30 Landlord Horror Stories, As Shared In This Online Community

I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
I put in a maintenance ticket back in January to have holes sealed up at the edge of my roof where squirrels had gotten in and I could hear them chewing at the wood in the walls on a regular basis. Month after month I would contact the leasing company for my house anyway I could to ask when this was going to get resolved.
Yesterday they finally came out with a crane and did this metal work and expanding foam job, cutting down my little library to reach it.
Update: THE SQUIRRELS HAVE ALL BEEN FREED!
After a hearing about my dilemma, my sister and her partner, both strong animal lovers with animal rescue experience, drove all the way down from the Duluth area to give me a hand with my situation.

Just moved out of a 1 bedroom apartment. I rented a carpet shampooer from Home Depot before and had the whole place looking and smelling real nice. Just got this email which screams of nonsense.

I plan to fight this to the death. The carpet was not damaged and had zero stains when I left. The pictures aren’t amazing but you can tell there’s not big damage

I 24f am in PA, my roommate recently moved out and since I've been here by myself my landlord started asking for hugs every time he came over (he also shows up unannounced to "fix" things and will push his way in even after I say no and I require notice) the hugs were already crossing a line but I don't have anywhere to go and am already nervous about him and he wouldn't leave until I did it so I just did what he wanted. now he has sent me this email and I'm scared to go home. I've been staying at a friends house trying to figure out what to do

Recently got displaced for a week while some people came by and fixed my ceiling. It was covered in full since there was evidence of mold on the windowsills prior to moving in. Company came in and took the humidity which was 78. They were going to replace the ceiling, parts of the wall, and connect the air vent all the way outside as it was not hooked up correctly. Came back after a week and everything is replaced and there is no evidence of mold anymore. Tub is clogged and I’m waiting on that to get fixed but otherwise, seems good. The thing that didn’t make sense to me is the landlord telling me that if it happens again I will be responsible for it. He did not provide any maintenance advice on how to control it if this should happen again. My leasing contract states that I will only be held responsible for repairs if I don’t take the necessary precautions to avoid it but how do I avoid mold growth? Contract includes vent cleaning, filter replacement, not running the ac too hard, normal house things- but nothing about mold. I’ve requested receipts of all the work done so I have evidence that it was done properly and I also plan on requesting humidity check ups. I fail to understand how this would fall back on me if it comes back? If it’s done correctly, it shouldn’t return at all?

I live in a building in a city right outside Chicago. It does have a lot of units and I realize big old buildings do have bug issues but my landlord is insisting that they’re just water bugs. I told her last Thursday that when I was paying my rent that I’ve seen a couple roaches and she tells me to take a picture next time. So last night I had a friend over and she was sitting on the floor and my cat ran by and a roach ran under my friends leg. So not only was I horrified I was embarrassed I sent her a picture at like 1 am and she didn’t reach out till 2 this afternoon and is still insistent it’s water bugs. My friend used Google lens and what do you know it registered as a roach. I called her and told her I’m not gonna argue with her about it and that she needs to get the exterminator quick. I have poison bait traps by the doorways and today I sprayed raid outside the back door and the landing on the inside. What else could I do to solve this issue if she won’t. Any advice is welcomed.

I was shocked when I came home from work and saw plastic covering every window in my apartment. I reached out to the property management and they told me it was for “waterproofing” the building. Asked for a date when it would be removed and they said they “weren’t sure”. It’s cutting off ventilation and I’m having to run my AC in 70 degree weather because it’s almost 80 degrees in my apartment with this plastic on. I asked if they would subsidize a portion of my electric bills since I will be needing to run the AC, which they said they would “get back to me about” but of course they didn’t

So I moved in to my new apartment in late January, I didn’t have a car then but recently got 1. Email the apartment manager for a parking permit, and she didn’t respond after a few days so I sent a follow-up. She send me a email today to say she was off and will follow-up but accidentally sent me this email which was obviously meant for internal purposes

I moved into a new apt in April and this is my first winter here. They removed all the storm doors when renovating the property and never did any weather stripping/proofing with the front doors, it’s about 1 degree out right now with high winds that have been pushing through our front door along with snow and today I woke up to our locks iced up from the inside

He promised to have it in within a couple weeks of living here, but has yet to even order the tub that fits my rental house. I have one bathroom with a shower, but nothing in the master bathroom

I notified the landlord about a mold problem 2 weeks ago and he keeps saying that he will fix it but nothing ever comes of it. He keeps making excuses and lying about it and saying that people are coming, which makes me take a day to work from home so that I can be here when they come to fix it (I don’t have unlimited work from home days)

It has a glass cover, but no actual door so it has its springs exposed.

The handle is very flimsy and is very hard to open the oven with as it isn’t properly attached.

As soon as 5e oven is turned on it starts smoking without even being opened

So the AC in our apartment has been chugging day and night never stopping at 75-76 degrees and it never really stayed cool. With the humidity in the air we couldn't sleep, my allergies got worse and worse. I reached out to the contract landlord to send someone to check on it. He came himself asked if I changed the filter and batteries in the thermostat. I told him yes I have been changing the filters every month. I mentioned I checked the intake inside and external unit for exhaust and they had gunk in them. He was brushed it off and deflected, called me an idiot saying it was nothing and "You think you are knowing everything that are happen and you are wrong" at that point I had given multiple chances for him to not be rude. I started letting him spiral in his self talk about how he owns commercial property and he knows more than I do because of that..and he said "If you don't like it then move out". I called a favor for a tech to come look and this is the result. I'm down 300 bucks

My landlord, who has my email and phone number, which I have requested to communicate over both many times, sent me this rent increase notice via Facebook Marketplace.

We never signed anything agreeing to this, and our newest lease, from August, states we were still paying our original rate.

He has been a consistent problem for other situations since living here, but this is the only one I am not sure how to handle

It has been a year since my heel went through our flooring while putting socks on totally random and most likely due to poor flooring.

My landlord has not fixed it and has said it is because of the high cost. And has even gone as far to say he doesn’t believe me that’s how it happened and thinks it’s because I dropped something “heavy”.

He has given me the opportunity to pay half (which I will not do) or wait until he finds a cheaper estimate. I am now worried that he is just waiting until I move out to take it out of my deposit

This will make a month and a half straight where they can walk into my home. They came in 2 days ago and broke some of my stuff, said sorry and just walked out so I don't trust them to be alone in my home. Also my heat pump works fine, they have not inspected it

Moving in tomorrow and Landlord drops this last minute note with no prior mention of this. Moving into a house with 3 separate units

I live in a low income apartment with my baby since July. Got a note in august saying they’d be fixing the stair due to people getting hurt from them and nothing has been done. There’s also water dripping on the steps throughout the day and freezes over at night. I recently almost slipped down them while carrying my baby, on my way to work at 5am . They don’t allow rock salt because they say it’ll ruin the concrete

My landlord is trying to raise rent as picture shows. We have a 1 year fixed lease of $550 and he is trying to increase it to $600. Is he legally allowed to do this while in middle of lease? I have read the lease carefully and there’s no verbiage saying he can raise it in the middle of the lease

Recently my furnace went out and was replaced by my landlord. While it was out we were given space heaters. After it was fixed our water lines froze. We asked the property company if we could hold onto the space heaters to heat up the pipes. They’ve now given us a $100 bill for use of the space heaters

This is in the hallway of my building. As you can see, the light is fully detached from the ceiling and hanging by the wires. I’ve been trying to get the property maintenance guy to fix it for over two weeks. I last texted him a week ago, no response. I’m worried it could fall on somebody, or mess up the wiring

I share a duplex with my landlord (bad decision) and he has hired movers to move things out of the unit that he lives in. We both have our own stairs to access our units but my stairs would be far more convenient for the movers to use. I have cleaned the stairs but my landlord has a history of making veiled threats like the one above. I guess I'm torn between keeping the peace and telling him that he cannot use my stairs

I see wreath on door of my neighbor's for more than a year and others have doormats still on. Is it true to not even add this on door which is less flammable than the door or wall itself?

Woke up to water POURING out of my ceiling at 5:30am on Saturday. It stopped after another hour or two on its own. But I touched the top which was bowed in and it was extremely soft. The entire place smelled like mildew/dirty water.

I haven’t been able to take a shower, I have to leave the window open to air out the smell.

Is this an emergency or am I being dramatic here in wanting the property managers to take this more seriously?

These past three days the overhead sprinkler in our bedroom has been randomly going off for seemingly no reason. We've called Maintenance since the day it started and the most they've done was look at it and cut a hole in the ceiling around it.

They arent gonna do anything else because, and I quote, "we can't do anything because we don't know what the problem is"

I saw these notices being put in our doors by someone yesterday around 4-4:30 in the AFTERNOON. So it's not even a full 24 hours notice