Woman Outwits Karen The Building Manager With Greenhouse Workaround

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Oct 9, 2021 1:00 PM EDT

This isn't the first time that we've encountered a tale centered on the nasty antics of a maniacal building manager, and we certainly doubt that it'll be the last time. In this case, it sounds like this narcissistic building manager was just looking for a way to assert their authority right off the bat. Unfortunately, the way that this Karen decided to assert her authority was completely uncalled for. The good news is that the tenant was more than ready to devise an ingenious way to work around Karen's BS. 

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    Font - r/MaliciousCompliance + Join u/Quitetheopposite_yes • 1d O 2 3 7 3 Karen, the building manager, probably regrets her wording I live in a housing co-operative. I have no idea if there is something equivalent in other countries, but I live in Norway. It's essentially where you own your own apartment, but the co-operative owns the buildings and the land. If you're going to make changes to the building you'll have to apply for a permit, otherwise it's generally do as you please, as long as yo
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    Font - a fit. She actually watched me spending three days assembling the green house, then the nest day she called me and threw a fit. Not because I put up a green house, but because I had used screws to fasten it to the patio for stability. Apparently, I was not allowed to use screws on the floor boards, as this was considered «changes to the building» in her mind. And, I had destroyed the floor boards. Never mind the whole patio was built with - wait for it - screws though the floor boards! Sc
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    Font - allowed. Not in the house rules, my contract, or in the national housing co-operatives law. But she was furious I had done this. I took a deep breath, and as I am quite creative, I immediately thought of a work around. I'll just put it on wheels, then. I made a big number of saying that fastening was essential, because otherwise the green house would not be stable enough to withstand wind. She said she understood this, but I had now ruined the co-ops property. And this was a really seriou
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    Font - My application was rejected, as I anticipated. But she worded the rejection exactly as I hoped she would. I was not allowed to put in a fastened green house, and she probably thought she'd been clever when she included that I was not allowed to put the green house on my front lawn neither. I had worked the «it needs to be fastened to be stable» angle hard, because I hoped she, as the Karen she is, would fall for that reverse psychology. So I proceeded to put the green house on wheels. I m
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    Font - Then I sent an orientation e-mail to the building manager with photos and videos of the sliding green house, with the rest of the board members on copy, where I explained in detail what I had done, and how every step was in compliance with the rejection e-mail I had received (which I of course included). I said the green house was now to be considered a piece of mobile patio furniture, just like my sofa and chairs were. And that I now considered this subject to be a closed matter.
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    Font - I have not heard a single word from any of them, it's been over a week. I think I got her. I can't imagine she'll find a loop hole that lets her legally dictate what patio furniture is allowed and not in the co-op, since the patios are stated to be for every apartment owners private usage. So when christmas comes, l'm planning to decorate the green house with lights. Make it pretty. Because every time «Karen» steps out of her front door, she has to face my patio where she is looking strai
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    Font - Edit: Thanks for the awards and upvotes, I am humbly appreciative. Some background: I'm a 39F. I've lived here for 10 years without a single complaint. Karen is the new building manager. Being the Karen she is, which means highly narcissistic female, she's using my green house as a way to establish her new found authority. Make an example. I didn't get HER permission, so the green house got to go. It's not about the holes. It was just the only argument she could use to get me to take it d
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