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This is the short version of a very, very long story.
Basically, I live in a rental home with 3 other roommates. The two upstairs roommates moved out earlier this month, and the landlord wanted to have someone come in and repaint / work on the upstairs bed rooms / bathrooms so she could prepare to rent the entire house out to a family. We said that would be okay and we scheduled a time to pass them a key. The people coming to pick up the key missed the first scheduled time, but ended up showing up about 3 days later and taking the key. They then came back Monday and began to patch up the walls in the two rooms that they were going to work on as well as lay down some base primer. The next day they fully primed the walls and then started patching holes throughout the entire upstairs, which wasn't what we agreed to. Then yesterday, I come home from work to find that they packed up everything in the kitchen (about 25% of it was our stuff, 75% of it was the landlords) without any notice. Additionally they went through the fridge and threw out EVERYTHING (including about $20-$30 worth of groceries that I had purchased on Tuesday night). Then I find out that they also packed up my George Foreman Grill, my eating utensils, my plates and most importantly, my water pitcher in the fridge. On top of that we find out that they were using my cleaning supplies to clean out the bathrooms and also they were using my garbage bags to haul trash / garbage from the house. We call the landlord and she doesn't answer (typical for her, she ignores our calls) and I leave a message expressing my concerns, informing her how my groceries were thrown out, how my utensils, plates, pitcher, and George Foreman grill were taken without my consent, and asked her how are we supposed to eat at the house if we have nothing to eat off of? We had a long talk and decided that we didn't want to run the risk of any more of our stuff disappearing or being loaded into boxes and disappearing. So we deadbolted the front door when we went to work this morning just because we didn't want the people working on the house taking any more of our stuff and loading it in with their stuff. Now the landlord is pissed at us and threatening to change the locks on us. Mind you, we're moving out in 3 days. The irony of the whole situation is that she never gave us notice about the kitchen, so we had no chance to pack up our own stuff. Even if she did give us notice, we would've said that they needed to wait until monday since we have no way to prepare food, no plates to eat on, no utensils to use and no food to prepare! She never gave us notice that the walls in the rest of the upstairs were going to be patched, so now we're probably going to have to get one of the couches cleaned after we move.
Oh yes, the other ironic bit was that one of the people working on the house randomly barged into my room yesterday morning, which they had no right to be in or access as it wasn't part of the agreement, at like 10am while I was still asleep... What the hell? On top of that I go outside to figure out what was going on and I find the woman outside snooping through my things in the garage and taking boxes! I inform her politely that those are my boxes and we're using the garage as a launchpad for our move out. She asks if she can have 3 boxes... I say sure, but now looking back, I realize that these boxes are what she loaded the plates / utensils / etc into!
My landlord is crazy. Discuss.
Basically, I live in a rental home with 3 other roommates. The two upstairs roommates moved out earlier this month, and the landlord wanted to have someone come in and repaint / work on the upstairs bed rooms / bathrooms so she could prepare to rent the entire house out to a family. We said that would be okay and we scheduled a time to pass them a key. The people coming to pick up the key missed the first scheduled time, but ended up showing up about 3 days later and taking the key. They then came back Monday and began to patch up the walls in the two rooms that they were going to work on as well as lay down some base primer. The next day they fully primed the walls and then started patching holes throughout the entire upstairs, which wasn't what we agreed to. Then yesterday, I come home from work to find that they packed up everything in the kitchen (about 25% of it was our stuff, 75% of it was the landlords) without any notice. Additionally they went through the fridge and threw out EVERYTHING (including about $20-$30 worth of groceries that I had purchased on Tuesday night). Then I find out that they also packed up my George Foreman Grill, my eating utensils, my plates and most importantly, my water pitcher in the fridge. On top of that we find out that they were using my cleaning supplies to clean out the bathrooms and also they were using my garbage bags to haul trash / garbage from the house. We call the landlord and she doesn't answer (typical for her, she ignores our calls) and I leave a message expressing my concerns, informing her how my groceries were thrown out, how my utensils, plates, pitcher, and George Foreman grill were taken without my consent, and asked her how are we supposed to eat at the house if we have nothing to eat off of? We had a long talk and decided that we didn't want to run the risk of any more of our stuff disappearing or being loaded into boxes and disappearing. So we deadbolted the front door when we went to work this morning just because we didn't want the people working on the house taking any more of our stuff and loading it in with their stuff. Now the landlord is pissed at us and threatening to change the locks on us. Mind you, we're moving out in 3 days. The irony of the whole situation is that she never gave us notice about the kitchen, so we had no chance to pack up our own stuff. Even if she did give us notice, we would've said that they needed to wait until monday since we have no way to prepare food, no plates to eat on, no utensils to use and no food to prepare! She never gave us notice that the walls in the rest of the upstairs were going to be patched, so now we're probably going to have to get one of the couches cleaned after we move.
Oh yes, the other ironic bit was that one of the people working on the house randomly barged into my room yesterday morning, which they had no right to be in or access as it wasn't part of the agreement, at like 10am while I was still asleep... What the hell? On top of that I go outside to figure out what was going on and I find the woman outside snooping through my things in the garage and taking boxes! I inform her politely that those are my boxes and we're using the garage as a launchpad for our move out. She asks if she can have 3 boxes... I say sure, but now looking back, I realize that these boxes are what she loaded the plates / utensils / etc into!
My landlord is crazy. Discuss.
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