Dumping Them Out: Landlord Hate Blog

Welcome back to another episode of Dumping Them Out. I'm going to use this blog to bitch about my landlord. Enjoy the GIFs.

Somebody tell me where this "situation" falls on a scale of 1 to 10… 10 being "I'm a big fucking idiot who should have known better"… and 1 being "my landlord is a giant scumbag and deserves to be shamed publicly".

The lease on our current apartment ends May 31st. We do not want to renew the lease. We have been planning to move out that day ever since we moved in. So our landlord calls me Friday morning. He wants to confirm what our plan is. I tell him, "We're moving out at the end of our lease on May 31st".  He says, "Ok great. May 31st it is."

But the next day we get a text from him saying that he checked the lease again, and it actually ends on June 30th, NOT May 31st. Which I knew for a fact wasn't true. So I pulled up our signed lease and send him a screenshot.

But in response, he sends us this.

So apparently, since our landlord never sent us a lease renewal, and we did not go out of our way to notify him 60 days prior that we weren't going to renew, that means we are automatically on the hook for another month. Ironically enough… if he had done what he was "supposed" to do sent us an official lease renewal sixty (75) days before the expiration date… if he had done that, and we never responded, then we would be forced to vacate the unit on May 31st (see paragraph 3). But since he did nothing, it's on us to give him the 60 days notice. So now we're forced to stay another month.

Am I the asshole here? Because personally, I think he's the asshole. I think he's a cheap scumbag who is in over his head on an old apartment building that he bought because he thought it would be an easy money maker, but it turned out the building needs WAY more work than he ever anticipated, so now he's forced to find all possible ways to take his tenants for as much money as possible so he doesn't go broke. I just feel like if you sign a lease to specifically end on May 31st, then that should be the expectation. I know in the end its my fault for not paying more attention to the "fine print". But that's fucking shady. He knew exactly what he was doing waiting until after 60 days prior to ask us about it. The guy has been pulling shady moves ever since we moved in.

Rented an apartment w no A/C and 2 broken ceiling fans. But it has a backyard and we have dogs so it seemed worth it. Plus landlord said he’d fix the fans. Since we signed the lease he’s told us the fans are too expensive to fix and we can’t let our dogs pee in the yard. I’m starting to think my landlord is only in this for the money.

Am I overreacting or is this ridiculous: The coin washing machine in our apartment building broke, we had no laundry for a week Today our landlord hooked up one of those little $150 ones that does like half a load at a time. Until the real one is fixed, he asked us to keep track of the number of loads we do, then Venmo him money for each one. That’s crazy right?

I'm sorry. That's barely even interesting. I just wanted to bitch about it. It honestly doesn't even matter. We haven't signed a lease on a new place yet. We can delay our move another month no problem. But I fucking hate our landlord. I'm not going to fully dox him, but I will say his first name is Ravi. I feel like it's my responsibility as a citizen of Jersey City to warn people. If you're renting an apartment in the Jersey City area, and the owner's name is Ravi, shoot me a DM. I'll tell you if it's the guy. But check with me first. I don't want to disparage all Ravi's. For all I know, the first name "Ravi" could be the "John" of Indian people. But I gotta put it out there. I'd feel terrible if a reader of Barstool Sports ended up with him as a landlord, and I didn't give them fair warning.

Ok that's all I got for today. My fiancé's parents are in town this weekend. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't rushing my Boob GIFs blog today. We just got home from watching Rory win the Masters. Honestly, Rory's Sunday performance had to be one of the least impressive Masters' Sundays in the history of Masters' winners. He shot a 73. Which isn't the worst a winner has ever shot. But it's close. Trevor Immelman and Arnold Palmer both won shooting 75's on Sunday. Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, and Herman Keiser all won shooting 74 on Sunday. But I don't know what the weather was like for them. The weather was perfect for Rory today. The field was BEGGING him to win. They barely even make him earn it. He did hit a couple great iron shots. But he had SO MANY chances/puts win before the playoff. I'm sorry Twitter.. don't come at me for being honest.