Landlord Won't Fix Broken Windows, Costs Landlord Thousands

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mattstaff
Aug 12, 2020 8:00 PM EDT

We have no idea what dark force compels the scummy landlords of the world to walk around stirring up trouble, and acting like they don't have to play the rules like the rest of us. Especially when it comes to respecting tenants' rights. So, any time we see the tenant pull through with the righteous victory our hearts melt in satisfaction. 

Check out another revenge story where a landlord wouldn't pay for electricity during the winter, and had to pay thousands.

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    Text - Landlord Refuses to Fix Broken Windows, Costs Him Thousands of Dollars and His Job Keeping things vague in this post on purpose. - My girlfriend and I moved into a house that had several broken/cracked windows held together with tape. The rest of the house was great and in perfect condition. The landlord promised to fix them ASAP. He kept promising to fix them month after month, with no action being taken. After 6 months I began recording his phone calls and had recorded him threatening t
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    Text - So, we got a lawyer and provided him with the recordings and pictures of the windows. We also contacted the City code enforcement Dept and reported some minor code violations that we noticed throughout the house. At this time, I worked for a medium-sized payroll and corporate compliance company who happened to do the payroll for the company that my landlord was the president of. Because of this, I could see exactly which laws he was breaking due to state and federal human resource and lab
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    Text - have a company handbook, labor board posters displayed, and didn't have various federal compliance reporting measures in place. Being in the industry, I knew the minimum fines for the slew of violations his company had would be about $730k due to the length of time they had been operating without these requirements in place for his business. So I reported his company to the appropriate regulatory committees knowing perfectly well that when shit hit the fan, they would look to him for answ
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    Text - issued a $10k fine for the code violations including the windows and required him to fix the windows. Now, anyone who knows windows knows you shouldn't replace one window at a time, especially when you have numerous bay windows in the house. This required him to replace windows in the entire house which ended up costing -$6k as there are lots of windows in the house. The legal negotiations ended after the windows were replaced. In my state, due to a clause listed in the lease, I was able
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    Text - We are now at $21k USD in costs incurred by the landlord for these windows. A couple months go by and Inotice he's no longer on the company payroll (again I worked for the company that did his payroll and compliance for his company) - when I called his company to verify we shouldn't be paying him, I was informed there were "organizational changes" due to fines brought against the company for a number of
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    Text - violations. When all was said and done the landlord paid $21k out of pocket directly for the windows and it cost him his job and his company at least $730k in federal and state violations. It didn't cost me a dollar in the end. I couldn't have been happier with the outcome.
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