Landlord demands using tenant's apartment for showings, then backs down when tenant asks for rent deduction in return: 'He was never going to give us money'

The key to dealing with a greedy person is to find a way to speak their language.

It's not difficult to recognize a cheap person. All it takes is a 5-minute conversation with them to realize that the one motive that leads all of their actions is money. Every action they take is affected by how much money they would be able to save in the process, even if it means discomforting everyone else around them.

Now, if someone actually has to act that way in order to afford living, then good for them. Finding ways to save money can truly be beneficial for those who need it. Yet, we have come to learn that most cheap people are not really people who are struggling financially, but the exact opposite of that. The more money one has, the more stingy they get with reaching into their wallet.

Landlords, for example, are the best example for well-off people who hate spending money when they don't feel like it, which is the exact case of the landlord below. Every chance he gets to save a buck or two on his rented units, he will take it. He will do house repairs himself, even though he is not qualified for it, and he will guilt-trip his tenants into agreeing to "small favors" just so he can avoid paying actual money for them. And it's obvious that the guy has enough money to get by. After all, he gets paid rent from his tenants every single month.

The last favor he asked of his tenants was finally met with pushback, in an attempt to give the cheap landlord a taste of his own medicine. He wanted to use the apartment of one of his tenants for multiple showings so he could rent another unit of his. That means that he wanted free access to someone else's home for who-knows-how many showings, without giving the tenants living there anything in return.

However, the tenants finally decided to speak the landlord's language, and demanded rent reduction in return for his using the apartment for showings. As soon as he realized that it might cost him money, it didn't take long before he backed out of the deal.

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