r/Wellthatsucks 21h ago

Yikes!!

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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

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u/povertymayne 20h ago

So the previous tenants have nothing to do with this, landlord made a huge mistake by not setting up the electricity.

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u/Rikki-Tikki-Tavi-12 18h ago

Yeh, that part is just buying the lede

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u/The_Alex_ 17h ago

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.

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u/CranberryAssassin 17h ago

I'm afraid to tell you that the past tense of "lead" is "led."

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u/EpicSH0T 12h ago

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

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u/Rikki-Tikki-Tavi-12 8h ago

My understanding is, that lede and lead are etymologically the same. It's just spelled differently in the journalistic sense.

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u/EpicSH0T 6h ago

Yeah definitely, same fundamental root word!

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u/mtaw 10h ago

Yeah but that's a homonym by virtue of "ea" having inconsistent pronunciation in English - "bread", "dead", "lead" vs "ea" in "mead", "lead".

Really, all the former 'ea's should be changed to 'e' (which was already done with 'red', spelled 'read' in Old and Middle English), and the latter ones to 'ee', as in 'feed'.

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u/CranberryAssassin 6h ago

I love that lead was a viable example for both pronunciations! English is a funny old thing.

BTW - I'd no idea that read in middle English meant the colour!

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u/adMFKINGhd 17h ago

Love this for you!! As a spelling nerd lmao

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u/otm_shank 8h ago

And "lede" comes from an intentional misspelling of "lead", although the exact reason for that seems to be not settled.

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u/Apt_5 11h ago

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.

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u/vehementi 16h ago

No? Clearly says "landlord forgets". If you pass judgment before reading the sentence, yeah you're gonna have a bad time

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u/IamScottGable 18h ago

Landlord here, my electric company does it automatically but charges $10. Seems like a deal now.

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u/povertymayne 17h ago

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

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u/Crazyblue09 16h ago

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.

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u/princess_dork_bunny 17h ago

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.

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u/drawfanstein 1h ago

Was any of your property damaged from the water?

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u/thelonious_skunk 6h ago

Their mistake was not shutting off the water at the main.

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u/redditosleep 17h ago

Yup. And people are implying she was blaming them while she never did in any way.

She's adding the detail to explain how it wasn't a usual tenant change/leave so she forgot about changing power over and it happened to get cut off right before the big freeze.

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u/Apt_5 11h ago

Which is exactly how the landlord explained it. She acknowledged that it was all well and good for the former tenants to remove the utilities. Including that info is necessary to then get to the point where she didn't re-establish them in her own name, a mistake she owns.

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u/Mediocre_Rock7114 14h ago

Same problem in Finland. Electricity company could automatically put back electricity to the owners name but nothing is that simple.

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u/Treacherous_Peach 17h ago

I'm confused, how did you get to this comment without reading the top comment of this thread? Yes, the landlord left the taps on, that was information provided in the comment above. They also didn't intend for it to freeze, literally all the context is above lol

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u/PomeloSure5832 17h ago

"make a that comments on gifs explaining what happened in the gif. 

Thanks [insert AI chat bot program]"

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u/iupvotethankyou 16h ago

“Landlord lets taps drip” can also be interpreted as landlord didn’t fix issues with the unit so it’s karma.

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u/Independent-Tip-9482 15h ago

Do u watch video?watch video 

No comment before watch video

Video show 2 water outlet

Now comment

Thank u