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'His face went white when he saw me': Wannabe slumlord finally gets his comeuppance 10 years later from a tenant he never thought he'd see again

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    "10 years later I got revenge on my horrible landlord."

    LBAIGL

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    Long story short: landlord was a childish jerk to all of us. He had us sharing about with 4 other people and charged us double while his spoiled son and girlfriend lived rent free. A few months ago, I had a lawyer contact me and ask if I remembered renting there, and if I'd testify against him.
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    Turns out, he wasn't the true owner of the property. His brother bankrolled all of the properties he told us "he owned" and in turn, the landlord was supposed to remodel on time and stay on budget to get the houses sold. Instead, he lived on and wasted the money his brother gave him, and pocketed all of the rent without his brother's knowledge.
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    his face went white when he saw me. And I tripped his lawyer up who asked me two weak questions then said he didn't have any questions for me. As I left the courtroom, I saw him from the corner of my eye sneer as I walked past and he very loudly called out to me a sing song voice BYE SARA right in front of the jury. Today I learned he lost the entire case. Petty Revenge activated.
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    BeautifulPhantom1 13 hr. ago Wow, wanna be slumlord couldn't afford his own places to rent. Glad you were able to testify against him and that he lost. 455 Reply Share ... Inside_Major_8078.5 hr. ago Agree. Unfortunately unless he actually owns something in his name, his brother won't see a penny. A lein won't work without physical property.
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    You_Are_My_No1_Fan 11 hr. ago I'm here for the pettiness Side thought... now he's been convicted you have cause for a civil suit to get your money back as the burden of proof has already been made and satisfied so as long as you can show your paid it should be pretty easy with a decent lawyer to get your misappropriated funds back possibly with interest... Worth looking into and I hope you get to activate petty 2.0! Good luck
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    LBAIGL OP 4 hr. ago . Unfortunately we all paid cash so this guy was pocketing at minimum $5K a month just off the one property (which was huge with 3 houses on it). He didn't count on me having old pics of all of us in the place or of all the parties he threw But I remembered he carried around a black notebook where he recorded rent and they found the book during discovery phase
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    aldorn 4 hr. ago Is that not the proof of transaction? Maybe that black book could be used to recover your money. You were not paying rent, you were being exploited 32 Reply Share LBAIGL OP 4 hr. ago • It's been 10 years, I'm not worried about the money at this point. Lesson learned though.
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    Consistent-Stand1809. 1 hr. ago At least you've got this memory of seeing his face go white. I wonder if someone got an appropriate photo of him that day that you can keep on your phone to be able to enjoy this for years to come
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    rebekahster 13 hr. ago "BYE Wannabe Slumlord!" whistles 48 Reply Share CoderJoe1 13 hr. ago Buh bye 8 Reply Share ...
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    Catnippjs1234 · 13 hr. ago What a jerk! Too bad you weren't able to get some of your money back. I hope his bro got a huge settlement!!!! Petty revenge served legal like!! 99 Reply Share LBAIGL OP 4 hr. ago . He did and more! I'm just happy to see him finally get what was coming to him.
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    crazyditzydiva · 12 hr. ago It must be so nice when Karma gives you the front row seat when she does her work. 26 Reply Share ... [deleted] 10 hr. ago That's a long time to have revenge in the back of your mind, after reading The reason, good for him, hope he had feelings of helplessness, and emotional sickness, a great lesson for other's thinking of using and treating people like trash for their own greed that one day the past will catch up to them.
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    DynkoFromTheNorth - 8 hr. ago What's his punishment gonna look like? Heavy fines? Jail time? 4 Reply Share LBAIGL OP 4 hr. ago . It was a civil case. Quite a large amount of money involved - the case has been ongoing for awhile.
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    LBAIGL OP 4 hr. ago He took advantage of us but he was also an angry man child that frequently threw fits, invaded our privacy, and we even caught him looking through our rooms. 1 Reply Share FewTelevision3921 - 3 hr. ago OK! now those things are worth getting revenge for and I hope his brother gets awarded back rent from him plus your rent paid as he was basically stealing from his brother.
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  • Sometimes you never think justice will be served, but then a decade later you get to see that karma at work front seat and center. That's when life really feels like it's giving you a break. And that's exactly what happened to Reddit user u/LBAIGL. She had been living with a wannabe slumlord as a landlord. She and her roommates paid the guy in cash every month and they would constantly have conflicts with him. He never did any of the duties he was supposed to as a landlord, so the house was basically breaking down. Plus, they constantly found him letting himself in with no knocking or prior announcement and they even caught him going through their stuff in their rooms multiple times. They were more than happy when they moved out. They continued on with their life hoping to put that past them, but the universe had other plans. The universe and karma had BIG plans, in fact. Read the whole story below! 

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