Your worst renting stories

[Brainonska511]

P.S. The worst I've had it is some Mexicans sometimes playing their Ranchero music too loud at night. I'd complain to the Super and it was taken care of.

I live in a 2-floor home, where the top and bottom floors are rented out. A neighbor in the summer likes to have midnight bbqs with loud music. I asked once for him to turn it down, but I think they are either idiots or just assholes. Who the f*** thinks its appropriate to blast music outside at 1 in the morning in a residential part of a city?
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As for worst stories, I don't have it that bad:

The worst was a roommate who thankfully moved out two summers ago:
1) would steal my beer occasionally, then try to hide the evidence
2) somehow broke or lost one of my steak knives
3) passed out once on the floor in the living room - when I walked in, I saw this and asked her if she might be more comfortable on the couch, a mere two feet away, she just acknowledged the offer and stayed on the floor
4) would keep her dog locked in her room all day, so towards the end of her stay, her room smelled perpetually of garbage and dog waste. I felt bad for the dog. The carpet in her former room still has a lingering odor, even after a year and a half and some vigourous cleaning (steam cleaning, carpet shampooing, airing the room out).

 

[NetWareHead]

4) would keep her dog locked in her room all day, so towards the end of her stay, her room smelled perpetually of garbage and dog waste. I felt bad for the dog. The carpet in her former room still has a lingering odor, even after a year and a half and some vigourous cleaning (steam cleaning, carpet shampooing, airing the room out).

Gross. That carpet is fucked. All of the funk got into the pad underneath. I don't think even a thorough steam cleaning would clean that. That carpet should have been replaced.

 

[Brainonska511]

Gross. That carpet is fucked. All of the funk got into the pad underneath. I don't think even a thorough steam cleaning would clean that. That carpet should have been replaced.

Yeah. She was an absolute mess. The pad probably needs to be replaced in the affected area. My new roommate might get around to it eventually. But it is rental-grade carpeting (think schoolhouse style). But it's a very small concern (the smell isn't that bad anymore) and the place is dirt cheap, especially considering how many NYC apartments are ridiculously priced and giant heaps of shit. At least I pay a cheap price for a run-down, but functioning and bug free interior.

My other roommate, who I was subletting from at the time (It's a 3 bedroom, that I now control the lease for) was friends with the female roommate. He went to visit her once at her new place and her dog ran out of the apartment and just pissed all over the stairs. When he asked her if she was going to clean it up, she shrugged and walked into her apartment. Being on the 3rd floor, it was doubtful if she regularly took her dog outside.

 

[Puppies04]

I live in a 2-floor home, where the top and bottom floors are rented out. A neighbor in the summer likes to have midnight bbqs with loud music. I asked once for him to turn it down, but I think they are either idiots or just assholes. Who the f*** thinks its appropriate to blast music outside at 1 in the morning in a residential part of a city?
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As for worst stories, I don't have it that bad:

The worst was a roommate who thankfully moved out two summers ago:
1) would steal my beer occasionally, then try to hide the evidence
2) somehow broke or lost one of my steak knives
3) passed out once on the floor in the living room - when I walked in, I saw this and asked her if she might be more comfortable on the couch, a mere two feet away, she just acknowledged the offer and stayed on the floor
4) would keep her dog locked in her room all day, so towards the end of her stay, her room smelled perpetually of garbage and dog waste. I felt bad for the dog. The carpet in her former room still has a lingering odor, even after a year and a half and some vigourous cleaning (steam cleaning, carpet shampooing, airing the room out).

pics of roommate.

 

[Puppies04]

Gross. That carpet is fucked. All of the funk got into the pad underneath. I don't think even a thorough steam cleaning would clean that. That carpet should have been replaced.

9.5/10

 

[Uppsala9496]

OP, what school did you go to where the neighborhood was that bad?

Worst rental experience for me was at university where a neighbor that lived on the floor above me would constantly play loud music at 3a. Cops would never show up, so I set my modem to constantly call every 10 minutes starting at 6a (back in the dial up days).

Did that for a week and eventually she stopped staying up all night and playing loud music. Auto dialing stopped and life was good.

 

[Blackjack200]

Yes sir, I graduated in 2001.

Haha, wow. I didn't know any of the dorms worked that way. I only went to the school for two years.

 

[lord_emperor]

Lets hear them. It can go both ways, either you were renting or the renter. Lets face it, some people are just not cut out for living around other people.

My worst:

When I transferred to University I found an apt very close to campus that was dirt cheap. Lived there for 4 months. Here's some of what went wrong:

1. Had a call girl living behind me who left her windows open while serving clients and taking it in the ass.

2. Little kid set the building behind mine on fire.

3. All the mailboxes could be opened with a pair of pliers so all the mail was constantly on the ground.

4. Next door neighbor played music at all times of the night too loud to sleep.

5. Neighbors in the building that eventually got set on fire partied each night and then beat up the bums who lived in the bushes and would drink their left over backwash.

6. Fire alarm was pulled nightly.

7. People walked into neighbors apt and robbed them at gun point.

These aren't "renting" stories, these are "living in a crime-infested neighbourhood" stories.

 

[Rudee]

Been a home owner for nearly 15 years now. Have great neighbors. If I had to go back to renting in a dirty apartment building again, with shared mailboxes and laundry, and noise of people above you and beside you, and all that nasty stuff, I'd probably just sooner die.

 

[coxmaster]

I had another situation when I was at school living on campus.

Oh god, its even worse because I'm fairly certain I know where you're talking about

 

[coxmaster]

Haha, wow. I didn't know any of the dorms worked that way. I only went to the school for two years.

Consider yourself lucky.. I've been at this place for 5 years at this point.. About ready to leave

 

[shortylickens]

she took the money and skipped out, saying she needed to grab condoms.

 

[edro]

curry

 

[alkemyst]

Gross. That carpet is fucked. All of the funk got into the pad underneath. I don't think even a thorough steam cleaning would clean that. That carpet should have been replaced.

In an average apartment room, the cost of all that cleaning would be probably equal to just putting in basic carpeting as well.

 

[Pulsar]

Might sound great on paper but in reality it's disturbing. She liked to scream about how much she loved it and with her windows open this was not cool. Plus I was living with my girlfriend so it was just awkward.

You're just embarrased that your girlfriend doesn't take it up the pooper.

 

[BoomerD]

We rented an apartment here while we looked for someplace to buy. It was a terrible experience.

We had people living above us..IN AN APARTMENT OVER OUR HEADS! The noise was atrocious! You could actually hear people walking around up there!!

Then...anytime something stopped working right...they sent a maintenance guy to FIX STUFF!

Lastly, when we finally had enough of those horrors, we moved out. I wanted to spend $99 to have the carpets cleaned, but oh hell no. They refused to allow us to do that, and instead, they had the carpets cleaned by their carpet service and billed us for it. $79...can you imagine my outrage?

 

[sze5003]

The first apartment I was in, it was cheap and it wasn't so pretty. I lived on the second floor..it had electric heat that didn't work half the time. You could see your breath in the place.

My next door neighbor was a guy in his late 40's that was slow. He was a nice guy and did a lot of the work around the place..for a slow person he did pretty well. The neighbors downstairs were a couple little older than me. They would always fight at 3am to the point that you heard shit being thrown, broken, at one point my floor shook.

Turns out the downstairs neighbors were drug addicts.

Then I moved to another complex that was called luxury apartments...I dunno for whom this luxury was for because the place looked like an old hotel. Only the first floor looked nice, the cleaning lady never really cleaned the other floors. Then the air or heat would break and it would take up to a week for someone to come look at it. Jerry rig something up for couple hours before it broke again.

No one really bothered me there since it was mainly older people. The place I'm in now is 10x nicer and also less expensive, with no issues really.

 

[TangoJuliet]

Consider yourself lucky.. I've been at this place for 5 years at this point.. About ready to leave

lol at the ERAU alums checking in

 

[alkemyst]

We rented an apartment here while we looked for someplace to buy. It was a terrible experience.

We had people living above us..IN AN APARTMENT OVER OUR HEADS! The noise was atrocious! You could actually hear people walking around up there!!

Then...anytime something stopped working right...they sent a maintenance guy to FIX STUFF!

Lastly, when we finally had enough of those horrors, we moved out. I wanted to spend $99 to have the carpets cleaned, but oh hell no. They refused to allow us to do that, and instead, they had the carpets cleaned by their carpet service and billed us for it. $79...can you imagine my outrage?

QFT, the kids today think an apartment is their manse on the beach.

 

[alkemyst]

You're just embarrased that your girlfriend doesn't take it up the pooper.

I don't get his stuff, my g/f's would want to raise the roar.

 

[RockinZ28]

My worst is I've thrown away ~$62k over the past 4 years in rent. Oh well, managed to save more in cash during that period, and will hopefully be buying soon.

My renting experiences with different places and neighbors have been just about flawless though.

 

[AViking]

Ok here's another one I lived in. This one was arguably worse since there were a couple people who either killed themselves or died while living there.

http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate/CA-Long-Beach-The-Crossings-at-the-Bay.html

 

[nanette1985]

Love this thread. I was thinking that I didn't have any horror stories about any of the places I've rented, but gosh, this thread really brought back memories.

Like the time I was living in Far Rockaway - very nice folks in the other apartment - but the building was in horrible condition. Parts kept falling apart. Then watching Sandy destroy things - I could see that building collapse. I'm amazed that it had stayed up that long.

 

[Fritzo]

1. Had a call girl living behind me who left her windows open while serving clients and taking it in the ass.

I'm honestly curious how you knew what orifice was being used. :hmm:

 

[smackababy]

Worst I've had was my A/C unit broke in the middle of summer in Alabama. Well, it still worked, in that it blew air, it was just hot air. =( The fact the A/C broke wasn't really a problem, as they came and fixed it the next day. The problem was the complex had alarm systems in the units and they were monitored by the police. The maintenance came and fixed it, then set the alarm before they left. The problem was, I never used the alarm once and when I got home to disarm it, the code didn't work! I still had the paper they gave me with the lease (sitting on the counter near the door, no less) with the alarm code. Didn't work at all! I had to go sit and wait for the police to come, contact the (now closed) management to verify I lived there and then send maintenance to reset the passcode. The alarm went off for around 10 minutes then shut off, but every time I opened the door it went off again. It was rather annoying.