Home appliances account for around 8% of all house fires, which is crazy because it’s usually avoidable.

What would you do if you knew the stove in your rental apartment was a hazard, but your landlord refused to buy a new one?

Would you keep hounding him, or would you turn him into officials and let them handle it?

In the following story, we meet a landlord who fits this bill perfectly. Let’s see what happened.

$500 stove replacement, costs LL over $10,000 in electrical work.

In October, 2014, I moved into a basement room that I shared with a lady from Oman.

The LL and his wife lived upstairs, but shared nothing with us. I’m short, 5’6″, and have short arms and a beer belly.

So, reaching the back burners SAFELY, isn’t always easy for me.

The large front burner was broken the day I moved in, and I asked the LL to fix it.

I then went, and bought some groceries.

While I was out, he went in, and “fixed” it.

Later, I learned that he simply used 14 gauge wire, to move the power from the back right to front right burner!

The problem starts again.

Fast-forward to 2016. The “fixed” burner starts to spark.

In early February, I ask him to go buy a new stove, as the one he has is not safe.

I go online, find a half dozen local “Scratch & Dent” and “Refurb” companies, that have new or “refurb” stoves for under $500.

He refuses, and again, just “fixes” it with 14 gauge wire.

At this point, I’m not feeling 100% safe in my own apartment.

So, I call the Toronto Fire Department Safety Inspectors, and the Ontario Electrical Safety Authority.

Here comes the best part.

They come in, and find about 40 violations EACH.

A month later, after about 8 hours of work, and a new $800 stove, the electrician leaves, and the ESA inspects again, and approves it.

That night, my LL comes banging on my door, and tells me I “cost him $10,000 in repairs and fines, and I’m being evicted in 60 days.”

I looked him in the eye and said “Man, if you’d just listened to me and bought that $300 stove at the scratch & dent place, you could have saved $9,700, right?” and shut the door in his face, and cranked the TV, so I didn’t hear him knocking anymore.

Stay petty!

Wow! That was one expensive stove!

Let’s see how Reddit readers responded to this story.

Here’s a landlord who understands.

This person is also a landlord and would never do that to a tenant.

Yet another landlord who has better sense.

This person was a tenant with a similar experience.

Some people should not be landlords. Glad he got what was coming to him.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.