional decking etc.
Then the wife got as part time job and also started a part time course in the local college. Now the house was empty during the day.
She complained about their ESB bill going up, but we couldnt pin down any real cause. Then one evening she arrived in the office in tears, and begged me go out to the house with her.
There on the duvet were two big dusty footprints.
It turned out the LL was letting himself in when the house was empty, and probably doing laundry. He was also using her computer, as her History folder revealed. The footprints on the bed was very worrying. She thought he was just crass for standing on the bed with shoes on (shoes in the house are very unusual in most E European houses) but I suspected that he had probably been removing a camera.
Confronted him, but all was denied. Turned out the house was his brothers in NY, so I have no idea where the rent was going.
He was a maintenance man in a fairly swanky hotel, so god knows what he got up to there.

They moved out as soon as possible.

uch · 28-01-2017 02:16AM

Lived in a bedsit in an old Georgian house in the early 90's, landlord was an Iraqi fella, nice chap but a miserable cúnt, anyway I was in the jax, beside the cooker one friday evening before going for a few pints, brushing me teeth and the ceiling caved in as I was spitting out the toothpaste, walloped me on the back of the head, nearly knocked me out, regardless, still went for pints, but when he called for rent he tried to tell me it was my fault for leaving the shower on too long and I'd have to pay for it. I said I was moving out, so he says I'm not getting my deposit back cause I damaged the shower ceiling, at the time I was friendly with a traveller lad and he told me to tell yer man that I was going to nail the door of the flat shut with a horse inside unless he gave me my deposit, the day I was leaving my traveller friend pulled up with a horsebox and parked outside, the Iraqi fellla gave me everything I was owed and apologised profusely

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