Landlord fakes tenant’s signature on a forged contract, pushing enraged couple to file a complaint: ‘We were shocked, furious and frankly tired of this nonsense’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Apr 17, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Everyone who's ever had even the briefest encounter with a landlord adores them. It's the truth. And why wouldn't they? Starting with the name, the charming title of "lord of the land." Imagine some benevolent ruler taking on the unimaginable burden of overseeing the very ground you live on. What peasant in their right mind wouldn't want a lord to govern their meager patch of existence? Our tiny, insignificant brains couldn't possibly manage such complex responsibilities like fixing a heating unit or responding to emails. Thankfully, landlords step in to save us from ourselves, and we're all just so grateful for their wisdom.  

Some landlords, however, take their lordly duties to new heights, like this gem of a ruler who decided that when tenants demanded fairness, the only logical response was forgery.

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  • This masterpiece of a counterfeit included mismatched fonts, a signature that screamed fake, and references to an agreement from two years ago. A stroke of brilliance, really.  

    It’s moments like these that remind us why landlords are so vital. Who else would have the audacity to escalate disputes into creative crime scenes? Now the tenants, loyal subjects that they are, must involve the police, a fitting end for a lord of the land whose rule has transitioned from negligence to outright scam.

  • "Entitled landlord forged my husband's signature on a contract"

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  • Posting mainly to vent before I lose my marbles completely.
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  • For a while now we've been having a dispute concerning several things wrong with our place and he either refuses to do anything or says he'll do something and then is too lazy or greedy to follow through.
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  • Last January a new dispute began. Nearly annually we've had a maintenance guy come over to perform maintenance on the heating unit. This was
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  • No need to sign anything. It's already signed. So considerate.

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  • a major nuisance to us, because without prior warning there would be a guy at our door calling my husband and either him or
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  • me had to drop whatever we were doing and come home so the maintenance can be done. Later we found out this was because the company the maintenance guy works
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  • for would call the landlord to make an appointment and the landlord would just pick the first possible option instead of coordinating the date with us, but I digress.
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  • The real trouble started when we got the bill for the maintenance. In our country the landlord and tenant have to have agreements on who pays for what. Our landlord didn't talk to us about this, didn't mention anything or whatever. He just gave the
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  • maintenance company our info and they sent us the bill. This didn't sit right with me at all but my husband didn't want any trouble with anyone so he paid the bill, which wasn't small. Unfortunately, due to difficult personal circumstances, this happened thrice in total.
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  • The third time was last January. My husband paid the bill again, but I decided enough is enough. I started messaging the landlord asking to pay us back for all
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  • of the bills. I also spoke to a lawyer. All in all she said it's unlawful that he has no agreements with us and still makes us pay the bill.
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  • In the meantime the landlord came to my husband's workplace during work hours to "talk". In other words, he came to rant and yell at my husband. In his unhinged ranting and yelling (which my brilliant husband recorded)
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  • the landlord said that "if a lawyer says so then he'll pay us back". Ask and you shall receive, mr. landlord. I contacted the lawyer again. She sent him a demand letter and gave him a week to pay us back. Did he pay back? Of course not.
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  • After weeks of back and forth over email and me calling him out on lies and inconsistencies and at this point demanding payment, last week he tells me that he has no obligation to pay us back because my husband signed a contract with the
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  • aforementioned maintenance company. He also said we can ask them to send us that contract. Husband and I talked about this and came to the conclusion that it's unlikely as neither of us remembers any contract, let alone have a copy.
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  • The next day my husband calls the company to ask for the contract. Long story short they told him they don't have any contracts with us personally. They only have a contract with the landlord which obligates them to
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  • perform maintenance on heating units in all of his properties. He should have given us a subcontract that he'd have to make himself, which means the company wouldn't have it anyways. I
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  • sent the landlord an email telling him they don't have any contracts with us and once again demanding payment. This was Friday last week.
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  • This past Monday the landlord answered my email. It briefly said see the maintenance contract attached. Hmm, weird. I open the attachment. Oh, I see a contract, alright. First thing I see is the maintenance company logo. Mind you, a
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  • few days earlier that same company told my husband they don't have any contracts with him. Second thing I see is the opening paragraph of the contract being addressed directly to my husband. I
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  • scroll down to the last page and I thought "nah, that's not how [husband's name] writes". There was a written date and a signature. The handwriting was obviously not my husband's and the signature looked to me to be similar to his, but not his. I
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  • thought it looked very awkward, it didn't have the same flow my husband's handwriting has, if that makes sense. At the time I wasn't 100% sure though.
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  • When my husband got home from work, I showed him the contract. He immediately said it's not his signature. He grabbed some other documents he signed before to compare. He wrote down his signature on a blank piece of paper to show me how he signs. Clear as day, the signature was forged.
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  • Then we looked closer at the contract. We could see that the opening paragraph that addressed my husband personally was in a slightly different font than the rest. Then it also occurred to us that this contract only applies for only one particular year: 2023. Okay, so if this contract
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  • is only valid in 2023 and when signed by the customer the company is obligated to preform maintenance within that same year, then why did no one perform any maintenance on our heating unit in 2023? (Spoiler: because this contract is fake, that's why)
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  • We were dumbstruck, furious and frankly tired of this bulls. We started googling what to do in this situation. Most consistent answer we found was to file an official police report. The police will investigate and take necessary measures. So we called the police. We have an appointment tomorrow.
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  • I'm going to bed now. This turned out way longer than I expected but it feels good to get it out. If you read this far, thank you. If anyone's interested in an update, let me know. Shane Lizard out
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