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Worst landlord ever stories

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  • #62
    Surreptitious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    I viewed a room in a house when I was only a teenage student and I didn't realise the guy who owned it was living there as well. He was this big bloke with a dodgy leather waistcoat that was stuck to him and a huge cowboy hat, 'Dublin John' they call me, he said. The room was tiny with a single bed and he said he was in the house most of the time. Then things gone pure weird, he started asking me did I go out at night. I was like yeah obviously, I'm young, in college having the craic. Then he said 'oh I suppose you'll be flat on your back there some nights after bringing fellas back with you'. I told him straight out I was with someone and that he outside in the car if he wanted to go out and meet him. He started saying that he knew what ones like me were like didn't matter who they were with, they'd still be hanging off someone else. I got out of there seriously fast. Imagine living with him though, no way.


  • #63
    Xenji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,506 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    A friend of mine moved into a place after the landlord moved out and into a new property, everything was grand until she opened a dresser and found a personalised onesie with the landlord naked printed on the front of it with a tail at the back and fins, he even had his same arm tattos on it, that's how she knew it was him.


  • #64
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    s4uv3 wrote: »
    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 :)

    Hope you peed behind the couch before you left. Would serve her right!


  • #65
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    NB every landlord I have ever had complains that you left the house filthy; one tried that when his house had flooded as he had laid stone tiles on bare earth and when it rained, as it does here, the water came up through them.... He had first called my family begging them to get me to stay..

    Here after less than three weeks, I am still learning the differences between the info I was sent and the reality. Agency a joke.

    The worst? I had asked for isolated and was assured in writing that the nearest house was half a k away... PERFECT! When I came I went right past the house as 50 metres away.. Yep another house ... And building work in progress? Three houses and a working farm barn? ( NB Because of disability etc I was unable to view, but have done this before, asked all the right questions and never any problems)

    Owner is abroad and waxed lyrical re the family home... Ah well!

    There had been other issues with the agent.

    Learning the comings and goings here and working around them... the house next door is an AIRBnB..


  • #66
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    uch wrote: »
    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,

    lol :D you're a true irishman


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