Twitter Thread: The Escalating Stress Of Emailing The Landlord

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mattstaff
Aug 30, 2020 2:00 PM EDT

This Twitter thread from @calebsaysthings captures that unforgettable, teeth-grinding frustration that many tenants have had with trying to navigate apartment problems with landlords that are terrible communicators. It's just the worst. 

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    Text - CALEB HEARON @calebsaysthings first email to landlord: "hey dave l'm sure you're busy and I hate to be a bother but we noticed..." third email to landlord: "Mr. Whittington-I trust that you're familiar with all local, state, and federal ordinances regarding the rights and expectations of tenants pursuant
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    Text - CALEB HEARON @calebsaysthings (the second email was just "any update?" with seventeen pictures of a window attached)
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    Text - Christo @christobarbour Replying to @calebsaysthings Did you end the third email with "govern yourself accordingly" ? I like that closing.
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    Text - XDonna I#3Stars4GenFlynn #FreeJulianX SHARIA LAW @donnamoon81146 WE DONT WANT Replying to @christobarbour and @calebsaysthings And when appropriate, Your silence will be deemed agreement-/approval, etc. Always fun. >
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    Text - The Meta-Author @metaauthor Replying to @christobarbour and @calebsaysthings I am also fond of this valediction, used by the Qianlong Emperor to George III (China was at this time colossally outmatched but the entire letter assumes Britain to be a wayward vassal of China located somewhere around the Ryukyus) expulsion. In that event your barbarian merchants will have had a long journey for nothing. Do not say that you were not warned in due time! Tremblingly obey and show no negligence! .
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    Text - amber @indicaluna Replying to @calebsaysthings This is literally my situation right now and I'm wondering when I should send the "third email" e
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    Text - nic @nicvargus Replying to @calebsaysthings "We look forward to improved communication going forward."
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    Text - jezebirb @TraceOddity Replying to @calebsaysthings I definitely pulled one of these on my landlord because we didn't have GFCI outlets in our bathroom and risked electrocution. >
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    Text - Sawyer Middeleer @SMiddeleer Replying to @calebsaysthings My first one of these was when I realized I could dim my lamp with a knob on my oven >
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    Text - jimmytwohands @jimmy_two_hands Replying to @calebsaysthings I broke out the "pursuant to" language when my landlord tried to take our deposit for a broken sink we'd been complaining about for ten years and cited the chicago rental code saying he owed us double our security deposit for not paying us annual interest on it
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    Text - sfhippie @sfhippie Replying to @calebsaysthings The door down the street where we were told to take our trash and recycling for the last several years had the locks changed, and my landlord has ignored all texts, emails, and calls about it for going on 3 months now. It's actually insane.
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    Text - Madeline Flores @destroyedcircle Replying to @calebsaysthings @ my last landlord who told me lcouldn't have my service dog. I told her he's a service dog and I legally can't be denied housing or my dog. She literally tells me "well this place just wasn't built for dogs, sorry you can't have him". Well I wasn't built to listen to bullshit e >
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    Text - scoot mctoots TM the trash baby @daintyscoot Replying to @calebsaysthings My collection of texts to my landlord about necessary paperwork that was supposed to be signed the day I moved out. It wasn't signed for 3 days after and on the phone call she dead said to me "We've been communicating with you" BITCH WHERE??? >
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    Text - M MidtownMeridian > before the end of the day that would be great!! Wednesday 5:32 PM I'm not comfortable relinquishing the property until all of the papers are signed so please get back to me. Yesterday 10:20 AM I won't be leaving the property until the papers are signed. Please send them to me ASAP.
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    Text - Yesterday 4:31 PM Do I need to come in there? l'm recovering from surgery and would rather not but the lack of response is extremely concerning Today 12:06 PM Y'all open at 10, I don't understand that lack of response. This is extremely worrisome Today 2:51 PM I'l be there Tuesday Morning at 10am. Please make sure Sandy is present, as l'm still recovering from my surgery.
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    Text - Can Do Rosie the Resister @RandomMuse Replying to @calebsaysthings When it literally started RAINING in my living room, I stopped with the emails and withheld my rent. That got their attention fast. Then tried to bully me in court for a year AND THEY LOST because IT SHOULD NOT BE RAINING INSIDE MY LIVING ROOM.
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    Text - Can Do Rosie the Resister @RandomMuse Replying to @RandomMuse and @calebsaysthings Also want to mention that their negligence and refusal to fix and trying to sue me for non-payment horribly backfired further when the city stepped in and did 3 emergency repairs on the roof, which cost them tens of thousands of dollars.
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    Text - Candace @ltsCandaceinCa Replying to @calebsaysthings My fifth email included "As I have not heard from you, please see attached receipt from the company T hired to fix problem, as I will be deducting it from next month's rent."
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    Text - K @K_Lou_Aloha Replying to @calebsaysthings Landlady from hell for 6 months who used to call me whenever she needed a fight! Wasnt til she started doing it to the agent, after I refused to take her calls, she got blacklisted by every agent in the town The built in fridge that was broken upon arrival NEVER did get fixed
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