Landlords, what are your tenant horror stories? 

the landlords that were up to replacing the heater, installing a cat door, letting her get a dog and making a fence for it - they're like the DREAM. AND they don't raise rent? God, what I wouldn't give.

I'm starting to wonder if these landlords punished by crap tenants turn into the grumpy cynical landlords after enough trauma.

Over a decade ago, when the real estate market was sluggish, my mom decided to rent out her city condo after she inherited a house in the suburbs. A few months into the 12-month lease, Tenant was late on rent. Not a huge problem; my mom was still able to make the mortgage because the inherited house was free and clear (and because my mom is too nice). Then, for three entire months, my mom couldn't get a hold of Tenant. Texts went unread and phone calls went straight to voicemail. Tenant didn't answer the door. Then, suddenly, Tenant turned back up like nothing had happened. Turns out she'd gotten a DUI and a 90-day jail sentence because it wasn't her first offense. She was flippant about the charges and ANGRY that my mom had called her emergency contact about five days in to ask if she should report Tenant missing. My mom had been worried that something bad had happened, so at that point she was just relieved that Tenant was alive and well. She forgave the missing months' rent and said they'd just start clean, with no hard feelings. Tenant repaid her kindness by trashing the place, skipping out on the rest of the lease, moving out of state, and marrying some random dude so she could change her last name. I found her because at the time my job included tracking down debtors, but my mom didn't want to compound her problems by pursuing back rent or charges. (Like I said, my mom is too nice!) She decided she was done being a landlord, and the condo was on the market as soon as we could get the place cleaned up.

was not expecting to see gameplay footage of Gris in the background. beautiful game fr fr

Not a landlord, but the last apartment I lived in before buying a house, the tenant downstairs was CONSTANTLY complaining about the noise from us just walking around normally. We weren't loud at all. They just complained every time there was a slight floorboard creak. The landlord had to send contractors into our apartment multiple times to rip up the floorboards and do work on them at their demand. Was extremely aggravating to us and, I presume, the landlord.

When I was around 14-15 my mom and I decided to move from our rural town into the big city, thinking that it'd be convenient to have everything closer to where we lived, plus more opportunities for my future. My mom kept our old home for a time after we moved and decided to rent it out to earn some extra money. A family of four move into our old house - a couple of late-20's and their two children, one being a toddler. Things went alright at first, but over time I kept overhearing my mom venting about how the couple would either be late on paying their rent, or not pay at all. Eventually she decided to have them evicted when I was around 16, and the two of us went to the house to get it ready for new tenants. The state of the place was horrifying: Trash bags everywhere, carpet in the bedrooms needed complete replacements due to stains of unknown origin (and of several different colors, mind you), and the stench was so bad that I had to out into the garden and get clean air into my lungs ever 30 minutes (also the grass had grown so much, we believed they rarely, if ever mowed it). I was horrified to see my childhood home in the state it was in, and I honestly worried about the well-being of that couple's kids. It took my mom and I a whole week to get the place cleaned out and ready for sale again.

Yeah, no - someone who is off his meds threatening to burn someone's house down and swinging around a samurai sword beside someone's car is absolutely a danger to that someone (the OP for that story brushing the crazy dude off as just being theatrical is an idiot for thinking he's harmless just because the crazy dude didn't directly threaten them. It's that kind of mindset that ends up with someone getting seriously hurt).

The mailman giving out the forwarding address is most likely doing something illegal. My wife is a retired rural mail carrier and says was rarely asked and referred them to the postmaster. There's no reason to ask, really. Any first class main goes through the system, gets a yellow sticker for the new address, and is then forwarded. This is all in the US so unsure what other mail services would do.

The reason la dlords can't all be like the landlord in story 6 is precisely because of people like the subjects of all these stories.

My Gpa had to clear out like 20 feet of underhouse sewer pipe because the previous renters stuffed paper towels and cloth towels down every drain on their last day. No problems before that, they always paid him on time, never complained to him about anything, he was (and still is) a believer in preventative maintanence, and would do his best to work with tenants. Still have no idea why they did that, but I'm still upset with them for doing that, partly because I was one of the people called in to help, but mostly because my Gpa is a genuinely great person and they intentionally cost him for no reason.

Ohh god it’s usually the landlords being from hell

i really like cats so i almost started crying when 16:17 played. as soon as “cat” popped up i knew it was bad.

Idly wondering if the descriptor of the muscular silent guy being black would have still been a problem if he _hadn't_ also been a criminal...

I have a story for this. I worked on an eviction case where our client was evicting a tenant due to behavior (loud arguments late at night, believed to be doing drugs in the apartment, etc). While we were waiting for the eviction to go through the courts, one of the other tenants told mentioned the police showed up in full body armor. When our office looked into it, we found out that the police were there as a backup for Homeland Security and the FBI, because Homeland Security had an arrest warrant and the FBI had a search warrant. During the course of the search, they had found more than 30 illegally own weapons on the property and took him into custody. To this day I wonder what happened to that case and what he did to alert Homeland Security

Heyo I'd like to request a small little thing for the description, that you guys mark what games you show in the background! A few of those looked really intriguing so far and it's a shame they are not mentioned.

Watching to make sure my family isn't someone's renter from hell story. I'm pretty good, it was my wife (now ex thankfully) who caused the issues. Just blowing money, saying she paid bills but then stuff would get turned off, she even claimed that her brother who owned the house had broken in and stolen the rent receipts, and on and on. I went along with it because she was my wife, why would she lie about this stuff? Because she was drinking, mostly.

My gram passed away, we rented her house after renovating it. A few years later the original tenants decided to move and not tell me. The laws in our area say that you can't show up whenever you want so you can go 1 time a year unless you're doing repairs or there is an emergency. Well they never told me when something broke and there was never an emergency so I'd go once a year to check things out. It was fine for 5 years, year 6 they'd moved out, subleased the house and when I went other visit that year my mom (who was the actual owner but lived out of state) went with me. We were so mad. There were 15 people living in the house, it was just over 1000sqft so a small house with 1.5 baths, so not nearly enough for 15 people. In the year since I'd been there the original tenant built a bathroom and converted the garage into 2 bedrooms and built a little shack in the back (I say shack but it was actually pretty well built, but not up to code and not permitted). my mom blamed me, like I would have been able to prevent that, it was all done in less than a year and mostly interior so I wouldn't have seen it if I drove by and I did drive by on occasion but from the outside it looked normal and there weren't tons of cars so I didn't think it was that crowded, anyway. When we got into the house the dish washer was crooked and they said it didn't work. I asked why they didn't say anything, they said well we just wash the dishes by hand anyway. The hood over the stove didn't work either, I asked about that and they said we don't know. I was like, why didn't any of you tell me, I knew these people. I wasn't friends with them but I'd met them years before the original tenant lived in the house. They were friends of friends. I went on Facebook and looked up the tenant, he'd moved out of the country a few months before and didn't tell me. This caused a huge fight with my mom and I. They were paying the rent, they'd deposit it in the bank, the bank was 5 mins away so they never sent a check or anything and the bank doesn't tell you who's depositing cash, just that you have cash in your account so I didn't know they were living there. It wasn't a whole year either, just a few months and legally I had no right/reason to go in. The place was super dirty, not like trash all over but the walls were so dirty, looked like dirty hand prints all over. My mom wanted to sell the house, that's why she was there visiting. She lost $100,000 on the price due to the damage and undermined structures. She had to sell for so much less because she didn't have the money to fix it and no one would pay full market value. She blamed me. We couldn't even sue the renters since they were out of the country and haven't come back. My cousin (my mom's age) inherited my great uncles house, he has me doing property management for him and so far things are better. The renters send videos on occasion of the inside (we both live out of state) and last year I was able to go visit in person and the house looked as nice as it did when we rented it. They actually fixed up the yard a bit, something we didn't do since money was tight after renovation the interior and replacing the roof. They've lived there 5 years and we've had 0 issues. There are 5 people in this slightly bigger house and they're good tenants. When the dishwasher broke the one tenant is a plumber, he fixed it and told me how much the part was and I said cool, we discussed his payment, which he was like, eh I don't want anything and I said, I'll still pay you because I would have had to pay someone else. And he deducted the amount we agreed upon from the next months rent. I feel lucky with them. They're grateful for the nice house, which is 2 mins from the wife's job and 10 mins from their son and his family and I'm grateful they care about the house and don't think, well it's not mine I don't care. But the renters of my grams house, I know it could have been worse but omg it was heartbreaking to see her house like that and the fight it caused with my mom. We still don't speak (partly because of this).

Been watching every single hour long video. Something to listen to while at work.

47:47 Dammit, Underspark, you got ice tea coming out my nose for that remark.😂

Story 4, yes it's illegal, and the landlord can go after them even if it's past the deadline to claim damages because it was hidden not to mention malicious.

Story two sounds like a friend of my husband. A realtor who owns a lot of rental properties in Northern Colorado.

Rather Opposite: My Landlord held my living situation/weaponized IT against me & my roommate…🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🥲🥲🖕🖕

Really enjoyed this one. I like to read as well as listen and I LOVE the background you used in this, the other wizzing, zooming and spining makes me disoriented and when it is really bad I just give up, so keep up the gentler backgrounds and I will carry on logging in 😊 good job!

Having the mailman slip you the new tenant addresses is SUPER illegal, btw. Source: I used to work for USPS.

I worked in property management for about 7 years until I couldn't take it anymore and had to leave. I did of course enjoy the good people and the professional development gained from it...but man tenants are cray cray, landlord/management companies be crazy too.

thanks for uploading such quality content so often, i listen to these all day, they're so entertaining for the length!

Story 15: What does "devout Christians" have to do with anything? All it does is make the story sound fake because it makes the writer sound like he has an axe to grind.

Game in background is GRIS (highly recommended)

47:48 I shouldn’t have laughed here lol 😂😂😂

This is my favorite video because it has GRIS in the background

I lost an entire weekend watching the UK show *Nightmare Tenants and Slum Landlords* on RU-vid and Prime. I was surprised to find myself sympathizing with the landlords. Most weren't large companies but rather incidental landlords who had inherited a single property to rent out. They were devastated both financially and emotionally by tenants who refused to pay, and they couldn't legally evict them for about a year at the least. One was a woman who let a friend, single mom with children, move in to help her leave an abusive relationship (supposedly). After a few weeks , enough to establish tenancy, the woman changed the locks after letting the ex move in. The landlord was homeless for over a year while still paying mortgage . Another was a man who rented below rate to help a family. Once they stopped paying it was almost 2 years of court fights and fees. When they left, they tore out the copper wiring, pipes, and hardwood floors.

People do intentionally spread bed bug infections, they can be used to make a psychedelic.

Story 20 reminded me of a French movie about an apartment building that gets infested with an exotic species of aggressive spiders that just keep getting bigger and bigger. The 60-ish year old Asian landlady/cleaner is not the protagonist, but damn if she doesn't steal every scene she's in, and escalate things almost as fast as the spiders, stopping just short of making a flamethrower before she gets spider'd.

It took me a moment to realize but you're playing Gris is the background! I love this game since it's about the 5 stages of grief. I'm replaying it this week and seeing it on a random video is so nice :)

17:50 Addict: "Are you the drug dealer?" - "No, i'm the drug counselor." Addict: *hissing noises*

One set of tenants that used to rent one of my parents' properties had torn doors off their hinges when they were evicted for not paying rent for at least two months.

5:25 as someone thats going to be a missionary for the LDS church, it disgusts me that missionaries do stuff like that. Please don’t let these hooligans ruin your view of missionaries. Not all are like that, and it would make their mission easier if people didn’t assume they are hooligans.

*man's *he'll *she's *there's *won't *that's

Didnt know satan had enough time to write these

lol it cracks me up that landlord horror stories are often like “my landlord stalked me, regularly walked in without notice, stole my money, made me homeless and still drives by my new house every week” and then tenant horror stories are usually like “tenant didn’t know how their breaker box worked!” Granted sometimes they trash the place and act insane but it’s just… man the power imbalance kills me.

Wait... crawling around the front yard with a shotgun isn't normal? Fuck. My neighbors must think I'm crazy.

love your videos ❤

The background makes me feel so hypnotized... @@ I really like tho

Wow the crazy lady with the cat door.....you just kept giving and giving to her and gave her absolutely everything she wanted. That's why she does this...bc people do as she says. 😂

I’m glad this is getting monetized and all but why are there SO MANY ads?! Edit to correct a typo

In my neighborhood loud music guy would come home one day to find his stereo and sound equipment smashed and burned.

Story 29 bothered me just at the end. I’m a preschool teacher I don’t make a lot of money but I’m clean and very organized and feel disoriented if things are out of place I take care of things very carefully and would never leave someone else’s home that I am renting badly. I house sit, baby sit, dog sit and plant sit for many people. I’m currently in my friends home as they are on vacation for the next two weeks and I did all the dishes in there sink even though they tell me not too.

Now do the tenants.

Story 26 saying he has a big boy jacket b wouldn't last 10 minutes behind a busy bar 😂

How is she supposed to rest knowing all that carbon monoxide is free to just slip on over on to her property??? BUILD THE FENCE!!! xd

Claim your "here within an hour ticket" here if you want to

35:37 “its my fault for letting in someone in with three cats” immediately followed by “the cats were not the problem and she kept them very clean” typical landlord logic

Non Mormon Mormons are par for the course, especially for missionaries since most have just reached adulthood and are away from their overly strict parents for the first time ever. It’s kinda like Mormon Rumspringa (only it’s not officially sanctioned).😂

my dad isnt a landlord but he is a tenant and when he first moved into his house the previous tenants had dumped everything from the fridge beside the garage in the yard there was also cigarette butts and needles thrown everywhere there was even a rusted needle under the bathroom sink we searched the whole house finding so many used needles and cigarette butts and spent idk how long cleaning up the trash from the front yard my dads gfs cousin stayed with my dad and them for a bit and said she used to buy drugs from the previous tenants there and not long after my dad and his gf moved in the house had been broken into when he was taking my younger siblings home and the previous tenants boyfriend had bragged about stealing it

14:00 that tenant is a neurotic sociopath with slightly weird, narcissistic, passive aggressive tendencies

What game is being played in the background?

the game is Gris, by the way. its a beautiful game

Yeah that tenant was manipulative but the real issue is how OP let themselves be manipulated SO many times!

Story 22: Did they rent out to Grian?

The parents in the last story sound terrible

I want a Kate thread

Story 31.. in europe the first punch would have ended the party😂

dont you have to pay an amount, th3 size of 2-3 months rent, beforehand in the us. you get that money back if the house is being given back on the same state

I don't see anything wrong with the tenant in Story 7. He's paying rent at a home that comes with an expectation to be able to drive to and from your home. Instead he has to pay more than he agreed to the landlord? Some third party that owns the parking space? Either way, he's been misled about the cost to live in a home where he can leave and return from work, leave and return from the grocery store able to transfer his groceries to his kitchen, etc. The landlord took advantage of him and others so he stood up for himself and who knows how many others. The only thing this tenant is guilty of is giving up before really taking it to that scumbag landlord.

Unrelated to the stories...what's the game? It looks fun

i got halfway through this and did a search for 'best tenant stories' or 'i had the perfect tenant' stories and...can't find them. i'm a renter and i try to be a good tenant.

10:20 genius

What game is this?

Can anyone recommend a Reddit story channel that makes no commentary?

In today's age, why would a rental unit NOT include a parking spot? And then why would you have to pay extra for the spot? I'd be pissed too.

Yeah renting is a terrible idea unless you’re extremely wealthy and own multiple buildings so you can offset the cost of terrible tenants. The amount of people who think buying one house to rent out is a good way to make money don’t know what they’re getting into.

22:31 thank you! That's always what I say, if the race or ethnicity doesn't matter to the story why even mention it?

S6 or 5 yes she's manipulative some ways but op is trying too hard

Hey, thats all

What game is that?

Does anyone know what the game is playing in the background? 😅

When my brother in law worked for an apartment complex hed hire me my brother and one other person to clean out this one apartment a heroine addict was in and that place was gross roaches everywhere trash pilled high to the roof in every room it was horrible it took us forever to clean it out oh and when we did clean it out me and my brother in law went in fixing it up and when he went to clean a fan light fixture a heroine needle fell on him with eroine in it and we had to call the cops 0/10 dont recommend

Ok but what game is this

Calm down🤣🤣🤣 bruh if dude is a big muscular black dude then that's called "detail" I too am a larger muscular black dude and trust me it ain't that serious

How’s that face reveal coming along?

Why would a grow house not have snow on the roof?

22:38 maybe it just me but I don't see a problem with mentioning he was black a least in the way it was mentioned. It did not appear to be an attempt to be racist and OP just seemed to be describing the person maybe it was something that did not need to be mentioned but there did not seem to be anything malicious about what he said or how he said it.

14:07 14 minutes and 7 seconds

Can’t watch this time, i’ve got a stream to watch, I still love your content 🎉🎉🎉🎉

hi

I'm anti-landlord on principle, but these are out there

Bro describes a person and bro is like "that just wasn't necessary" lmao. Bro thought real hard abt that one

better question would be landlord horror stories. they are the spawn of satan.

Gta lab in the basement

The biggest horror story is tenants not paying their rent or bills…having a roof over your head ain’t free, ain’t nothing free in this world. Ps. I’m not a landlord, I’m just tired of people complaining they want free housing

22:29 Narrator can't hande a description of someone literally no one else had a problem with it, obv the OP didn't have any malicious intent by adding that

100th comment lesgooo

Did you seriously have a problem with him giving a description of the roommate? There’s nothing wrong with saying a person is black, white, green for the sake of describing. Do you have a problem with black people? You made it very awkward by making a point of calling that out, dude. Very cringy

I was trying to feel bad for these landlords but the fact that they're the same people charging $2000 a month for a studio apartment makes it feel more like cosmic karma.

Narrator, why do you have issues with black people?

owning property is not a job, it’s exploiting others for their basics needs while making it impossible for them to own said needs.

this whole vids cap not sayiong the p;erson dubing is bad guy but these stories are fake

Non Mormon Mormons are par for the course, especially for missionaries since most have just reached adulthood and are away from their overly strict parents for the first time ever. It’s kinda like Mormon Rumspringa (only it’s not officially sanctioned).😂