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What kind of landlord tries to charge their tenants for having people spend the night?
That’s weird, right…?
I’ll tell you who…the one you’re going to read about in this story!
But, as you can imagine, the tenants weren’t about to be pushed around by this lady, so they came up with a clever plan to get around her dumb rules.
Take a look at what happened!
“Guests cannot spend the night at my property.”
“Back when I was in college, I lived in a 2-bedroom apartment with a nice German student.
He was a nice guy, and he would often have his friends over.
I didn’t mind it at all because I just moved to the area and needed new friends anyways.
There was a problem…
Our landlady though, she was a nightmare.
She was this small grumpy lady who would complain over the smallest things. She doesn’t live with us, but tries to control everything – the color of our sheets, the scent of candles that we light, where we put our stuffs, etc.
Needless to say, we couldn’t stand her.
We pay for our electricity and water, so it doesn’t matter if we have our friends / family stay over once in a while because whatever they consumer more of we will foot the bill ourselves anyways.
What the hell?!?!
My sister visits me once a month for one night, just whenever she’s in town.
One day, my landlord found out and got so mad she wanted to call the cops on us for not respecting the rule of “guests cannot spend the night” at her property.
The only reason she does this is because she feels if a guest would stay a night they would have to pay her the full rent for the month. THE MONTH.
A friend wanted to stay more than one night.
Here’s the malicious compliance…
When one of my German roommate’s friends was laid off from his main job, he was left homeless with only a grave shift part-time job. He asked if he could stay with us for about a week or two.
I told him I didn’t mind but my landlady might mind.
His roommate wasn’t worried.
They told me not to worry.
And she was fuming when she found out (easily, the day after he decided to stay with us because she checks on us unannounced every other day, and has security cameras outside our door).
She threatened to call the cops on us again, and all my roommate said was…
A ha!
“But you told us explicitly no one can spend the NIGHT at your property. He is never here at night because he’s working, so there’s no rule broken here.”
She had nothing to say and left.
We could hear her screaming from inside her car that was parked right outside.”
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Wow…what a rule…
This is definitely the first time I’ve ever heard anything like this!
And no one can really be expected to follow this rule, right…?
This lady has to be one of the craziest landlords of all time!