i have a contract lease fully signed, the landlord renegged on their deal because i wanted to install mosquito netting. (this was a farmland property with massive bodies of waters nearby lakes, tall grass etc) nowhere in the contract does it state i could not in any way shape or form install mosquito nets. a year later i was able to secure a loan for my own apartment
Our last landlord tried to take us to court for £5k. We found a solicitor who happened to be an ex employee of our managing agent and had an axe to grind. Best £200 I have ever spent. Not a penny was paid to the land lord. 😊
So my recent landlord shit storm. We had lived in the same house for the last 5 years. Never late on rent, no damage. Our house is on the very edge of a flood plain. July 2023, we had a close call and the flood waters came up to our front steps. I told her "Might want to up your flood insurance." and sent pictures. Come December, we had a "300 year flood." and the water came up to the first floor and destroyed the basement. The furnace, the water heater, and the sun room all a wreck. Despite FEMA being involved and full disaster declared. She seemed to not realize what had happened. The EPA declared that the oil tank needed to be replaced and paid for us to drain it into a plastic tub until the furnace got fixed. I drove by last week and that plastic tub is still there full of heating oil. After 3 months of New england winter with no heat and no hot water, we got a lawyer involved. Our LL raged at us for it and eventually got the water heater fixed. Just the water heater. We withheld rent during all of this. Eventually she filed for eviction and from her lawyer's reaction to our settlement it was clear she had lied to him. See, she lied to everyone, all the time. She's south african and speaks fluent english, she's been a US citizen for over 30 years. But she will throw on the thickest accent she can and act like she has no idea what you're saying, whenever you say something she doesn't like. Come july when the eviction case came up, the reveal that we had gone 6 months, including an entire winter without heat. That was still not working... she got the house back and not a penny of the over $6k rent she would have been owed. Until she filed to evict us rather than fix the house, I had every intention of paying her back all the rent minus the extra electricity costs we incurred from heating via space heaters all winter. so she brought us to small claims for the owed rent. So I counter sued her for the medical costs incurred from the mold exposure we had during the spring when the basement that was still soaking wet from the flood and full of her moldy belongings she'd stored there. She dropped the case. We used the saved money to buy a home. Instead of having a grateful tenant and getting reiumbursed via rent. She lost her tenant, 8 months of rent, and still has a legally unleasable, unlivable, virtually unsellable house needing nearly $10k in repairs. Worth noting I tried to help her get a small business loan through some disaster relief programs. She refused to do it. Oh turns out she didn't have flood insurance... on her property 5ft from a flood plain. That had a history of flooding. Well I'm a homeowner now and she's fucked. Shoulda just been a decent person and not left us in the cold all fucking winter.
In Virginia you can't withhold rent for ANY reason. Most you can do is file with the court and put the rent into escrow until the case is decided by a judge.
There's a small handful of those types. Linus Sebastian rents out an old house and the family there has been there for years and he has never raised the rent, he recently announced he intends to sell the house when they moved out so he stops being called a landlord (another landlord will buy it and charge way more)
I rent out my house as I work in another country. Due to this, I have to use a letting agency. Two months ago, they "recommended" I raise the rent by 20%! From what I could tell, a lot of agencies use the same software, containing rent information. If the rent of a property is raised in one area, it "justifies" the raising of the rent for all similar-sized properties in the area. Compound this on 5 properties in an area, you'll get a huge increase such as the one I was told to carry out. I informed the agency that NO ONE would pay a 20% increase and told them to freeze it for the year while informing the tenant that we will link the rent with inflation again next year. From a landlord's perspective, it is in our best interest to be reasonable as otherwise having to rely on tenancy agreements, the law and arbitration and having an empty property costs us a huge amount in time, effort and money. Well done Karl, that couple deserved EVERYTHING they got.
This is why i self manage my properties, real estate agents will suggest you raise the rent so much your tenant is financially motivated to move out. But i've got just as many nightmare tenant stories as karl has about landlords, if not more. Just had to evict a tenant that absolutely trashed the place and has us spending thousands in repair, the bond doesn't even begin to cover it. Insurance will but it'll take our rates up which will unfortunately take the rent up slightly for the next tenant.
I had a landlord deny I had a water leak for 3 weeks. They then proceeded to try to charge me $6000 USD when i moved out, primarily for damages caused by that water leak and their own negligence. For example they tried to charge us hundreds for closet doors that were noted as broken or missing on our move in checklist. And thats just a tidbit of it.
@nicholaslogan5185 yeah I wish I would have had the foresight but between my own lack of preparation and the hurried fashion I moved in... I messed up. And they got me. I'm glad you weren't put in the same boat and had the forethought to document.
BC in Canada has a wonderful system for getting your deposit back. If the landlord doesn't repay the full or agreed upon amount within 15 days, AND doesn't file with the RTB for arbitration, you can file to have them pay up to double the amount put in deposit. Some provinces can even allow you to seek interest on the amount, as well as charge the landlord for any fees associated with filing to get your deposit back. A 1500$ deposit can easily turn into a 3300$ cheque within just a few weeks.
@@OfAngelsAndAnarchistas in they dont produce or facilitate distribution of it. They profit off buying it first and selling it at a higher price without any meaningful contribution
@@vladimirgertner3960sorry friend but that is a deflection from the point that landlords are indeed like scalpers. Investment was intended to get an enterprise underway in exchange for a cut of the profit ... ✌️❤
I saved my landlord from potential ten to one hundred thousand of dollars in repairs due to two floods in my city, because I was home at the time it happened and knew how to make a makeshift levy and clear drains. They "rewarded" me with "only" raising the rent by $200 a month. It could have been $250... Landlords are scum. If their building is burning or flooding just let it. (After you help your neighbours of course!)
Ugh landlords. I accidentally got recommended a landlord subreddit where they were trying to do weird memes making fun of renters... Oh my God these people are completely clueless
@@MrBluman999 I think this one or one of the landlord satire subreddits after a while got filled with people who unironically thought those things and became actually pro landlord
My current landlord (he took over our lease from the alright landlord) and he's been punishing us for the government raising capital gains tax on owning rentals to the point now our place is falling apart and he refuses to fix anything even when the health inspector who looked at the huge hole in our bathroom ceiling told him to fix the place. It's so tiring seeing Canada allow all these slumlords to get away with this shit
I had a landlord claim that the apartment wasn't cleaned when we left and wanted $500 for professional cleaning. His proof? There were boot prints on the tile floor. The boot prints were for boots I didn't own. Yes they were his own boot prints. Plus he did the final inspection without me present (by law I have to be given the option to be present). I told them we can either go to arbitration (and they will lose because they didn't give me my legal right to be present) or they can compromise, give me access and I will mop up the boot print and they will give me 100% of the deposit back. I got my full deposit back.
Congratulations on your new home! Well deserved, been casually watching your channel on and off for a few years now and I always have a good time tuning in. Definitely a good walkthrough on how to not do business that we can all relate to regarding landlords. The extra adventures you went through while time consuming definitely make for a fun story I think is definitely a worth while memory to look back on now that you are happily living in you own home.
I've had one good (actual) landlord. Only one, out of many, but he was pretty rad. He was often out of the country, visiting family in Brazil, but he was super chill about the shape of the house, and if anything broke that he wasnt available to get fixed, he'd let us pick the guys to fix it or the thing to replace it, and we'd just send him the bill and he'd take it off our rent. It's not the coolest thing in the world, but miles ahead of my current slumlord, who has let our 40-year old HVAC system just fall apart and left us without central air for 2 years now, and central heat that even repairmen say shouldn't be used lest we all die in our sleep frim carbon monoxide poisoning. Then all the big trees in our yard fell in this damn hurricane and damaged all the neighbors' property, and we can't get a hold of him to save our lives.
One thing that I learned from my step mom who had to deal with a landlord sueing them is: ALWAYS TAKE PHOTOS! Whenever you are moving in or out, any repairs that had to be done take photos! And to get everything in writing if the landlord says they will do something or pay for something in person or over the phone gat in text or email later. It will save you from being screwed over later
Honestly, RE: if this was a satisfying conclusion or not? It was! Karl really messed around with LL _and_ only had to pay a fraction of what that jerk was going for. And the part where he went in for a showing, all super spy mode? That was just beautiful. Chef's kiss. No notes. Here's hoping the payout for this video will more than exceed the loss to the LL. That'll REALLY show 'im.
How fitting for me to wander back into Fact Fiend from a hiatus as i prepare for an inspection tomorrow. My landlord desperately wants me out, but it aint gonna happen
I am all for anything that will even slightly inconvenience a landlord in anyway, let alone screw them out of time and money. Arbitration isn't free, at least in the US. If the UK works the same way, the landlord would had to pay fees to the arbiter. So potentially, they didn't even get the money because it may have all had to go to the arbiter. And if that's the case, I'd say it was worth it in the end.
Advice that has helped me. When you first walk into a new apartment. Record every inch of it. Talk through any damages or issues you see. You may never need this. I never did but it can help in the future if you do.
There is an interesting point that landlords miss. If they don't return the deposit the whole amount is due especially if they have no receipts for the alleged repairs and cleaning coats
The overwhelming majority of landlords are good people. Many of them are "accidental" landlords. Meaning they never went out and planned to be a landlord. Often, they were two people, both having their own place, they met eachother and moved in. That then left a housr empty, so they put second house up for rent. Or a loved one passed, so they inherited a house, typically the "family house" then they rented it out to keep it in the family The majority of landlords are good people and look after their properties. The issue is, you never hear about the good ones, only the bad ones
Maybe you didn't get all your money back, but it was definitely a win for you! Good enough, I'd say. I hope your video makes you a little bit of that token money. ¡Cheers from Mexico!
Honestly man, I don't think it ever fully sunk in over the years what sort of tenacity you actually had to get through a lot of rough life situations. Glad something came of it and that you're in a position to call out terrible landlords. All the best to you and yours, dude.
All these landlords need to work a fucking sales job. Discretion in sales is hyper important which is why almost all sales teams everywhere have a certain amount of money in there daily, weekly, & monthly budget to entice brokering deals. Literally called fucking discretion.
@@urkittenmew depends where ur at. I was at a phone place that was like only half busy and we'd be allowed 100$ per customer with a budget of 1k a week. But it got more restrictive to what we could use it toward in the recent years
@@urkittenmew I ment to reply to the guy above you. So you not realize your replying to the op? Cause my comment is about both and my reply is just further elaboration so I'm just a bit confused why your reply is so, hostile?
Had a landlord complain about some holes in a wall and that my cleaning wasn't up to their standard. Told them to just hire someone and I'd eat the cost, but I never got an invoice for it!
I actually found it to be quite the uplifting story. No you might not have made the biggest of impacts, but, imagine if more people began doing this, say just 10% of renters. The headache it would create for landlords would be so much fun!
When you said "Have you got a receipt for me?" I nearly fell out of my chair from laughing so hard. That IS one of the most petty things I heard of in a very long time. A+, no notes.
just wanted to say @carl, from someone who had been homeless and also struggled to work from the bottom to get where I am now... Good on ya mate and keep up the hard work! love your videos! and congratulations on the new pad
I have had the Good Fortune to generally have good landlords or at least ones that aren't actively evil. And on the other hand it has been incredibly beneficial to be on a first-name basis with a real estate attorney.
The last video I see is that the channel is shutting down and Patreon disappears and and now TH-cam shows me this. TO ADD TO THAT you are taking sponsors(finally!). I am glad to see not only are you back to but there is a back catalog I somehow missed too.
It's now 4AM and I've stayed up an extra hour to wawtch this video because fuck me. Glad you managed to stick it to the landleeches even if you didn't get all your money back. I've managed to get away with only having 3 landlords before managing to buy, one was great (student house), one was terrible (I believe they got investigated for fraud after I reported their attempt to do an end-run around the TDS, SJT Stafford in Bristol, beware), the last was absentee (agent took care of everything and did a decent enough job of it). Glad you've got your own place now, it's such a different feeling knowing it's your home.
when you are a landlord, YOU ARE BEING PAID TO TAKE CARE OF 100% OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF BUILDING/HOME OWNERSHIP. all the costs of that should be covered by the rent you collect.
The problem is there are slum lords, and there are also bad tennets, and that's why rents go up so badly, if everyone was a good tennet, and there were no slum lords, then rents would only cost the cost of insurance, the replacement of appliances, and taxes, plus a little extra for them over the course of a year.
I fundamentally disagree that bad tenetts are the cause of the housing crisis. It's simply greed from people who can own multiple houses. When you own a Monopoly, you can do something like that. @@josephmath1
@@josephmath1basically every example of unregilated businesses shows that that is just false, if people who own things aren't forced to be reasonable, for a large amount, they'll price gouge and skimp in costs.
I've had both good an bad landlords. A uni house landlord took ages to clean the black-spot mold in one of the bathrooms (the one that was right behind the kitchen!) that it reached the point where my housemate threatened that we'd all withhold rent until he fixed it. He reacted very quickly after that. My first non-student flat took huge advantage of us. We'd cleaned the place but the agent found a bit of dust on the skirting board and told us they'd have to get a cleaner in so we wouldn't get our deposit back. When I said I'd clean it there and then, he said it was too late. Unfortunately, we didn't get parental advice and didn't know any better, so we lost that money. Our previous two landlords were actually very decent. Accounted for wear and tear, were vague about markings like "mark on skirting board" when we moved in, so the damage we'd caused (actually our gerbils XD and yes, that flat block allowed pets.) didn't go down as extra damage. We got our deposits back for two flats in a row with zero issues. We had unusually fantastic and friendly landlords for those two.
In the US in the state I live in the only time the property management is allowed to enter a residence without tenant permission is when the fire marshall is conducting the bi-annual fire safety equipment checks.
This just makes me super happy that I have been extremely lucky with every landlord I've ever had. I've never once had any of my deposit claimed and rent increases have been reasonable and infrequent. Also at my current place, while it has had a few issues the letting agents have fixed them ASAP with professional contractors. I've even had my bath removed and re-fitted.
@@hellaboveme500 Nope, I live in the UK (in fact Sheffield the same city as Karl) we don't have rent controls. I've just lucky and had decent letting agents and landlords
I used to live in a mobile home that I owned in a mobile home park. I was renting the lot, the landlord was only responsible for the plumbing and the roads. In 2015 lot rent was $125/month when a new company bought the park. By 2019 when I moved out it was $185/month and the park had just been sold again. It's now over $400/month. My mortgage today is less than $1000, and I have 3.5 acres instead of a 50'x80' lot, not to mention a house that's twice the size my trailer was.
I lived in a place with one other guy once where I paid the entire bond and it was all in my name. The guy I lived with was a bit of a nightmare, but overall the place wasn't too bad. When I submitted the bond return, it turned out thar the landlords had never submitted it, so they were obligated to return it in full. A while after I moved out, they started emailing me with things they wanted me to repay, to which I responded with "The bond has been resolved." Prior to us moving out, they had sent us messages telling us that they would be "taking some people through the unit in the morning for appraisal purposes". I let them know that per our rental agreement, they need to provide a 48 hour notice for entry to the premises. Get to know your rights, and push back within them.
Did they have a mortage? In the last few years, interest rates went from about 1 percent to 5 percent. That is a 5 x increase in cost to operate that property, provided of course they had actually mortgage.
I'm in Aus and once when I moved out of a place I'd been living at for 10 years the landlord tried to keep the two weeks I'd paid in advance (I always paid extra ahead, safety net). They are not legally allowed to do this. I went to the tenets advocacy board and they helped point me to the laws *AND* the law stating they needed to repay me for electricity they had used the year previous when they were doing renovations. I had all my electricity bills going back 6 years as evidence of the increase it caused. They ended up having to give me the 2 weeks rent and an additional 3 times that amount.
As someone who has been fucked over by landlords before, I can relate. Thankfuly my last landlady was an actual resonable human being and gave me no headaches in my last move and now, as of the last 6 months, I have joined the select club of homeowners and don't have to worry about this kind of BS no more.
Don't forget council tax on second properties is from day 1 of being empty and can be upto 200% depending on area. Best to double check with the council that they have the correct details for when you moved out.
34:22 yeah, when it comes to cleaning a landlord had tried to keep some of our deposit because there were slight streaks on one of the windows from when i cleaned them. Keep in mind there is so much calcium in the water in that area that if you splash water on a counter and just leave it to air dry you'll return to a giant white patch. I am good at polishing windows and i did not take that standing down. (they couldn't claim anything with the apartment itself as i had my mother, who used to be a cleaner in hospitals, to help out as well as my father who is a meticulous cleaner as well.
It's best to document everything at the start and everything they are responsible for as things go along. There own mirror damaging the trim without your cause if you got their agreement and responsibility to repair at the time probably would have resolved later. There's a flip switched between keeping a tenant and not. When they decided to sell they wanted you out clearly that was what they were weighing when deciding the rent.
I did have a good landlady once when i was a student in my 20s. She had a law office and 3 or 4 small appt complex's. I think she raised rent by $50 once in the 4 years i lived there and she did it basically to cover a roof replacement and some basic repairs. i was late on rent at least twice a year and she was always chill about it. This lady had at least one hundred tennents and a full other profession and was just a decent person.
my previous landlord would randomly come into the premises with no warning. Bastard rented out an illegally small room, didn't disclose mould and rat problem, and after 2 years he sent me a message on a friday that I had to be out by sunday. Didn't fix flooding or broken locks either. Never hated interacting with another person more
Landlords are the greatest argument for home ownership. The idea that we've turned home ownership into an investment vehicle is maddening to me. It seems a couple generations ago, a home was shelter and a place to raise a family. Now every crackpot investor buys up the affordable, slaps cheap white paint on everything, calls it a fresh remodel, and charges twice fair market value to rent it to the people they outbid while buying. Glad I got out of the rent trap when i did.
As a student the only landlord that was in any way good was the Uni itself - it was such a breath of fresh air I decided to stay for years 3 and 4. AND they were the cheapest.
Man, I'm an American and my rent increases a couple hundred each year. My most recent place went from $1200 to $1800 over 3 years. The only time I've gotten my security deposit back was when I moved in I took pictures of every possible thing with time stamps. Then a month before I moved out I had them them come come in and note what all would need to be fixed to get my full deposit back, with their signature.
The first ever landlords i dealt with were interesting. After 6 months renting i discovered when sat at home ill with the lights off that they unlock our door and let themselves in, after that i would keep my lights off when at home a lot and multiple times a year id catch them about to unlock my front door and let themselves in without any prior word. They also refused to remove this old antique rickety chair that belonged to their grandmother that was so important to them yet not important enough for them to actually keep in their own home, instead reminding us each visit that it was so important and fragile and telling me off for keeping it out the way in a secure spot to ensure we couldnt affect it....
Soooo weird. I had a friend whose landlord sent their solicitors paperwork to their property and they installed wall tiles on the floor and half of the property had no washing up liquid 🙈 I feel for you.
I’m a landlord in one small way. I have a friend on disability who cannot keep their disability payments to build wealth or they risk losing their income. This friend lives with me and has their own space, paying rent so they are contributing to the household, at their insistence. I’d let them live here for free, but it helps them keep their income as they are unable to work.
Love the pettiness. General tip compare the check in to the check out inventory and make sure all items are on the check out inventory that they are claiming for
Technically a landlord here in the US i rent out a 2 bedroom house to my buddies for 700 I've had 2 move out and I can say it's annoying when stuff is left behind but to be this petty over stuff left behind is insane.
I mean tbh that's a pretty good outcome. I feel like 200 for cleaning professionally isn't bad. Plus, you'll make some money off the video too! Gratz on the house laptop Karl.
There is such a huge difference between a landlord who has tried to get into the business of renting out property, and the people who happen to own an apartment or two and their own house. The first treats you like a number on a spreadsheet. The second is a human. Basically 💩versus 🕺
A family member is technically a landlord of 3 houses (plus the one he lives in), but sees exactly £0.00 profit because the rent he charges is exactly the amount needed to cover the mortgage and any other bills. I'd still call this scummy (because eventually that mortgage will be paid off and he'll have a house someone else paid for) except the tenants are all family members; the former was going to lose the house so it was bought out to ensure he had a place to live, and the latter two because he intends to leave them as inheritance to the tenants (who are his children).
@@Carwinley Sounds like your friend is like me, who became a landlord through circumstance, My situation was finally getting fed up with my in-laws experience of shit Landlords and being in the situation of being able to do something about it thanks to an inheritance. I also receive zero income after costs, once they no longer need the property it will be sold as I really have no interest in being a Landlord for profit, originally we had hoped my disabled son would be eventually be able to live there, but due to deteriorating mental health , that looks unlikely,
Congrats on your new home carl. Serves them right for being greedy. It's sad that you were a great tennant to them for them to screw you over for a pittance in the grand scheme of things.
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i have a contract lease fully signed, the landlord renegged on their deal because i wanted to install mosquito netting. (this was a farmland property with massive bodies of waters nearby lakes, tall grass etc)
nowhere in the contract does it state i could not in any way shape or form install mosquito nets.
a year later i was able to secure a loan for my own apartment
That security guard is the MVP of this series of stories...
You could have just used the gender neutral "Landparasite".
Landbastard has a better ring to it
Landlubber personally is my preferred term for them
Aye! Aaargh
Land value tax would solve this.
Read Henry George everybody.
Location location location.
Also Ricardo's law of rent.
@@anthonylipke7754 Georgism is no more the answer now than it was then.
Our last landlord tried to take us to court for £5k. We found a solicitor who happened to be an ex employee of our managing agent and had an axe to grind. Best £200 I have ever spent. Not a penny was paid to the land lord. 😊
Never clicked on a video so fast.
Real
Right?!
It was playing the second I clocked out.
Agreed glad it was my top video when I opened.
Kinda disappointed I haven't been on TH-cam at all in the last week and now I'm a few days late seeing this.
Here's hoping this video makes Karl his 200 pounds back and more.
So my recent landlord shit storm. We had lived in the same house for the last 5 years. Never late on rent, no damage. Our house is on the very edge of a flood plain. July 2023, we had a close call and the flood waters came up to our front steps. I told her "Might want to up your flood insurance." and sent pictures.
Come December, we had a "300 year flood." and the water came up to the first floor and destroyed the basement. The furnace, the water heater, and the sun room all a wreck.
Despite FEMA being involved and full disaster declared. She seemed to not realize what had happened. The EPA declared that the oil tank needed to be replaced and paid for us to drain it into a plastic tub until the furnace got fixed.
I drove by last week and that plastic tub is still there full of heating oil.
After 3 months of New england winter with no heat and no hot water, we got a lawyer involved. Our LL raged at us for it and eventually got the water heater fixed. Just the water heater.
We withheld rent during all of this.
Eventually she filed for eviction and from her lawyer's reaction to our settlement it was clear she had lied to him.
See, she lied to everyone, all the time. She's south african and speaks fluent english, she's been a US citizen for over 30 years. But she will throw on the thickest accent she can and act like she has no idea what you're saying, whenever you say something she doesn't like.
Come july when the eviction case came up, the reveal that we had gone 6 months, including an entire winter without heat. That was still not working... she got the house back and not a penny of the over $6k rent she would have been owed.
Until she filed to evict us rather than fix the house, I had every intention of paying her back all the rent minus the extra electricity costs we incurred from heating via space heaters all winter.
so she brought us to small claims for the owed rent.
So I counter sued her for the medical costs incurred from the mold exposure we had during the spring when the basement that was still soaking wet from the flood and full of her moldy belongings she'd stored there.
She dropped the case. We used the saved money to buy a home.
Instead of having a grateful tenant and getting reiumbursed via rent. She lost her tenant, 8 months of rent, and still has a legally unleasable, unlivable, virtually unsellable house needing nearly $10k in repairs.
Worth noting I tried to help her get a small business loan through some disaster relief programs. She refused to do it.
Oh turns out she didn't have flood insurance... on her property 5ft from a flood plain. That had a history of flooding.
Well I'm a homeowner now and she's fucked. Shoulda just been a decent person and not left us in the cold all fucking winter.
Wow! Glad you’ve got your own home now!
In Virginia you can't withhold rent for ANY reason. Most you can do is file with the court and put the rent into escrow until the case is decided by a judge.
@@wukong2282 Glad I'm not in virginia. I consulted numerous people with experience on both sides of the issue before I did so.
Carl progressively gets pinker throughout the vid😂
Hating on landlords is sweaty work.
The green lights are burning him
It wasn't his final form yet 🤩
Gomez Addams is the only good landlord. "What's the problem, rent too high? I can lower it for you if you want"
There's a small handful of those types. Linus Sebastian rents out an old house and the family there has been there for years and he has never raised the rent, he recently announced he intends to sell the house when they moved out so he stops being called a landlord (another landlord will buy it and charge way more)
I rent out my house as I work in another country. Due to this, I have to use a letting agency. Two months ago, they "recommended" I raise the rent by 20%! From what I could tell, a lot of agencies use the same software, containing rent information. If the rent of a property is raised in one area, it "justifies" the raising of the rent for all similar-sized properties in the area. Compound this on 5 properties in an area, you'll get a huge increase such as the one I was told to carry out.
I informed the agency that NO ONE would pay a 20% increase and told them to freeze it for the year while informing the tenant that we will link the rent with inflation again next year.
From a landlord's perspective, it is in our best interest to be reasonable as otherwise having to rely on tenancy agreements, the law and arbitration and having an empty property costs us a huge amount in time, effort and money. Well done Karl, that couple deserved EVERYTHING they got.
Didn’t one of these agencies in the us just get raided over forcing even unwilling landlords to take their “advice”
This is why i self manage my properties, real estate agents will suggest you raise the rent so much your tenant is financially motivated to move out.
But i've got just as many nightmare tenant stories as karl has about landlords, if not more. Just had to evict a tenant that absolutely trashed the place and has us spending thousands in repair, the bond doesn't even begin to cover it. Insurance will but it'll take our rates up which will unfortunately take the rent up slightly for the next tenant.
I had a landlord deny I had a water leak for 3 weeks. They then proceeded to try to charge me $6000 USD when i moved out, primarily for damages caused by that water leak and their own negligence. For example they tried to charge us hundreds for closet doors that were noted as broken or missing on our move in checklist.
And thats just a tidbit of it.
This is why you always take pictures, and communicate by email and text for important things like this.
I once took 500 pictures because I could tell from the checkin that they were gunna try to charge me to fix the place up. They tried lol 🤣
@nicholaslogan5185 yeah I wish I would have had the foresight but between my own lack of preparation and the hurried fashion I moved in... I messed up. And they got me.
I'm glad you weren't put in the same boat and had the forethought to document.
Best series on TH-cam, unfortunately I know it means Karl's been fucked over again.
*Karl, but yeah I agree with the statement.
@@sev1120 shit ik he hates that too
BC in Canada has a wonderful system for getting your deposit back. If the landlord doesn't repay the full or agreed upon amount within 15 days, AND doesn't file with the RTB for arbitration, you can file to have them pay up to double the amount put in deposit. Some provinces can even allow you to seek interest on the amount, as well as charge the landlord for any fees associated with filing to get your deposit back. A 1500$ deposit can easily turn into a 3300$ cheque within just a few weeks.
Landlords provide housing the same way ticket scalpers provide entertainment.
Lol that's brilliant. I'm stealing that.
As in, without what they’ve got - you don’t get what you want?
I mean, yeah. That’s how everything works.
@@OfAngelsAndAnarchistas in they dont produce or facilitate distribution of it. They profit off buying it first and selling it at a higher price without any meaningful contribution
@@Aedi Well,. someone just found out what "investment" means.
@@vladimirgertner3960sorry friend but that is a deflection from the point that landlords are indeed like scalpers. Investment was intended to get an enterprise underway in exchange for a cut of the profit ... ✌️❤
I saved my landlord from potential ten to one hundred thousand of dollars in repairs due to two floods in my city, because I was home at the time it happened and knew how to make a makeshift levy and clear drains. They "rewarded" me with "only" raising the rent by $200 a month. It could have been $250...
Landlords are scum. If their building is burning or flooding just let it. (After you help your neighbours of course!)
Ugh landlords.
I accidentally got recommended a landlord subreddit where they were trying to do weird memes making fun of renters... Oh my God these people are completely clueless
Was it Landchads? Because if it was, that subreddit is a big joke. It's all sarcastic.
@@MrBluman999 probably is the one they're referring to, yeah
Fun fact, if you post on R/latestagecapitalism you automatically get banned from r/landlords
@koloblicin9721 I read that post on r/landlords and it made me laugh so hard.
@@MrBluman999 I think this one or one of the landlord satire subreddits after a while got filled with people who unironically thought those things and became actually pro landlord
My current landlord (he took over our lease from the alright landlord) and he's been punishing us for the government raising capital gains tax on owning rentals to the point now our place is falling apart and he refuses to fix anything even when the health inspector who looked at the huge hole in our bathroom ceiling told him to fix the place. It's so tiring seeing Canada allow all these slumlords to get away with this shit
Love it.
How Not to Do Business-- How not to incur the petty wrath of Karl
I had a landlord claim that the apartment wasn't cleaned when we left and wanted $500 for professional cleaning. His proof? There were boot prints on the tile floor.
The boot prints were for boots I didn't own. Yes they were his own boot prints. Plus he did the final inspection without me present (by law I have to be given the option to be present).
I told them we can either go to arbitration (and they will lose because they didn't give me my legal right to be present) or they can compromise, give me access and I will mop up the boot print and they will give me 100% of the deposit back.
I got my full deposit back.
Congratulations on your new home! Well deserved, been casually watching your channel on and off for a few years now and I always have a good time tuning in. Definitely a good walkthrough on how to not do business that we can all relate to regarding landlords. The extra adventures you went through while time consuming definitely make for a fun story I think is definitely a worth while memory to look back on now that you are happily living in you own home.
I've had one good (actual) landlord. Only one, out of many, but he was pretty rad. He was often out of the country, visiting family in Brazil, but he was super chill about the shape of the house, and if anything broke that he wasnt available to get fixed, he'd let us pick the guys to fix it or the thing to replace it, and we'd just send him the bill and he'd take it off our rent.
It's not the coolest thing in the world, but miles ahead of my current slumlord, who has let our 40-year old HVAC system just fall apart and left us without central air for 2 years now, and central heat that even repairmen say shouldn't be used lest we all die in our sleep frim carbon monoxide poisoning. Then all the big trees in our yard fell in this damn hurricane and damaged all the neighbors' property, and we can't get a hold of him to save our lives.
in some places you can fix it yourself like you did before, and bill the landlord. should look into it in your area
One thing that I learned from my step mom who had to deal with a landlord sueing them is: ALWAYS TAKE PHOTOS! Whenever you are moving in or out, any repairs that had to be done take photos! And to get everything in writing if the landlord says they will do something or pay for something in person or over the phone gat in text or email later. It will save you from being screwed over later
Honestly, RE: if this was a satisfying conclusion or not? It was! Karl really messed around with LL _and_ only had to pay a fraction of what that jerk was going for. And the part where he went in for a showing, all super spy mode? That was just beautiful. Chef's kiss. No notes.
Here's hoping the payout for this video will more than exceed the loss to the LL. That'll REALLY show 'im.
There is exactly one amazing landlady, and she can scream like a lioness
All other landlords are horrible and probably don't even know Kung-Fu
We love Petty Karl. Also, they absolutely started it -- AND -- never mess with a professional researcher when they have any free time.
This just keeps getting more petty and funnier and funnier.
How fitting for me to wander back into Fact Fiend from a hiatus as i prepare for an inspection tomorrow.
My landlord desperately wants me out, but it aint gonna happen
I am all for anything that will even slightly inconvenience a landlord in anyway, let alone screw them out of time and money. Arbitration isn't free, at least in the US. If the UK works the same way, the landlord would had to pay fees to the arbiter. So potentially, they didn't even get the money because it may have all had to go to the arbiter. And if that's the case, I'd say it was worth it in the end.
Advice that has helped me. When you first walk into a new apartment. Record every inch of it. Talk through any damages or issues you see. You may never need this. I never did but it can help in the future if you do.
There is an interesting point that landlords miss. If they don't return the deposit the whole amount is due especially if they have no receipts for the alleged repairs and cleaning coats
The overwhelming majority of landlords are good people. Many of them are "accidental" landlords.
Meaning they never went out and planned to be a landlord.
Often, they were two people, both having their own place, they met eachother and moved in. That then left a housr empty, so they put second house up for rent.
Or a loved one passed, so they inherited a house, typically the "family house" then they rented it out to keep it in the family
The majority of landlords are good people and look after their properties.
The issue is, you never hear about the good ones, only the bad ones
Thank you Karl for letting me know how well my life has gone. I don't have a bad landlord story and I'm 62. Still love seeing your happy face.
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Maybe you didn't get all your money back, but it was definitely a win for you! Good enough, I'd say. I hope your video makes you a little bit of that token money. ¡Cheers from Mexico!
Honestly man, I don't think it ever fully sunk in over the years what sort of tenacity you actually had to get through a lot of rough life situations. Glad something came of it and that you're in a position to call out terrible landlords. All the best to you and yours, dude.
All these landlords need to work a fucking sales job. Discretion in sales is hyper important which is why almost all sales teams everywhere have a certain amount of money in there daily, weekly, & monthly budget to entice brokering deals. Literally called fucking discretion.
They know of discretion and how to use it they just choose not to bc the fuck are you gonna do
By the time I left Currys discretion discount target was 1%
@@urkittenmew depends where ur at. I was at a phone place that was like only half busy and we'd be allowed 100$ per customer with a budget of 1k a week. But it got more restrictive to what we could use it toward in the recent years
@@stinkygoat2686That's great but I'm talking about landlords
@@urkittenmew I ment to reply to the guy above you. So you not realize your replying to the op? Cause my comment is about both and my reply is just further elaboration so I'm just a bit confused why your reply is so, hostile?
Had a landlord complain about some holes in a wall and that my cleaning wasn't up to their standard. Told them to just hire someone and I'd eat the cost, but I never got an invoice for it!
I actually found it to be quite the uplifting story. No you might not have made the biggest of impacts, but, imagine if more people began doing this, say just 10% of renters. The headache it would create for landlords would be so much fun!
When you said "Have you got a receipt for me?" I nearly fell out of my chair from laughing so hard. That IS one of the most petty things I heard of in a very long time. A+, no notes.
just wanted to say @carl, from someone who had been homeless and also struggled to work from the bottom to get where I am now... Good on ya mate and keep up the hard work! love your videos! and congratulations on the new pad
I have had the Good Fortune to generally have good landlords or at least ones that aren't actively evil. And on the other hand it has been incredibly beneficial to be on a first-name basis with a real estate attorney.
Such a cathartic video. Landlords need to be held accountable for their bs
You had me at landlords being the biggest villain of all. Gold 🥇
The last video I see is that the channel is shutting down and Patreon disappears and and now TH-cam shows me this. TO ADD TO THAT you are taking sponsors(finally!). I am glad to see not only are you back to but there is a back catalog I somehow missed too.
Oh Yeah!! Been waiting for this one for a while!!🤟
The saga I didn't remember I needed an update on but was extremely happy to listen to.
It's now 4AM and I've stayed up an extra hour to wawtch this video because fuck me. Glad you managed to stick it to the landleeches even if you didn't get all your money back. I've managed to get away with only having 3 landlords before managing to buy, one was great (student house), one was terrible (I believe they got investigated for fraud after I reported their attempt to do an end-run around the TDS, SJT Stafford in Bristol, beware), the last was absentee (agent took care of everything and did a decent enough job of it). Glad you've got your own place now, it's such a different feeling knowing it's your home.
Landlord and letting agents are the greediest, it was cathartic to hear you say all of this, love the spy mode, genius
when you are a landlord, YOU ARE BEING PAID TO TAKE CARE OF 100% OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF BUILDING/HOME OWNERSHIP. all the costs of that should be covered by the rent you collect.
The problem is there are slum lords, and there are also bad tennets, and that's why rents go up so badly, if everyone was a good tennet, and there were no slum lords, then rents would only cost the cost of insurance, the replacement of appliances, and taxes, plus a little extra for them over the course of a year.
The responsibility for that of course being to 90% with bad landlords @@josephmath1
I fundamentally disagree that bad tenetts are the cause of the housing crisis.
It's simply greed from people who can own multiple houses.
When you own a Monopoly, you can do something like that.
@@josephmath1
@@josephmath1basically every example of unregilated businesses shows that that is just false, if people who own things aren't forced to be reasonable, for a large amount, they'll price gouge and skimp in costs.
I've had both good an bad landlords. A uni house landlord took ages to clean the black-spot mold in one of the bathrooms (the one that was right behind the kitchen!) that it reached the point where my housemate threatened that we'd all withhold rent until he fixed it. He reacted very quickly after that.
My first non-student flat took huge advantage of us. We'd cleaned the place but the agent found a bit of dust on the skirting board and told us they'd have to get a cleaner in so we wouldn't get our deposit back. When I said I'd clean it there and then, he said it was too late. Unfortunately, we didn't get parental advice and didn't know any better, so we lost that money.
Our previous two landlords were actually very decent. Accounted for wear and tear, were vague about markings like "mark on skirting board" when we moved in, so the damage we'd caused (actually our gerbils XD and yes, that flat block allowed pets.) didn't go down as extra damage. We got our deposits back for two flats in a row with zero issues. We had unusually fantastic and friendly landlords for those two.
Loved the vid. Good on you for being petty.
Always ensure that you only contact the landlord via email so that you have proof of everything.
Glad you're still making stuff Karl, dont work yourself too hard!
'The Pogues' have a great way of dealing with Landlords in one of their songs.
One of the best series on the internet ever
Lucas!!!!!!!!! Love having you here! I can't believe your both back!
Aye.! The return of my favorite series on FactFiend.!
The series you love to see
Oh, this brings back memoeries from when I was younger. Well done. 👏👏
In the US in the state I live in the only time the property management is allowed to enter a residence without tenant permission is when the fire marshall is conducting the bi-annual fire safety equipment checks.
hell more power to ya Karl and primo on that Secret Agent job!
12:14 "ffs, do I need to get a van?" "You'll need to get a van" has me dead 💀
One of my all-time favorite series on TH-cam. I fucking love How Not To Do Business.
This just makes me super happy that I have been extremely lucky with every landlord I've ever had. I've never once had any of my deposit claimed and rent increases have been reasonable and infrequent.
Also at my current place, while it has had a few issues the letting agents have fixed them ASAP with professional contractors. I've even had my bath removed and re-fitted.
Your place has rent control then huh
@@hellaboveme500 Nope, I live in the UK (in fact Sheffield the same city as Karl) we don't have rent controls. I've just lucky and had decent letting agents and landlords
I used to live in a mobile home that I owned in a mobile home park. I was renting the lot, the landlord was only responsible for the plumbing and the roads. In 2015 lot rent was $125/month when a new company bought the park. By 2019 when I moved out it was $185/month and the park had just been sold again. It's now over $400/month. My mortgage today is less than $1000, and I have 3.5 acres instead of a 50'x80' lot, not to mention a house that's twice the size my trailer was.
I lived in a place with one other guy once where I paid the entire bond and it was all in my name. The guy I lived with was a bit of a nightmare, but overall the place wasn't too bad. When I submitted the bond return, it turned out thar the landlords had never submitted it, so they were obligated to return it in full. A while after I moved out, they started emailing me with things they wanted me to repay, to which I responded with "The bond has been resolved." Prior to us moving out, they had sent us messages telling us that they would be "taking some people through the unit in the morning for appraisal purposes". I let them know that per our rental agreement, they need to provide a 48 hour notice for entry to the premises. Get to know your rights, and push back within them.
45:33 so winning it just losing less sounds about right
Did they have a mortage?
In the last few years, interest rates went from about 1 percent to 5 percent.
That is a 5 x increase in cost to operate that property, provided of course they had actually mortgage.
Carl with his duvet is a blessed image
OMG I HAD NO IDEA YOU WERE BACK!!! I missed you guys
We need a law firm called “Petty BS for you!” Just a low cost group that helps you be petty to such people as the landlord.
I'm in Aus and once when I moved out of a place I'd been living at for 10 years the landlord tried to keep the two weeks I'd paid in advance (I always paid extra ahead, safety net). They are not legally allowed to do this. I went to the tenets advocacy board and they helped point me to the laws *AND* the law stating they needed to repay me for electricity they had used the year previous when they were doing renovations. I had all my electricity bills going back 6 years as evidence of the increase it caused. They ended up having to give me the 2 weeks rent and an additional 3 times that amount.
As someone who has been fucked over by landlords before, I can relate.
Thankfuly my last landlady was an actual resonable human being and gave me no headaches in my last move and now, as of the last 6 months, I have joined the select club of homeowners and don't have to worry about this kind of BS no more.
Man karl's out here living the true landlord super experience 😂
Finally, I've been waiting for this since you mentioned it on Twitter
Don't forget council tax on second properties is from day 1 of being empty and can be upto 200% depending on area. Best to double check with the council that they have the correct details for when you moved out.
You also got the satisfaction of taking up both their time effort and winding them up… that ladt one is worth a lot in my book!
Glad you lot are back making these videos again 👍🏽. And I agree Sheffield landlords are the worst.
34:22 yeah, when it comes to cleaning a landlord had tried to keep some of our deposit because there were slight streaks on one of the windows from when i cleaned them. Keep in mind there is so much calcium in the water in that area that if you splash water on a counter and just leave it to air dry you'll return to a giant white patch. I am good at polishing windows and i did not take that standing down. (they couldn't claim anything with the apartment itself as i had my mother, who used to be a cleaner in hospitals, to help out as well as my father who is a meticulous cleaner as well.
i have that exact pug duvet cover, and have had it for years, it is outstanding.
Really greatful your donating to Shelter they do so much good work and helped me with my own shitty landlord
You may be the petties man on earth for this 😂.
Loving Lucas's new catchphrase "and thats the thing"
It's best to document everything at the start and everything they are responsible for as things go along. There own mirror damaging the trim without your cause if you got their agreement and responsibility to repair at the time probably would have resolved later. There's a flip switched between keeping a tenant and not. When they decided to sell they wanted you out clearly that was what they were weighing when deciding the rent.
Wonder if renters could organize for negotiation?
Glad you got most your money and a video from it. Love the how not to do business videos
I did have a good landlady once when i was a student in my 20s. She had a law office and 3 or 4 small appt complex's. I think she raised rent by $50 once in the 4 years i lived there and she did it basically to cover a roof replacement and some basic repairs. i was late on rent at least twice a year and she was always chill about it. This lady had at least one hundred tennents and a full other profession and was just a decent person.
They're back bois!! Let's go!
my previous landlord would randomly come into the premises with no warning. Bastard rented out an illegally small room, didn't disclose mould and rat problem, and after 2 years he sent me a message on a friday that I had to be out by sunday. Didn't fix flooding or broken locks either. Never hated interacting with another person more
Omg your back with the best youtube series
Landlords are the greatest argument for home ownership. The idea that we've turned home ownership into an investment vehicle is maddening to me. It seems a couple generations ago, a home was shelter and a place to raise a family. Now every crackpot investor buys up the affordable, slaps cheap white paint on everything, calls it a fresh remodel, and charges twice fair market value to rent it to the people they outbid while buying.
Glad I got out of the rent trap when i did.
As a student the only landlord that was in any way good was the Uni itself - it was such a breath of fresh air I decided to stay for years 3 and 4. AND they were the cheapest.
God damn it I love these. Karl, you and your team are real ones 🤘
Man, I'm an American and my rent increases a couple hundred each year. My most recent place went from $1200 to $1800 over 3 years.
The only time I've gotten my security deposit back was when I moved in I took pictures of every possible thing with time stamps. Then a month before I moved out I had them them come come in and note what all would need to be fixed to get my full deposit back, with their signature.
Ahh this is like a hot cuppa on a cold night levels of relaxing
The first ever landlords i dealt with were interesting.
After 6 months renting i discovered when sat at home ill with the lights off that they unlock our door and let themselves in, after that i would keep my lights off when at home a lot and multiple times a year id catch them about to unlock my front door and let themselves in without any prior word.
They also refused to remove this old antique rickety chair that belonged to their grandmother that was so important to them yet not important enough for them to actually keep in their own home, instead reminding us each visit that it was so important and fragile and telling me off for keeping it out the way in a secure spot to ensure we couldnt affect it....
Soooo weird.
I had a friend whose landlord sent their solicitors paperwork to their property and they installed wall tiles on the floor and half of the property had no washing up liquid 🙈
I feel for you.
Is there anyone more subhuman than a professional landlord?
Landlords are vampires.
Blade would never
. . . cold, genocidal space tyrants, maybe? However, now that I think about it. . .
Estate agent enters the chat.
Cops... I'm American
I’m a landlord in one small way. I have a friend on disability who cannot keep their disability payments to build wealth or they risk losing their income. This friend lives with me and has their own space, paying rent so they are contributing to the household, at their insistence. I’d let them live here for free, but it helps them keep their income as they are unable to work.
Love the pettiness. General tip compare the check in to the check out inventory and make sure all items are on the check out inventory that they are claiming for
Technically a landlord here in the US i rent out a 2 bedroom house to my buddies for 700 I've had 2 move out and I can say it's annoying when stuff is left behind but to be this petty over stuff left behind is insane.
watching this all play out in real time on your twitter was crazy as hell
I mean tbh that's a pretty good outcome. I feel like 200 for cleaning professionally isn't bad. Plus, you'll make some money off the video too!
Gratz on the house laptop Karl.
There is such a huge difference between a landlord who has tried to get into the business of renting out property, and the people who happen to own an apartment or two and their own house. The first treats you like a number on a spreadsheet. The second is a human. Basically 💩versus 🕺
A family member is technically a landlord of 3 houses (plus the one he lives in), but sees exactly £0.00 profit because the rent he charges is exactly the amount needed to cover the mortgage and any other bills.
I'd still call this scummy (because eventually that mortgage will be paid off and he'll have a house someone else paid for) except the tenants are all family members; the former was going to lose the house so it was bought out to ensure he had a place to live, and the latter two because he intends to leave them as inheritance to the tenants (who are his children).
@@Carwinley Sounds like your friend is like me, who became a landlord through circumstance, My situation was finally getting fed up with my in-laws experience of shit Landlords and being in the situation of being able to do something about it thanks to an inheritance. I also receive zero income after costs, once they no longer need the property it will be sold as I really have no interest in being a Landlord for profit, originally we had hoped my disabled son would be eventually be able to live there, but due to deteriorating mental health , that looks unlikely,
Congrats on your new home carl. Serves them right for being greedy. It's sad that you were a great tennant to them for them to screw you over for a pittance in the grand scheme of things.