Landlord demands tenant move out for not disclosing he had a cat when moving in, turns out she just wanted to give the apartment to her friend, so he took revenge by handing her the final month's rent entirely in pennies: 'That's roughly 190 pounds'

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Sep 12, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

When moving into a new apartment, it is important, as cat owners, to find out whether the place allows you to have cats or not. You don't want to hide your cat from your landlord, not even if it is so that you could avoid paying pet rent, which yes, it a ridiculous concept. If they don't want cats in their apartments, fine. If they want you to pay for the cats, it's up to you to decide whether you're willing to live there under those conditions. Don't cause trouble, not when it comes to your cats, that's our way of looking at things. Our cats are too important for us to risk them.

And this tenant… did not cause trouble. Despite his landlord claiming otherwise, he did disclose having a cat. And although no pet rent was demanded in the beginning, once it was, the tenant paid it. And still, horrible landlords exist, and this was definitely one of them, so although we don't support taking revenge too often, this time… it was earned. And also hilarious.

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    In the late 90s I lived in a pretty sweet apartment with a cool little turret room. It was a studio, but it was just me and a cat, so it worked perfectly. I loved the location, but the landlord was...difficult.
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    When I first signed the lease, she acted like it was cool that I had a cat, but one time when she came by with the bug guy, she saw my cat and demanded I pay her a pet deposit. I was like "you didn't mention that before, but cool. Whatever."
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    Things toddle along for a few more months, when I get a call: Landlord wants to come by and show her friend the work she did on the place before I moved in, because she was proud of doing it herself. Okay, cool. Whatever.
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    Landlord and friend come over, walk around the apartment for a few minutes, friend is gushing about how much she loves the place and what she did with it. Yeah! me too! There were def some sapphic vibes going on, so I'm thinking "good for you too!"
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    A couple of weeks later, my landlord calls and says "I want you out by the end of the month." I'm like "huh, wha?" And she tries to say it was because I didn't tell her I had a cat when I moved in, despite us having that discussion and me paying her the pet deposit when asked.
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    I explained this to her, she was adamant, tried to gaslight me, and insisted I had to get out. Turns out her "friend" fell in love with the place and was in need of a new spot BY THE END OF THE MONTH. She never told me this directly, but the downstairs neighbor heard them talking about it on their way out.
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    I ended up finding a much better place to land in a better neighborhood, so I wasn't screwed, but I was still incredibly pred over the whole thing, due to the fact that and dishonest she was so about the whole thing, so I delayed paying her that last month's rent until move out day because f her.
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    On that day, I decided to go down to the bank and cash in the rent amount (like $350, it was the 90s) for pennies. The bank gave me rolled coins, which I promptly opened into a couple of Kroger bags.
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    I moved all my sh out the day before, so I just met her there for a walk-through, and when she asked for the rent, I handed her the bags full of pennies. She got redhot ped and screamed at me, said I was going to have to wait there while she counted it (first she tried to get me to count it and roll it), to which I replied "Nah, b . I know how much is there. Call me if it's short."
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  • Good. on. you. That is all that we really have to say. Pet rent is silly enough as it is, and paying it is already ridiculous, but you did do it. And really, making them count the last month of your rent like this seems to us like a mild kind of revenge for throwing you out of your home for no reason the way that they did. 

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    icredsox Also $350 in pennies is not something you just place in a couple of Kroger bags. That's roughly 190 pounds.
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    Impressive-Bike-8126 OP Yeah, it was a lot of effort to be a . It was fun being in my 20s but it's not something I'd want to relive.
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  • Yeah, we did not think about how heavy that must have been to carry, and this only makes us appreciate it more. If it was half as satisfying for you to do it as it is for us to read about it, then we know it must have been worth every second of effort. 

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    Different One265 Legally, the OP could have stayed three months rent free while the legal process churned to get the eviction. Plus, it would have cost the legal and court fees. OP could have played victim and got free paralegal help. I would have found the new place and stayed in the old one out of spite and being petty.
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    SpaceLemur34 You're lucky you're landlord was stupid, because per Federal law they. didn't have to accept the pennies as payment.
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    durhamruby Totally depends on where OP is. In Ontario, in the 90's, pennies were legal currency. The forced moveout however was illegal and could have been challenged in Landlord & Tenant court.
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