Renting a home is a challenging experience… living in a place that isn't really your own under some degree of scrutiny from a landlord whose assets your earnings are paying off… and that's in the best of circumstances. There are plenty of landlords who won't uphold their basic obligations of maintaining their property to liveable standards, charging you more and more in rent—yet, regarding their tenants as an unfortunate inconvenience to their "investment"—refusing to fix anything when it breaks.
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These scammy slumlords are only one of the many groups of grifters in this world who make a habit out of doing the wrong thing to separate people from more of their cash, only becoming more and more emboldened by years of reaping greater profit and only becoming more naturalized and complacent in their ways.
The surprising thing about these people and these situations is that it usually only takes one person, knowledgeable enough and with the necessary time, resources, and determination, to topple them from their position and expose their unethical practices—usually, the grifter is counting this. Counting on their victims lacking in knowledge, time, or resources—but their victims will never be lacking in determination…
This tenant had enough knowledge from their previous work experience to catch their terrible landlord off guard after their peaceable existence was shattered by changes within the rental company that saw new terrible policies coming into place. They managed to meticulously document every misstep from their landlord to the point where they knew they had enough on them to stop paying rent and press the issue further.
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