Landlady Rents Tenant Fake Apartment, Pro Revenge Ensues

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mattstaff
Apr 28, 2020 9:00 AM EDT

Man, this landlady sounds like a massive piece of work. She was out there running around, renting fake apartments to unsuspecting victims, and stashing all that cash away in the process. Any time a tenant catches a landlord in the middle of their shady and criminal antics, it makes for one deeply satisfying revenge.

If you're looking for more juicy landlord drama, you can check out the recent story on the tenant who taught a leasing agent how a lease works. Or if that still leaves you wanting more, check out the time a dude's landlord threatened him with an eviction, so he went full Karen.

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    Text - r/ProRevenge u/Genius4Hire • 130d + JOIN 1 S 11 I rented a fake apartment, and accidentally got pro revenge... So this happened a long time ago, it's probably ok to post here. It was 2010 November 2009, and I was jamming to / Got a Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas, looking for a cheap apartment. I find a great ad in craigslist, and arrange for a viewing.
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    Text - I meet the landlady; a portly shrew with a Betty Page haircut. I wasn't here for the company however, but for the cheap room. It's not great looking, but it is cheap, so I tell her I am interested. She tells me the place is mine if I can get a deposit by end of day. Sweet. I rip to the bank and grab the $450 bucks needed; a half a months rent. She and I cross-sign a standard lease, and ask when I can get a key to move in, and she says a couple days as the current tenant has yet to collect
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    Text - I start to get angry. But I am a pretty cool customer, so I do the research, find out my rights in an unfamiliar new municipality, and discover that if someone backs out of a lease without a legal reason, the other party is entitled to double the deposit they placed, so I figure, she owes me about $900 clams. I leave more messages and emails. Again with the ghosting, not answering the phone, no responses via email either. I get fed up. Now, I had just accepted a new job, but it didn't sta
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    Text - I see her showing the unit to another smart Mark! I hold my cool, and wait for her to finish with her newest 'renter', and make my way over to the house to confront her. As soon as she sees me, she starts to wail about how the tenant changed their mind, blah blah blah, and that's why she couldn't rent to me. I've heard enough. I square my stance directly opposite this clearly upset charlatan. "Now you listen to me, you will get me $900 as required by law by the end of the day, or I will g
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    Text - She goes upstairs (the unit was a basement unit in the house she was living in), and I shit you not, hands me a wad of cash and says, "Here, this is ruining my Christmas, but here!". She almost pushed me off balance as she jammed the messy wad of cash into me. "Thank you. Good day", I say and take the money, count it, and walk away. I didn't turn around and look back, got on the first bus that stopped nearby heading back toward the direction of my friends' house. Not until I was home did
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    Text - However, this is not the end of the revenge. About a week later, I get a phone call from a friend asking me if the lady in the news is the same crazy lady I got the double damage deposit from.. I'm like whaaaaa? Sure enough, it turns out this lady was running the same scam in parallel with a bunch of other victims. I am mortified, not just because I almost got scammed, but it immediately occurs to me that the money I got was someone else's money, and they are homeless for the holidays! I
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    Text - I tell the cop, I took some of the money that belonged to the other victims, and she looks at me and says, "Man, you were the only one smart enough to confront her in a reasonable way, you earned that money. Don't worry about it". A young lady who was now homeless and desperate couldn't help but overhear, and as I am leaving the police station, she approaches me and says, "Hey, did you get your money back from that bitch?" To which I sheepishly reply, "Actually I got double my deposit fro
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    Text - Text - The girl blinks a couple times, and finally grins, starts a slow clap, and announces to the other victims still waiting to give a statement in the lobby of the police station, "This guy took her for double the damage deposit!". I cringed. But then, in the most unexpected turn of events, the line of victims began applauding, I suppose with the realization that while their money was gone, someone had really screwed her back, and that made them happy. They cheered, I felt better, the
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