Tenant Takes Revenge On Evil Landlord

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mattstaff
Oct 4, 2020 10:00 PM EDT

Nothing melts our hearts like seeing an evil and maniacal landlord get righteously taken down by a tenant who simply had enough of their BS. It sounds like this particular landlord was a waking nightmare. Like, my dude, you cannot walk into a tenant's apartment without giving notice. There are laws in this strange existence that we call our own. 

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    Text - r/ProRevenge u/ArizonaAvenue • 107d + Join Revenge on Evil Landlord When I was in University, l'd heard stories about horrible landlords of student housing but hadn't experienced it myself... Until third year, when it felt like we got 3 years worth of shitty landlords all in one go. It began when I heard noises in the wall behind my bed at night, I brushed it off for a while until I realised that it was an animal in the wall.
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    Text - I told the landlords the next day, and they immediately played dumb, acting as if I was stupid in front of my housemates for suggesting that something could fit inside of a wall. That was the first alarm bell, why immediately try to embarrass me into dropping it? After explaining that I know what a cavity wall is, she asked if we'd seen anything in the kitchen (oddly specific, we didn't think about it until later). From then on her husband delt with us, we weren't aware that he was our la
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    Text - The rat disappeared into a hole in the (completely crumbling) kitchen wall and the landlord claimed that we made it up, and that they'd never had a rodent problem (I contacted the previous tenants through facebooking names I found on letters for them that had been posted to us by mistake; the property had had a rat problem for the last 3 years before we moved in at least). I set a rat trap and caught one, took photos, and sent them to the landlord to tellI him to sort the problem out. He
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    Text - To cut the rest of the setting the scene part of the story short; we called the council who sent a pest control team, while on their visit one of the men took my housemate to one side and told her that our landlord is evil and he is known for getting nasty. They told him that it wasn't our fault that there were rats, it was his, and he screamed in my face until he was bright red about how I was a terrible person and was trying to take him down for no reason (one of my housemates had to le
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    Text - It was written into our contract that we had to be notified 24 hours in advance if anyone needed access to the house, which included house viewings. I began my mission; stop any other students from getting stuck in this hellhole. The house was being shown by agents so it made it fairly easy. I left the rat traps in prominent places, casually explaining why we needed them if asked, and if I felt I was being too subtle, making a fake show of "oh gosh, please ignore the rat traps! The landlo
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    Text - The agents never said anything to me directly, and because we had to be notified I could always make sure I was home when there was a viewing (my housemates fully supported my revenge, but I was the woman of action in the house, when I'm sure l'm in the right I will do what's necessary to make things right). That was until they tried to turn up unannounced one day, not even knocking, just unlocked our front door and walked in. Luckily I was in the house, and kicked them out for not inform
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    Text - No new tenants had signed for the house by the time we were free of that hell hole, it's been two years now though so I have no idea what happened to the rat house. ETA: Firstly, I can't believe this post got so popular! This is my first post on reddit so thank you had a lot of people asking where this was because they had similar experiences, at the risk of him seeing it (and trying to sue me again) it was in Southampton. Apparently there are a lot of similar (shitty) landlords out there
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