Shady Landlord Defeated By Moral Enforcer

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mattstaff
Sep 29, 2020 11:00 AM EDT

Oh boy, this tenant literally didn't give up until the slimy landlord saw life as they knew it upended. This just goes to show that knowing your tenant rights can be an absolute game-changer when it comes to dealing with landlords that are trying to pull a fast one on you. Unfortunately, that's not all too of an uncommon occurrence. For more juicy landlord drama check out the time a landlord refused to fix some broken windows, and then it ended up costing him thousands of dollars.

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    Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/lilliesdaddy • 1y I wont give up til you are no longer a landlord Special thanks to the reditter who helped me to learn proper formatting. u/Rhamona_Q. Warning! This is a long read but the comments indicate it may be worth your time to read. I regretfully got an apartment with what is in my opinion the worst landlord ever. This man, I will call entitled dick or ED, has the audacity to call himself a good person in court. Let me fill you in. I got an apartment shortly
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  • 02
    Text - All was well for the first few months, then winter hit and the heat went out. It took three days to get ED to even answer his phone. By that time his voicemail was full of complaints from his freezing cold tenants. He told me the law gave him reasonable time to fix it. We went two more weeks with no heat using our stoves and camping in the kitchen in our respective apartments. When ED got his electricity bill he attempted to raise the rent on the apartments. Obviously he was not allowed b
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  • 03
    Text - This is where my OCD kicked in and I went full research mode. I studied every law in regards to federal, state and city landlord tenant laws and rights. I found so many violations it was no longer funny but scary. I studied building code, I studied the condition of all of his apartments. This was easier due to the fact I was either friends with his tenants or had gone there to repair damages caused by frozen pipes and electrical outlets failing due to shoddy wiring and so forth. ED had pi
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  • 04
    Text - But ED had his own plan. January 2nd at two AM I was awoken by the smoke detectors in the whole building going off. I quickly ran to the back hall because no smoke was in my apartment yet but I was on the top floor. I opened the door and was greeted by a thick wall of smoke. I quickly ran downstairs after shouting for my GF at the time to get out of the house quick. I pounded on every door and screamed fire. I got as many people as possible to evacuate but the floor with the fire no one w
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  • 05
    Text - Two weeks later the results were released. ARSON! The tenant had used hairspray to start the fire and hid the evidence in a hole she punched into the wall. The very person who had been given money by the landlord. Ironically she was the only tenant who had paid rent in the whole building because she had started moving in two days prior. I had not known she was now a tenant and her sister and kids had moved out the day before. I looked at ED and told him "I know what he had done" and I was
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  • 06
    Text - I formulated a new plan. I sucked up to him and made it known I am a computer tech. ED had a few broken computers and some printer and network issues. I was in. We worked a deal on payment for back rent. I knew he was not good for his word but it was all part of the plan. Once I got his passwords and logins I copied his entire HDD to my portable one. I copied all emails in his business account and printed his financial records on my wifi printer which was next door. After I "fixed" his co
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  • 07
    Text - The next month I was given another eviction notice. Still he is losing money due to the fact I was teaching his tenants landlord tenant rights and the laws associated with it. ED kept losing his court dates and kept being told to fix stuff and was continuously fined by the courts and the code enforcement. He was sinking fast. Back to that fire, the woman living there was arrested for arson and charged with two counts due to the "accidental" electrical fire on New years day turned out to b
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  • 08
    Text - Needless to say spending the winter without heat took a toll on us tenants. We bought electric heaters and informed the power company that the landlord had shut off all the power to all his building and was requiring the tenants to pay for their own power. Well apparently his illegal wiring caught up to him. He had wired apartments to run off each other and the common areas were now attached to wiring in every apartment. This put ED in a rough position as local law says it's the landlords
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  • 09
    Text - ED was panicking. He kept losing in court, people were legally withholding rent, he couldn't shut off services, and the fines were debilitating. He kept blaming his tenants and refused to repair things. One by one the buildings were condemned and ED was required to pay for relocation of his tenants by law. Well he didn't. He couldn't! He was arrested for attempting to sell three buildings the city confiscated from him and for selling one that was condemned. ED got what he deserved. He los
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  • 10
    Text - I have since gotten a new apartment and everything he owned has been taken by the city, state, and IRS. I have not seen ED in three years and all of his properties have been bought by someone new, repaired, and have all new tenants who are happy with their new landlords. The old tenants got better places with decent landlords. And what about our wonderful entitled dick? He is serving multiple sentences for the crimes he has committed and is already not getting out anytime soon yet the inv
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