27 Terrible Times Landlords Tried And Failed Woefully In Their Attempts To "Fix" A House
These pictures have got to be messing with me... because these landlords deserve to be publicly humiliated.
Some landlords manage to turn a simple repair into a full-blown disaster. Instead of fixing a problem, they leave behind something even stranger, messier, or more dangerous than what was there before.
That is exactly what makes these stories so frustrating, because the people involved were just trying to live in their homes while landlords took shortcuts that made everything worse. From botched patch jobs to bizarre cover-ups, the results are the kind of thing tenants notice right away and never forget.
These examples are wild, and the worst part is that they are all real enough to make renters check every corner of their place twice. Read on.
1. This not "exact" replacement tile
Nemesis90072. "Vent done, boss"
Antibiotik53. My landlord told me he’d pressure wash my deck...
TimeIsAnEllipsis
4. Landlord hung the microwave; this is as far as it opens before hitting the wall
etchasketch4u
5. "Please, do not cover your bathroom counter in cement. This has homeowner written all over it."
starvetheplatypus
6. "Just moved into my new apartment and saw this"
anderscandor
7. The landlord who slathered paint all over a light switch
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8. "Just moved into a new home and found where the landlord patched the carpet."
bzzzimabee
9. "Landlord fixed my wobbly clothes rail; no handyman needed here"
p00pingp00ches
10. The landlord who leech paints over a roach
Hater-Bot
11. The landlord who installed a new cabinet
digital-lemonade
This is the same kind of dispute as someone withholding rent after roommates neglected apartment repairs.
12. Why cut the door when you can cut the carpet instead? (Found in the new house basement.)
mattrowskayaks
13. "Our toilet seat broke, so the landlady sent us a new one and ignored our request for it to be square"
Cwawaf
14. The landlord who painted over a penny
LicenseToKill
15. "The paint on my apartment window sill is peeling. Turns out it's marble that they whitewashed"
Grabatreetron
16. My landlord gave us a new oven.
pleep-plop-pathetic
17. When your landlord has your safety as their number one priority
Twitter: @safrazie
18. The landlord who painted over a stained glass window
himneska
19. The landlord said the screws weren’t holding
blu3str
20. The landlord who decided to paint over tape
Doodleseatingdoodles
21. The landlord who chose to paint over a dang breaker
DYMAXIONman
22. "I like to consider myself a handyman. Gotta do what you gotta do to pass university dorm inspections."
9D6Official
23. "Seems like something a landlord would do (just saw it on IG; I don't know if it's real)"
devilsraspberries
24. "Landlords finally came through after three years and installed an extractor fan in our kitchen. Bonus! It extracts straight into the attic."
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25. "Somebody at the gym threw a medicine ball into the drywall. They fixed it by putting a vent grate over it."
oui-zzer
26. This is how the landlord fixed the leaky ceiling.
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27. The landlord who decided to give that spider a nice painting
MorganHarvester
There are certain landlords who don’t seem to stop amazing people with their so-called fixes. These pictures are the types that can make someone go check out their apartment all over again just to be sure that they didn’t miss anything.
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Some of these repairs are hard to believe until you see them.
For another “landlord says it’s fine” fight, read about a tenant refusing the landlord’s cat in a pet-friendly rental due to severe allergies.
