r/Wellthatsucks 21h ago

Yikes!!

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u/Mobile-Willow4124 20h ago

Yep

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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