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When you\u2019re a renter, the chances of you having to deal with a lot of s*** is high. Two of the worst things to deal with are horrible roommates and landlords that just make your life a living hell. Back in January we did a compilation of <\/span>Reddit’s 9 Funniest Roommate Horror Stories<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>We thought it was time to compile a list of Reddit’s 9 Worst Landlord Horror Stories. Hopefully your story isn’t worse than this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reddit’s 9 Worst Landlord Horror Stories<\/h2>\n

When you’re feeling down about your own rental situation, consider reading one of these landlord horror stories.<\/p>\n

1. Story from SlayingGrounds<\/h3>\n

\u201cMaybe not a bad experience story, but definitely weird as hell.\u00a0<\/span>Lived in a duplex in Clearwater, Florida as a kid. landlord would occasionally come and ask for a forward on the payment for next months’ rent. Never knew why. Moved to Ohio to be closer to family, and the landlord showed up randomly after a couple years living there, and asked if we had any spare cash..\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Story from pallativecare<\/h3>\n

\u201cOur house had eventually got rats. Not small rats, but big city rats. our landlord didn’t do anything to fix it. Didn’t offer traps. Nothing. A few days later our dishwasher started leaking and flooded the basement. Guess what was in the water. Tons of dead rats. Our landlord didn’t get back to us for a little over a week to fix the water\/dead rat problem. A landlord that doesn’t respond to a water problem = someone who doesn’t give a fuck.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Story from BadSister1984<\/h3>\n

\u201cAccidentally subletted<\/a> from people who were almost middle aged–partying their asses off with every drug you can think of, excepting heroin.\u00a0<\/span>Worst part: they fancied themselves DJ’s and play their special music ALL night 3 times a week. And they bought themselves a stupid light disco ball and…. a special bass. You can’t get away from bass—it’s EVERYWHERE!\u00a0<\/span>It was incredibly horrible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a landlord horror story we’re glad we didn’t live through.<\/p>\n

4. Story from Zinzidec<\/h3>\n

\u201cThe landlady would constantly come by unannounced, and would just let herself in with her key, without even knocking. This was irritating, but since we had nothing to hide it was never really an issue. Until the day she brought her husband round to do some maintenance (unasked for). As all of us living there were girls, we never though twice about walking from the bathroom to our bedrooms in just a towel, and I ended up being trapped in the bathroom for half an hour (I had no intention of walking past him in a skimpy towel) while this old man fiddled with something right outside the door.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Story from Craireee<\/h3>\n

\u201cMy landlord moved into a tent in my front yard. There was a little bungalow thing in front of the house I was renting that was not included in the lease it had electricity and water which were attached to my house. When I moved in the bungalow was full of random stuff and it was made clear that it wasn’t included in the lease and was only used for storage. One day I got home from work and there was a tent next to the bungalow. It was all very strange.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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