Landlord gets even with entitled tenant who used to be her frenemy in high school

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Mar 15, 2026 8:00 AM EDT

Anyone who was picked on in school dreams of what would happen if they were in a position of authority over their former adversary in the future, but few of us actually get to see that dream come to fruition

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  • A sign posted on a window saying “For Rent” outside the property management office of the apartment complex.
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    A sign posted on a window saying "For Rent" outside the property management office of the apartment complex.

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  • This 25-year-old landed a gig managing a series of low-income properties in a massive apartment complex. One day, she realized that the new tenant moving into one of those apartments was, you guessed it, her high school enemy. While she had hoped that this woman had matured and grown over the years, it turns out that she was just as entitled and difficult as she was in high school. However, this time, the person with more clout wasn't the entitled popular girl. It was her landlord.

  • "Epic Revenge Against High School B*lly"

    I'm not petty or one to normally take revenge but I inadvertently became the landlord of one of my HS b ies.
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  • At this point I was 25 and well past HS and it didn't even phase me initially.
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  • I was young and had a big heart, we had massive low income properties which I managed for an absentee owner.
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  • I was the type of landlord that would take in people running from a bad situation and furnish their home with donated furnishings.
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  • I would buy tenants meals, work out payment arrangements if they couldn't pay rent by giving them odd jobs or spot them some cash when they ran into a jam.
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  • Tenants absolutely adored me because of the good I did for everyone. So anyways this girl for some bizarre reason tried to start a fight with me in the lobby of the building where my staff and tenants witnessed the interaction.
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  • I told her to grow up and I wouldn't be taking any disrespect from her now that we're grown adults.
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  • However she sealed her fate, as word got around the entire building of 200+ units turned against her.
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  • An annoyed tenant folds her arms in frustration.
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  • We all would like to hope that old wounds heal over time, but it's important to remember that the landlord who shared this story is still just 25-years-old. It hasn't even been a full decade since she graduated high school, so those painful memories of being picked on relentlessly by this woman are probably still very visceral to her. 

    As such, it's hard not to empathize with her frustration, both at what happened in the past and at having to deal with her so many years later. However, this time, the landlord had the support of all the tenants in this apartment complex, who had grown to value their presence in this insular community. In other words, there would be strength in numbers if the landlord chose to enact some petty payback for all those years of unnecessary comments.

    Well, it's safe to say that the landlord was happy to lean on the kindness of her other tenants for said revenge.

  • Someone made a c e poster and cemented it on her door, another tenant left heavy machinery going over her head and left for the weekend, people were heckling her anytime she walked through the building.
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  • After about 2 weeks she came and begged me to let her out of the lease, I let her go for her own safety and because things were escalating.
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  • Come moving day I had my revenge, I mysteriously lost the elevator key that day just as the movers showed up.
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  • She went ballistic, was kicking my office door and throwing a tantrum as I just smirked at her.
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  • My 1 petty moment in life, I'm now much older and that was probably a bit much but that girl really brought it on herself.
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  • The landlord holds the elevator keys she “conveniently” forgot.
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    The landlord holds the elevator keys she "conveniently" forgot.

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  • Several members of this online community applauded the landlord's machinations, but some expressed valid concern over how forgetting the elevator key would become a major headache for the actual movers tasked with carrying the tenant's furniture. They didn't exactly deserve to be on the receiving end of this plot! Keep scrolling below to see what these commenters had to say.

  • Solabound-the-2nd I feel for the movers here, poor peeps had a much harder time because of this. I hope they had good compensation.
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  • Educational Pie4385 Original Poster's Reply Truth be told I didn't think about it at the time but where I am it's always paid by the hour not by job.
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  • manmountain123 What did she do to you in high school? How did she become your tenant ?
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  • Educational_Pie4385 Original Poster's Reply I took over as building manager and she already lived in the building, I found out she was a tenant when she came to pay rent. She was just nasty, one of the typical mean girls. It didn't help I wouldn't stand up for myself, I had a rocky home life and was petrified social services would get involved and separate the family if I fought back.
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  • NeuroDawg You weren't a landlord. You were a property manager.
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  • Educational_Pie4385 Original Poster's Reply Administrator with POA over the foreign owners, pretty much the same thing other than being filthy rich though obviously I was well paid
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