To the landlords of Halifax who prey on new and international students, naive to the world of rental properties – you are criminals. Your cunning and deceitful ads for “charming rooms in a character home” with rent far over priced for the decrepit state of the house, are only the first of many crimes. You further the assault on our student loans by conning us out of our damage deposits year after year for “garbage removal fees” for which we never received notices; endless cleaning hours post-move out, although the place never received such treatment; and then to have the audacity to “forward the bill for re-painting”, after we covered up the hideous colours you selected to discourage male renters, only to return to the house months later to find the rooms untouched. You came to our house any time you pleased without notice and threatened to cease the never-ending yet always needed repairs if you had to give us the notice required by law. And you came to our house and drove around town drunk. Be ashamed of yourselves, you thieving slum landlords. —Exploited and Poor Student Renter
This article appears in May 14-20, 2015.
Legit bitch. Live in residence.
A taste of things to come. You must study philosophy
This sounds like the Metlej/Metlege clan.
No different than a realtor saying a house needs TLC or any other marketing scheme to make something appear to be better than what it is. Just look at it as a life lesson.
Most of the time it’s a problem of people not knowing their responsibilities and crying foul when they realized that they fucked up…
Here’s part of the education you came here to get… Everyone wants the MOST of your money for the LEAST amount of effort/investment. This should be a very solid, lesson learned. Apparently not for you though, still whining and complaining that it’s “the landlords fault that you got ripped off”.
Here’s what you do next time…
1) GOOGLE YOUR FUCKING LANDLORD BEFORE YOU RENT FROM HIM/HER/THEM
2) Take extensive photo evidence of the condition of the apartment and get lots of evidence of any damage prior to you taking possession of the apartment. Then email it to the landlord and save the correspondence.
3) On your final month’s check, if you even have an inkling that you are going to have any trouble getting your deposit back (which you fucking well should after a year, or you aren’t paying attention), cancel your last check and pay only half the rent in a new check (so there is record of him cashing it), leaving the damage deposit for the other half. Then tell him/her to keep the interest accrued on your damage deposit as your little parting gift.
Grow the fuck up, mommy’s not here to kiss your boo-boos anymore!!!
Steve: “2) Take extensive photo evidence of the condition of the apartment and get lots of evidence of any damage prior to you taking possession of the apartment. Then email it to the landlord and save the correspondence.”
Slum lords don’t like paper trails (email trails) so they don’t give tenants their email address.