Hello,
This post might seem a bit stupid because is such little things that has been bothering me at my current place but I want to know if I’m in the right to say anything to my landlord or if I should just shut up honestly.
Just for context: I moved in September 2025. I rent this room on a house, share the all place with other two tenants, each of us have our own room. The landlord lives on her basement apartment downstairs and has absolutely nothing upstairs. She has everything she needs downstairs and it is considered like she doesn’t live with us on this case. Up until
February this year I had 0 issues with her, quite the opposite we would chat a lot, the only thing I noticed was that she text spam a lot, always sending those messages to everyone about things like garbage, snow removal, and bla bla. Is annoying but whatever.
I had one big situation earlier this year with her where I could see a side of her a bit unstable I would say. I signed a no pet lease, but I had issues with my ex and the pet we had together so I asked her if the cat could come visit me and stay for like 1-2x at a time, she agreed, I spoke with everyone at the house and people were excited to have my cat staying with us.
Things turned left ( doesn’t matter for this post) but I wanted to permanently stay with the cat which is matter of fact SHE OFFERED for him to stay and live with us on the condition that people wouldn’t mind ( which no one did) THE DAY AFTER she freaked out because I was taking a lot of space for the cat? I had just a tree and litter box downstairs ( common area), she said I didn’t told her the cat would stay, and that i should move out in two months before the lease is up. That day it was only me and her and she was yelling at me , and again spamming with messages.
For my unhappiness my cat ended up passing away 3 weeks later, he was sick already when all happened.
Anyways I was too sad to look for anything plus I spent so much with him and vet bills than even now I’m still paying for some stuff.
Now I see like a micromanaging every time she texts.
I left a cardboard box on the kitchen because we are out of recycling bags so i need to purchase more and had been literally a day. She sent me a message saying the common area isn’t storage and that I should break down the box and but on the recycling bin outside. I explained to her why I didn’t do it yet and she sent another saying the bag doesn’t matter bla bla.
The other day she was complaining about a Walmart bag that was on the living room and again saying that we shouldn’t keep things there. The bag wasn’t mine but I didn’t care lol who cares honestly. She always gives 24hrs notice before entering the house someone was moving in and that is why she saw it.
This happens all the time, every opportunity she has to spam us with those micromanaging stuff she does, is always such silly things that honestly the only people who should care is us that share the space!
May I say that I new tenant moved upstairs ( she has this third floor that it is almost like a full apartment there) and is her ex husband lol he left those storage boxes on the living room has been 3 days. I DONT CARE but why isn’t she complaining about that?
I can’t afford to move out in September so I was going to renew the lease but is pissing me off the things that she is bothered about.
Anyone has suggestions on how act on this without making it weird?