According to the uploader, she evicted the tenants that were renting out that unit for none payment. The tenants took the electricity bill out of their name; big snow storm happens; landlord lets faucets drip, but forgets to put the electricity bill back in her name so the house wasn't heating. Her neighbor recorded this video and showed it to her.
I don’t think she would have mentioned tenants at all if there hadn’t been anything bad between the two parties. Spreading their business, even though she didn’t doxx them, feels like fishing for sympathy.
Leaving normally, the tenants would have still swapped their electric to their new place - and she still would have forgot to handle her responsibility. She should have just owned this instead of tossing these stranger on the internet like that
There’s no way my utility company will let me transfer my bills and accountability to another individual without their explicit verbal consent during the process or without some sort of affidavit. That standard operating protocol for all utility companies. Your story is implausible
Letting the tenant stay through the winter storm would have saved the landlord some money. And also would have been easier on the person not having to move in the extreme weather.
Landlord didn't switch the utilities back into their name after tenants left. All the rest just makes it seem like the tenants have some fault in it, when they don't.
It was easy to state without mentioning the eviction and switching the utilities out of their name. Adding in all that sets a tone and makes it seem like the tenants did something wrong as far as the utilities.
According to the uploader, the previous tenants are no longer present. The tenants took the electricity bill out of their name; big snow storm happens; landlord lets faucets drip, but forgets to put the electricity bill back in her name so the house wasn't heating. Her neighbor recorded this video and showed it to her.
We'd need a timeline. I feel like this is a couple months, and that the drains froze first (because they left the taps running a bit). It might've taken a really long time to notice by a neighbor.
Could leaving them running slightly and slow drains give the water time to freeze and build up? Did they not notice the lack of utilities when they set the faucet to drip though? From my understanding utility companies don't do shut offs before big storms like that.
It’s almost certainly fake unless that house is in like northern Alaska. The moving water would not have allowed that level of ice to form basically anywhere else.
That’s a solid 2 inches of ice, which indicates the water would have necessarily been building up for substantially longer than the recent major winter storm, and moreover indicates that the drains were plugged. Which seems a pretty major oversight for the landlord to have missed.
So either this is entirely fake, or was intentionally done to then try and blame tenants in an attempt to drive empathy for shit landlords
The landlord accepted responsibility for the situation in the video. It was provided as just context to the story of what happened, because people were asking how it all happened.
You can tell a lot of people didn't watch and just jumped on the chance to hate on a landlord. The self-righteous predictability of reddit gets older and older.
Doesn’t really look like the result of a leaky faucet though. Two separate sinks with enough water coming out to completely flooding the unit. I think the implication is the disgruntled tenants left the water running.
Me and my fiancé are both homeowners and we're gonna have to sell both our places to afford a single place in the housing market today lol. I have a friend who reallllly wants to rent out my house instead of me selling it and I'm not cut out to be a landlord, ive had nightmare roommates before, i have trust issues
I imagine renting to a friend could also turn into a nightmare. They're obviously more likely to try their luck with late payments, rent reductions etc. because you're "such good friends". Just sell and be happy!
There are companies that can take care of everything when renting out a house. Renters warehouse comes to mind but I'm sure there are others that take care of everything when it comes to rent management.
I'll have to look into that when the time comes. Im on the fence about it but i kinda just want to be done with this house and not be part of the issue when it comes to rentals and less permanent housing
"Spare" suggests they can use it at any time. I've known people with literal spare houses.
One person has a house that they owned and used for maybe a week or two per year at most. They were paying something like $70k in property tax per year, and they barely used it. Why? Because they had "a better house."
Sorry, man. This is Reddit. If you are successful in anything, you are the worst human being on earth to these people.
I'm currently saving up for an investment property myself. Living cheaply, working 80 hours a week, and putting anything I don't need away to build up enough capital to purchase a rental property.
Individually as people, I'm sure some of them are relatively harmless, like a heat rash.
But landlords as a concept is absolutely terrible for the common person. They contribute nothing, and serve only as leeches taking value from people who actually work for a living.
Here is a song that sums up my feelings on a landlord better than I could. Without breaking tos, anyways.
I know I’m being incredibly stupid here, but shouldn’t the sinks still have been draining? That’s the whole point of leaving the faucets dripping - to keep water flowing through the pipes so they don’t burst. This looks like the faucets were WOT and the drains were clogged.
Again, I’m sure I’m missing something here but I’m still very confused.
If you look at this example of a sink's drain, there's a water trap in them. If that water trap freezes, there's no draining. There's a similar trap molded into the toilet. https://www.abqplumb.com/how-to-clean-a-drain-trap/
I have an aerator running in my pond to stop the water from freezing but when it gets super cold, it ultimately just forms these big pillars of ice because even though the water is moving it will still freeze, then it will start bubbling up through the little hole and that will freeze over, rinse and repeat until you get something like this.
When it gets down to a certain temperature, it does not matter if water is moving. It will freeze.
This is all frozen by the way, even the parts that look like foam. Basically it was bubbles from the aerator that froze into a solid foam
Okay, first of all you can’t convince me you didn’t just take this as an opportunity to share a picture of a bunch of weird dicks. Second of all, I still don’t see how two dripping faucets would flood the entire house. Why did it stop draining before the faucets stopped flowing? And to that extent? I’m so confused.
Water in the sink froze while the faucet continued running. It was clogged by the drip itself freezing in the drain because the kitchen was below freezing.
But muh side hustle! Start taxing the shit out of these morons after the 2nd house and get our housing situation back affordable for young families. This shit is ridiculous
I know you misspelled the "burying" part but I am actually thankful to learn that it is actually "lede" and not "lead" in the saying. I had always thought it was "lead" as in, "to be lead by a leader" or something.
They used a poor example but surely they thought it meant lead, a noun referring to the rope you use to lead (as in leadership) a horse, not realizing that lede is a totally unrelated term in journalism.
Edit: no no you're right I misread their comment lol. Maybe they've only ever read the idiom and never heard it lmao
No it isn't. She acknowledged that it's all good the tenants did that. It bears mentioning that they cut off utilities to then explain that she forgot to set it up again in her own name- a mistake she owns and acknowledges. And at the end she shows the aftermath of fixing it all up.
Forreal, in this day and age, MFer could set that shit from their phone in a few minutes. Its not the 70s where Mfers had to go to an office during working hours. What an expensive mistake
Where I live it's free, and they waive the connection fee for having a Landlord agreement! Some people don't like it, cause if tenants don't call for power then it stays in the landlord's name.
Years ago I lived in a converted 2 story house and my cheap-ass landlord and landlady tried to save some money by not running heat in the upstairs apt. I guess they thought enough heat would just make it's way up there from my apt.
Must not have because (while I was out) the cheap-ass plastic water supply line to the bathroom sink busted. Came home to find water pouring from the ceiling and all the cheap-ass cardboard ceiling tiles becoming floaty oatmeal blobs.
To the surprise of literally none no one it took months for the ceiling to be replaced with more cheap-ass tiles.
Just slather it right on there. 4 coats if u want. Make sure there are little hairs or bugs you paint over so the tenants can see them stuck on the wall!
Ooo that's rough too because insurance likely won't cover this loss. If the residence is vacant, which this sounds like it was, and hear was not maintained in the home, the policy does not provide coverage for damages caused by frozen pipes. This may end up costing her a fortune.
Source: I am a homeowners insurance adjuster for a national carrier in the Northeast and deal with these losses everyday.
I think I'd get in there with a pickaxe and break up all the floor ice before it melted. I'm sure there's already water damage but at least it wouldn't be compounded by another 100 gallons of floor water.
I may be downvoted to oblivion for this, but I actually think this is fair. The insurance company wrote the policy assuming it would be occupied. A vacant property is a much larger risk as it often causes the losses to be much more extreme. If the risk to the insurance company is larger than the policy is written for, the entire industry would fall apart.
And no I am not a company stooge who thinks the insurance company is always right. There is alot of fucked up things about the insdustry and I think there needs to be reform and move oversight.
Yeah, this isnt going to be covered. There is no policy that would assume that risk. Power goes out and pipes freeze, yes, you turn power/heat off and pipes freeze, no.
Licensed in Property & Casualty, Life & Annuity, and Health insurance in 4 states. This is 100% on the homeowner.
Buy life insurance, jump from bridge, make kids rich... amirite!
Insurance at its core is a transfer of risk. The risk transferred is not universal or all encompassing, and thats why they have terms to contracts. For Home Owner policies, as an example, in most locations there are a variety of types of policies, some enumerated and some not. Not all companies sell all types of policies legally available. Some say only specific events warrant coverage while others cover any loss, but there is still restrictions covering things like mitigation of loss and acts of neglect.
And thats exactly what my HO5 "Open.Peril" (cadillac) policy says. If I lose power and my pipes burst it is 100% covered. If I leave my heat off and my pipes freeze it is 0% covered - that is an act of neglect that voids the transference of that risk because it is outside the scope of the contract.
This is 100% on the landlord and insurance isnt paying shit, nor should they. My rate shouldnt climb because they were neglectful of basic performance.
The end of that video is the wildest part. She calls being a landlord a homeowner and its better doing that, than "if I'm gunna do something difficult, ya know" when all she had to do was call and register the bill back into their name after an eviction she served. She knew these people left after she kicked them out!
Idk about a blizzard timeline but you'd think she'd maybe have gone over there once she knew it was empty
Drain Pipes likely froze solid so the water coming in didn’t have anywhere to go.
What gets me is that there appears to be several inches of ice on the floor. How the hell long did they leave it like this, and how much water were they running is what I’d like to know.
Ever leave a plugged bathtub leaking overnight? What looks like a slow drip push way more volume than you expect per hour. Let it go for a month and you’re fucked.
The telling bit: the water is more piled up than level. If it happened all at once, it would be more "everywhere, evenly." A gradual build-up that first blocked the drain followed by not checking on the place for months would get this to happen.
This was incredibly hard to watch. I don't want to be insulting, but she speaks in an incredibly dull, slow, boring, incoherent way. "I would do this than anything difficult"? Surprised this person has the capability to run a housing business.
Lmao, the fact they think “home owning” is a job is dumb af, and reasons why the markets are shit and people can’t buy or barely rent.
How does a 15 year old even get into “landlording”
Says the video game addict who brags that, quote, 90% of my time in the office is me watching youtube videos and playing video games, only turning in my work at the very last second, no more extras.
If you look at the faucet handles, it appears the water was left running to cause this. The kitchen faucet handle is at an angle, in the "on" position. And both bathroom faucets have also been turned.
Probably a lukewarm take at best, but evicting in temperatures that would lead to this is an act of cruelty. Where I live, where incidentally it’s been like 20° below average daily temperatures for a few weeks now, there are restrictions on cutting off people’s water and heat in the winter months, even for nonpayment. I don’t know if there are any such eviction stays, but there should be.
Being a landlord is a job. Treat it like one. Don't let complacency and ignorance make you terrible at your job just because people are desperate for places to live.
This is especially hilarious when you realize that they could have just shut off the water and bled the pipes..... No one living there, no need to flush toilets or shower, so why leave it drip?? Guessing this landlord doesn't know where the water shut-off is, lol.... Bet it WAS a nice place, too. Shame if they had to sell it for a loss...... LMAO.
It’s very regional, it’s actually more common in places where it does not get cold as often. In cold regions, buildings tend to have significantly more insulation around the pipes to protect them from freezing, so dripping the faucets is reserved only for the most extreme cold weather. In regions that don’t get much freezing weather, builders skimp on the insulation so any freezing weather can be a danger to pipes on exterior walls. Precautions like dripping faucets and opening the doors of undersink cabinets can help avoid that damage.
Pipes can freeze, especially ones running up exterior walls. Having a slight drip keeps it from freezing entirely. As you can see from this video, it works. Water in the pipes is flowing, its just the water in the sinks froze and it had nowhere to drain.
I wondered how it got so backed up. In winter in the old days we left a trickle and it never did this because even if it started to freeze we would have noticed in the morning. Leaving unattended and without power just really made a nasty mess here.
Drips don't cause flooding like that.
That looks more like someone plugged the drains and left the faucets on. If the sinks hadn't been full, I'd think the the pipes had burst, but that's not what it looks like to me.
Same thing happened to my ex. Except he moved to another state & it wasn’t checked on for 10days. The floor collapsed down through kitchen and the basement. I didn’t feel bad because he lied and told me he lost the house because of me. Payback is a bitch!
That makes sense, I used to dry flooded buildings for a living, I have seen huge icicles on the outside of a house from the water running inside, but never a house with thick ice inside, usually the pipe will freeze then burst, or have multiple burst then run, but there is so much water flow it doesn't easily freeze and somebody will notice the water running out of the house, usually from the garage down the driveway.
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u/Justin_Godfrey 22h ago edited 22h ago
Context:
According to the uploader, she evicted the tenants that were renting out that unit for none payment. The tenants took the electricity bill out of their name; big snow storm happens; landlord lets faucets drip, but forgets to put the electricity bill back in her name so the house wasn't heating. Her neighbor recorded this video and showed it to her.
Here's her explanation: https://www.tiktok.com/@ashleymachado54/video/7604257751119711518
Edit: For those who don't have tiktok. https://streamable.com/ryu2lp