Tenant Gets Unfair Fine, Pays In 37 Installments

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Eric Lund
Feb 20, 2022 1:00 PM EST

As mostly polite people, we put up with far too much. We pay our rent in a timely fashion, we follow rules, and we get in hardly any fistfights over buffet crab legs. But the powers that be try to take advantage of our generosity at every single turn. And what's crazy is that more often than not, we go along with it. Sometimes landlords and bosses don't realize that our polite compliance is negotiable. Sometimes it's important to show people who abuse their power that we have every right to be annoying too.

This tenant was just trying to make things more convenient for their neighbors, but management wasn't about that. So naturally, things got very inconvenient for management. Why do people have to power trip anyway? It goes to show that it doesn't take much to throw a satisfying wrench into the gears of the powers that be. For more people standing up against totally stupid fees and fines, here's a guy who got hounded for trivial debt and sent them a dime and here's a guy who mudded himself out of a BS car rental fee.

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  • 01
    Font - r r/MaliciousCompliance - Posted by u/almightygg 4 days ago 2 24 e 22 3 25 24 Management fined me for being a considerate neighbour so I made life difficult for them with my payments of the fine. oc M I live in an apartment building where everybody gets one assigned parking space per apartment as standard (you can pay for an extra one but we don't need that). Due to a history of bad parking in the car park they introduced a rule whereby you could be fined if you do not park in your allote
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    Font - Now my parking space is at the end of a row, on one side I have a wall about 1.5m away from the end of my parking space, on the other is the car belonging to the person who lives directly below me in the building. My 'under' neighbours are a family with three young children. Knowing how difficult it can be to get all of their kids into their car seats (I have two of my own) I have generally given them a bit of space and parked a little outside of the line on the opposite side, remember ne
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    Font - This is something I have been doing for months, I understand the need to enforce the rule where cars interfere with other parking spots or walkways but for me, parking a little outside the spot affected nobody other than my neighbour who was given more space to get their kids into the car. I walked down to my car recently to see a note from the management office telling me I had been fined, I went to speak to them and sure enough it was for parking outside of the space. I tried to explain
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    Font - Being quite riled up I went through the relevant contract and was dismayed to find that they were indeed correct, there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. I did however note that there was a statement in the contract stating that every single payment received by the management company had to receive a written receipt signed for by the management company within two working days, there was also no rules about me having to make payment of my fine in a single deposit.
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    Font - So, this is where the malicious compliance comes in. By this point there was 37 days remaining to pay the fine, so I divided the $60 by 37 and set 37 recurring payments of $1.63 daily for the time remaining with my bank, which was very little effort. After a few days had passed I went to the management office asking for my receipts. They told me they would provide my receipt upon full payment, to which I respond that the contract was quite clear, they must provide a written receipt for ea
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    Font - They tried arguing with me but it was completely clear from the contract so every couple of days they had to fill out receipts and then walk them over to my letterbox. I have continued to give my neighbour some extra space by parking sightly over the opposite line but as of yet have not received another fine
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    Font - Slightlynorth 4d This was a good one! I feel like most management companies are just looking to fine residents and didn't realize their rules can be just as inconvenient to them too. Well| done OP! 4 6.9k 3 Reply Share ... almightygg OP - 4d Cheers, I've had a few issues with them so it was nice to finally get the upper hand on something.
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