Slumlord Won't Let Company Out Of 5 Year Lease, Gets Just Deserts

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Aug 29, 2021 5:00 PM EDT

There are far too many slumlords and greedy landlords in this world that try to pull fast ones on completely well intentioned tenants. In this case though, the company that wasn't being let out of their five year lease managed to pull a swift and highly effective pro revenge on a slumlord who quite honestly needed to get their just deserts at one point or another. If this pro revenge tale got you going, check out another pro revenge tale about this Karen who got evicted, lied about her eviction, and then ultimately lost to the landlord in court who had to use the old lease on file.

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  • 01
    Font - r/ProRevenge + Join u/MysteriousTeaching30 · 18h 8 e7 3 5 2 Slum lord won't let the company out of a 5 year lease. I get the building condemned. To start: This is about the company I work for and a trip I took because I had to wire a building for a computer network because the building owner wouldn't. Backstory: Our company was moving a remote site to a new building. As the IT guy for the company, I was asked to look at the new building and get network ports marked out. The landlord refus
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    Font - It's about an 8 hour drive, and I was doing about 30 drops. Not a ton, but still, a few days work in someplace that's already built up. and its drop ceiling with insulation on top. Messy, itchy work. Story: Day 1. We get there Monday morning at the start of the month. It's actually a cool summer morning, and we're from further south, so no one notices the AC not working for about an hour. Slowly, the building begins heating up. It gets to 80 by noon, 85 at 3 PM. The rooms with floor to ce
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    Font - Day 2. We're getting agitated. Its 80 degrees in the AM when we first walk in. Its sweltering. The other guy that came up with me is the facilities manager. He's screaming at people over the phone to fix the f**king AC. We're all exhausted from the heat by 3 PM. I found a 4 foot hole in the ducting when I opened the ceiling tile. The AC was blowing, but there was no cold air. We are told the compressor is broken. Day 3. More of the same. Miserable in the morning, I'm finally getting the l
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    Font - Day 4. Still no running water to some areas, still workers on site, the AC can't keep up with the noonday sun, and it still hits around 80 by the end of the day. AC runs continuously. We're packing up all the stuff we moved in and moving out. I notice all the fire sprinklers look like they have moved, and the metal protection around the drop tile has fallen to the floor. The sprinklers are no longer protruding from the tiles in places, in others, they are quite a bit lower than they were.
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  • 05
    Font - both agree we're kind of f**ked. We are desperate for any way out. I start looking at the fire system (I used to run all kinds of low voltage lines, fire, security, etc). There is no fire panel in our portion of the building. No smoke detectors are hooked up to anything. More red flags. One of our employees that was moving the heavy gear says "Oh yeah, I meant to mention, never saw any building permits anywhere" DING DING DING. They did this buildout, including demolition, running new plu
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    Font - Day 5. I wasn't here for this part, but the facilities manager told me this: "The city inspector pulled the permits for the building. There weren't any. He finds multiple violations of city code. Red tagged our area, removed the certificate of occupancy. When I told him to check the fire system like you said, he just goes 'Oh no, no, no, I have to make a call'. He calls the fire marshal." Day 8. Fire marshals arrive on scene. Find no active alarm system in our portion of the building. Red
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    Font - Basically, they wouldn't let us out of the building because we signed a lease, even though they never delivered a building in any semblance of working order. Called the building inspector, got them smoked, who then called the fire marshal, who condemned the entire building. They are still trying to fight us over it, but we're pushing for them not only refunding our deposit and the rent, which they have already done, but for all the time spent moving gear in and out, and all the wiring. Ou
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