April 15, 2026 at 6:35 pm

Family Wants To Take Their Toddler To The Community Pool, But The Landlord Insists They Have To Pay $25 For Each Pool Pass

by Jayne Elliott

toddler girl in pink flamingo pool float in swimming pool

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Imagine renting an apartment that has a community swimming pool. What would you do if you needed pool passes to access the pool, but the landlord never gave you pool passes?

In this story, one family is in this exact situation. They contact the landlord, and it actually works in their favor.

Let’s read all about it.

Landlord & missing pool passes

Our building has a community pool (we just signed a lease a few months ago), and they just opened it up for the season a couple weeks ago.

With our toddler around I thought it would be perfect free activity to enjoy the sun.

Well after looking for our pool passes and asking our landlord, we realized they gave us 2 visitor parking passes and 0 pool passes. (Supposed to have 1 visitor parking passes and 4 pool passes).

They needed to get this straightened out!

We told our landlord the 2 items we got given, and asked for the pool passes fee to get waived.

Instead they sent a picture of the lease, with our signature, saying 4 pool passes($25) x 1 visitor parking pass($150).

I sent them a message saying “No worries! We will pay the $25. Per our lease, we only have 1 visitor parking pass then. Let me know when we can pick up our pool passes. Have a good rest of your day”

Them trying to save $25 and being petty resulted in them throwing away $150 lol.

The landlord shouldn’t have tried to withhold the pool passes.

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.

Here’s some praise for how they handled the situation.

2026 03 14 at 2.23.35 PM Family Wants To Take Their Toddler To The Community Pool, But The Landlord Insists They Have To Pay $25 For Each Pool Pass

Another person shares a workaround.

2026 03 14 at 2.23.46 PM Family Wants To Take Their Toddler To The Community Pool, But The Landlord Insists They Have To Pay $25 For Each Pool Pass

It wasn’t free, but it wasn’t expensive either.

2026 03 14 at 2.23.56 PM Family Wants To Take Their Toddler To The Community Pool, But The Landlord Insists They Have To Pay $25 For Each Pool Pass

This is awful!

2026 03 14 at 2.24.09 PM Family Wants To Take Their Toddler To The Community Pool, But The Landlord Insists They Have To Pay $25 For Each Pool Pass

The pool passes should be included!

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