30 Of The Most Chucklesome Memes And Posts About Property Owners And Renting, As Shared By The “Slumlords Gone Wild” Instagram Page

I once borrowed my aunt's carpet shampooer and did the whole apartment the day I moved out. It eternally smelled faintly of cat p**s because the previous resident - the landlord's son - had a cat who would p**s on the hallway carpet. My cat had never gone outside of his litter box before, but the smell of a previous cat was too much for him to ignore. I spent so much on various pet sprays... His son also chain-smoked in the apartment, but thankfully that stink didn't hang around. I still got charged $700 for "cleaning".

Every. Single. Time.

I lived on the 12th floor of a 12 story building. The day I moved out, the inspector tried to charge me more than a thousand dollars for dirty windows. Let me explain that the dirty windows were the outside part and there was no safe way for me to clean those and I'd been requesting window washing for months. Then there was the extra hundred when he found a ketchup packet in one of the cupboards.

Absolutely! I deep cleaned our apartment when we moved in. Demanded they change the carpets because who whole place stank of DOG!

I've moved three apartments and I've only once gotten my deposit back...and that's because I told them to keep it as the last months rent that was owed. The other two....excuses. I never damaged anything. One even said he can't give me because he has to wait for another tenant...like what?

My first apartment was a one bedroom, downtown all inc $360/month. That same apartment today is renting for $2000/month +

I once rented a space that was a total dump but I was desperate. I scrubbed every nook, painted, made some minor repairs, replaced a few things here and there...then when the lease was up I was informed that my rent would go up a good deal because she said it was now too nice to rent so cheap. Mind you my landlord owned every other building on the block and then some so money wasn't ever an issue.

Say it one more time for the folks who came in late.

I don't think it does any good to moralize about greed with landlords. The reality is that people are going to charge market rate for their property. The problem is that the market is broken. Local governments are restricting supply, restricting density. We don't have enough housing to meet demand. We also have foreign investors and short term rental companies sucking up available housing. Fix the supply so the price can come down. You can call the landlord greedy, but I don't sell my labor for less than I can get on the market out of the goodness of my heart. Why do we expect them to rent an apartment out for $10K less per year than they can get for it? If we do, we are spitting into the wind. We need more housing, regulation on housing standards and tenants rights, not finger wagging.

Always leave the place better than you found it, take care of it like it is your own

Tenants have to provide references so why not landlords? While we are at it, landlords should have to put up a bond to show that they are capable of making necessary repairs.Too many landlords put the minimum deposit on a property and rely on rent to pay the mortgage with no funds in reserve for maintaining the place.

I've left a hidden note letting new tenants know what they were in for.

I went back to an old apartment a few weeks after the new leases started and put a copy of my last rental agreement in their mailbox so they would know exactly how much the last tenant (me) paid. Do that early enough in the new lease season and you might be able to file a complaint with the rental board and have your rent reduced. At the very least, you have something to hold on to when the next rent increase comes around and you can say "Nope - no increase, and here's why."

why are they yelling in the middle of the sentences

Thirty years ago my first studio apartment I thought was awesome! In college, just leff home…this was like my own glorified bedroom with my own bathroom I didn’t have to share with my sisters and a kitchen in my own bedroom! When I first saw my little studio apartment I was in love with it. Kept thinking why couldn’t mom and dad make my bedroom like THIS! Um, of course $350 for a studio apartment was 30 years ago. They were meant for college kids and bachelors. They were never meant to be permanent housing for working adults. Studio apartments were meant to be a starting point or a jumping off point in life. But with exhorbitant cost of living, obscenely high rent and barely above minimum wage jobs… how the hell are people supposed to go forward on life like this??

Food and sleep, idk that, for some of us it's either/or

THIS IS SO WRONG ON SO MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS!! What a pervert.

I mean cmon Owen, let's reword this: "desperate single creep who can't get a girlfriend tries to lure and trap women into home and calling them a roommate while forcing them to share the bedroom, but also cook and clean for his lazy a*s"

Okay, but Owen isn't going to like what I call him.

These kind of ads are ALL OVER craigslist. Super creepy.

I've seen that episode of Dateline before.

Which is which?

How is that even legal?

It makes me cry 😭

So true!

it's settled then. i'm going to murder and then eat someone in denmark.

Also when tenants move out - Landlord: you need to pay for having used the floor while you lived in the apartment 👺

I've got old, old kitchen cupboards from at least the 50s. The wood is deteriorating. They will not just give me new cabinets.

They mean the landlords house they're living in. Lol not the one you're living in.

Sounds about right.

Landlords and insurance companies are pretty much the same thing.

Thats from a body rotting and the corpse juices have seeped into the wooden floor which is impossible to get out. The flooring should be completely replaced.

At least they cleaned off the chalk outline.

So What? I live in a house which is more than a hundred years old. Dozens died in here, and i knew half of them.

That a$$ though

Stuff like this doesn't bother me, I already live in a haunted building. I quite often chat to the resident ghost.

I’m telling you! I want to stick the little guy who was in the big guy’s head from MIB in there!