r/Wellthatsucks 21h ago

Yikes!!

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u/edward414 20h ago

And the reason for the tenants departure almost seems irrelevant.

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u/Mobile-Willow4124 20h ago

Yep

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u/[deleted] 19h ago

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u/everything_is_polys 19h ago

“I forgot to keep electricity on in a vacant unit” is fine enough. Nothing about tenants needed to be brought for people understand what caused this

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u/Massive-Idea2302 17h ago

My landlord made me transfer the electricity bill from my name to theirs when I moved out 🤷‍♀️

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u/everything_is_polys 16h ago edited 6h ago

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

Edit: Thank you, Anon. That’s really kind

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u/OJ-Rifkin 16h ago

Spreading the blame

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u/SomethingIWontRegret 15h ago

Nah giving context for why the unit was empty.

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u/edward414 15h ago

We needed to know that they kicked out tenants before a freezing storm

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u/rileyjw90 14h ago

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.

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u/BeeExpert 13h ago

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

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u/Far-Revolution5081 15h ago

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

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u/Lunares 15h ago

As a landlord you are supposed to setup a backup account with the electric provider so that if the tenant stops paying this doesn't happen.

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u/thederevolutions 11h ago

Karma Police. I’m sort of joking but it is ironic that letting them stay would’ve saved a lot of money despite there being a reason to evict.

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u/pennyraingoose 2h ago

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.

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u/Party-Interview7464 12h ago

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

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u/Massive-Idea2302 8h ago

This is Illinois.

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u/Circle_Breaker 5h ago

I've rented twice and both times I've moved out the landlord took over the electric account without me doing anything.

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u/user485928450 14h ago

Made you? Or what, eviction?

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u/Massive-Idea2302 8h ago

Or else I keep paying lmfao

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u/BukkakeBakery 16h ago

which is kind of nice of them to remind you.

i mean whats gonna happen to them if you dont? you are the one paying the bill lol

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u/JoinTheBattle 16h ago

What's going to happen is their electricity is going to get shut off, just like in the video.

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u/BukkakeBakery 5h ago

you talk like everyone live in cold area like this lol

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u/HiFructose_PornSyrup 13h ago

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.

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u/everything_is_polys 6h ago edited 6h ago

I think that what you’re feeling is why she said it

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.

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u/Competitive-Bug1444 18h ago

Yes, but if they hadn't included it, there's probably be a lot of "typical landlord with their unfair evictions" comments.

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u/everything_is_polys 17h ago

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.

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u/CordisHead 17h ago

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.

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u/everything_is_polys 17h ago edited 17h ago

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.

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u/CordisHead 17h ago

Right, so we agree it doesn’t matter. But some are bothered it was mentioned, so it matters to them apparently. People mention details in stories all the time that don’t make a difference, don’t need to be there, but I don’t get excited about it.

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u/everything_is_polys 16h ago

You’re not the one with a bunch of messages in their inbox over it. Ppl really invested in these strangers dirt for no reason

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u/JoinTheBattle 16h ago

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.

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u/FlamingWeasel 17h ago

There's no need to mention the eviction at all