Renters empty their water slide onto neighbors' garden, neighbor complains to their landlord, who bans the water slide, leading renters to demand to use the neighbors' pool: ‘[You] owe it’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Aug 6, 2026 12:00 PM EDT

Should landlords know everything that goes on in a place they rent to other people?

As a renter myself, there are plenty of things I do around my home that I would not want my landlord to know about. My cats have scratched big chunks of our bedroom door, we drill holes in walls we definitely should not have touched, and don't get me started on some of the "renter-friendly" cosmetic changes we made that are definitely not renter-friendly. 

When the time comes to leave, I just hope that we will be able to fix most things, and that our landlord won't notice the things we won't. All we need is our safety deposit back, and we will be out of there as fast as possible.

That being said, if we were a disturbance to our neighbors, I would not have been surprised if one of them contacted our landlord to let him know about it. After all, the landlord is the authority figure in a property, and ensuring the people they rent the property to are decent to those around them is a must. If the renters cause damage to homes around them, they should not be allowed to keep renting, which is why the landlord in this story, posted on r/EntitledPeople, will not be renewing his contract with his current renters.

These renters decided to get an inflatable water slide for their children, but decided to empty the water onto their neighbors' garden, completely ruining their flowers in the process. Since they didn't really show any remorse, the neighbors contacted the renters' landlord and informed him of the issue, which led the landlord to ban his renter from using the water slide again. The renters blamed the neighbors for the ban and decided to knock on the neighbors' door and demand to use their pool instead. They claimed the neighbors "owe it to them", since they were the ones who got the water slide banned.

Safe to say, this warranted another call to the landlord, who realized that he needs a change in the people who live on his property…

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  • Inflatable water slide.
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    Inflatable water slide.

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  • In May the people who rent the house behind mine had an inflatable bouncy water slide for their child's birthday party.
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  • That evening I was working on my backyard and they drained the slide, their yard sits higher than mine. The water rushed down the hill, it
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  • washed out a section of my flower bed along the fence and washed it all straight into my pool. It was about 400 gallons of water, dirt and muck
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  • The renters we're unapologetic and said ooops, we didn't know the way would flow down hill
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  • I called the owner of the house because I have known him his entire life, his mother owned the house previously and was a close friend. He immediately sent a crew to fix everything.
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  • Apparently he told his renters that they weren't to have another water slide.
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  • Fast forward to now and it's their other kids birthday and they knock on my door and say they want to use our pool for their son's birthday party
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  • since WE got them banned. from having another slide. It's just about 35-40 people, 50 tops, mostly their families but 20 or so of the guests would
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  • be children and they would just take down a panel of MY fence to allow them to walk/run back and forth from my yard to theirs, but they'd
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  • be sure to step around my flowers Ummm, wt ?! No.
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  • Family sitting by their home pool.
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    Family sitting by their home pool.

    Subjects are models.

  • But we OWE it to them because WE got them banned from having another bouncy. water slide for their other child. Still no!
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  • We're ruining their child's birthday and ruining their lives I'm still flabbergasted
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  • kmflushing Call their landlord again.
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  • Ok-Brick6831 Yeah, they have pools you can rent for parties. Mine ain't one of them.
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  • Born-Vermicelli-1757 what are they talking about? they got themselves banned from having another water slide by making it evident they dont know how to conduct themselves.
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  • WillaLane OP We have cameras, security system, motion sensor lights, two large dogs and a dog door. They're trained to not eat food from people who aren't us or our dog sitter.
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  • We had left a message for the homeowner and he stopped by, he was telling us about some of the other problems he's had with them. The lady next door to them is in her late
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  • 80s and they have tried to take advantage of her but she's sharp. Anyway, their lease is up at the end of September and he's not renewing it.
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