Landlord Wants To Increase The Rent, Tenant ‘Sabotages’ Apartment Showings By Putting Every Problem In Her Apartment On Display
Renting an apartment can be a bit of a gamble, because some issues show up after living in it for some time. Also, you never know what kind of person the owner really is—will they be considerate or will they decide to increase the rent when you want to extend the lease?
That is what happened to TikTok user @cornchipsandcorgis or simply Katie, who had to live in an apartment that wasn’t in the best condition and when the end of the lease was getting near, the landlord decided to increase the rent for the next year. She didn’t think it was sensible to take the offer, so the landlord started searching for new tenants. But the TikToker decided to reveal all the cracks and problems the apartment has to teach the owner a little bit of a lesson.
TikTok user Katie is going to move out soon, but because her current apartment is in such a bad condition, she is putting everything that is wrong with it on display during viewings
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Katie put up a video on TikTok showing that her apartment is almost falling apart, but the landlord wants to charge her more for the next year. The TikToker couldn’t justify that and will be moving out.
But before she does that, she will try to, as she says, sabotage her landlord’s showing. But is it really sabotaging if you’re showing the truth and warning others what they would be getting themselves into?
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Katie moved stuff around to reveal the plaster falling off the walls and put the dehumidifier on display to make it obvious it gets humid there
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Katie’s plan is to just move some things around so that the worst parts of the apartment, which she is hiding as she is living there, would be visible to potential new tenants.
She doesn’t do anything drastic, just puts some clog remover by the shower to imply that it clogs a lot, and moves the trash can and shelves that hide parts of the wall with fallen plaster and cracks.
The apartment gets humid, so she put it on display to make sure everyone notices it
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It gets really humid, so there is another, bigger dehumidifier turned to its full power
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Katie puts the humidifiers (yes, plural) where they can be seen, so that would make it obvious, if the mold didn’t give it away, that it gets humid there.
She pulls down her pride flag to reveal a crack in the wall and to spice it up, strategically puts a nail on the floor that wasn’t just bought for this purpose, but that she found in the closet.
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In another video, Katie shows all the things she can’t hide, like paint chipping off the wall and a big crack in the ceiling
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The first video got over 400k likes, which is pretty unusual for Katie’s account, so she made a follow-up video, because in the previous one, she showed only some of the things that she was hiding, probably mostly for herself to make the apartment seem more livable. But there are plenty of things that can’t be concealed.
She shows paint chipping of the wall, a baseboard shoved in a corner, and a dangerous-looking crack in the ceiling, and it makes you wonder why the landlord thinks he can raise the rent before fixing it all.
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Because of the humidity, the apartment has mold and there are things Katie had to throw out that were damaged by it
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Due to the apartment being so humid, of course there would be mold and not even the dehumidifiers are helping. Katie shows that she has a list of things that are moldy and that she even had to throw out because of mold, for example, her pillows and blanket. This is the least of her concerns, because some types of mold can cause serious health problems.
The paint and plaster are chipping in several places in the house, so can you really call this sabotaging, or just reality?
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Katie gives us a better look at the plaster coming off under the sink and the cracks behind the toilet. Sure, not all people can afford to live in lovely decorated apartments with views to some breathtaking landscapes, but you would still expect the landlord to at least make sure the place is tidy-looking.
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Check out the viral video in which Katie shows her apartment that seems to be falling apart
@cornchipsandcorgiscan u tell i live in a basement apartment with landlords that have the audacity to increase rent next year?♬ Call me – 90sFlav
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People in the comments related to Katie’s situation and thought that she wasn’t doing anything wrong, just showing the apartment as it really is.
What was your reaction after seeing the video? Would you justify the landlord raising the rent? Let us know what you think in the comments!
People were commenting that they had similar experiences and agreed that potential tenants should be able to see where they could be living in its full glory
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This isn’t sabotaging. You live in a slum and you have a slumlord, not a landlord. He should be lucky to have a tenant, let alone raise the rent on that place in the condition it’s in.
Crap slumlord. Get out there Now friend. As your future health will kill you.as happened to my mother. We lived in all this sewage issues same thing toilet blew etc my young boy emergency hospital coughing all day night hernia 5 hours plus under the knife .now happen again we got out fast . My brother owned the property shame but unfortunately he charged me my young son $700 instead $500 weekly. And sewage pipes burst everywhere both blocks new property. So trust me get out while you are alive now. Once your dead to late ! No one cares ! As long as slumlord gets his her funds even you brother! From someone who cares get out now! You deserve better. Tell the landlord him to live in the hole . Take care as Covid .
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This place is gross. And potentially life threatening. Get out while you can.
Sabotage suggests that you are causing problems which you would definitely not want to be publicly posting. This is just not hiding flaws in the property.
Can someone explain the Nail one to me? From what I understand, there was a nail in the closet...so she put the nail in the closet...and labeled it 'Scary'. Not sure I understand that one. Is the rest of that crapfest of an apartment put together with duct tape and glue?
Nails normally don’t plummet to the floor unaided. If a nail falls out, there’s some serious structural stuff happening.
Load More Replies... I'm guessing the authorities in her area don't police that sort of thing well, that mold could get the "apartment" condemned, it will cause long lasting health problems.
Things like this make me even more profoundly grateful than I already am, that I am middle aged and financially stable and don't have to suffer through this outrageous s**t any more in my life. People say how great it is to be young, but the reality is that for the people growing up in this century, life is a bucket of s**t and sometimes they don't even get the bucket.
I don't disagree that you have issues, but whatever possessed you to rent in the first place? Those things were obviously there when you leased it, to begin with.
I live in a tourist area, and when pandemic started, I suggested to my landlord to reduce the rent by $15/week (that would still keep the rent way higher than market price that dropped very significantly). Landlord refused, so I moved to a massively better and larger apartment that I rented for the exact amount the previous landlord rejected. Naturally, they had to readvertise the old apartment, and rent out at the actual market price that would be much lower. I just can't comprehend why so many people are so irrationally greedy. They are prepared to lose money just to hurt others, for no real reason.
My landlord was showing the duplex to a potential buyer and I was there, so I showed the new guy all of the flaws in my apartment (like the hole in the wall to the outside: in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the winter) and my heating bill. The landlord was furious and the new guy was grateful.
I will look for another place, and tell him the day before I leave
Although I totally agree the apartment is in terrible condition, you could simply move to a better one. If the reason for not moving is that it would be more expensive, then you have the reason for it being cheaper. You should be able to get out of any lease of a landlord is not maintaing the property adequately, and most wouldn't even fight it in that case.
The the follow up memos, template, I'm sure was also included in PM package were used extensively as they told instructed us to disregard previous memo after memo. I have never experienced such a Mickey Mouse mess in my life. No monthly statements,so the leasing office was knee deep in tenants lined up to pay their bills. Trash, water and maintenance, which were usually part of monthly bill, MIA, so you'd get hit with a bill that was 4 or 5 mo., due immediately. Dumpsters overflowed due to cancellation of weekend PU. After getting locked in dumpster enclosure, I tore apart a fabric trash bag to thread through gate to Side A and make it possible to pull from Side B so no one was faced with getting scooped up and heading fir the landfill when trash guys showed up. Maintenace sows up 10 minutes till his day ends. Says he'll be back. Leaves me with 1//2 done dishwasher and no light in kitchen. The day before Xmas Eve. Straddled wind tunnel fan Thanksgiving 2019.
Mold is not safe to live in, period. There may be legal actions you can take from that alone. I'm a landlord in Arizona and have the opposite problem. We just took back a property from the tenant who had so many unauthorized and untrained dogs in the house that we found mold under the flooring from urination. It's dry here so that should say how much they were doing it. As someone who actually cares, i had it treated, gutted the entire house and we will be testing for mold prior to putting in new floors, paint, etc. This is all at my expense. My advice is to get out of there. There are landlords that care, find one and live safely!!
I'm listening to how you like that and pretty savage by blackpink, and totally fits this XD. BTW, this place is gross, glad you're moving out.
I could handle a few cracks, but mould!!! And the drain situation? Nuh.
Landlords be like: yeah this tiny cube costs 4 billion pounds a day please
Once you move, you'll notice you'll be happier. Not just to be out of that situation but mold does affect mood, can cause migraines as well as breathing and sleeping issues. I lived in an apartment that had alot of leaks in the walls. They never did anything when we would report them. Mold grew behind the vinyl shower wall and when my husband would take a hot shower, he breathed in spores that eventually put him in anaphalacsis. He is allergic to penicillium and that's what was growing. He almost died because of the mold. But I also had an increase in migraines, depression and even visual hallucinations. Be sure to show the issues off but get out of there as soon as possible!
So not only do workers not have any rights, but tenants don’t either? No way this would happen here. So many code violations.
This falls under the category of "Things I wish I'd known before" combined with The Golden Rule.
Pipes don't clog themselves and mold doesn't grow by itself. She created the conditions she's complaining about. What an entitled pig.
Pipes don't clog themselves and mold doesn't grow by itself. She literally created these conditions and then blames the landlord. What an entitled pig.
This isn’t sabotaging. You live in a slum and you have a slumlord, not a landlord. He should be lucky to have a tenant, let alone raise the rent on that place in the condition it’s in.
Crap slumlord. Get out there Now friend. As your future health will kill you.as happened to my mother. We lived in all this sewage issues same thing toilet blew etc my young boy emergency hospital coughing all day night hernia 5 hours plus under the knife .now happen again we got out fast . My brother owned the property shame but unfortunately he charged me my young son $700 instead $500 weekly. And sewage pipes burst everywhere both blocks new property. So trust me get out while you are alive now. Once your dead to late ! No one cares ! As long as slumlord gets his her funds even you brother! From someone who cares get out now! You deserve better. Tell the landlord him to live in the hole . Take care as Covid .
Load More Replies... This place is gross. And potentially life threatening. Get out while you can.
Sabotage suggests that you are causing problems which you would definitely not want to be publicly posting. This is just not hiding flaws in the property.
Can someone explain the Nail one to me? From what I understand, there was a nail in the closet...so she put the nail in the closet...and labeled it 'Scary'. Not sure I understand that one. Is the rest of that crapfest of an apartment put together with duct tape and glue?
Nails normally don’t plummet to the floor unaided. If a nail falls out, there’s some serious structural stuff happening.
Load More Replies... I'm guessing the authorities in her area don't police that sort of thing well, that mold could get the "apartment" condemned, it will cause long lasting health problems.
Things like this make me even more profoundly grateful than I already am, that I am middle aged and financially stable and don't have to suffer through this outrageous s**t any more in my life. People say how great it is to be young, but the reality is that for the people growing up in this century, life is a bucket of s**t and sometimes they don't even get the bucket.
I don't disagree that you have issues, but whatever possessed you to rent in the first place? Those things were obviously there when you leased it, to begin with.
I live in a tourist area, and when pandemic started, I suggested to my landlord to reduce the rent by $15/week (that would still keep the rent way higher than market price that dropped very significantly). Landlord refused, so I moved to a massively better and larger apartment that I rented for the exact amount the previous landlord rejected. Naturally, they had to readvertise the old apartment, and rent out at the actual market price that would be much lower. I just can't comprehend why so many people are so irrationally greedy. They are prepared to lose money just to hurt others, for no real reason.
My landlord was showing the duplex to a potential buyer and I was there, so I showed the new guy all of the flaws in my apartment (like the hole in the wall to the outside: in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the winter) and my heating bill. The landlord was furious and the new guy was grateful.
I will look for another place, and tell him the day before I leave
Although I totally agree the apartment is in terrible condition, you could simply move to a better one. If the reason for not moving is that it would be more expensive, then you have the reason for it being cheaper. You should be able to get out of any lease of a landlord is not maintaing the property adequately, and most wouldn't even fight it in that case.
The the follow up memos, template, I'm sure was also included in PM package were used extensively as they told instructed us to disregard previous memo after memo. I have never experienced such a Mickey Mouse mess in my life. No monthly statements,so the leasing office was knee deep in tenants lined up to pay their bills. Trash, water and maintenance, which were usually part of monthly bill, MIA, so you'd get hit with a bill that was 4 or 5 mo., due immediately. Dumpsters overflowed due to cancellation of weekend PU. After getting locked in dumpster enclosure, I tore apart a fabric trash bag to thread through gate to Side A and make it possible to pull from Side B so no one was faced with getting scooped up and heading fir the landfill when trash guys showed up. Maintenace sows up 10 minutes till his day ends. Says he'll be back. Leaves me with 1//2 done dishwasher and no light in kitchen. The day before Xmas Eve. Straddled wind tunnel fan Thanksgiving 2019.
Mold is not safe to live in, period. There may be legal actions you can take from that alone. I'm a landlord in Arizona and have the opposite problem. We just took back a property from the tenant who had so many unauthorized and untrained dogs in the house that we found mold under the flooring from urination. It's dry here so that should say how much they were doing it. As someone who actually cares, i had it treated, gutted the entire house and we will be testing for mold prior to putting in new floors, paint, etc. This is all at my expense. My advice is to get out of there. There are landlords that care, find one and live safely!!
I'm listening to how you like that and pretty savage by blackpink, and totally fits this XD. BTW, this place is gross, glad you're moving out.
I could handle a few cracks, but mould!!! And the drain situation? Nuh.
Landlords be like: yeah this tiny cube costs 4 billion pounds a day please
Once you move, you'll notice you'll be happier. Not just to be out of that situation but mold does affect mood, can cause migraines as well as breathing and sleeping issues. I lived in an apartment that had alot of leaks in the walls. They never did anything when we would report them. Mold grew behind the vinyl shower wall and when my husband would take a hot shower, he breathed in spores that eventually put him in anaphalacsis. He is allergic to penicillium and that's what was growing. He almost died because of the mold. But I also had an increase in migraines, depression and even visual hallucinations. Be sure to show the issues off but get out of there as soon as possible!
So not only do workers not have any rights, but tenants don’t either? No way this would happen here. So many code violations.
This falls under the category of "Things I wish I'd known before" combined with The Golden Rule.
Pipes don't clog themselves and mold doesn't grow by itself. She created the conditions she's complaining about. What an entitled pig.
Pipes don't clog themselves and mold doesn't grow by itself. She literally created these conditions and then blames the landlord. What an entitled pig.
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