r/LandlordLove

Bit of a read, TLDR is our landlord reached out about an early termination to our lease to accommodate the homeowners wanting to move back in. They then backtracked when we took them up on their offer and the homeowners found another home to live in.. All of a sudden the lease is equivalent to the Bible.

EDIT: Yes, to the law school graduates of Harvard - AI was used in assisting in my responses. My wife and I are not rental attorneys, just everyday tenants looking to cover our ass. If this was going to small claims court I needed to have emotion removed from my replies, as obviously this was infuriating to respond to.

I’ve lived here for almost 5 years and my landlord is horrible. One example would be when I told her there was a mold problem in my place because of bad weather proofing and her response was I could borrow her bleach to clean it and hope it goes away. She also abuses her dog.

Anyways I got this text on my way home from work last night at 6:30. For reference, there are 4 tenants in the house, all split into apartments, so she expected all of us to do our laundry, cleaning, showering, etc. all at the same time in one night before losing hot water for 3 days. This is barely any warning before a significant inconvenience and I’m so frustrated.

ETA I’m not frustrated about the maintenance happening, obviously that needs to happen. The problem is that she didn’t even give us 24 hours notice before we go 3 days without hot water or heating.

Recently discovered this community and was reminded of this exchange with my ex-landlord 3 years ago. I spent an entire weekend deep cleaning my apartment before moving out after both of my roommates bailed out. One of my roommates left behind a couch that I had no need for, so I requested for the city to pick it up. I placed it next to our dumpster per the instructions on the city’s 311 app, only for my landlord to immediately start harassing me threatening to have them removed (at my expense) if I didn’t move them immediately despite me having proof that the city was coming by to remove it later that week. He insisted that it couldn’t be anywhere near the property, so I ended up driving nearly two hours and dragging it across the street from the building and submitting a new request so he would get off my case. After this lovely exchange, he withheld my security deposit until I threatened him in writing with small claims court per California law and he immediately called me and assured me that a check for the full amount was “in the mail”. Fuck you Leon.