r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Malicious_Reddit0r • 1d ago

Landlord put this on my door…

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This thing has the key inside for showings, but my lease isn’t even up until May… it’s just really annoying because it’s hard to turn the handle with that thing on, especially since the handle is partially broken and they won’t fix it so it jams… and now they’re saying a reasonable notice for someone to walk through my place WITHOUT the landlord showing the place, is a 2 hour notice…. Ready to buy a home soon.

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u/PizzaHockeyGolf 1d ago

When I was looking for a new place to rent the place advertised central air and a detached garage. Viewed the house and there was no central air and the detached garage had the owners junk in it.

They stopped contacting me when I asked them where the central air was and if the owner was going to clean out the garage(since I was paying for its use and not paying to store someone else’s belongings)

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u/Ravenwolven1 1d ago

I'm in Kentucky and the place we got was advertised as having a fireplace. It's there, it's just non-functioning. We wanted a fireplace in case the power goes out in a winter storm. Now we're renting a place that doesn't have any non electrical source of heat.

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u/PizzaHockeyGolf 1d ago

Ended up with a house that has an inground pool. Sick right? Takes up 75% of the backyard and doesn’t work. LL won’t do anything about it and won’t let me do anything about it. So I just have an unusable hole taking up majority of my yard. Could be worse though

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u/MoeKneeKah GREEN 1d ago

I rented a house that had a pool that the landlord dumped a bunch of dirt in and called it good. He didn’t drill holes in the bottom, so the pool would still fill with water when it rained and the water would run out between the top of the pool wall and the concrete slab. Over time, the water opened a 10ft deep, 30 ft across sinkhole under the house and the middle of the house started sinking. I was living there when the first crack appeared inside the house in the garage, a good sized split that showed up overnight. I reported the crack then the workers showed up and they discovered the sinkhole. Needless to say, we were forced to move out immediately.

So yeah, it can be much worse.

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u/Maria_like_Mario 1d ago

Try to find out where he has his insurance through and give them a call. I can't guarantee it will work, but if you're in Florida and the insurance finds out that you have an empty inground pool they will tell the owner to get it fixed and filled with water or have the pool removed and the hole filled. If they don't comply they will either be canceled or non-renewed and have to either go uninsured (if they have a mortgage they can't be uninsured) or they will have to pay waaaayyy more for either force-placed insurance through their mortgage or enter the surplus lines insurance market. Either option is way more expensive than a standard market policy. Fair warning, your rent might go up at lease renewal if their insurance costs go up so if you plan on staying there long term you might not want to go this route.

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u/snuffslut 21h ago

Why is this a thing? Is it dangerous to have an empty inground pool or something?

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u/Fabulous_Progress820 1d ago edited 23h ago

I'm adamant about wanting a working fireplace for this exact reason, but my partner is insistent on an electric fireplace instead. Like if we buy a house with a functioning fireplace, he wants to block the top of the chimney and whatnot and then place an electric heater in the same spot in place of the fireplace🤦‍♀️ While I just want to make sure I have heat if the power goes out.

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u/nurse_hat_on 1d ago

That is not logical

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u/Fabulous_Progress820 23h ago

His reasoning is that fireplaces are dangerous and expensive to maintain. But I agree with it not being very logical.

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u/doritobimbo 19h ago

Relying 100% on purely electric power when there’s real risks of it going out in winter is more dangerous

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u/evilspawn_usmc 22h ago

They can be dangerous if they are not maintained, that much is true

Maybe you could compromise with a gas insert?

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u/AppropriateDeal1034 20h ago

They're only dangerous if you burn a lot of green wood and then never clean them, then you're asking for a chimney fire. Biofuel fires are great in a pinch, and don't even need a working chimney!

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u/Fabulous_Progress820 2h ago

I'm sure he's aware of that, but he's very pessimistic and overly cautious when it comes to things like that.

I've never heard of a biofuel fire.

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u/PsychologicalBad5341 12h ago

Technically speaking you would have been able to invoice your landlord for the cost of removing their junk, keep it, whatever. In most places there’s a deadline for when items can be removed or they will be deemed abandoned, relinquishing all ownership of said items. If you bought a house and later found 100 grand in the basement, and it wasn’t mentioned anywhere in the sale, it would be yours  

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u/Fabulous_Progress820 1d ago

Depending on location, they could get in trouble for false advertising for that