'She didn't get to keep anything': Cheap new tenant gets what they pay for when the previous occupant strips the apartment bare on move-out day

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Apr 4, 2024 6:00 PM EDT

Sometimes you've got to take everything but the kitchen sink to send a message to a mooch, and when it comes to entitled new renters taking over your beautifully manicured apartment, that goes double! For the tenant in our next story, living in the Netherlands meant that renters were responsible for the beautification of their living space–meaning they paid for flooring, gardening, extra doo-dads in the kitchen, and even landscaping. But for u/SteadfastDharma, a lady with a keen eye for decorating, she wasn't going to let her crafted apartment go to someone who didn't appreciate the value in her hard work. 

Scroll for the whole story of how one lady got swift revenge on the next tenant after they lowballed her offer to sell the beautiful apartment amenities. Heed this lesson of a Dutch woman who knew her worth and wouldn't settle for less.

Up next, here's another story of petty revenge where a contractor gets back at the lawyer who debased his project by being incredibly entitled.

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    "Everything was gone"
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    Posted by u/Steadfast Dharma Next tenant was cheap; wanted my stuff for nearly nothing. She didn't get to keep anything.
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    This happened several years ago. I rented from a social housing society, in the Netherlands. Over here the renter is responsible for flooring, wallpaper or paint, gardening themselves. I had taken great care and great pride in both decorating the house and growing a beautiful garden.
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    When I moved, I talked with the next tenant to see what she wanted to keep. But for a price of course. That's how things are over here. But she was cheap and refused to agree upon a reasonable price for the lot. I got the feeling she gambled I was not able to remove the lot anyway.
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    She gambled wrong. I gathered a bunch of friends and within two days everything was gone. Bare concrete floors. Bare concrete walls. Bare old dirty wooden stairs. The minimal kitchen. And the garden was just an empty, flat, black soil wasteland. Everything was gone including the 3mx5m wooden shed. The fence at the very back, gone. All the nice tiles, plants and flowers, bushes and a pear tree, gone.
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    I was very pleased when I closed the door of that house behind me one final time. Later I heard from a friend who lived a couple of houses down the road from that house, that the new lady was upset with how she found the place, but there was nothing she could do about it. Well, perhaps the lady learned a thing.
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    NoWillPowerLeft 48 min. ago Social housing with ownership? 1 Reply Share SteadfastDharma OP 41 min. ago Nah, it's different in the Netherlands from for example the US. You only rent the bare house, including the kitchen and the utilities. You have to take care of the rest yourself.
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    CoderJoe1 2 hr. ago I lived in housing on a military base where things were done he same way. My neighbor had added a concrete patio to the back yard, but the new tenant refused to give him the token fee he asked for it so he jackhammered it to rubble and carted it away.
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    Please leavemealone07 1 hr. ago Gotta leave it the way you found it! It is a military base after all/s 99 Reply Share Steadfast Dharma OP 2 hr. ago Good!
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    PistolPetunia · 2 hr. ago Haha, good for you. I would have rather seen it all thrown in a dumpster than given to some entitled mooch who thought they would lowball me into giving up my hard earned stuff.
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    6poundpuppy 2 hr. ago This really made me smile. So would have loved to see that woman's face when she moved into a barren cement box looking out onto flat black dirt. Hilarious!
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    JaccoW 38 min. ago I live in the Netherlands and have really tall windows and a ceiling that is 6 meters (~20 ft) tall. I paid a lot to have proper curtains installed. If I ever move out I'll ask a reasonable price for it but if they try to be sly I will go through the effort of renting equipment to take it all down. I already know just renting the stuff is going to cost €250. Good luck.
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    tatortot1003 - 2 hr. ago FAFO time 19 Reply Share Large-Client-6024 - 2 hr. ago There was something she could have done. She could have paid your price.
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    1stoffendment 43 min. ago Our family hosted a German exchange student and she told us that when you moved out it was expected that you took the flooring with you. I was astoounded, never heard of such a thing.
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    BTT-that was some sweet revenge there, although then again if you enjoyed your surroundings it seems reasonable to take them with you. FAFO as we say.
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    JimCoo1 27 min. ago Seller needed an extra night in the house despite completion being Friday. Told her she could stay - for a price! She exclaimed she wasn't going to pay to stay in her own house....my solicitor seemed to take pleasure in telling her it wasn't her house anymore! We negotiated on some shelving and curtain rails she wanted to sell me.
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    mycatsitslikeppl. 2 hr. ago So deliciously and satisfying petty!! Kudos! 11 Reply Share S1234567890S 1 hr. ago Lmao, this is the level of you pettiness I aspire to be . Great job!
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    EmphasisCheap8611 2 hr. ago Like the way you handle things! 5 Reply Share . Vicious_Lilliputian 1 hr. ago Good for you!! She was counting on you leaving things behind.
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    Secure-Adagio-3294 46 min. ago What happened to the plants? I hope they are well in their new soil 2 Reply Share .. SteadfastDharma OP 38 min. ago Sold them or put them in my new garden.
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    LibraryMouse4321 18 min. ago I love a good petty revenge story like this. It served that person right. It would have been even better if the cheap tenant had to see the bits from the garden in several other neighbor's yards afterwards.
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    Suspicious_Plantain4 13 min. ago In a place my husband rented, many years ago, he had to pay for his own heating oil. When he moved out, the tank was still half full of oil, so he asked the person moving in to pay him for the half tank. The new tenant flat out refused. Unfortunately, my husband didn't get any petty revenge at all he said he briefly considered putting nails in the driveway behind the new guy's tires, but that isn't the kind of person he is and he didn't end up doing it.
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    Legitimate_Mud6834 3 min. ago A similar thing happened to a friend of mine (Also Netherlands). Agreed up on a price for the floor and this guy texted the day before the handover he changed his mind, probably hoping he would leave the floor. Well he called me and a few other of his mates and we took it out in less than 2 hours. Pity, the floor was really nice.
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