keys

Irresponsible tenant relies on a remote worker neighbor as her personal 'backup key' until he cuts off communication: ‘She would even message me in wee hours’

Celeste Mello

Landlord replaces all physical keys with a 'smart app,' charges tenants a monthly $15 tech fee to cover the cost: 'It is literally a subscription service just to enter my own home'

JR Atkinson

Tenant forced to change apartment locks after discovering friend made copies of his keys while cat-sitting, friend insists it was for his safety: ‘You don't trust me’

Bar Mor Hazut

32-year-old changes locks after his friend makes a copy of his key without permission: 'I didn't ask for him to copy my key!'

Ben Weiss

Corrupt former building manager gets his comeuppance when the replacement scatters 250 keys with his callback information on them: ‘If found, call for reward’

Jesse Kessenheimer

Sibling changes the lock to their house after parents give a key to 34-year-old unemployed brother, refusing to let him stay: ‘Then I gave him our parents' key'

Bar Mor Hazut

Upstairs landlord repeatedly helps his tenant’s 16-year-old daughter when she locks herself out of house, but eventually refuses to help, after realizing she only acknowledges him when she needs something: 'I refused to answer the door'

Emma Saven

Car owner demands that locksmith open his car then refuses to pay, locksmith re-locks his keys in the car: "I'm not paying you 80 bucks"

Remy Millisky

22-year-old woman, living with ex-boyfriend, debates locking him out of shared apartment, after he refuses to get his broken key fixed, constantly waking her up late at night to let him in: ‘It might be the push he needs to be a responsible adult’

Emma Saven

Manager forgets to collect office key from employee after firing them, demands employee return to give it back, they refuse: ‘You can change the locks'

Bar Mor Hazut

Entitled woman tries to evict roommate so her boyfriend can move in, claiming she shouldn't have to leave because she ownes majority of the furniture and gardens, even though they split 50/50: 'The person who wants change should facilitate it'

Emma Saven

After roommate abruptly leaves apartment and stops paying rent, tenant decides to redecorate the apartment, only to have roommate return months later and throw a fit at the makeover: 'You deliberately made the apartment unlivable for me'

Emma Saven

'Our apartment wasn't legal, the authorities wanted to demolish some walls': Roommate moves out early, refuses to use her $5000 deposit to cover her remaining rent, after failing to find a sublet once she discovers that her room is going to be bashed down

Emma Saven

Mom of an incoming University of Arkansas freshman asks fellow parents how to help her daughter remember her key to her dorm: 'Remembering to take a key everywhere she goes is going to be a lot.'

Emmy Pratt

Sisterly trust shattered after entitled woman secretly lets boyfriend into sister's apartment with spare key, roommate rats her out: "That key was for emergencies only!"

Ely Bulnes

Man locks himself out of car, then refuses to pay technician for his services, so he gets locked back out again: 'I threw his keys in the car and locked the doors'

Eleonora Bader