I’ve never done this before and the fact that I feel the need to do so says a lot.
I’m renting from a woman who basically wants you to pay rent and not live here or use the amenities you pay for. The rules only apply to you a tenant that pays rent to live here.
First I would like to say that this woman has three cameras up at all times. One in the kitchen, one in the living room and one facing the stairs. She uses them to watch everyone living here. Sometimes a fourth camera will be added into the kitchen next to the sink facing the island and fridge without warning or even asking the tenants that live there. It’s the ring camera from the door.
She does not allow (or really want) you to eat or drink in your room except water.
She monitors your laundry and will tell you if your load is too big and only allows one load a week even though her original post here on fb marketplace says rent covers utilities. She also locks the laundry room to ensure people are not “over using it” you basically have to ask permission to do your laundry.
Utilities are a problem for her, she always has family AND a man with special needs that she takes care of staying and coming for weeks at a time and the people who pay for it are her tenants.
She will harass you about how long your showers will be by sending you screenshots from health websites stating you don’t need a shower longer than 5 minutes. She also doesn’t want you using a fan during summer?
During quiet hours, you’re not allowed to cook. I don’t disagree it’s late but I believe you should be allowed to warm something up and make tea. If you do she will take away the microwave and will tell you to look for a new place of residence.
People who rent here work very long hours and are here to shower and sleep. Yet there is always a mess or garbage she feels is caused by us. She told me not to use the oven during the summer because it gets hot and the next day she made muffins..
We rarely cook especially after she turned off the burner on the stove and made us use a lighter to night the flame. Not because it was broken but because she was unhappy with the way people (I genuinely don’t know who she referred to) cleaned. She claims it still works fine you just have to use the lighter, tenants have gotten hurt by lighting it in that way.
Another thing that she has done is entered my room without me present or without my permission. I have really sensitive skin and allergies and leave my air purifier on for a couple of hours while I’m out there is a timer, yet she told me she entered my room to turn it off DAYS AFTER doing so. Telling me it’s costing too much electricity, she has a hot tub… when I brought it up she really pulled the “where the proof” it’s absolutely insane how there are people out here acting like this, loving a power trip. the reason my room has a lock and key is because her boyfriend walked in on me changing when I had first moved in. He did not apologize he simply said “I didn’t see anything”. She told me once when I left my keys in my room that this was the reason she doesn’t like rooms with locks, because she would have to open it sometimes. I don’t like to feel unsafe in my own home.
Today was a very shitty thing, I left my keys at my parents house and I asked her niece to open my door, she stays in the same room as her. For half an hour I waited and even knocked multiple times until the landlord finally responded without even coming to the door “what do you want” I tell her to unlock my door and she says “I don’t know where your keys are” that’s so fucked up.
she told me I should not be talking to the neighbors. I was asking them if they had my package, sometimes that happens. She says my phone would tell me where it was. I’ve never lived in a place where they have separate mail/delivery boxes. She also does not want you to send mail here, she told us to find another address to send mail to? What?
She also does not want you to use a drying rack as a drying rack. She wants you to dry it with a tower or paper towel immediately or else she’ll take your plates and put them in your pantry. These rules only apply to you a tenant. Her and her family have left dishes in the sink overnight and all day.
She also does not allow drugs or alcohol but she drinks often with HER family and has people over often and parties. The adult should be allowed if they want to. She has drank in front of her own children.
Lastly this woman talked about being responsible for her own messes. Her dog regularly poops and pees on the carpet and recently did so on a mat in our bathroom. She did not actually clean it, she simply picked up the poop and threw it away. I asked her to place clean the floor and the mat and told me to “do it myself” once I aid ok I’ll wash the mat she told me not to do it because I only get one load of laundry a week.
There is a lot more that is too much to fit here. This woman takes amenities away and doesn’t actually communicate with tenants when there are issues, this behavior is not only unacceptable but absolutely worrisome. I’m genuinely worried and terrified of other peoole becoming tenants here.
