'[He said] he's going to evict us because of how ‘ungrateful’ we are': Guy exposes his scummy landlord's gaslighting tactics, rent-raising greed, and strategic naivety on video, goes viral

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jun 22, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

Of all of the criminal slum bosses that have become legalized in society, landlords must be the worst of 'em. Scraping the bottom of the barrel of quality and riding the coattails of their hardworking tenants, a lot of landlords have grown accustomed to a certain level of entitlement. 

Well, the landlord in our next story was exposed online in this telling video. After years of being a good tenant, this landlord decided to raise the rent on a guy who had let a few of the sketchier things on the property go by the wayside. However, once he received notice that his rent was going up (albeit with no improvements to the property), he decided to start taking records of faulty structures around the grounds–namely, a rotting deck that he and his girlfriend had fallen through… twice! 

After raising concerns to their landlord, this good tenant proceeded to endure some of the worst, most entitled landlord behavior known to man–gaslighting, greed, and strategic naivety–all to eventually get blackballed from the rental market after move-out day. 

Scroll for the video that went totally viral of a man's feud with the world's worst landlord.

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    "We fell through [the deck] twice"
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    Landlord claims back deck is "safe" CERTIFIED Landlord Repair Old story but I found the videos while cleaning my drives. A few years back I lived in a townhouse. Initially
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    the place was awesome. The rent was pretty low and it went well. A couple years later the landlord decided that he was going to raise the rent and in raising the rent I
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    decided I was going to start telling him about the problems with the townhouse. Leaky ceilings, doors not closing all the way, bad units, windows, you know, the works. However
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    the biggest issue was the back deck. Now we didn't go on the back deck very often, however when we did we always felt very unsafe. We fell through it twice before all
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    of these issues started after telling our landlord about it. Well I sent him a message telling him hey we're not going on the back deck anymore cuz we feel unsafe. I
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    immediately get a text message back saying that he's going to evict us because of how ungrateful we are. I won't lie to you I flipped out a bit. This went
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    on for months of us telling him he needed to fix it and then he started blaming the rot on leaves being on the deck. (Again this is after I told him that we are never
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    going back on it because we feel unsafe going on to it after falling through it twice) he came over and harassed us multiple times squared up with me jumped around like a
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    heathen on the deck, broke it and then tried to claim that he didn't break it. He texted me and called me a few weeks later telling me that he felt bad about that and that
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    he wanted to "talk". I was thinking okay he might actually want to rectify what he did because he realized that it was genuinely unsafe right? I was very wrong he
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    then proceeded to corner me on this back deck and stomp around on it shaking the entire thing. All of the while telling me that because of the way he treated the wood
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    with stain and that it should never rot. (Don't know where he got this stain from but I'm sure every carpenter in the entire world would love to have it) I eventually moved
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    out however he proceeded to contact every landlord in a 50-mile radius and tell them of what a horrible person I am. He withheld my deposit and everything and honestly I
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    just wanted to get the out of there and never deal with the dude again. However like I said I found videos from it and I actually compiled a little 4 minute and
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    20 second clip, I'll try to upload it here. If this kind of story isn't allowed please delete I apologize in advance I didn't see any rules on it.
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    BoiClyde OP. 7h ago Important side note, this guy is a licensed home inspector.
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    ComradeSasquatch • 7h ago "Normal cracking". That's a steaming pile of There is no such thing. If the wood is cracking, it it has lost its structural integrity, because it has shrunk from
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    excessive drying and age. This is just trying to make excuses, because he knows it will be expensive to fix such a horribly deck.
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    I have no idea how this moron ever managed to qualify as a home inspector. He is a danger to the community.
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    BoiClyde OP 7 hr. ago My thoughts as well. No f-ing clue. Dude is actually crazy in my opinion. Acted like a world class manipulator, hence why I started recording all interactions.
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