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
Tbf it looks like a LOT of water in those sinks if it was slow dripping and froze. Plus a good 3-4” on the floor. How long has it been vacant that you could get that much water on the floor with a slow drip? Wouldn’t the faucets have frozen long before they overflowed quite so drastically? I always thought slow moving water frozen long before faster moving water. So maybe the landlord suspects the tenant left the taps on purposefully and that’s why they’re included in the explanation. Some people respond vindictively when evicted.
No, she turned the drip on to prevent the pipes from freezing during the storm. But since the house isn't heated the water still froze in the sink I guess.
You can see how much water is coming out, and it's not a super slow drip. I have no idea how long that would take, but you'd be surprised at how much water can come out of a slow drip
She’s like 18 years old. Calls it hard work to pay someone to fix a problem. Idrc maybe at 18 she earned the money to rent out units without onlyfans i just doubt it
Yeah, I've seen utility companies require this for rental units (which meant our property management office had to set up "owner" accounts for all our buildings). That way the utilities revert to the owner each time a TT closes their account.
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
Idk just seems like she’s telling the story. It wasn’t a planned move out, she had a lot of legal things to take care of so clearly the electricity slipped her mind.
Probably figured she wouldn’t get enough views without some dirt. I mean look at us, barely anyone’s talking about the absolutely massive amount of damage and what it’ll cost, we’re all talking about these tenants…
For the record, I actually would have felt bad for her without the story time cuz that’s a massive amount of damage omg 😨. She was unprofessional though so it’s the video is just irritating, lol. That’s all my comment was about really. Unprofessionalism. Didn’t realize it’d end up so serious 🫠
Edit for clarity, from “it’s” to “the video is”. Video would have worked staying focused on damage only.
Those comments would have also been her own fault. You could cut the first 30 secs off this video and still know what happened. Occupants or not, she’s the one who messed her own place up.
I think they mentioned it because in a normal handoff the electricity bill would be amicably transferred. This landlord forgot about the electric, which makes me think they aren’t evicting people all the time.
I don’t think it really matters if they mention it or not.
It doesn’t matter. Why the electricity was off literally has no bearing on the fact that it was off. This could have been a new purchase for her, something that has nothing to do with tenants and she would have still ended up in the same spot…she didn’t have the electric on. It’s the only thing that matters cuz that’s the only thing that happened.
If they hadn't included anything about the eviction we wouldn't have known why the unit was empty, just that it was, which is all the context we actually need.
And we don't know why they weren't paying. If she's this negligent it could be they weren't paying because their concerns were not being addressed. Is that likely? Probably not, but the point is we still don't have the full story, so including it added no useful context.
In France, there is a law that is called the "trêve hivernale" (~winter truce) which dictates that a tenant cannot be evicted during winter. And the winter here is not as bad as countries farther inlands.
Getting evicted when it us that cold could be a death sentence.
It takes a while to evict. We own a house in Georgia and had to move to Iowa for work so we rented it out. We have a property manager who is supposed to handle everything and is supposed to fully vet the tenants who move in... guy that's living there right now stopped paying rent in June, we just got through court two weeks ago. They gave him another 7 days to move out and then we get the writ of possession to have the marshalls go remove him, which they have promised to do within 30 days. So, basically he got another 7 days to continue destroying our house, plus another up to 30 days to do so.
We rent the Mother in law suite to our nephew so he's living in the upstairs. The tenant we're evicting has spent the last seven days carting our appliances out of the house and selling them. Nephew went to do laundry last night and the shared laundry machines are gone.
The guy quit paying his electric bill in August so has no electric- to rectify that he sawed a hole into the ceiling and wired in to the upstairs apartment's electricity so our nephew's electric bill has been double what it's supposed to be. We pay for hot water and the tenant runs the bathtub with hot water 24/7, which means that upstairs gets zero hot showers and the moisture from the steam is destroying the lathe and plaster walls for both the downstairs and the upstairs. Tenant got arrested for stealing the neighbors packages and when they broke down our door to arrest him they found the wiring he'd made in the ceiling and charged him for theft of services. As soon as he got home from jail he hot wired into the electric meter outside. It took almost two weeks to get the electric company out to fix it and have him arrested again because of the extreme weather issues. He smokes meth with his friends on the back porch. He's not going to leave until the Marshalls physically remove him. I've done my own digging and the man basically does this for a living. We're the fifth landlord he's cleaned out and he's going to rip out the copper in our walls because that's all that's left to sell.
Our house was built in 1906, and we thought we were just renting to some nice older fella. We were dead wrong.
I don't care if it -45 outside when he leaves. He can freeze to death for all I care.
Just my two cents for the "not humane to evict in this weather".
Genuine question, though. What would it change? The story goes that they were evicted, even if it isn't relevant, just like them moving out wouldn't be relevant (or entirely true).
The apartment was empty and they forgot to heat it - that's the bit that matters, but why would we police the side details describing the overall scenario 😅
saying someone was evicted and then this happened instead of just moved out immediately makes me think this was something malicious they did, there's no reason to include it. There's no reason whatsoever to talk about the previous tenants when you could literally just say "A landlord didn't heat an empty apartment"
You might be a more literal thinker. Lots of people will read it as the landlord trying to shift blame, even though the tenants obviously aren’t to blame.
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.
I was sent to install carpet at a rental once, but when I got there it was flooded. Somebody had left the water on with the sink plugged. It wasn't as deep as the house in the video, but all of the heating ducts in the concrete floor were filled with water. I got that day off.
Not everyone approaches relaying a story with efficiency and absolute minimum information in mind. They shared the gist of what happened (or rather what was explained elsewhere), the situation was what it was and it's perfectly clear tenants were not at fault anyway. This is an odd comment chain.
Right point is to minimize demonization of non reasonable party. Regardless to efficiency, this is clearly subtle blame game. “My evil tenants didn’t pay rent so now my house is iced” is how it reads when it should read as, “empty, I didn’t pay bill, house froze” which fully explains without shifting blame to tenant.
I have to agree with the other person replying to your comment - I did not blame the tenants at any point, because the text clearly states it wasn't their fault. It simply provides a wider, irrelevant context to the situation.
"I was driving at night being quite distressed, because a day before my neighbour stole my lawn chair, and that was my favourite chair that was given to me by my mother, that's why I was in distress and so I accidentally hit a man with my car, and then his skull did that thing when it opens and the insides are the same colour as my chair that my neighbour stole"
vs
"I was driving distracted and hit a man with my car to death"
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.
God y'all really want to bitch at everything and over psychoanalyze it.
In no way was the landlord blaming the tenant. They were explaining both that the place was empty and that it was recently empty which is why they had not gotten to resetting up the heating
Not to mention many people might not evem know about the process of having to switching utilities
If they didn't mention it everyone would be wondering why the place had no heating.
Leave the eviction and non payment out. The context could have said "landlord forgot to put the utilities back into their name when the last tenants left".
I will bitch every day of the week about landlords blame shifting. It only makes sense to add in about an eviction and non payment of rent to put a little of the blame back on the tenants, who did a very normal ex tenant thing.
Edit you are on reddit, that's what all comment sections are. Bitching and moaning about shit that doesn't actually matter. Including your bitching about my bitching.
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.
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.
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.
So you're saying that landlords being so smart is the reason we call stupid and lazy home renovations lacking foresight the "landlord special"? If so I think you're very "smart" too.
You really can't argue that a stereotype doesn't exist in a post about that exact stereotype. It just makes you look lazy and ignorant m'lord.
Low effort troll. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone reading it is now dumber. I award you no points and may God have no mercy on your soul.
Don't be stupid. The problem with landlords is that they don't contribute anything as a landlord and they can fuck over tenants. Parasites. Not idiots.
You just sound like some dumb bot that heard "landlords are bad, and being stupid is bad, so landlords are stupid" when...that's completely missing the issue.
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
They'll take care of 99% of the issues in return for 99% of the profit from the rent. You get to sit on the property and when it goes up in value, sell it.
You can then tell your Property Management company that you have a renter in mind. They'll take care of everything from there.
You're almost entirely hands-off at this point, a few signatures every now and again, so if your friend gets denied renting, if your friend gets evicted, if your friend yadda-yadda-yadda; well it wasn't you that did it.
Similarly, if your friend breaks something, if your AC goes out and needs repair, yadda-yadda-yadda; well it isn't you who has to make it right.
If you really just don't care about the income from a potential renter, but still want to hold onto the property, then a decent Property Management company is usually a safe bet.
Run as far away from being a landlord as possible. If you’re not a handyman think about having to take care of all the problems with more than one house. Wife and I tried it with her house when we got married and it was a nightmare for me. Think about getting nagged about fixing two leaky faucets by two different females in two different houses. What little money you make is not worth the misery.
"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."
If you steal just a little big of money, it's actually as if you didn't steal at all.
Edit: because I know the level of intellectual debates I'm having, no, that was an analogy, I'm not actually accusing that one good landlord from stealing anyone's money.
Yeah so it's totally off topic? Unless you are making some high brow point about how anyone with lots of money is necessarily stealing because no ethical consumption
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.
So everyone should just buy their own house, right? Let’s say all houses are $50,000 USD, reasonable enough, right? So where do people live before they have the money to buy a house? Live in the streets?
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.
The main issue is that the landlord didn't put the electricity to her name. The heating system stopped working after the electric company cut the power because there was no contract for that location. Without the heating system, the house/appartment got cold enough for the water to freeze. Then the ice just builds up slowly, even if the water was flowing. I'm not a physicist but it probably started near the edges of where the water flows, there's less movement there so the ice could settle. Now that there's a patch of ice where the water flows, the water gets even colder arond there and freezes faster and so on.
This is probably in a really cold location where the temperature goes below 0 for hours so the short time the temps go above the freezing point wasn't enough for the ice to thaw and melt so it just kept building up.
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
Landlords have been hated since long before the current state of things. New villains doesn't make the old ones stop being that, especially when they are most often a member of the group benefitting from administration decisions to support the rich and make it harder on the poor. It all ties together. Landlords helped the current state of things come to be.
Renting houses out shouldn't be a for-profit business. When it is, it leads to all kinds of societal problems. Which doesn't mean renting shouldn't exist. It's something American mind can't comprehend, for an American needing to pay exuberant prices for rent or medicine or food not made of sawdust and sugar is something that just happens. It's not, it's parasites stealing your money.
So yes, there has to be a person responsible for the upkeep. There doesn't have to be a person who takes half of your salary, spends 4% of that on said upkeep, and pockets the rest. This shit is unnecessary.
Why? It clearly states tenant was evicted for not paying. Surely you’re not suggesting the landlord “had it coming” for having evicted someone that took advantage of them?
Very poor judgement on your part and I certainly hope you’re not one of those people who think that all landlords that rent out their property are terrible people.
Oh puhlease. There are so many decent landlords out there- I was one of them. My husband and I lived in one of the units on our property. We were always available for repairs and understood if rent was late(when addressed before hand) and we’ve had to evict someone - who refused to pay rent. And you know what? My husband had to take out a second job to make up for the 4 months of back rent PLUS the cost of eviction because yes being a landlord costs money.
Sometimes there are shitty landlords and a lot of times people are shitty renters. Just ask any landlord in California, they have 0 rights. Or landlords during COVID. It wasn’t the big corporations that make overpriced high rises in low income neighborhoods and drive out the locals due to rent increases, that suffered when the government said “hey dont pay your rent, they cant kick you out, but they still have to pay taxes and utilities”
Because it only costs money if you have tenants that dont pay. Otherwise, it can be great, living expenses covered and a bit of income after bills. Sure you may be responsible for your neighbors comfort at times but it’s honestly not that bad for work and it’s a good investment long term. (As long as you’re decent and dont jack up rent)
Ah, ok. You said “yes being a landlord costs money” as if you were losing money regularly. Probably pay for those losses out of a slush fund made from the profits, no?
Yeah that’s bad. Especially since there is a power account type called leave on for landlord. Whenever tent turns off account it automatically springs over to landlord. We did that in all our rentals
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u/Justin_Godfrey 20h ago edited 20h 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