Landlords hate this one trick
posted by u/Pizzacakecomic · 2026-10-28 17:35 UTC
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2. u/Pizzacakecomic · 2026-10-28 17:36 UTC
I was 8.5 months pregnant, it was a heatwave, and I was just done with humanity. Turns out you can just say no to stupid bullshit sometimes and nothing happens.
3. u/shellbullet17 · 2026-10-28 17:43 UTC
Turns out you can just say no to stupid bullshit sometimes and nothing happens.
Yup! Cause half the time people won't pursue it. They are just hoping you'll roll over and take it.
Unless it's in some BS contract they got you to sign 12 months ago.
Once had a landlord charge me an extra month of rent cause we "didn't meet the one month move out notification to landlord" date
It WAS in the contract I'll give them that. But we actually gave them 6 weeks notification before moving out. Dude just didn't date it when he gave us a copy back and played dumb.
4. u/AmputeeHandModel · 2026-10-28 17:49 UTC
Landlords are scum. Every one I've had has tried to fuck me over one way or another. Know the law and just say "nope". I moved into a place and they said there was a NON-REFUNDABLE $500 pet deposit. Why the hell do you get to keep that if my pets don't destroy anything? I already have a deposit. Well according to state law, they can only charge first, last, and security when you move in, so I told them after I moved in that I was taking it out of the 2nd month's rent. They were like "We'll talk to our lawyers" and I never heard about it again. It was a big place and lots of people had pets, probably could have sued them. They tried getting everyone to sign something to agree to late fees after 5 days when state law says 30. I just ignored it and they didn't do anything.
5. u/shellbullet17 · 2026-10-28 17:51 UTC
......FUCK
I wish I had known that when I was renting! I probably lost 3k total in all those non-refundable pet deposits
Plus never got any security deposit back EVER despite never causing damage to any apartment I ever stayed in
6. u/NobodyLikedThat1 · 2026-10-28 17:56 UTC
I debate how ethical this was of me, but I just told them I didn't have pets. Particularly since they wanted a monthly "pet rent" fee. They can jam that right up their asses. The only people who went into my place was the occasional maintenance worker, and they didn't give AF.
7. u/TheFriendshipMachine · 2026-10-28 18:46 UTC
Completely ethical. Pet fees are a scam and landlords are leeches.
8. u/KillerOs13 · 2026-10-28 19:54 UTC
As a former maintenance man, most of us wouldn't even rest you out cause we're likely pulling it ourselves where we live.
9. u/JustifytheMean · 2026-10-28 19:20 UTC
My place has like a $200 pet deposit, then a monthly $35 for 1 or $50 for 2. Absolutely fuck them, have three cats and ain't paying shit for any of them.
10. u/NobodyLikedThat1 · 2026-10-28 19:23 UTC
yup. If you can have 3 kids there with no additional fee, then my pets don't have one either. If the place gets wrecked they can take it out of the normal security deposit (funny enough, I did actually get most of mine back, and nothing about pet damage was mentioned. I have very respectful kitties).
11. u/AmputeeHandModel · 2026-10-28 18:07 UTC
It all depends on where you live, and the laws, but here, if they're not being fair then you can just take them to housing court. The law was very clear that you can only charge first, last, and security. I'm sure that isn't the case everywhere.
12. u/Whatifim80lol · 2026-10-28 18:20 UTC
I'm gonna take a big gamble here and say you probably have way fewer rights as a tenant in red states
13. u/AmputeeHandModel · 2026-10-28 18:24 UTC
Yeah this is a blue state.
14. u/PensandSwords3 · 2026-10-28 19:02 UTC
Eh, its better to actually check it then assume. Lots of this stuff accumulates over the years sometimes, so it could’ve very well have passed during a bi-partisan or community lead period. Like there was enough pressure no matter who the rep was they passed something.
Or you know your representatives had their own reasons to champion renters or landlord rights.
15. u/Barium_Salts · 2026-10-28 19:43 UTC
I got my security back once: when my apartment was destroyed by a tornado. They couldn't blame any damage on me, so they did give it back.
Landlords hate this one weird trick 🤣
16. u/SupremeToast · 2026-10-28 18:22 UTC
Holy cow, are we neighbors?! I had the exact same experience moving into my current place a few years ago. We went back and forth via email a few times until I directly linked them to state law forbidding non-refundable deposits, and then they just stopped replying. I expect all my neighbors with pets simply paid the deposit and ate the (illegal) loss.
17. u/PapaBeer642 · 2026-10-28 19:12 UTC
Where I am, a deposit is defined as being refundable. So when I moved out of a place, I demanded my "nonrefundable" pet deposit back, because as a deposit it has to be refundable. That place also threw away a bunch of my furniture that I was trying to sell while I was moving out because they saw the moving truck and wanted to move someone else in before my lease ran out, despite still charging me rent.
Anyway, I laid into them about it, and they gave me back my security deposit, pet deposit, and they didn't charge me the last month's rent (plus a little extra money back on top of it).
Basically, if you make sure you know your rights (and can talk about it in a way which sells them on that) most landlords and leading offices won't push back too much because they don't want the trouble (or the scrutiny), even if you're not actually strictly correct.
18. u/ShadowAviation · 2026-10-28 18:54 UTC
Just got out of a dispute with our last one. They tried to take an extra €200 for a piece of furniture we'd replaced and they'd said was fine at the time. They magically had no problem giving the €200 when we got a tenancy agency involved.
19. u/El-wing · 2026-10-28 17:50 UTC
I had a similar experience. I informed our landlord we were moving out 6 weeks ahead of time but was told that our contract stipulated that we give them a 60 day notice.
They were correct that the contract said 60 days, but it also required that they give us a warning before that deadline, otherwise we only had a to give 30 day notice. They did give out pamphlets that were basically advertising asking people to renew, but they had no mention of deadlines on them.
I challenged this with them and they said I had to pay anyway. I said I wouldn’t pay and I never did. It’s been 10 years now and they never came at me for that extra month’s rent so I assume they dropped it. They sucked.
20. u/shellbullet17 · 2026-10-28 17:53 UTC
Damn so I guess that's some bullshit trick they use then
Unfortunately mine pushed ours to collections so eventually I paid it off for like 20% the amount. Mostly cause I could never get the other roommates to fork any money over to get it off out credit scores