Man Takes Nuclear Revenge On Karen Landlord

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Dec 5, 2020 8:00 AM EST

Shady and greedy landlords are the absolute worst. There's no denying it. What we have here though is a totally different kind of terrible landlord. This particular landlord put their tenant in harm's way with an inconsiderate demolition project, and a whole lot of other bad stuff. If you're looking for some more juicy landlord revenge drama after reading this tale, check out the time a landlord tried to keep a security deposit, and then a petty revenge ensued.

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  • 01
    Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/hasad802 • 2d 1 2 3 3 5 1 Refuse to pay $60 to fix my roof; okay; I'll close your building site down and cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars! Names, places and timeframes have been changed as per rules. Characters in this story: My friend (Who I will call Brian), Bullying demolition man we will call Keith, greedy property developer we will call Karen and the insurance assessor.
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  • 02
    Text - This tale of this nuclear revenge happened a while back and is a work in progress. It is too good not to tell and I will try and keep you updated down the track. Brian's neighbour is a typical greedy career landlord that left their rental house in disrepair. The poor tenant was living in the cold house, raw sewerage leaking on to the lawn and holes in the house that you could see light coming out of the house. After multiple requests from Brian, Karen refused to get any repairs done. When
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    Text - Brian and his wife with their limited funds were able to get sufficient lending from the bank and offered to buy the house and do it up themselves to improve the neighbourhood or rent it out as there is a massive shortage of rental properties in our local county. Greedy Karen did not want to sell, nor did she want to spend a cent on the house to remedy the rodent problem. She also did not care about the effect the house was having on aesthetics of the street.
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    Text - (It is important to know that Karen and her wealthy family have over a hundred rental properties and due to lax tax laws in this region, they do not pay a cent and can get tax write offs when their properties deteriorate then can claim on this as a loss- Long story short, some of them appear to be leaches on our society and are one of the reasons property prices are so high and rent prices are sky rocketing in our area. Her Husband is also the chairman of the states landlords association.
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    Text - Fast forward five years and Brian finds out the house is going to be demolished to make way for some new houses to go in on the small section. That's good news at least, though Brian and his wife were anxious about how smoothly the demolition would go due to the fact the houses are quite close to each other. This is important for later: Prior to demolition the company doing it had to get samples from all sides of the house to check for asbestos. Either Karen made it difficult for the comp
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    Text - Demolition day came around and Brian was concerned that no safety barriers had been put up to protect his house from falling bricks of the chimney nor was there anything from stopping dust and debris going all over his new deck and porch area. Later that day, Brian had the pleasure of meeting Keith. Keith is the demolition company manager that is well known around the district for only caring about money and has little regard for people or property. Keith was doing the demolition himself
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  • 07
    Text - Brian phoned up demolition man Keith to ask about what went wrong. Keith initially played down the damage... despite there being 200 bricks laying on Brians roof. Even with the damage done, no apology and the rude attitude of Keith, Brian kept his cool. "Since I did a little bit of roofing when I was younger, I can fix up the roof if you just get me four new sheets of roofing iron and we will call it even. Don't worry about paying for paint, I can sort that out when I paint the whole roof
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  • 08
    Text - "Not happening pal, your roof is f*cked anyway, Il'll get you a sheet of second hand roofing iron from my yard to repair the the damage on roof and I can come and hose off the dust off your deck and dog kennel". Queue the nuclear revenge. The revenge was not intentionally nuclear but Brian had a dilemma that his roof was damaged and he needed it repaired, there was rain and snow forecast later in the week and he shouldn't be out of pocket having to buy new materials to fix his own roof up
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    Text - Brian got in contact with his insurance company and due to the issue involving a roof, a building assessor arrived that day to assess the claim. The assessor would then be able to seek damages from the landlord or demolition company if he found them to be at fault. Brian also reported the demolition company to the local health and safety authorities due to their lack of safety precautions used when doing the demolition. The assessor got on to the roof with Brian and was mortified to hear
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  • 10
    Text - "Luckily thanks to covid we already have masks on Brian, this here looks like it is asbestos... I don't know how they got the sign off to get this house knocked down in this manner. You don't know at the time of being exposed to this stuff but if you breath in these fibres it can cause serious diseases later on in life including lung cancer. I'll get this sent off to the lab for testing and will be in touch".
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    Text - Fast forward another day and Brian was contacted by his insurance company. It turns out the side of the house that wasn't tested was clad in asbestos. Not just any bad asbestos, the worst possible type you can get. Insurance will be seeking damages to replace Brians whole roof not just the damaged part. The cost of replacement is likely to be around $20,000 USD. This is the cheap part. The demolition site has been shut down by local authorities and there needs to be a massive decontaminat
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    Text - The cost for this clean up will likely be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars but who will pay for this is unknown at this stage. Whether it is Keith or Karens insurance or them personally, time will tell. In regards to Brian, his family and their dog potentially being exposed to the asbestos, that is another battle for them to fight and I will keep you updated. brief update 1 I have just been on the phone to Brian for half an hour. His work place were very sympathetic and paid for hi
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    Text - Brian is worried now that the landlord is going to try make his life hell. She is also a lawyer apparently. Karen was the person that offered the old roofing iron apparently not Keith. She spoke to her husband who said that because the bricks dinted the roof it means it must have been rusty and old so doesn't need new iron put on. Keith did however go nuts at Brian for getting insurance involved and also the health and safety investigation unit who are currently doing the investigation. I
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    Text - Brian asked the investigation office person by phone about what to do about his dog and if they needed vet checkup etc. They were 1m away from the fence which is about a foot from the asbestos when it was broken up. They responded saying "do you think your dog will live more than 20 years? if not I probably wouldn't worry". Brian is also thinking the landlord is probably scheming revenge of her own. Brian paid for a new fence himself a few years back to border Karens rental as when he mov
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    Text - Brians plan is that he will pull the nice expensive fence down entirely and put 600mm high chicken wire mesh up as this is all that is required by law and there is nothing she can do about it legally as he paid for and built the fence. I will continue to keep you all updated. Also as I know the local newspaper editor I have offered to go with Brian to discuss this story with them once the investigation is completed if Karen tries to make life difficult and also expose Keith for his dirty
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