Hooray for fire codes. Good to know.

Way to go Tad, hopefully Dixie will take you back.

"Although his monthly rent has been $690, Knights says the landlord told him the last month's rent, if paid in advance, would be $250.

The pair had been arguing about how much the last month's rent should be."

Bullshiat, why the hell would the landlord say that.

What is it, Michael?

qwertypoo: "Although his monthly rent has been $690, Knights says the landlord told him the last month's rent, if paid in advance, would be $250.

The pair had been arguing about how much the last month's rent should be."

Bullshiat, why the hell would the landlord say that.

Probably something to do with the security deposit going towards rent instead of just handing it back at the end. I've done that before.

Vertdang: qwertypoo: "Although his monthly rent has been $690, Knights says the landlord told him the last month's rent, if paid in advance, would be $250.

The pair had been arguing about how much the last month's rent should be."

Bullshiat, why the hell would the landlord say that.

Probably something to do with the security deposit going towards rent instead of just handing it back at the end. I've done that before.

Ah, ok.
You may proceed with the thread.

OK, it's late. Am I the only one confused by the fact that he went to a hardware store to buy fuses for his stove??
Off to bed...too much thinking involved. If anyone knows WTF that's all about, please let me know.
K, THX, BYE!

I'm a landlord's worst nightmare, because I know my rights as a tenant, and I don't let ANY of them get stepped on. I'm too tired to go into detail, but there's been more than one time in my life where I've had to smack a landlord (Or their apartment manager lackey) over the nose with a copy of the Residential Tenancies Act, and was blown away how many of them didn't even know what it was!

For the most part, landlords are money-grubbing, bottom feeders who seem to think that they can do whatever they want in "Their" building. Most of the time the douchebags live in another city and get their lap dogs to do their dirty work.

My ex and I were in a dispute with an old landlord about a slip and fall accident she had in the completely iced over and un-sanded parking lot, which resulted in him trying to illegally evict us. When we shoved the RTA down his throat he resorted to threatening us. He threatened to take my gf out of the apartment, kick her crutches out from under her, push her down the stairs and rape her, then kill me while she watched. The sonofabiatch even brought a couple of goons with him.

Long story short, I got the police involved, recorded every one of his threats on tape, and when I finally got to court and played it for a Justice, she immediately issued an arrest warrant, which didn't matter because the f*cking coward had already fled back to Saudi Arabia.

Landlords are scum, period.

/tired an grouchy
//still hates landlords
///could go on all night about it
////got lots more LL horror stories

In California, and I think most of the US, a dwelling must be secure. Meaning the tenant must be able to lock the doors and windows from the inside. Lack of a door prevents this.

There may have been a dispute, but removal of a door doesn't solve it. I wonder what other broom-worthy shenanigans the landlord was up to.

I mean, fuses for his stove? What?

Ya know, if I was in a dispute with sumbotty about 400 bucks, even if I was totally right I'd probly try to settle by paying half. If that didn't work I'd just pay the whole thing. 400 dollars is not worth the stress and time spent arguing. .. and I ain't got money, I just rather have less money and less stress.
am I foolish? maybe. I donno.

pipco: Ya know, if I was in a dispute with sumbotty about 400 bucks, even if I was totally right I'd probly try to settle by paying half. If that didn't work I'd just pay the whole thing. 400 dollars is not worth the stress and time spent arguing. .. and I ain't got money, I just rather have less money and less stress.
am I foolish? maybe. I donno.

LOOK YOU SON OF A biatch, YOU STILL OWE ME MY 400 DOLLARS.


So are you going to pay or will we just be getting in to more and more stressful arguments in the future?

Private Dick: I'm a landlord's worst nightmare, because I blah blah blah

Well, you certainly are a renter tough guy.

/score 1 for you

Since there's already a report on file about the door vanishing... would be strange if it vanished again when he moved out... being brand new and everything LMAO

Private Dick: Landlords are scum, period.

every landlord i have ever had except one has been scum.

The one good one was from my college place the owner was about 120. when i signed the lease she crossed out the part that said 1962 and put 2002 but nothing else changed on it.

/Was paying about 1/4 the going rent price for the town.
//nice place to live and she always baked cookies on the day rent was due.
///yes she had about 50 cats

Solty Dog: The fuses were made up of a metal strip that would connect the city power to the house power.

IIRC, that metal strip was there solely to melt/break when the temperature of the wires got too high. It was the weakest link.

That last thing you want is all the wires in your house to heat up and burn something (unless you are into that)

My Dad had apartment buildings. Every weekend was an adventure in maintainence.

Fought with your girlfriend, so you flooded her apartment and the ceiling collapsed downstairs? That was nice and thoughtful of you.

The guy in 4A got Dish and you wanted it too, so you punched out holes in the walls & ceiling to hook up to it. Then you biatched & moaned because it didn't work.

Hey Mr 28 beers and a shotgun, it was interesting to shoot the walls and have your buddies draw connect-the-dots porn in the living room, wasn't it? Too bad for you the other tenants called the cops.

Why can't you put the feathers & bones after butchering chickens in the toilet? Because it clogs it, genius. That's why you haven't been able to use it all week.

And these were the nice apartments.

Please. stop. Send me Yer credit card and ss number and I'll credit Your account with the money. Just please stop, I can't take the stress.

Sounds like a dirty hippie to me.

/A CANUCKISTANI Dirty Hippie to boot!
//Gimme Fuel Gimme Fire Gimme That Which I Desire
///Go!!!

cardex: Private Dick: Landlords are scum, period.

every landlord i have ever had except one has been scum.

The one good one was from my college place the owner was about 120. when i signed the lease she crossed out the part that said 1962 and put 2002 but nothing else changed on it.

/Was paying about 1/4 the going rent price for the town.
//nice place to live and she always baked cookies on the day rent was due.
///yes she had about 50 cats

The only good landlord I ever had was nicknamed "one-eyed Nancy". She:
a) Had a glass eye.
b) ...was roughly 75 (in fact, she died two years after I moved out, sadly).
c) ...got within six inches of your face squinting to see who you were, and then addressed me as "Stephen" (my name is not Stephen).
d) ...paid me my security deposit back three separate times (I never paid a security deposit).
e) ...once dropped a grocery bill on our floor on the way out which contained 20 tins of wet cat food and 1 of tuna.
f) ...once came over with a onion and then asked if she could stay for dinner.

I loved that lady.

haddie: b) ...was roughly 75 (in fact, she died two years after I moved out, sadly).

sadly the old lady that owned the place i lived in died a few years ago, she kinda knew it was coming and was trying to find homes for her cats when i moved out.

/still have the cat that made the move with me.

lajimi: I never heard of a stove fuse either so I googled it. Sure enough, here they are!

Care to clarify?

Dinty Moore's Law: lajimi: I never heard of a stove fuse either so I googled it. Sure enough, here they are!

Care to clarify?

check under the word automatic in the pic. The glass bulbs, they're fuses.

There are no shortage of shiatty tenants and shiatty landlords. However in this case, the landlord is clearly the shiathead of the situation. Doesn't matter if there was a debate over rent, you don't go and try to make a place unlivable. As the fire martial in this case noted, it is illegal.

You can also tell he's a shiathead from the fact that that the tenant was going to get stove fuses. If the appliances on your property are so old they use fuses, you are a rat bastard who needs to quit being so stingy and buy something made in the last 40 years.

Seriously, shiat has to be OLD to have fuses. When I bought my condo, a number of the appliances (like the stove) were as old as the place that being about 1970. None of them had fuses.

It is well and good that rental property is meant to make money and as such, you are not going to put in brand new, high end appliance every 5 years. However you should be buying new budget appliances when the need arises like, I dunno, when fuses become totally and completely obsolete in appliances.

Anyone else notice that the writer sort of slacks off halfway through? Each sentence is shorter than the one before it.

Private Dick:
Landlords are scum, period.

/tired an grouchy
//still hates landlords
///could go on all night about it
////got lots more LL horror stories

Dude, scum is to nice a word to describe some landlords. How about rat faced evil dishonest b'stards from the 7th circle of hell?

College towns - the worst place to rent an apartment in the world. I could entrain you kids with some really funny horror stories about a certain property manager/property owner/slum lord/liar/biatch where I went to school and lived for many years afterward, but don't have time. Other than the employees (ex cons, thieves, skin heads) entering your place and rummaging around in your porn collection, your undies and stealing your pot, one thing still makes me scratch my head in wonder after all these years - You pay your rent via check on time, and 6 months later, the check still has not come back from the bank, nor has the following months checks. Why this woman did this is beyond me, it makes no sense at all. Say she has 100 tenants and she did this to all who pay by check. That fat little shait is sitting on a hell of a lot of paper. Why? I still want to know the reason, if there is a reason. Anyone have any ideas?

/also tired and grouchy and a tad hung over
//could also go on all day about a certain landlord, but have better things to do
///anyone have an Alka Seltzer?

I work for an answering service and I have to deal with unethical landlords all the time, so I'm really getting a kick out of this thread.

/plenty of POS tenants too

all my landlords were decents, just lazy. i was living in a small trailer when i first moved out of my parents house. the heat went out one day and it was seriously 20 degrees in the house. the landlord said, open the oven and turn it on, ill be there within 2 days.

Khazar-Khum: My Dad had apartment buildings. Every weekend was an adventure in maintainence. ... And these were the nice apartments.


I feel your pain. Sadly those scenarios are not surprising at all. I have learned so much about people from dealing with so many landlords and tenants.

sycraft: You can also tell he's a shiathead from the fact that that the tenant was going to get stove fuses. If the appliances on your property are so old they use fuses, you are a rat bastard who needs to quit being so stingy and buy something made in the last 40 years.

Seriously, shiat has to be OLD to have fuses. When I bought my condo, a number of the appliances (like the stove) were as old as the place that being about 1970. None of them had fuses.

I have a fuse for my stove. It's in the meter box. Stoves often have "dedicated lines" coz they suck so much juice. So I'm not buyin' the waaaaah pre 1970 stove line without more evidence.

He said he was buying fuses. So it must be true. I'm glad all you Farkers believed it, too. Makes sense to be buying stuff for an apartment your about to vacate while you're arguing about rent money.

Can't be buying cheap takeaway for a few days? Makes sense - the tubby fark looks like he's never eaten takeaway.

What sort of tubby fark can't even look respectable for a waaaaah feel sorry for me photo? I'll tell ya: a dumb lazy tubby fark, that's who.

Put some farking shoes on, man!

I'm betting there's more to this story.

Leskay: Makes sense to be buying stuff for an apartment your about to vacate while you're arguing about rent money.

you're about to vacate.

I bring much shame on the male line of my family.

scumbag landlord = stoves that require fuses

makes perfect sense actually.

I feel sorry for his dog.
The dog is innocent.

extra echo: scumbag landlord = stoves that require fuses

makes perfect sense actually.

Buying fuses. Not buying beer.

Said he was buying fuses so it must be true extra echo is a genius.

Leskay: sycraft: You can also tell he's a shiathead from the fact that that the tenant was going to get stove fuses. If the appliances on your property are so old they use fuses, you are a rat bastard who needs to quit being so stingy and buy something made in the last 40 years.

Seriously, shiat has to be OLD to have fuses. When I bought my condo, a number of the appliances (like the stove) were as old as the place that being about 1970. None of them had fuses.

I have a fuse for my stove. It's in the meter box. Stoves often have "dedicated lines" coz they suck so much juice. So I'm not buyin' the waaaaah pre 1970 stove line without more evidence.

He said he was buying fuses. So it must be true. I'm glad all you Farkers believed it, too. Makes sense to be buying stuff for an apartment your about to vacate while you're arguing about rent money.

Can't be buying cheap takeaway for a few days? Makes sense - the tubby fark looks like he's never eaten takeaway.

What sort of tubby fark can't even look respectable for a waaaaah feel sorry for me photo? I'll tell ya: a dumb lazy tubby fark, that's who.

Put some farking shoes on, man!

I'm betting there's more to this story.

Like your missing lithium pills?

Leskay: sycraft: You can also tell he's a shiathead from the fact that that the tenant was going to get stove fuses. If the appliances on your property are so old they use fuses, you are a rat bastard who needs to quit being so stingy and buy something made in the last 40 years.

Seriously, shiat has to be OLD to have fuses. When I bought my condo, a number of the appliances (like the stove) were as old as the place that being about 1970. None of them had fuses.

I have a fuse for my stove. It's in the meter box. Stoves often have "dedicated lines" coz they suck so much juice. So I'm not buyin' the waaaaah pre 1970 stove line without more evidence.

He said he was buying fuses. So it must be true. I'm glad all you Farkers believed it, too. Makes sense to be buying stuff for an apartment your about to vacate while you're arguing about rent money.

Can't be buying cheap takeaway for a few days? Makes sense - the tubby fark looks like he's never eaten takeaway.

What sort of tubby fark can't even look respectable for a waaaaah feel sorry for me photo? I'll tell ya: a dumb lazy tubby fark, that's who.

Put some farking shoes on, man!

I'm betting there's more to this story.

Came in for some douche bag defending a scumbag landlord. Leaving satisfied.

Fark tenants. They ruin property and complain constantly about the very crap they ruined. You wanna live your way, buy. You wanna live at another man's sufferance, rent.

/again, Fark tenants
/Seriously

Freschel: Came in for some douche bag defending a scumbag landlord. Leaving satisfied.

Lick my balls. Lick 'em all over.

Not believing what some fatty tells me = defending landlords? You idiot.

OBLIGATORY FOLLOW-UP RIDER: Never owned a house... let alone a SPARE house so I can become a landlord.

I'll leave you guys to your circle jerk.

WAAA! I hate all people in any sort of power what so ever! I know they own the property and I should treat it with respect, but I am going to cry about how they come in and steal my illegal drugs and expect me to not behave like a jackass! Waaa!


All my landlords have been awesome. I lived in phoenix for 3 years, in a large apartment complex and not once was I bothered or stolen from. This was the Apartments right down the street from ASU, literally the next block over, and not once was I given sheit. Then again I always paid my rent on time and kept my music low and tv low as to not disturb other tenants.

My current landlord subtracts 40 dollars off the rent when its on time, keeps to himself and only comes buy to check on things when we are home.

I dont get where you all have so many problems, me thinks the problem is less with the landlords and more with the tenants.

Khazar-Khum
My Dad had apartment buildings. Every weekend was an adventure in maintainence.

Fought with your girlfriend, so you flooded her apartment and the ceiling collapsed downstairs? That was nice and thoughtful of you.

The guy in 4A got Dish and you wanted it too, so you punched out holes in the walls & ceiling to hook up to it. Then you biatched & moaned because it didn't work.

Hey Mr 28 beers and a shotgun, it was interesting to shoot the walls and have your buddies draw connect-the-dots porn in the living room, wasn't it? Too bad for you the other tenants called the cops.

Why can't you put the feathers & bones after butchering chickens in the toilet? Because it clogs it, genius. That's why you haven't been able to use it all week.

And these were the nice apartments.

Your *nice* apartments had people butchering chickens and firing shotguns? Were these the Luxury Suites of West Virginia?

He lives off of Spadina.

Wrong Spadina - he's in the Hammer, not Toronto.

To all you people who are confused about a stove fuse.

To all you people giggling about the stove being really old.

Many modern electric stoves have a single fuse for that lone electrical outlet on the top. My modern Kenmore has one. I had to replace it the other day. You probably never had to replace yours, so never realized the panel just above your stove dials flips up.