sealalot
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My girlfriend and I signed a two year lease on a small townhouse owned by a friend of my dad's this past June. The unit was overpriced, but at the time it was all that was available. The townhouse was brand new. We were the first tenants to live in it.
From day 1, there were problems with the toilet. It leaked like crazy. I informed the landlord about the problem, and he came over to "fix" it one day while we weren't home, but he failed to tell me in advance that he had entered the unit. This was only the beginning of the invasion of our privacy.
Over the entire summer, I'd say he entered the property at least nine times (that we know of) without telling us, while we weren't home. Maybe three of those times, he was nice enough to call and tell us afterwards. The rest of the times, we were informed by our neighbors that they had seen him enter. The toilet? Never fixed. Never. Eventually, the stick-on tiles began peeling in the bathroom, exposing the OSB board (no sub-floor), and a large amount of black mold.
We went out of town about three weeks ago, and were going to spend several months away, but we changed our minds. He knew we would be going out of town, and I informed him that I would leave the electric running and the heat set at 55 so the water lines wouldn't freeze. So what does he do? Once again he enters without telling us, closes the main valve, DUMPS ANTIFREEZE into the water lines, and snoops around in our bedroom! We know this because the dresser drawers were open (the underwear drawers).
So what happens when we get home? I turn the water back on (I CALLED HIM, to ask about another unit he had for rent. That's when he told me he'd been in the townhouse and turned the water off, but mentioned NOTHING about the antifreeze), I pour a glass of water, chug it, and get a belly full of water mixed with antifreeze. I got pretty damn sick but I didn't know what it was until my neighbor told me that the landlord had told him about it.....but not me.
So we pack our shit, find another apartment within a day, and got the hell out. We just finished moving in and we call him to tell him we're not in the townhouse anymore. He flips out and says he's taking us to court. Unbelievable.
From day 1, there were problems with the toilet. It leaked like crazy. I informed the landlord about the problem, and he came over to "fix" it one day while we weren't home, but he failed to tell me in advance that he had entered the unit. This was only the beginning of the invasion of our privacy.
Over the entire summer, I'd say he entered the property at least nine times (that we know of) without telling us, while we weren't home. Maybe three of those times, he was nice enough to call and tell us afterwards. The rest of the times, we were informed by our neighbors that they had seen him enter. The toilet? Never fixed. Never. Eventually, the stick-on tiles began peeling in the bathroom, exposing the OSB board (no sub-floor), and a large amount of black mold.
We went out of town about three weeks ago, and were going to spend several months away, but we changed our minds. He knew we would be going out of town, and I informed him that I would leave the electric running and the heat set at 55 so the water lines wouldn't freeze. So what does he do? Once again he enters without telling us, closes the main valve, DUMPS ANTIFREEZE into the water lines, and snoops around in our bedroom! We know this because the dresser drawers were open (the underwear drawers).
So what happens when we get home? I turn the water back on (I CALLED HIM, to ask about another unit he had for rent. That's when he told me he'd been in the townhouse and turned the water off, but mentioned NOTHING about the antifreeze), I pour a glass of water, chug it, and get a belly full of water mixed with antifreeze. I got pretty damn sick but I didn't know what it was until my neighbor told me that the landlord had told him about it.....but not me.
So we pack our shit, find another apartment within a day, and got the hell out. We just finished moving in and we call him to tell him we're not in the townhouse anymore. He flips out and says he's taking us to court. Unbelievable.