r/LandlordLove

Barely there a year and I say that because we were nice enough to move all of our stuff out before the end of the month and clean. However, we just got a fake itemized list from a “professional cleaning service company” lol.

They were fine showing the place time and time again though! How stinky and dirty could it have been? 🤔

What a joke, they’re just mad that we didn’t renew and they’re getting married this Summer. No more cash from us. 😂

Any Positive LL apt hunting or situations out there?

Having a hard time finding a decent place to live, which is inclusive of a good landlord.

I have to leave my current place due to a nasty landlord in a long line of history of bad landlords, really bad landlords, and psycho landlords. (Once I had a meh landlord, that was the best I've had)

Just had two prospective landlords who said I could have the place reneged before the lease was signed due to greed. One place was close to ideal (75%) I was crushed. The other fell through because the LL got mad about getting it move in ready, after the last tenant, it really needed it and they said they would then didn't want to.

I get LLs and renting are an issue but:

1. I'm struggling more to find a place because where I live now is the worst place I've ever been when it comes to tenants being assertive (mega ignorance.) The entire state is a slumlord, 30+ years behind anywhere I've lived. There's a lack of tenant's clinics and enforcement avenues. Lack of housing improvements and standards.

2. Maybe I don't know how to find a good LL/place?

I'd like to hear about positive LL experiences, input and support.

I have lived in this building for three years and it has always been pretty chill until the new owner took over and started looking for ways to squeeze another "revenue stream" from us. We always had perfectly normal deadbolts that worked fine. This morning we all got an automated email saying that starting Monday all physical keys will be deactivated and we must download an app to access our units. If that wasnt enough the email also mentions that there will be a mandatory fifteen dollar technology convenience fee added to our rent portals to cover the software licensing and maintenance of the digital access system. It is literally a subscription service just to enter my own home.

I tried talking to the building manager about it and she just gave me some rehearsed line about how it increases property security and that the lease allows for upgrades at their discretion. It is such a blatant money grab because he probably gets a kickback from the tech company and then makes us pay for the privilege of being tracked every time we lock our doors. I already looked at the app and the privacy policy is a nightmare. This whole situation is making me feel unsafe and targeted in my own home. I am already struggling with the yearly rent hikes and now I have to pay another fifteen bucks just to get past my own front door. If I dont pay the fee or if my phone dies I am basically locked out. These people are actual leeches and I am so tired of them trying to monetize every corner of our lives.

This is a question just as much as it is a rant. I'm in Nebraska. My landlord does everything through mass emails to all tenants rather than ever communicating on an individual basis. All month this month they've been telling us they're sending someone to turn on the sprinklers, at first they said someone would be coming by anywhere between the 11th and 23rd of this month, and that we can't schedule a date or time ahead of time because they don't know what issues they might run into at other properties.

This is frustrating because I have a dog that doesn't do well around new people and I like to have him out of the house if I know someone is stopping by while I'm at work (last year they called me trying to get me to come home from work to take care of the dog so that they could come into the apartment to turn on the sprinklers and got upset when I told them they'd just have to stop by a different time). Now, yesterday, the second to last day that they were supposed to be doing their rounds, they sent out an email saying the weather has been too cold and they're now postponing to next week. So now, after having to be prepared for almost two weeks for someone to show up out of nowhere at any time, I have found out that no one was going around and I now have to do another two weeks of hoping I happen to be home and everything is ready for the sprinkler guy to come.

Does this even count as a 24-hour notice? Obviously they've let me know they're coming ahead of time, but when it's a range of 4 weeks with no specific set time and I can't schedule anything ahead of time, it hardly feels like it's any reasonable kind of notice.

Anyway, I'm tired of having to constantly be on my best behavior and on edge wondering if someone is going to randomly show up while I'm wandering my own apartment in my underwear or whatever I may be doing. It's annoying and it will have been almost a month of this once it's all said and done.

Second chance renantals kcmo that accept section 8

Looking for second chance rentals in kcmo that accept section 8. Prefer apartment but will accept any info on private landlords or second chance companies. 2bd under $1500 a month. Between downtown and 39th Street if possible but need to move asap. Current apartment is getting condemned. Need asap

I've been renting this apartment for about two years and everything was fine until my landlord decided to add a new clause to my lease renewal last month. He calls it a "Tenant Property Maintenance Accountability Protocol" which is honestly the most corporate sounding name for something so invasive I've ever seen. Basically I now have to submit a photo report of every single room in my apartment on the last day of each month. Kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room, even the hallway. Timestamped. Through his property management app.

I asked him what exactly he's looking for and he said "general upkeep and to ensure no unreported damage is occurring". Which, okay, but I've never once damaged anything in two years. My security deposit is sitting there untouched. I pay rent three days early every single month. There has been zero reason for this level of surveillance.

The worst part is the app he chose sends the photos directly to him and apparently he can zoom in and comment on them. Last week I submitted my first report and two days later I got a message saying my stovetop looked like it "may have grease buildup" and that I should "address this before next months submission". I had cooked pasta the night before and wiped it down right after. The stove was fine.

I feel like I'm being managed like some kind of problem tenant when I've given him absolutely no reason to treat me this way. My friend who is a paralegal said this kind of monthly photo surveillance requirement might actually not be enforceable depending on the state but I havent had a chance to look into it properly yet. Has anyone else dealt with something like this? At what point does "property maintenance" become just straight up harassment.

Ive lived in this building for a little over four years and one of the only reasons I stayed through all the usual apartment nonsense was that the place was at least predictable. Nothing fancy, nothing "luxury", just a decent old building where people more or less figured out how to live around each other without management constantly inventing new ways to interfere. There is a basement area that has always been half-finished and ugly as hell, but tenants used it for overflow storage the whole time I have been here. Not in some chaotic hoarder way either. People kept boxed up winter stuff, extra chairs, a bike tire, tools, old suitcases, that kind of thing. Management knew. The super knew. They went through there plenty of times for maintenance stuff and nobody ever said a word, so it became one of those normal unspoken arrangements that makes apartment living bearable.

Then last month we got a notice taped to the front door saying the basement had been "restructured into a resident storage program." Which is a very funny way to describe them putting cheap metal cage dividers in one section, slapping number tags on them, and suddenly acting like they had unveiled some premium service. The price is not even the part that made me snap, though its bad enough. Its that they took a thing people had been quietly relying on for years, did the cheapest possible cosmetic edit to it, and now want us to feel grateful for the chance to rent back a downgraded version of our own breathing room. They also added a bunch of rules with the usual smug tone. No loose items. Approved containers only. Access hours may change. Management not responsible for damage. Monthly fee due whether or not area is accessed. Unregistered property may be removed at tenant expense. That last line is doing a lot of work. They gave everyone a short deadline to either pay for a slot or clear out, and half the building started hauling stuff upstairs in a panic because nobody wanted their belongings treated like abandoned junk. One older guy on my floor had some tools and folded shelves down there because he physically cant keep lifting heavy things up and down to his unit. Now he's trying to cram it all into a hallway closet because thirty bucks a month is not "basically nothing" when your grocery bill already feels like a hostage situation.

What really gets me is the fake improvement language. They didnt create anything. They enclosed one corner of a basement that was already there, tightened the rules, and turned everyday living space into another little toll booth. Thats the whole trick. Take something informal but useful, wait until people depend on it, then formalize it just enough to monetize it and call it an amenity. I checked my lease because I wanted to make sure I wasnt losing my mind, and of course the wording is vague in that way that always seems to magically help them and never us. So now everyone is doing the usual tenant math where you ask whether its worth paying to avoid the hassle, and thats exactly what they count on. Nobody has the time or energy to fight every single nickel-and-dime scheme, so they just keep slicing off another piece of normal life and selling it back to us with a straight face. This building hasnt gotten cleaner, safer, quieter, or better run in any actual way. They just found another corner to squeeze.

Every landlord is just whining that they love their apartment and don't want to take any risks and blah blah blah.

If you don't want to take any risk, why become a landlord? Why not just deposit your money in a high-interest bank account and stay safe forever?

If your goal is to get returns, why not invest in the stock market and take a real risk instead of exploiting tenants?

So I get home today and find this "notice of mandatory maintenance charge" taped to my door. Apparently, someone in a completely different unit on another floor managed to clog a main line last week. Instead of just dealing with it like any normal business owner would, management decided that this is the perfect excuse to shake everyone down. They sent out a mass email saying that since "improper disposal of waste" is a building-wide issue , they performed a "preventative hydro-jetting" on the entire stack and now every single one of us owes an extra $185 on next month's rent.

It is absolutely insane. I barely even use my kitchen sink because I eat at work half the time , yet I am somehow responsible for the fact that these old pipes are probably rotting from the inside out anyway. They are calling it a "shared responsibility fee" for the upkeep of the common plumbing infrastructure. Since when is the landlord's job to keep the building standing a "shared responsibility"? That is literally what the rent is for. We pay thousands of dollars a month for the privilege of not having the ceiling collapse on us , and now they want us to pay extra to make sure the toilets actually flush.

I checked my lease and of course there is some tiny , vague clause about "extraordinary maintenance costs caused by tenant negligence" but how can they prove negligence for a hundred people at once? They cant. They just know that most of us are too tired or too broke to hire a lawyer to fight a $180 charge. It is just another way to extract more wealth from people who are already struggling to keep up with the yearly 10% increases. They treat this building like a piggy bank and the second a pipe gets a bit old , they expect us to pay for the upgrade. It is predatory and I am honestly so sick of being treated like a walking ATM for a guy who probably hasn't stepped foot in this neighborhood in five years.

I moved in to a new place that has roaches. They sent in a guy to poison them. It's been more than a week and I still occasionally see them and their little babies running around my kitchen. I put in a request to have someone come in to find and seal any points of entry that might be in the kitchen. I had the request denied because they insisted "sealing them into somewhere else will give them a place to stay and get worse" which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Is that true?

They said they can send someone in to keep doing poison regularly.

I've bought and have been using my own roach poison as well. But I'd rather the peace of mind of knowing there's no holes leading to someone elses dump apartment. I keep mine clean.

I just got an email from my property manager and I am actually shaking with rage right now. They just implemented a new guest policy that states any person staying past 10 PM is considered an overnight guest and will incur a twenty dollar fee per night per person. They even had the audacity to say this was to cover the additional wear and tear on the common areas and increased utility usage which is absolute bullshit because I pay for my own damn electricity and water.

It gets worse though. My sister is visiting from out of town next week to help me out after my surgery and when I told them she would be staying for five days they told me I had to register her ID at the front office and prepay the hundred bucks or she would be considered an unauthorized occupant and we could both face eviction proceedings. Imagine being a grown adult paying two thousand a month for a cramped one bedroom and having to ask permission and pay a toll just to have your own family stay on your couch.

This is what happens when housing is treated like a stock portfolio instead of a human right. These leeches wont be happy until every single interaction we have inside our homes is monetized for their next vacation home fund. They have cameras in the hallway and I am pretty sure they are just sitting there counting heads like we are cattle in a pen. I honestly hate this system so much it makes me sick to my stomach. We are literally paying these people to be our prison wardens and they expect us to be grateful for the privilege.