There’s a fragile balance of power when renters hand over a check to their landlord every month. Landlords need that money to come in and tenants need to live somewhere, so there’s a predictable symbiosis in their relationship. Usually landlords are the ones with the bad rep, thwarting their power over a renter’s desperation, but sometimes, landlords turn on other landlords when they get out-landlorded in public. When two apex landlords go head-to-head, there’s no longer a predictable balance of powers– there’s just pettiness and power flexing that almost always get out of hand.
In this case, a property owner walks us through a hellacious tale of the world’s worst tenant, a woman who singlehandedly cost him $50,000 in damages by flushing unflushable plastics down the drain. As fate would have it, after barely surviving the ordeal of dismantling his property to fish out the drain obstructions, OP’s tenant had the audacity to ask him to be a character referral on her next rental. Lo and behold, the balance of power reared its ugly head once again.
OP was fully prepared to warn the next landlord about his horrible experience, but when the new guy called him up to ask about the woman, his snarky, demeaning attitude made OP think twice about saving him the trouble. Scroll for the full story of how a landlord turned on another landlord when he was out-landlorded. Next, read on about another arrogant guy who gets exactly what he deserves after cutting corners on safety protocol at work, starting a raging wildfire and getting fired in the process.
