My landlord is a petty little useless bitch
Part of our lease states that if we don't have the rent by the first of every month she can charge us a $50 late fee. I didn't think that was too unreasonable but she essentially takes every possibility she can to screw us over and make us pay that fee. For instance, my roommate had cancer and was gone for most of the year to have surgeries and what not. He told her he would be in the hospital for awhile but that he'd leave behind cheques for when he was gone. She never picked them up and then began harassing him for the late fees, even though, you know, he had cancer and was in the hospital and the cheques were at the house.
She did the same to me when I moved in (not the cancer part, just didn't pick up cheques and then told me that I owed her late fees because of it). She agreed to drop the late fees in my case as long as she could get the cheques the next day. Then like an hour later she messaged me saying she needs the money now or I owe her the late fees again, which wasn't a huge deal seeing as the cheques were literally just waiting for her already, but seriously what a cunt. This most recent time it was my fault really. I forgot to check my bank account at the end of the month and realized I didn't have enough to cover rent in it. I sent her a message asking if she wouldn't mind waiting a day to cash the cheque as I had to transfer the money. I thought she'd be a decent, understanding person (I have no idea what I was thinking
). Nope she needs a late fee because I am a day late. She probably wouldn't have even known if I didn't tell her. Honestly, I would have preferred paying the more expensive overdraft fee than give her more money. But whatever, I'm playing her game now and just paid her in a bag of dimes and nickels. And that's just the money issues we've had with her. When we moved in we found out she didn't have enough front door keys for everyone in the house. We asked her to make copies and she said she couldn't, the keys are too old. So we asked her to change the lock, and said we'd do it if we had to and asked if she'd reimburse us. She just outright refused and told us not to touch the locks. We ended up telling her that not having enough keys for the door was leaving us in an unsafe position as people kept getting locked out or leaving the door unlocked and that we would be changing the lock ourselves or withholding our rent cheques until the situation was resolved. She showed up the next day with copies of the key.
Then there was the time she went on vacation without telling us or leaving us any contact numbers and our furnace broke. This was like early December, it was cold, like really cold. We spent two days trying to fix it and trying to contact her before we told her if it wasn't resolved by the next day, we'd be calling a repair man and again would be withholding our rent cheques until we're reimbursed for the repair. She got back to us within an hour of that email with contact info and people to call to get it fixed.
I really don't want to think that she keeps just ignoring us until we tell her that we'll stop paying her, but it really seems that way.
Also the house is just a general piece of shit that she fails to properly maintain. The front steps broke months ago, which we immediately told her about, and she just got back to use last week to tell us to be careful and that someone would be by to fix them. We also kept having electrical issues (probably mostly related to the knob and tube wiring and the outdated circuit board), she never addressed the issue and it took my roommate and I a few hours to trouble shoot the problems ourselves.
I know I could possibly take a lot of these issues up in some sort of legal sense. I actually ran into a previous landlord who said he'd come by and inspect the house/review the whole situation for us. But for the most part they aren't really legal issues as much as they are just negligence and pettiness on her part.
Any way, I'm going to send an email to the off-campus housing office at the University to hopefully prevent any other students from falling into this shithole. But honestly, I just want to graduate and get out of this house. So 2 months to go.
Any way, end of rant. What's your story?
