Honestly, I’m just nosey and I feel like the vast majority of renters have issues with their landlords so I wanna hear your landlord horror stories!
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I was lodger to a pop star in a beautiful, huge town house. She expected me to foot the whole bill for the cleaner even though the cleaner cleaned her private apartment at the back of the house. Then she asked me to pay for the cleaners petrol money! I refused.
It was a beautiful house and she worked in Europe a lot so I would have it to myself for months but she was a total diva to live with! I have lots of stories!
It was a beautiful house and she worked in Europe a lot so I would have it to myself for months but she was a total diva to live with! I have lots of stories!
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Not really a ‘horror’ story as such but in our last house it had this really old oven which looked like the ones you get in a school kitchen. Anyway it didn’t work, it just didn’t heat up or hold the heat properly. The landlord was really reluctant to sort it out or replace it, kept sending an engineer out who said everything was ‘fine’ with it but I swear we put a pizza in there at 180 and after an hour it still wasn’t cooked. We left after 2 years and the oven was still there when we left, ended up buying a fancy microwave which had an oven setting to use instead. I don’t know how we managed.
When I was 18 my Mum moved away so I had to find my own place. I got a one bed flat in a bit of a rough area but it werent too bad
When I was showed round it was a bloke that worked for the landlord and I hadn't met the actual landlord for months.
One day I got a text saying the actual landlord was coming for an inspection with the bloke who works for him.
The day comes and I answer the door, he was fit tbh but I got a funny vibe off him straight away. He looked me up and down and not in a snarling way, in a full on checking me out way. He just said hello and had a look round, then left
Later that night I got a text. From the landlord. 'Nice meeting you today x' a kiss
who puts kisses to their landlord? I didnt know what to say so I ignored it
The next day I was leaving to go to work when I jumped into the landlord outside. Id been there over a year and I'd never seen him. He stopped me for an awkward chat. He didnt say anything rude just 'how are you, what you up to' etc
Then later that night! He texts me 'im gonna cut to the chase. You're gorgeous. Let me take you for a coffee'
I had a boyfriend so I told him that. He just kept coming with the 'let me take you out
Then the best try - "let me show you a good time. I can get you a well better property'
He was 55
Fair to say I moved out not long after that haha
When I was showed round it was a bloke that worked for the landlord and I hadn't met the actual landlord for months.
One day I got a text saying the actual landlord was coming for an inspection with the bloke who works for him.
The day comes and I answer the door, he was fit tbh but I got a funny vibe off him straight away. He looked me up and down and not in a snarling way, in a full on checking me out way. He just said hello and had a look round, then left
Later that night I got a text. From the landlord. 'Nice meeting you today x' a kiss
who puts kisses to their landlord? I didnt know what to say so I ignored itThe next day I was leaving to go to work when I jumped into the landlord outside. Id been there over a year and I'd never seen him. He stopped me for an awkward chat. He didnt say anything rude just 'how are you, what you up to' etc
Then later that night! He texts me 'im gonna cut to the chase. You're gorgeous. Let me take you for a coffee'
I had a boyfriend
so I told him that. He just kept coming with the 'let me take you outThen the best try - "let me show you a good time. I can get you a well better property'
He was 55
Fair to say I moved out not long after that haha
We had terrible damp in our house when we were at uni - contacted the landlady multiple times and nothing was really done.
The same landlady took £20 off my deposit as she had to reissue a cheque. This was around 7 or 8 years ago, so cheques were not a common thing at all, no one was using them a lot. But she insisted on posting cheques, my parents (my only full time address) had moved house so I contacted her telling to make sure and send it to the updated address. She didn't. When I told her this was a total witch about it and mentioned need to take off the money. I said why didn't she just do a transfer, like online - said she "didn't believe in online banking." She was an elderly woman but get a grip. Believe in it or not love, it exists.
The same landlady took £20 off my deposit as she had to reissue a cheque. This was around 7 or 8 years ago, so cheques were not a common thing at all, no one was using them a lot. But she insisted on posting cheques, my parents (my only full time address) had moved house so I contacted her telling to make sure and send it to the updated address. She didn't. When I told her this was a total witch about it and mentioned need to take off the money. I said why didn't she just do a transfer, like online - said she "didn't believe in online banking." She was an elderly woman but get a grip. Believe in it or not love, it exists.
I’m going to say I don’t believe in online banking and cancel all my direct debits and standing orders
Oh I wanna know who and these stories
you need to spill in the secret celeb gossip thread if you haven't alreadyI want to hear all the stories lol x
I read in the paper the other day about Landlords who want sex in exchange for a place to live 
dirty disgusting vile old men
dirty disgusting vile old men
What is it with landlords and their crappy 20yr old plus appliances? I think the newest appliance I ever saw was a 10 year old rubbish electric cooker that still had the Currys sticker on it. It was knocked down to £150 as it was a display item.
When a landlord’s ancient washing machine chewed up some of my work clothes (after being repaired twice in a month for flooding the kitchen), I unhooked the thing and pushed it into the spare bedroom and replaced it with a new one that I took with me when I moved out. I hooked the landlord’s one back before I left though.
Cheeky fecker tried to take the cost of a new washing machine off my deposit because he thought I was going to leave my one for his flat and take his ancient one off his hands.
Mine wasn’t too bad but it was a bit annoying when they refused to change the boiler for ages. Spent the first year with the worst Ketteling noises and clanging then having handymen come and flush the system several times before they called it a day. When they fit the new boiler apparently the plumbing was so bad they took pictures to send to their plumber friends.
We rented a house in summer, looked a bit tired but wasn't as expensive as some. By winter we realised the kitchen hadn't been properly insulated (it was converted from an out house) and was freezing. The landlords suggestion was to 'paint it a warm colour'.
Then we noticed the window in our bedroom didn't line up properly and had about a centimeter gap when closed, leaving it freezing, not good having a newborn in there at the time. Her solution was to have her handyman come and hit it with a mallet!
The final straw was when we told her about damp spots that were slowly creeping up the wall at the bottom of the stairs. She came and had a look and said she couldn't see any damp (it was clearly visible and stank).
After our tenancy was up we found somewhere else. The last kick in the teeth was a deduction from our deposit for a crack in the shed window which was there when we moved in! Oooo it still makes my blood boil now and it was 8 years ago!
Then we noticed the window in our bedroom didn't line up properly and had about a centimeter gap when closed, leaving it freezing, not good having a newborn in there at the time. Her solution was to have her handyman come and hit it with a mallet!
The final straw was when we told her about damp spots that were slowly creeping up the wall at the bottom of the stairs. She came and had a look and said she couldn't see any damp (it was clearly visible and stank).
After our tenancy was up we found somewhere else. The last kick in the teeth was a deduction from our deposit for a crack in the shed window which was there when we moved in! Oooo it still makes my blood boil now and it was 8 years ago!
The last place we rented, the estate agent told us that the landlord was a perfectionist. Hardly, there were scrapes all over the ceiling, dodgy decor and ancient flooring.
He got really arsey when we wanted to replace his fireplace mirror (it was a hideous wooden monstrosity) and didn’t want us to replace the curtain rail even though it was knackered and marked. In the end we just put our own up and put the old stuff back when we moved out, even though ours was much better and we would have been okay leaving it
He got really arsey when we wanted to replace his fireplace mirror (it was a hideous wooden monstrosity) and didn’t want us to replace the curtain rail even though it was knackered and marked. In the end we just put our own up and put the old stuff back when we moved out, even though ours was much better and we would have been okay leaving it
My house is full of damp and we’ve reported numerous times and nothings ever been done about it. Also the fridge broke about 2 summers ago and it took him 3 months to get us a new fridge we where using an ice box with freezer packs for 3 months to keep any dairy stuff fresh it was nightmare contacted him numerous times about it 
Their a nightmare can’t wait to move again
Their a nightmare can’t wait to move again
Had a landlord as a student who used to come round to clean our windows with his old y-fronts and then leave them on our kitchen worktop afterwards 
. We had a small freezer between 4 of us and he asked if he could use some of our freezer space we said no we didn’t have enough room but the next day came home from uni to find a bag of bones in there 
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We could hear rats/mice scratching under the floorboards at one point, he disagreed and told us we could just hear the wind
. We had a small freezer between 4 of us and he asked if he could use some of our freezer space we said no we didn’t have enough room but the next day came home from uni to find a bag of bones in there .We could hear rats/mice scratching under the floorboards at one point, he disagreed and told us we could just hear the wind