30 Of The Most WTF Situations Tenants Had To Deal With In Their Apartments
Everyone’s dream is to have their own house or apartment one day. It’s just different when the property belongs to you as you can make sure it is in good condition and is not dangerous to live in. Most of you probably have experience with renting, whether it was a long-term home or a temporary stay and in some cases might have noticed that the landlords don’t care about the rented property as much as they would if they lived there themselves.
There are landlords who actually don’t care at all and have no sympathy for those who have to live in horrible conditions. And when nobody helps them, they go online to vent about what they are going through, so Bored Panda compiled some of the terrible stories that people shared.
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This is like my ex-doctor he would not wear a mask I dropped an F-bomb on him and got a letter from him saying I ABUSED him!
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And in some states in the U.S., doing that will get you shot!
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How the s**t did you get evicted when he was clearly in violation of renter's rights?! That's so crappy!
(guessing this is the UK) a section21 is a way of a landlord reclaiming the house for usually reasons of selling but they could just be saying that. We got given one during lockdown so we had 6 months to move out despite never putting a foot wrong.
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I was evicted for refusing to give my apartment manager my legally prescribed Vicodin. She knew I got it because I'm an idiot and told her when I had to go pick up the delivery. She told the owners I was cooking meth and had gotten another dog. She got away with it, I was too poor to afford legal representation.
That is so wrong! In the US you can go to Legal Aid and get free help, but not enough people know that they exist.
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Where is it legal for home owners to have keys to your apartment? I live in Greece and it's common to change your lock as soon as you rent an apartment.
I always change the locks when I move into a new place. I don't care. If the owner needs to get in, they can do it on my terms, not theirs. I've never gotten in trouble for it either. I change the locks back after I leave
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Sounds like what he really wants is a lawsuit. Actually, in some places here in America, something like that could result in his death by gunshot.
This is becoming so common now. Same thing happened to me twice with 2 different caretakers.
Landlords don’t have a good reputation. Of course, there are caring landlords who fix the problems tenants have immediately and even are decent people that you can have a cup of afternoon tea with.
But these kinds of landlords aren’t talked too much about because they are just normal and how they are supposed to be. What people do talk a lot about are the landlords that come to check on their tenants unannounced, who don’t fix mold growing on walls and who increase rent months into the contract.
Our Landlord Keeps Saying There's Nothing Wrong With Our Shower
What Happens When Your Landlord Refuses To Deal With Bathroom Damp Properly
Bored Panda got in contact with Dan Wilson Craw, the Deputy Director of Generation Rent, an organisation that is "fighting to stop renters being unfairly evicted from their homes" and who is "fighting for renters to live in safe, decent homes that they can afford." They are the team behind the hashtag #VentYourRent" which is a movement towards change.
We asked why some landlords seem to not care about the people who live in their properties that might be even dangerous. Dan Wilson Craw didn't have a certain answer, "It is hard to know how slum landlords sleep at night, but the rental market attracts unsavoury characters who know that they can make a lot of money from desperate people who will accept very poor housing that rarely gets inspected. If a tenant complains it is easy to force them out with a rent increase or a no-fault eviction, and replace them with someone else who is desperate for a roof over their head."
I'm pretty sure that no matter what country you are in, you call the local housing authority to report substandard living conditions and you cannot be expected to pay full rent. In fact, I think the landlord may even be responsible for accommodating you somewhere else until the problem is fixed.
People who shared their experiences online had their ceiling collapse even though they warned their landlords that it would if nothing was fixed. Some people were constantly visited by their landlords without calling first, and others had to deal with literal mushrooms growing from cracks.
These issues should be fixed by the landlord even if they aren’t legally required to as it’s their property and it would be unfair to put that burden on the tenant because they won’t live there forever. Plus, tenants often pay ridiculous prices for being able to live there so it is reasonable to expect that money to be used to make their homes livable.
$1950/Month Shower Completely Falls Apart Been Like This For 2 Months And Various Calls To Maintenance And Still Nothing
The Deputy Director explained what are the legal requirements for landlords in the UK, "Landlords have to keep properties in a safe condition and must also ensure the property has an Energy Performance Certificate, an annual gas safety certificate and in some cases a licence. When a tenancy starts, the landlord must protect the tenant’s deposit, and provide a How To Rent guide. If any of these things are missing the landlord cannot evict the tenant without providing a reason – though if your home is unsafe you need the council to serve an improvement notice to protect you. Although landlords ordinarily don’t need a reason to evict tenants, they must still follow a legal process. If landlords fail to license their properties, ignore an improvement notice or evict a tenant illegally, the tenant can claim back rent."
Landlords are paid for just owning a property by a person who doesn’t have it. That means they have power over them and because their tenant needs a place to live, they can dictate the rules.
Their main objective is to earn money because landlords may not even have a job and rely on income from their renters. They put the least amount of money into the house after it has been rented to someone so that they can earn more.
Is This Safe And Secure? Landlord Is Denying Our Maintenance Request
Our interviewee agrees that "Ultimately a lot of the rights that tenants have to a safe home are undermined by the sheer power imbalance in the rental market, where landlords can bully tenants into silence with the threat of a Section 21 notice or an unaffordable rent increase, and the housing shortage means few tenants can simply move somewhere better."
We wondered if there is anything that people should take notice when signing a contract to avoid getting into such homes that are falling apart and the landlord is indifferent to those issues, but turns out, there is not much help from that "Tenancy agreements will rarely include information that will help tenants avoid getting ripped off, or show tenants where to look to understand their rights."
I thought I had mice at my old apartment. It turns out it was just a mouse a little baby causing all this damage luckily I was able to back it into a pantry and catch it with a pasta strainer once I released it I never had a problem again for 7 years till I moved out. Well not with mice.
Those nasty landlords are usually not business people who are used to meeting their clients' needs and compromising because at the end of the day, a landlord and a tenant have a business relationship as the former provides a service and the latter buys that service.
Those numbers they see in cash or in their bank accounts may make them even more greedy and forget to budget for maintenance, repairs and other expenses that come with owning a property.
At My Airbnb There’s A Mushroom Growing Out Of The Bathroom Door
Have you ever been in a similar situation as people who shared their stories? If you have any of your own, feel free to share them in the comments! Also, don’t forget to upvote the stories that you felt were the most unfair and let us know your opinion on how such situations can be prevented.
I would say naming and feeding them would make them "pets" and those aren't allowed. So the landlord would have to get them out.
I Was At An Airbnb With This Extremely Dirty Sponge (Left). We Asked The Owner For A Cleaner One And She Gave Us This (Right)
The Toilet Seat In My Airbnb
If this is a property with locking rooms for different tenants, then it is classed as a HMO (House of Multiple Occupancy) and there are a whole raft of additional rules that need to be complied with, especially around fire safety. The door may or may not be compliant, but it will have to have adequate smoke alarms etc.
Landlords who rent to students know that their tenants are almost certainly unaware of the laws that protect tenants. They get away with a lot of illegal stuff that way. (I live in a college town.)
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Some of these stories are genuinely disturbing. AirBnB seems like a total hit or miss. but if you are a renter, or are planning on renting, please do lots and lots of research on the laws and on what rights you have and on what to do when your living quarters become unsafe or impossible to use. Find out who the authorities are, find out names and numbers and bother them until they do something. Find out free local organizations that can offer you support and legal advice. Find out the key words and phrases you need to use in writing that will force your landlord/lady to take action. Do these things BEFORE you move into your first apartment, or your next apartment.
All very well, but when there is a shortage of rentals it makes very little difference what rights you have. I say this as a lawyer who represents tenants in disputes. Landlords get away with a lot because they can.
But as a lawyer and legal expert, can you not help us by advocating, educating, and helping us to get to the people who can get laws passed to punish these behaviors? This is acceptable because folks aren’t making enough noise. Remember the bus boycott in 1955 in Alabama? It was long, it was painful, it was inconvenient, but it changed that which need to change. Thanks for doing what you can in the present.
I'm in Australia. And laws have been changed in the state I am in and some others, but I don't believe they will substantially change until there are more renters in parliament and bureaucracies. ATM there are too many self interested people making the laws and making judgement on the laws
Looking at your posts, it seems you're part of the problem. You're basically cheering on the landlords instead of defending tenants. Fu
Excuse me? If you're talking to me wtf are you even talking about? What have you done lately? Tweeted about the problem, probably. Go f**k yourself, matey.
Group of Chinese work colleagues were considering jointly buying a rental property in Australia because friends there were boasting what high rents they could get. The intending landlords had no idea they would be responsible for maintenance, insurance etc of the property and were horrified when I told them. I don't know about other countries, but too many Australian rentals are owned by landlords who have never set foot in the country and can never be contacted for repairs. The government makes noises about foreign ownership but nothing seems to get done for tenants.
They may well have been horrified but I wouldn't be surprised if their mates then told them that it's easy to get away with doing nothing as a landlord in Australia. And you can abuse your tenants as much as you like and get away with it.
In Australia, it is very very difficult to get bad tenants OUT of your property. Bad tenants trash the places and then demand the 'landlord' pay for the repairs of the damage dome by them. Bad tenant annoy the neighbours more than somewhat, and them the Landlord is left with the whole $^&#$# mess :-( It is NOT worth it. Do not let your property.
Nonsense. I work in this field and act for tenants in one state, but most of the states and territories are the same. Landlords in Australia have a lot of power, and if you can't get bad tenants out then you either have bad legal advice or you're a smart a**e who tries to act for yourself and doesn't understand the legislation. I think it's quite clear from your increasingly frothy mouthed unhinged posts that you are a very bad landlord indeed. I'm sure it's a shame that the system won't let you totally screw over your tenants, so maybe find another way to screw people. Open a cafe and underpay them maybe. You seem the type.
My sister has an apartment with an indipendent top floor..she decided with her partner to transform in a mini apartment with kitchen corner and small living room, it was originally an attic so they kept a part closed with wall and door as storage.. we are in Italy, the laws for Airbnb are good and the review are important so this small space was new, nice, clean..and usually also the customers were nice. Except one. We don't know who are you but we hope you'll burn in hell.. Whe discovered only in December that one of the summer customers forced the door of the storage part , stole their Christmas tree (we don't use a real one, but it was beautiful and EXPENSIVE) with all the homemade decorations by our mother. Who steal a Christmas tree?? I hope you feel ashamed every Christmas...
How sad. Don't let them rob you of joy, hope, and peace each Christmas. It was a horrible thing. Now, how to let it go? 🕊️
How did they even get it out? What horrible people.
Tried airbnb once long time ago and never again
Yes, I stick to hotels, although I understand if you're traveling with a family Airbnb might be attractive. Hotels are much more reliable and in most big cities they are comparable to or cheaper than an Airbnb.
Tried Airbnb once a long time ago and would try again.
Last place I rented, it was the letting agency who were the problem. Landlady was lovely, she came round about every month because i was looking after her cat and we got on really well. She preferred to leave house issues to the agency. Many times agency out right lied to both of us. Eg, fire broke and house was freezing. They told landlady it was just a cosmetic problem and me that the landlady was refusing to pay for the fix. When I said i will put you on speaker because she is here right now they got really angry. Many many problems. They also tried to withhold deposit because of 'pet damage' which was her cat scratching MY sofa. We have moved out - adopted the cat, and still friends with landlady who sold up as it was so much hassle.
Why did she persist with that property manager when she heard them lie? That seems odd to me.
Biggest letting agency in the county. And she quite genuinely didn't want to deal with anything, and knew nothing about being a landlord. Simply a mature woman who moved in with partner but wanted to hold on to personal security until she was secure in relationship. Her partner did gently advise her to maybe consider a different agency - as did I - but I don't find it that odd that she felt more secure sticking with large agency.
Tenant rights vary depending on where you live, obviously. And just because tenant rights laws exist on paper, it doesn't mean that they will actually protect the tenant in these horrible situations. Money talks. If you are poor, you don't have the money to take your landlord to court. And you probably won't win anyway. Housing authorities are understaffed and overwhelmed with requests for help. There are plenty of slumlords who just don't care, and there are no consequences. What they deserve in these situations is to have rent withheld until they fix the problems.
Doesn't mean either that the owners are protected from bad tenants. Rental properties are hard to come by BECAUSE too many tenants are bad. You CANNOT lame either the agent or the OWNER IF you do not clean up after yourself. If you want a daily house cleaner to come in, it WILL cost!
Calm down, lady. No-one is talking about housecleaning. Just from your unhinged posts we can all tell you're a very bad landlord. Maybe get out of the business if it's that bad.
I am NOT a landlord. Letting our family home many years ago and then cost of repairing the damage done by the tenants not to mention lack of income because the Agent did not collect rent --- as far as I am concerned people can sleep under bridges. I will NEVER let a house again.
Well, this article is mainly about unlivable conditions, not poor housekeeping. I don't understand your comment.
This comment is about rental properties. It is NOT up to either the owner nor the agent to clean mould off the walls. You want somebody in the clean and do minor repairs of the damage you have caused by neglect, then be prepared to pay far higher rent, NOBODY makes you rent a dilapidated property.
I make more then $12,000 a month online. It’s enough to comfortably replace my old jobs income, especially considering I only work about 11 to 12 hours a week from home. I was amazed how easy it was after I tried it…GOOD LUCK.. ===))> 𝐖𝐰𝐰.𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐚𝐚𝐫.𝐂𝐨𝐦
I know it depends on local laws but where I live if your landlord refuses to fix something you can refuse to pay them put the money that you would have used for rent in a bank account and when you come before the judge you can show the proof of what they refuse to fix and prove that you still had the rent money and the judge will find in your favor.
Yeah! I Know about tenants like that. Kick a hole in the wall, and demand the Landlord fix it. Or break windows when you are drunk and expect the landlord to fix it. Leave filthy messes of food scraps, piss and faeces and then expect the landlord to do something about the cockroaches and rats.
You had a bad experience. Get over it and move on with your life. You're reading this article with tunnel vision.
I have moved on. We no longer let our property. Bad tenant are bad tenants, and we are not wealthy enough to cope with them. Not to mention that I am so sick of tenants bleating about "their rights". I could never understand why , after we had rented, the lnflors used to praise us -- even though our son, in one case, had broken a panel in a door, We fixed it as best we could-- our damage, our fault. But now I understand! Oh, there's fungus growing under the step. Landlord must come and do something! Good grief! Do you want the landlord to come and do your washing up, and seep your floors for you!
You know, I doubt very much you're telling the truth.
Helps if you say what country/state you live in.
1/2 I used to live in a house share, which I f*****g hated. Some dude moved in and he was an alcoholic. He'd get incredibly drunk and would say nasty things to me and try to square up to me. I'm a 5'5 110Ib girl and he's a 6'1 200Ib man. Every time I told my landlord, she said, even though I was scared, ignore him. The last straw was he got black out drunk and ran riot at four in the morning. He was running up and down the stairs, yelling and swearing, calling someone called Chris a c**t (nobody called Chris lives there) and banging on the bedroom door of a girl (who had luckily locked it, as he was trying to get in).
2/2 He was screaming at her and demanding to speak to some other guy nobody knows. I recorded everything. I told my landlord and played her the recordings. She served him with a 24 hour eviction notice, he called me a lying c**t and when I played him the recordings he didn’t believe it was him. I told my landlord that I do not want to live in a house with an alcoholic, as my ex was one and he was brutal to me. She didn’t kick him out, so I left. I’d rented a couple of properties from her over the years and thought we had a fantastic landlord/tenant relationship. Who cares if he’s an alcoholic, the rent gets paid right? He wasn’t even doing that and she still let him stay.
I had a scum landlord. When my ceiling in my bathroom broke from water damage, it took him a week to fix it. And the water had leaked into my bedroom and into the living room. Then he has the nerve to charge me for water damage. Even though it was the pipe broken.
The problem is we do not know what country these lettings are happening so can not really offer advice.
Would be REALLY helpful and informative if people would say where they are in stead of just "here".
What country??? Looks like it depends on that.
My daughter in college needed a room for about three weeks in summer while she was a TA. She found a very nice room with a lovely family and felt quite safe. Unfortunately, the entire family moved in with friends for several days so the could rent the entire rest of the house to a group of adults. My daughter was very uncomfortable with total strangers sharing the bathroom and the rest of the house.
I would never ABB...my brother has one...case closed...
I honestly have no sympathy for the ones who rented an Air BnB. These Air BnB owners have decimated the long-term rental availability in some cities so badly that service employees are being forced out of neighborhoods close to their jobs, plus whole houses are off the market for people to buy & live in. And the owners obviously don't care about maintaining the properties.
Or about the neighbors who have to contend with what often amount to party houses with music blaring all night and bottles and trash over neighboring yards front and back!
I know of a landlord in western Germany who so far has yet to finish renovations he started three years ago (DIY) so his tenants have no safe front door/entryway, can't get the guy to investigate leaks, and are waiting for him to put a door on the apartment in one case. As they're living there. They've tried to be nice, but he's just la-la-la I'll get to it, and they're moving out b/c of not having a door that fits. She sent pix. You could get a small animal through the gaps of the "temporary" door!
I guess I just don't understand why people don't call the local housing authority? I would stop paying rent (put it in a savings account and not spend it just in case) and let them try to evict me. I don't know about other countries, but in the US you have to go through a legal process to be evicted, where you actually get to go before a judge and explain WHY you haven't been paying rent. 9 times out of 10, you'll win - and not have to pay anything.
Yeah :-( we were misguided enough to let out house when my husband was temporarily sent moved Interstate, First tenants were good. Then that agent retired, it was taken over my another agency we didn't know, it was let to druggies, no rent was collected, furniture was moved outside, no upkeep anywhere and the agent sent us a bill for the únpaid rent. Cost us to get these people out, cost us the fix the house again to make it liveable
Yeah, I'm going to call crap on most of this. Why would the agent charge you for unpaid rent? I don't think you've been telling the truth at all
a lot of property agent are crooks
If any of these things were to happen to me i would have been kicked out of so many houses so fast...
So, what I am hearing is, AirBnB is not worth the risk. i have had good experiences and bad.
My landlord is a millionaire. Lives in a massive mansion passed down through the generations but only lives in one room so he doesn’t have high heating costs. Most of my windows were single glazed and rotten. Agreed to replace them but then said he would have to put my rent up. I still can’t use the front door because of the massive hole caused by rotten floorboards and my partial sightedness. I am not walking all the way round the terrace to hang my washing out or sit in my garden. I’ve been asking to get this fixed for tower three years now.
All these Air BnB horror stories are why I refuse to stay in any of their listed locations. There are plenty of affordable, nice, actual hotels available.
Landlords aren't people. This proves it.
Oh these veil Landlords, They own a house which they paid for. They pay the rates. The have limited access to their own property and are THEN to blame for RAT infestations?? Filthy baths?? How about a page re dreadful tenants!!!!
They choose to let it out so they can extort money from people who have no choice. Yes, they are responsible for dirty baths and rats because they are not looking after their property. If you don't like being a landlord, sell. Landlord filth.
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Stories are Insane!! These people need to find out the Laws for the country they are in and "stick it" to the Landlord!! Airbnbs are worrisome... Can't trust Anyone!!
It is very difficult to 'stick it' to landlords. They have a lot of power in tight rental markets
Ha... great in theory, but that's not how things work out in the real world.
Some of these stories are genuinely disturbing. AirBnB seems like a total hit or miss. but if you are a renter, or are planning on renting, please do lots and lots of research on the laws and on what rights you have and on what to do when your living quarters become unsafe or impossible to use. Find out who the authorities are, find out names and numbers and bother them until they do something. Find out free local organizations that can offer you support and legal advice. Find out the key words and phrases you need to use in writing that will force your landlord/lady to take action. Do these things BEFORE you move into your first apartment, or your next apartment.
All very well, but when there is a shortage of rentals it makes very little difference what rights you have. I say this as a lawyer who represents tenants in disputes. Landlords get away with a lot because they can.
But as a lawyer and legal expert, can you not help us by advocating, educating, and helping us to get to the people who can get laws passed to punish these behaviors? This is acceptable because folks aren’t making enough noise. Remember the bus boycott in 1955 in Alabama? It was long, it was painful, it was inconvenient, but it changed that which need to change. Thanks for doing what you can in the present.
I'm in Australia. And laws have been changed in the state I am in and some others, but I don't believe they will substantially change until there are more renters in parliament and bureaucracies. ATM there are too many self interested people making the laws and making judgement on the laws
Looking at your posts, it seems you're part of the problem. You're basically cheering on the landlords instead of defending tenants. Fu
Excuse me? If you're talking to me wtf are you even talking about? What have you done lately? Tweeted about the problem, probably. Go f**k yourself, matey.
Group of Chinese work colleagues were considering jointly buying a rental property in Australia because friends there were boasting what high rents they could get. The intending landlords had no idea they would be responsible for maintenance, insurance etc of the property and were horrified when I told them. I don't know about other countries, but too many Australian rentals are owned by landlords who have never set foot in the country and can never be contacted for repairs. The government makes noises about foreign ownership but nothing seems to get done for tenants.
They may well have been horrified but I wouldn't be surprised if their mates then told them that it's easy to get away with doing nothing as a landlord in Australia. And you can abuse your tenants as much as you like and get away with it.
In Australia, it is very very difficult to get bad tenants OUT of your property. Bad tenants trash the places and then demand the 'landlord' pay for the repairs of the damage dome by them. Bad tenant annoy the neighbours more than somewhat, and them the Landlord is left with the whole $^&#$# mess :-( It is NOT worth it. Do not let your property.
Nonsense. I work in this field and act for tenants in one state, but most of the states and territories are the same. Landlords in Australia have a lot of power, and if you can't get bad tenants out then you either have bad legal advice or you're a smart a**e who tries to act for yourself and doesn't understand the legislation. I think it's quite clear from your increasingly frothy mouthed unhinged posts that you are a very bad landlord indeed. I'm sure it's a shame that the system won't let you totally screw over your tenants, so maybe find another way to screw people. Open a cafe and underpay them maybe. You seem the type.
My sister has an apartment with an indipendent top floor..she decided with her partner to transform in a mini apartment with kitchen corner and small living room, it was originally an attic so they kept a part closed with wall and door as storage.. we are in Italy, the laws for Airbnb are good and the review are important so this small space was new, nice, clean..and usually also the customers were nice. Except one. We don't know who are you but we hope you'll burn in hell.. Whe discovered only in December that one of the summer customers forced the door of the storage part , stole their Christmas tree (we don't use a real one, but it was beautiful and EXPENSIVE) with all the homemade decorations by our mother. Who steal a Christmas tree?? I hope you feel ashamed every Christmas...
How sad. Don't let them rob you of joy, hope, and peace each Christmas. It was a horrible thing. Now, how to let it go? 🕊️
How did they even get it out? What horrible people.
Tried airbnb once long time ago and never again
Yes, I stick to hotels, although I understand if you're traveling with a family Airbnb might be attractive. Hotels are much more reliable and in most big cities they are comparable to or cheaper than an Airbnb.
Tried Airbnb once a long time ago and would try again.
Last place I rented, it was the letting agency who were the problem. Landlady was lovely, she came round about every month because i was looking after her cat and we got on really well. She preferred to leave house issues to the agency. Many times agency out right lied to both of us. Eg, fire broke and house was freezing. They told landlady it was just a cosmetic problem and me that the landlady was refusing to pay for the fix. When I said i will put you on speaker because she is here right now they got really angry. Many many problems. They also tried to withhold deposit because of 'pet damage' which was her cat scratching MY sofa. We have moved out - adopted the cat, and still friends with landlady who sold up as it was so much hassle.
Why did she persist with that property manager when she heard them lie? That seems odd to me.
Biggest letting agency in the county. And she quite genuinely didn't want to deal with anything, and knew nothing about being a landlord. Simply a mature woman who moved in with partner but wanted to hold on to personal security until she was secure in relationship. Her partner did gently advise her to maybe consider a different agency - as did I - but I don't find it that odd that she felt more secure sticking with large agency.
Tenant rights vary depending on where you live, obviously. And just because tenant rights laws exist on paper, it doesn't mean that they will actually protect the tenant in these horrible situations. Money talks. If you are poor, you don't have the money to take your landlord to court. And you probably won't win anyway. Housing authorities are understaffed and overwhelmed with requests for help. There are plenty of slumlords who just don't care, and there are no consequences. What they deserve in these situations is to have rent withheld until they fix the problems.
Doesn't mean either that the owners are protected from bad tenants. Rental properties are hard to come by BECAUSE too many tenants are bad. You CANNOT lame either the agent or the OWNER IF you do not clean up after yourself. If you want a daily house cleaner to come in, it WILL cost!
Calm down, lady. No-one is talking about housecleaning. Just from your unhinged posts we can all tell you're a very bad landlord. Maybe get out of the business if it's that bad.
I am NOT a landlord. Letting our family home many years ago and then cost of repairing the damage done by the tenants not to mention lack of income because the Agent did not collect rent --- as far as I am concerned people can sleep under bridges. I will NEVER let a house again.
Well, this article is mainly about unlivable conditions, not poor housekeeping. I don't understand your comment.
This comment is about rental properties. It is NOT up to either the owner nor the agent to clean mould off the walls. You want somebody in the clean and do minor repairs of the damage you have caused by neglect, then be prepared to pay far higher rent, NOBODY makes you rent a dilapidated property.
I make more then $12,000 a month online. It’s enough to comfortably replace my old jobs income, especially considering I only work about 11 to 12 hours a week from home. I was amazed how easy it was after I tried it…GOOD LUCK.. ===))> 𝐖𝐰𝐰.𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐚𝐚𝐫.𝐂𝐨𝐦
I know it depends on local laws but where I live if your landlord refuses to fix something you can refuse to pay them put the money that you would have used for rent in a bank account and when you come before the judge you can show the proof of what they refuse to fix and prove that you still had the rent money and the judge will find in your favor.
Yeah! I Know about tenants like that. Kick a hole in the wall, and demand the Landlord fix it. Or break windows when you are drunk and expect the landlord to fix it. Leave filthy messes of food scraps, piss and faeces and then expect the landlord to do something about the cockroaches and rats.
You had a bad experience. Get over it and move on with your life. You're reading this article with tunnel vision.
I have moved on. We no longer let our property. Bad tenant are bad tenants, and we are not wealthy enough to cope with them. Not to mention that I am so sick of tenants bleating about "their rights". I could never understand why , after we had rented, the lnflors used to praise us -- even though our son, in one case, had broken a panel in a door, We fixed it as best we could-- our damage, our fault. But now I understand! Oh, there's fungus growing under the step. Landlord must come and do something! Good grief! Do you want the landlord to come and do your washing up, and seep your floors for you!
You know, I doubt very much you're telling the truth.
Helps if you say what country/state you live in.
1/2 I used to live in a house share, which I f*****g hated. Some dude moved in and he was an alcoholic. He'd get incredibly drunk and would say nasty things to me and try to square up to me. I'm a 5'5 110Ib girl and he's a 6'1 200Ib man. Every time I told my landlord, she said, even though I was scared, ignore him. The last straw was he got black out drunk and ran riot at four in the morning. He was running up and down the stairs, yelling and swearing, calling someone called Chris a c**t (nobody called Chris lives there) and banging on the bedroom door of a girl (who had luckily locked it, as he was trying to get in).
2/2 He was screaming at her and demanding to speak to some other guy nobody knows. I recorded everything. I told my landlord and played her the recordings. She served him with a 24 hour eviction notice, he called me a lying c**t and when I played him the recordings he didn’t believe it was him. I told my landlord that I do not want to live in a house with an alcoholic, as my ex was one and he was brutal to me. She didn’t kick him out, so I left. I’d rented a couple of properties from her over the years and thought we had a fantastic landlord/tenant relationship. Who cares if he’s an alcoholic, the rent gets paid right? He wasn’t even doing that and she still let him stay.
I had a scum landlord. When my ceiling in my bathroom broke from water damage, it took him a week to fix it. And the water had leaked into my bedroom and into the living room. Then he has the nerve to charge me for water damage. Even though it was the pipe broken.
The problem is we do not know what country these lettings are happening so can not really offer advice.
Would be REALLY helpful and informative if people would say where they are in stead of just "here".
What country??? Looks like it depends on that.
My daughter in college needed a room for about three weeks in summer while she was a TA. She found a very nice room with a lovely family and felt quite safe. Unfortunately, the entire family moved in with friends for several days so the could rent the entire rest of the house to a group of adults. My daughter was very uncomfortable with total strangers sharing the bathroom and the rest of the house.
I would never ABB...my brother has one...case closed...
I honestly have no sympathy for the ones who rented an Air BnB. These Air BnB owners have decimated the long-term rental availability in some cities so badly that service employees are being forced out of neighborhoods close to their jobs, plus whole houses are off the market for people to buy & live in. And the owners obviously don't care about maintaining the properties.
Or about the neighbors who have to contend with what often amount to party houses with music blaring all night and bottles and trash over neighboring yards front and back!
I know of a landlord in western Germany who so far has yet to finish renovations he started three years ago (DIY) so his tenants have no safe front door/entryway, can't get the guy to investigate leaks, and are waiting for him to put a door on the apartment in one case. As they're living there. They've tried to be nice, but he's just la-la-la I'll get to it, and they're moving out b/c of not having a door that fits. She sent pix. You could get a small animal through the gaps of the "temporary" door!
I guess I just don't understand why people don't call the local housing authority? I would stop paying rent (put it in a savings account and not spend it just in case) and let them try to evict me. I don't know about other countries, but in the US you have to go through a legal process to be evicted, where you actually get to go before a judge and explain WHY you haven't been paying rent. 9 times out of 10, you'll win - and not have to pay anything.
Yeah :-( we were misguided enough to let out house when my husband was temporarily sent moved Interstate, First tenants were good. Then that agent retired, it was taken over my another agency we didn't know, it was let to druggies, no rent was collected, furniture was moved outside, no upkeep anywhere and the agent sent us a bill for the únpaid rent. Cost us to get these people out, cost us the fix the house again to make it liveable
Yeah, I'm going to call crap on most of this. Why would the agent charge you for unpaid rent? I don't think you've been telling the truth at all
a lot of property agent are crooks
If any of these things were to happen to me i would have been kicked out of so many houses so fast...
So, what I am hearing is, AirBnB is not worth the risk. i have had good experiences and bad.
My landlord is a millionaire. Lives in a massive mansion passed down through the generations but only lives in one room so he doesn’t have high heating costs. Most of my windows were single glazed and rotten. Agreed to replace them but then said he would have to put my rent up. I still can’t use the front door because of the massive hole caused by rotten floorboards and my partial sightedness. I am not walking all the way round the terrace to hang my washing out or sit in my garden. I’ve been asking to get this fixed for tower three years now.
All these Air BnB horror stories are why I refuse to stay in any of their listed locations. There are plenty of affordable, nice, actual hotels available.
Landlords aren't people. This proves it.
Oh these veil Landlords, They own a house which they paid for. They pay the rates. The have limited access to their own property and are THEN to blame for RAT infestations?? Filthy baths?? How about a page re dreadful tenants!!!!
They choose to let it out so they can extort money from people who have no choice. Yes, they are responsible for dirty baths and rats because they are not looking after their property. If you don't like being a landlord, sell. Landlord filth.
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Stories are Insane!! These people need to find out the Laws for the country they are in and "stick it" to the Landlord!! Airbnbs are worrisome... Can't trust Anyone!!
It is very difficult to 'stick it' to landlords. They have a lot of power in tight rental markets
Ha... great in theory, but that's not how things work out in the real world.