'My landlords have moved in': Tenant lets landlords stay in her apartment one day, turns into all month

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jul 7, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

Landlords may be known for their shady practices, but a full-on role-reversal situation is not what we're accustomed to…

 

Before we get into this new drama, let's all take a moment to acknowledge that landlords simply should not be able to get away with most of their ridiculous antics. Whether it's raising the rent well above market value and refusing to negotiate or whether it's refusing to acknowledge your fifth email this month about the roach problem and the need for a major roof repair, we have all had these kinds of nightmare experiences. I remember my first adult apartment involved convincing my landlord that the ceiling leak had not been resolved given the fact that every time it rained slightly, the ceiling would completely split in half. The whole debacle was like pulling teeth and clearly, I still have trauma from how it all went down. 

 

So you can imagine that I was sympathetic towards the original author of this story when she divulged details of her feud with her landlords. She shared her story via this thread on Reddit's r/LandlordLove subreddit. She and her husband were vacating their apartment shortly when their landlords requested to stay one night on June 30th. Shortly after, they requested to stay until after July 4th, and then pretty soon it became clear they had no plans to leave soon. Given that the Redditor was still paying rent there and had all of her things there, she has the right to be more than concerned.

 

Keep scrolling below for the full story and an update at the end about whether or not she was able to kick her landlords out. For more stories like this, here's one about a neighbor feud.

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    Font - FOR REND "My landlords have moved in. During the last month of our lease."
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    Font - My landlords have moved in. During the last month of our lease. But it's fine according to them cause we arent using the space. They only had to move a bunch of our packing boxes. And use our electricity and water. And use our table. And use our babies toys. When I told them we are having a problem with this they just kept saying it's fine.
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    Font - So they showed up while we where out of town on the 30th of june. Texted asking if they could stay 1 night. Sure we want to be reasonable. They just informed us they will be here till wednesday maybe which is the 5th. Then be back saturday the 7th to finish the roof. They arent working on the roof today or tommorrow or wednesday just cleaning up. Then they will be back on the 15th. I ask for a day they dodge the question I asked again. Or three 4 day but dont worry.
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    Font - We gain posession of our house on the 10th last f time we are going to have to deal with a landlord. They also have our shed key cause they wanted to mow our lawn. They keep leaving it open for anyone to steal out
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  • 05
    Font - What you wanna bet they push us to move faster then we want cause we have somewhere else to go. I am trying to say postive. They have verbally told us we can get our june and july rent back. And the excess usage. Leta see if they did that.
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    Font - NoninflammatoryFun 2 days ago Get that you'll get the rent back in writing or tell them no. That's not okay. I'd do legal action. 166 Reply Share
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    Font - Choice-Operation-515 OP • 2 days ago We are trying they keep only saying it. And they are already moved in. Like bath mats on the floor fully stocked fridge moved in. 79 Reply Share
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  • 08
    Font - cowlinator. 2 days ago You could always threaten to sue. Or actually sue. You have a winning case. (This is not legal advice.)
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    Font - Choice-Operation- 515 OP - 2 days ago They are now saying they will only pay us back if we clean to their satisfaction
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    Font - cowlinator 2 days ago They're making up the rules on the fly. Go by the contract and hold them to it. They can't pretend themselves into a world where you owe them things that you don't owe them.
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    Font - iamjustaguy 2 days ago Tell them to get off the property until the lease is over. Is there someone locally that can help you? There's not much us internet people can do in this situation, other than give you sketchy advise based on a few paragraphs.
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    Font - Do what you need to to do to secure your property. They are illegally occupying your space, and you should never have given them permission to do anything while your were away.
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  • 13
    Font - Tell them to get the hell out, or suffer an easily winnable case (for you) in court. DOCUMENT EVERYTHING AND TALK TO A LAWYER!
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    Font - Choice-Operation-515 OP 2 days ago We are contact our rental authority tommorrow they where closed today. We have pictures of them living in our space. We are trying to be reasonable cause it just days. But it's been frustrating. Because they didnt repair the roof it leaked. So the house is now full.of mold making.me sick. The dryer is broken so we have to go downstairs where they have set up to dry our Landry. And we cloth diaper so we have a load ever day or two.
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    Font - Fresa22 1 day ago get it in writing. even a text. send them a text saying thank you for agreeing to return our june and july rent since you've been living in the space. even if they don't respond you are better off than verbal. You can point out that they didn't say "what are you talking about?"
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    Font - Choice-Operation-515 OP. 13 hr. ago Bit of an update. We got them out. When they started planting flower and moving stuff in our yard we knew they planned to stay the whole month on our dollar. We told them they had 1 hour to get out and cant come back until the end of our lease. Now we can finally.take our baby to play in the yard again. The rental enforcement agency we spoke to said it was a first them. They have never had a landlord just move in.
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    Font - We do have to be prepared they are back Saturday but before they come we are going to explain access to the house is done at 9pm. We understand they have to fix the roof. But they cant move in.
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    Font - We will see how this goes. Hopefully I am not back in a week trying to evict my landlords again.
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