Renting Craziness

Beware of the Bully Landlord!

While I was looking for a place to rent in early August 2013, the majority of the houses were housing mostly all boys or the places were slum lordish.  Then I called my old landlord. 

She was talkative on the phone and I thought it was a test to see if I would get frustrated with her chatter.  She told me she wanted this to be my home away from home.  I loved it and rented out one of their smaller rooms since I am on a budget.  I hate working during the school year.  Things were ok at first and then the bomb dropped this weekend.  She blew up in my face.

The situation went like this.  I am cold in the town house I am living in since the fan is blowing cool air all the time even though it is winter.  I did not move a lot of stuff down with me and most of it is schoolbooks and paper.  I had made a complaint about the fan AC being on all night, and then was told it was because of a health concern so the fan wasn't turning off.  I thought of buying a large, plush quilt from WAL MART.  I did not get around to it because I am always tired, and the TTC annoys me.  I just wanted my room to be a comfortable temperature since the noise pollution was not going to go away. 

So here finally is what happened:

I called one of my relatives to complain, and he said he would bring me an energy efficient oil filled space heater.  The heater is almost up past my hips.  I have used space heaters at the other places I had rented, and the landlords had no complaints.  

So he brought it.  I ran down three flights of stairs., opened the front door and got it from him.  It was partially in a garbage bag from storage and I struggled to get it up the first flight of stairs.  Then as I was on the third flight of stairs a thundering approached from downstairs. 

Landlord: “IS THAT A SPACE HEATER!?”

Me: “Yes?”

Landlord: “GET THAT BACK DOWN HERE AND HAVE WHOEVER GAVE IT TO YOU COME BACK AND PICK IT UP.  IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO SPEND AN EXTRA $75 GET IT DOWN NOW!  IF YOU DO NOT LIKE IT YOU CAN LEAVE!”

Roommate:  “What the hell was that?”

Me:  “I just brought a heater in and she started to freak out.” 

Me: “You need to come back, the landlord freaked about the space heater, and talked down to me like one would a dog.”

Waiting in roommates’ room until my relative calls and says he is on his way.

I went down the stairs to give the space heater back to him and she charges to the door, and holds it open. 

You can practically see the smoke coming out of her ears, her eyes shooting off sparks, and barring her teeth.  She is that enraged.

She immediately starts to complain, and I say I can understand that she is worried about the Hydro but that she did not have to verbally attack me, and talk to me like one would a dog.  My relative then tries to get involved and then she starts to verbally attack him.  I tell him to leave because her aggressive behaviour is agitating him, and I did think she would call the police on him.  After the door shuts she says good thing he did not get too far, and then she says I had no right to do what I did, and if I was cold I should have gotten an extra blanket.  She was hostile towards me saying that her trust in me has been broken and that she probably would not have found out about the heater until it was too late…and then she had the nerve to ask if what had just went down would affect my relationship in the house.  Is she an idiot?   Then she has the nerve to ask me what I wanted with her husband yesterday.  I told her that I was reminding one of my roommates to ask him what she wanted to ask him and that it wasn’t my problem if she did not.  Is she that paranoid that she thinks I would try to scheme with her husband behind her back about the way the house is running?  This appears to be a case of mental issues and insecurity.  I find it hard to believe that she is a social worker and she had the nerve to say that she was not going to apologize and that she would talk to any of my roommates that way.  I knew there was no going back after that.

Afterwards, as I was going up the stairs one of my roommates opened her door and invited me inside her room.  She said knew what our landlord did was wrong and then hugged me.  We then went up the stairs to my other roommate’s room; she was irate and shocked at the way the landlord talked to me and my relative.  So we bashed her in the room, and then they had the idea to move out as well.  I wish.  They immediately started looking for other places for me to live.

She may live in a nice place but deep down she has the attitude of a slumlord that is ready to rear its ugly head and roar at you and spirit forth nothing but ugliness. 

I could not wait until I was out of there because I do not like supporting bullies, and I do not like that I would have to depend on them for anything.  Two-faced people make me sick!   Now I am just avoiding  Landlord Bullies, and hopefully their next Jeckel/Hyde moments.