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    Originally written by VenusGoddess
    "I had a land lord who did the final walk-through without me...and then tried to charge "repairs" against my security deposit. That's illegal and big no-no (at least in Illinois it is).
    You know we've all been here. Landlords being right up there with club managers and attorneys as a mere one step below demon spawn on the evil scale, I'm quite sure we've got some stories to swap.
    He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Default Re:Worst Rental Ever.

    Only bad rental experience I've had was with an apt manager who was the biggest bitch EVER. This woman was so bad I wanted to drop large cement blocks from the roof of the building onto her car! And I was NOT the only one who thought so. Every now and then I'd get in the elevator to find someone had written "CUNT" or "BITCH" next to her name in the notes she always posted. When I moved out of state my lease wasn't up but I still paid the last 3 months rent to avoid breaking the lease and having the bitch put it on my credit. The last month I forgot and mailed the payment LESS than a WEEK late, and the f*cking bitch returned my check with a note saying she had already "evicted" me! If I hadn't been 2000 miles away I woulda CHOKED her! I found out later the management company fired her.

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    Default Re:Worst Rental Ever.

    hey, for future moves try this first

    www.aptratings.com

    Before I bought my house, I lived in an apartment complex from hell. Moldy carpet, leaky bathtub, PAPER THIN walls. I had a dog barking below me all day long and an 18 schmuck and all his high school friends above us partying all night. I could hear all their curse words through my ceiling. Had to call the cops 6 times, management never did anything. Had to climb out on the balcony of my neighbor to unplug their blinking christmas lights hung right beside my bedroom window after asking mgmt to contact them two nights in a row. Stereo was stolen out of our car (gated community). then when we gave our notice I had to ask for an extra month because our house wasn't ready and the manager lost our first one. I told her I gave it the month before, she asked whom did you give it to. I said you. Then she tried to charge us 350 extra dollars a month because our lease was up. That's when I started screaming. I basically said that I had better accomodations at a motel six in west virginia and that I would tell everyone I know, and will meet in the future how bad their company is and was that worth 350 dollars to her, oh and ask your boss the same question. Needles to say I did not pay the extra money.

    PS: this was a "luxury" community in one of the best parts of this town so it's not liek it was a bragain rate place. for that kind of money I expect certain things, ya know?

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    Default Re:Worst Rental Ever.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lilith link=board=1;threadid=10121;start=msg122269#msg122 269 date=1087242226
    Originally written by VenusGoddess
    "I had a land lord who did the final walk-through without me...and then tried to charge "repairs" against my security deposit. That's illegal and big no-no (at least in Illinois it is).
    You know we've all been here. Landlords being right up there with club managers and attorneys as a mere one step below demon spawn on the evil scale, I'm quite sure we've got some stories to swap.
    Ugh...this land lord was the worst. I would always pay my rent ON THE FIRST...sometimes I dropped it off in her mailbox. She would call me on the 2nd day of the month yelling at me and telling me how irresponsible I am and how much money in late fees I'm causing her because I can never pay my rent on time. I would always tell her to check her mail box...she would always give me a hard time and then finally go outside and find my rent check there. Bitch. Ugh!

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    Here's my worst story ever. This place was great; brand new complex, manager lived right next door and a lovely older woman above me. I might have had next door neighbors on the other side, but I never saw nor heard them. The gates of hell did not open until I moved out. Turned in my notice with 30 days to spare, the walk-through was done two days before my lease was up, rent was paid, we took pictures of the cleaned apartment (seemed redundant at the time as the manager said everything was up to par during the walk-though) and I turned in the keys as soon as the walk-through was signed off by both myself and the manager. The deposit was to be mailed to me within two weeks at my new address.

    Two weeks go by. Nothing. I called, was told it must be on its way. Still nothing. called again and there was new management, who had no idea who I was. She said she would look into it. Weeks later and still nothing. I called again, and there was yet another new manager. This went on for six months before I finally got tired of it (my deposit was only $150).

    Two years later I get a notice in the mail that I have been sent to collection for more than $2000. I write a letter saying that until they provide me with some sort of documentation that conflicts with my own records (which I still had) then they were SOL. Received an itemized list including three months rent for breaking a lease, damages to the apartment and two years' interest, as well as a copy of a walk-through paper. The walk-through paper did not have my signature and listed, among other blatant inaccuracies, bags of garbage left on the patio and broken bathroom cupboards. I wrote back that I had pictures of the cleaned apartment and sent a copy of my lease agreement, as well as pointing out that I had the handicapped apartment which did not HAVE a patio nor bathroom cupboards. I included that the apartment had already been re-rented by the time I turned in my keys and quoted both state statutes which noted that rentals may not collect from two distinct tenants simultaneously and that interest may not be collected if a party had not been contacted within a reasonable time span.

    They threatened to take me to court and I told them to go right ahead. About all I could do on my end was send a letter to the credit reporting bureaus with my own information. It took seven years to get that off my credit, as they never once even tried to sic the law on me (duh, it was a fabricated case) but wouldn't let it go, and I couldn't wipe it until they passed the statute of limitations with no action. I got very tired of hauling all that old paperwork from that complex with me every time I wanted to rent a place, but an attorney told me that my only other option was to sue them, and I didn't have the funds for it. My paperwork records were the only reason many people would look at me with a (by then) almost $5000 "delinquent bill" from an apartment complex.
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    Okay, here's mine:

    I lived in this apartment from 1989 to 2000, The whole time I was there, it had a recurring termite problem. The landlord wouldnt do anything about it, even after it was obvious that my window frames were being eaten until they were hollow and squishy.

    The first landowner sold the building to some one else and they, in turn, sold it to yet another company. Until the third and final landlord, no steps were taken to correct the termite problem.

    Once, I looked in my shower and found a whole pile of termite crawling-around. There must have been hundreds of them. The landlord wouldnt do anything and advised me to use bugspray. I poured ammonia into the termite holes every time after that when I noticed termites crawling-around,

    Finally, the third - and final, before I moved-out - landlord had the ground spiked with termite killer pesticides. A month or so later, the building was tented. Call me ignorant, but it would seem more logical to spike the ground and tent the building at the same time to prevent the termites from running to where it is safe for the time being.

    You guessed it. Within a month, the termites were back and, this time, they ate my doorframe until the door could barely be held-up in its own frame. Thge landlord had the doorframe replaced, but the exterminator didnt see the need to spray pesticide as he believed the termites were all gone.

    Well, they ate the doorframe again, as it was made with untreated lumber. I called the landlord every two weeks to see when the doorframe could be replaced and he told me they were "taking bids on the work".

    Eventually, the door was in worse shape than it had been the first time and I had enough of all the crap. I called and asked them one more time when the doorframe would be replaced and I was given the same answer. At that point, I gave them my one month notice and got ready to move out.

    When the property manager finally came down and saw the doorframe himself, he was shocked at how bad the condition of it was.

    They fixed the doorframe within two weeks of my moving out.

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    Almost forgot this one.

    My old apartment buildning was old. I mean it was OLD, built before World War Two.

    One day, the drainage pipes under the building collapsed and all the wastewater flooded the apartments on the lowest floor.

    The property manager had the maintenance guy open the drain pipe, to allow the wastewater to empty-out at ground level. A trench was dug in our front yard to collect the water as it ran off from the walkway.

    Needless to say, it was too gross and smelly for words to describe.

    We figured it would take a couple of days for them to fix it.

    Nope. It took them two weeks.

    You see, there were families with children living in the building and they were scared as all hell their kids might play in the puddles and get sick. Plus, the family that lived were the runoff was were grossed-out by the constant stench. Their calls to the property manager went unheeded. They were told "we're taking bids on the work".

    After nearly two weeks of this, they decided to call the owner of the company that owned the building, since the property manager wasnt responsive. The owner came down and was so pissed-off, he called the property manager and chewed him out in front of all of us. The Health Department was also called by that family and they were there the same time as the company owner. So, he was looking at some serious fines leveled by the City and State regulators.

    The family was temporarily moved into a hotel and the whole problem was fixed in three days time.

    By the way, the property manager was replaced shortly thereafter.

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    I guess its my day to vent on my old landlord.

    Some years ago, before the Convention Center was built in Honolulu, there was specualtion that the property would be sold to be torn down to provide parking spaces for the Convention Center workers and the Convention-goers.

    Rather than evict everyone, the owners elected on another tactic: they kept raising the rent on us. Eventually, they hoped to have a nearly-empty building to sell, which would be simpler to do without it being full of tenants, under State law.

    As you can guess, tenants unable to pay the higher rent began to move out. The building was 60% unoccupied at one point.

    Unfortunantely for the landowner, the State had no intention of buying the land for the Convention Center. So, now they had to attract new tenants to replace the ones they had forced-out. They did that by renting the apartments at much lower rents than the older tenants were paying.

    We didnt think that was fair and pressured the landlord to lower our rents too. They did, after some resistance. They didnt want to lose more tenants after the earlier fiasco.

    So, the landlord decided to raise our parking stall fees. From $35 a month to $50 a month.

    At the time, I owned a motorscooter and the previous landlords let me park in a corner of the lot for free. There was no special place set aside for motorcycles or mopeds. This landlord wanted me to rent a $50 stall to park my motorscooter. I found out about another tenant still paying $35 a month and I asked about having the same rate. They said: "No.", so I looked around for alternatives.

    I rented a motorcycle stall in a lot across the street from my building at - check this out - $5 a month.

    I told my landlord where I was parking now and how much it cost me. I enjoyed the look on his face.


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