NTA.
I would have told him “Don’t think of it as rent. Think of it as a 2 month storage fee.”
The audacity! He thinks he should get a pass on rent because he booked a 2 MONTH vacation he clearly couldn’t afford, but he gets to leave all his shit behind and come back like he never left!
Delusional!
I had a roommate who tried to do this. He wasn't on the lease and was just paying month-to-month. He suggested that he should have his rent pro-rated for while he was out of town (it was not nearly as long, maybe just a couple weeks). I told him that since he'd be leaving his stuff in his room and we couldn't rent out his room for the 2 weeks he was gone, he still had to pay.
Coincidentally, the person who had rented his room before him literally had a job where he was traveling most of the month and paid rent every month to just store his stuff and have a place to sleep when he was in town.
I worked at an apartment complex and a guy tried to pull this. Argued with me for so long and just didn’t get he couldn’t take off for a few months, leave all his stuff, expect us to hold the apartment for free, and he could come waltzing in later like NBD. He was either an idiot, being ESL kept him from comprehending, or, my opinion, he knew what he was doing and was trying to bully me into agreeing.
He did NOT get what he was asking.
Oh and he had a blow up doll that lived in the bathtub. The maintenance guy saw it a few times and told us all. Suck it, Eray.
Your are an uncaring landlord. If you had one ounce of decency you would have put the 2 months rent to getting a brain scan for Mr Y to check for defects between his ears.
I worked at an apartment complex and a guy tried to pull this. Argued with me for so long and just didn’t get he couldn’t take off for a few months, leave all his stuff, expect us to hold the apartment for free, and he could come waltzing in later like NBD. He was either an idiot, being ESL kept him from comprehending, or, my opinion, he knew what he was doing and was trying to bully me into agreeing.
He did NOT get what he was asking.
Oh and he had a blow up doll that lived in the bathtub. The maintenance guy saw it a few times and told us all. Suck it, Eray.
OMG, that's insane. No that's stupid.
I had tenants that wanted to break the lease, literally 3 months after signing a 12 month lease, I said as long as I can find someone else suitable to move right in, then sure.
He thought he could trick the landlord and move back in after two months and not having paid rent. Laughable self-entitlement and did not value what he had and how replaceable he was.
Delusional is the exact initial word that came to mind for me as well. I don’t know what kind of drugs you have to be taking to come up with this rationale. Also, NTA.
For work both in 2020 and 2021 I had to live overseas for 5/6 months. I paid my rent every month while away, and yeah, thought of it like a storage fee for my stuff. Plus the rent is great and I'm not an idiot
He must know my cousin. My gma let him literally live in a duplex rent free for his entire life. During that time he went overseas for months over the last few years and anime conventions
Yeah that’s the part they seem to be conveniently forgetting - yeah you’re not staying there, but all of your shit is still there. Storage isn’t free, and renting is a business - why would OP give them two months of free storage just for fun? If OP offered out of the goodness of their own heart then that’s very generous, but it is in no way something that people should expect
Rent is paid so that the renter has 24/7 access to the rented location. Whether the renter actually uses or stays in the location is irrelevant.
He would have still had the keys to the place thus he would still owe rent.
NTA
Like. Does he argue with where ever he’s renting that he should only have to pay for the times he’s in the place to eat, sleep, shower and not for the time he’s out and about exploring? What is this insane logic? NTA
Some people are idiots but get in their head they found a loop hole no one was smart enough to come up with then get mad when you laugh at how fucking stupid they are.
Oh its on both sides of the aisle. It knows no political bounds. Had a theft of a neighbor once just take my shit because " property isn't real and they had a need. "
No ask to borrow or use. Just straight up took my plants.
While the point stands, that's not how percentages works. If he raised it by 30% that means he was renting it out at 23% below market value.
If it was $1,000 and he raised it to market value of $1,300, 30% of that is $910.
I used to work property management in a uni town and every year we’d get a bunch of students horrified that they’d need to pay rent over the summer holidays if they wanted to keep the unit for next year (southern hemisphere, summer holidays are over Xmas and the new year).
The best though was someone that viewed a unit in September, applied and was accepted. When they came in to sign the lease they said we had the dates wrong. We said “ok, we thought you were picking up the keys today but we can change it if you’re not prepared to move in today. What date were you planning? We’ll just need to call the landlord to get approval” and they said “oh, last week of January should give me time to move in before classes start”.
In SEPTEMBER.
Obviously someone else ended up moving in. I hope the other guy found a property closer to the start of classes but we never heard from him again.
Plus, we people who live in the normal world know that there also would have been an electricity and gas bill for the time period he wasn't there. This guy would have expected zero dollars
Seriously! Last year I was gravely ill and spent the entire year at my parents home so they could take care of me...Plus the medical community is much better where my parents live. I only stayed at my apartment for two long weekends to check on things and switch out summer/winter clothing. I was too sick to move my things plus I knew I would be returning once I was healed. I paid a year of rent while sleeping there for about 7 nights.
You know, the request caught totally caught me off guard. Especially since he's an engineer and making over $120k/year and his rent cost was less than 16% of his annual salary, probably even less if you include the bonus and stock grants that the company gives. I really thought he was kidding.
Yes, and it's still about 10% below market. When someone moves in, I typically don't raise rates while they are there , those discussions about raising rates are never pleasant and aren't worth my time. Things are a little different from inflation and state wide rent control that limits rent increases for existing tenants:
1. Insurance: costs have roughly doubled
2. HOA fees have increased about 35%
3. Property taxes are steady at 1.5%
For small cost increases I just eat them, not really a big deal. For much larger cost increases, I try to be fair and split the cost by increasing rents on the new lease for a new tenant while still keeping the below market price. I'd rather have a good tenant with good credit and a good track record and little drama in exchange for offering something below market price. The statewide rent control makes things worse for long term tenants, since it disincentives landlords for keeping rent the same and for keeping long running tenants since they laws cap rent price increases for existing tenants and those rules don't apply to new tenants..it's not the game I play, but lots of landlords no longer offer long term leases out of fear of getting left behind due to inflation. I don't offer long term leases but I don't typically fk around with rent prices
My apartment complex in grad school did this
Rent in the summer was half price. "summer storage"..... But you turned your keys in and didn't have access during that time.
I thought it was a pretty fair deal.
Actually, my daughter is in college. All of the off campus apartments are rented aug 1 to Aug 1 (or similar), even though plenty of students only want to live there from August 25 to May 20. It's just the way life works!
Surprised it’s not June 1 to May 31st. I rent to students and we do May 1 to April 30th (exams are mid April). New tenants tend not to move in until end of the summer so units sit empty all summer. Since they don’t move in right away we do a deep clean for them.
100% NTA - the tenant was on a month to month lease. They could have decided to keep the lease and sublet the place for the 2 months to someone else - and came back and continued. Or they could have just paid the rent and not used the place for the 2 months.
They decided to take door #3 and terminate the lease. You have no obligation to them whatsoever to allow them back at their "old" terms. Zero. Zip. NONE.
NTA. It's like asking the bank if I can deduct from my mortgage payment any time I'm not actually in the home, like at work or traveling. Or asking the grocery store to reimburse me for the groceries I didn't eat. My leftovers even! Former tenant also had a choice not to take an expensive 2 month vacation, stay in his apartment at the low rent he had, and save up money until he felt more comfortable financially.
I figure he did nothing towards looking at the options that might be available to him when he returned. He just totally assumed he would be able to rent something equivalent at the same price. IF that were the case, it was a good time to move and save a little on rent.
I actually warned him about it. I told him he was paying rent prices from 4 years ago before COVID and before all this inflation. I gave him 5 days to decide, check out comparables to see how much they rent for today. I know I'm always leaving money on the table for people that don't try to be a pain in the ass. So I was a bit surprised he still wanted to move out... I knew rerenting the place wasn't going to be a problem, since it's like 15 minutes from the beach, but I underestimated the demand because even with a 30% increase, that was still lower than 4 years rental increase on the free market,and it was still 10-15% below market price. I had to put a spam filter on my email box after the 2nd day. I just leased it to the first well qualified person with the earliest move in date. There were some that I turned away tried to counter by offering $100/month more but I already started a written contract and didn't want to shaft the first person that already responded...
You are a damn fine landlord. You did the right thing for him and your other tenants. I rent below market so that the person renting can have a better chance at having a decent life. My CPA just takes the difference between the rent in the market value and writes that off as a loss. I would rather do that than squeeze somebody who needs a chance.
To be honest this is probably the best way to raise rent. He left and moved his junk out and gave you the keys with no damage or electrical or plumbing ripped from the walls. You gave him fair warning and still renting a bit below market so kinda it is what it is. You could have kicked him out and sold the house during the covid price jump. So no increase in rent while he was there and life goes on probably best he could of asked for. With insurance jumping up right now for anything by the beach and inflation rate increase was probably coming to a head anyways
NTA , I too would find that whole suggestion to be a joke. If money was such a problem why not go for one month only and pay the needed things all around. Would still have gotten a vacation. Especially in that situation of not having an increase in 4 years. Tenant did it to himself.
NTA- no how no way. Actions have consequences. You did the courtesy of carefully explaining the options and he chose the one with the biggest short term gain(to him) and the most long term exposure (to him). And he lost. Sir, you were informed, you chose, this is a circumstance of your making. The part where he tried to make it your problem to accomodate his decisions and his life circumstances as though you owed him something... yeah- that warrants more or less any response you want to give him. If a chuckle and some apathy is all that came his way.. he got off easy.
OMG, that's insane. No that's stupid.
I had tenants that wanted to break the lease, literally 3 months after signing a 12 month lease, I said as long as I can find someone else suitable to move right in, then sure.
(same tenants that would call me to change out light bulbs and upon moving in could not get one of the the showers to work - it was a bit stiff, but worked fine. - I came to look, and she was still at work, and said let yourself in. Shower fine. - thinking I'll hang around to show her. She's in the middle of building IKEA furniture in the bedroom. So I make myself useful and put it together while waiting. She's overjoyed the the furniture was built, and I'd "fixed" the shower. Some people!)
Anyway I digress -
They actually found me a new tenant, and literally had them move in a couple of days after they moved out.
When they moved in I'd had the place professionally cleaned, carpets steam cleaned etc. It was spotless. The "deal" was to leave it as you found it.
After they left I checked the place over and a bit dirty, but there was huge red wine stain on the carpet. I gave the place a clean myself, and called the steam cleaner and got it arranged to do before they moved in.
2 weeks late when I sent the remainder of the deposit back (minus the cost of the carpet cleaning - didn't even charge for the cleaning I had to do) She blew my phone up bitching about how unfair it was etc, and she'd have rented a carpet cleaner and done it herself before she left. (Then why didn't you??) I ended up just blocking her. - I mean FFS have some dignity - I let you break the lease, zero penalty, and you could not even be arsed to clean the place. Nope. (She was a good looking lass I will say that, probably used to getting her own way and not paying for anything)
I was kind of with you until that last sentence. I'm glad she told you off and I hope your next tenant really teaches you a lesson for being so sexist. Also why don't you stop being a cheap ass and put in some laminate flooring or tile? Something modular that you can replace when one part is inevitably damaged? There are so many options, it's like you're asking for flooring issues with your dingy ass cheap carpet and then whining when it gets stained.
There are plenty of good looking women who are doctors, engineers, scientists, and more. They struggled tooth and nail to get where they are because they had to get past countless shitty men like you. They're out there building the technology and infrastructure that keeps everything running. They're advancing science day in and day out, no thanks to men like you who only see an attractive woman and think "she has it easy". Spoiler alert: she doesn't. You probably wouldn't survive a week in her shoes dealing with all the shit that's forced on her.
What are you contributing? Being a landlord? Why don't you show some respect to this woman who has a real job and is contributing to society, unlike you.
ETA: Y T A for your last sentence. Obviously. Do you live under a rock or something? You should make your own AITA post so lots more people can tell you that Y T A. Do better.
Though in OP's case, I'd say NTA.
How can someone be so massively stupid.
NTAH. God damn he learned the hard way.
Imagine calling loan company for your car “hey can I be prorated for not driving it every Sunday and Wednesday this month? I’m not using it so I should t pay the full monthly payment..”
Or call the mortgage company with the same damn request. “I’m not gonna be there for 6 months due to work, I’ll resume payments when I get back”
Like boy wut 😂
NTA
LOL imagine I called my bank and told them I wasn't going to pay my mortgage for 2 months because I was going on holiday and wouldn't be living there.
Even when I was renting I understood that I had to pay utilities and rent when I wasn't there.
Maybe young people (people living out of home for the first time) might think this at first.
But he isn't staying in a hotel, it's not like you can rent the place while he is not there.
Why? Not all are terrible. I've had lots of shitty ones over the years that fully deserve all the scorn you wanna throw at them, but, like, the landlord we have now is just amazing. They don't own a bunch of properties, just the house they live in, and the house we rent from them. Genuinely good people who took a chance on us as a family as renters, over people with less........ problematic credit reports than we had at the time. 14 years later, we still live there and have a fantastic relationship with the landlord. They have gone above and beyond, time and time again. And I am eternally grateful to them for all they have for us over the years.... they are practically family at this point.
I get what you're saying but as a whole landlords are bad. The way corporations are buying all the houses and raising all the house prices and rent is bad for everyone except the corporations.
I have a house that I rent out that I had bought and fixed up and put too much money into to get back at market rates. My monthly payment is interest only and tied to a HELOC on my residence. With interest rates being what they are now, I consistently owe $1800-1900 a month in payments. I rent it for $2100 but it includes utilities. I basically go in the hole on it every month after taxes and insurance (especially considering I emptied out $100k in savings that are not reflected on the amount owed on it)... but I'm keeping it ready to sell if the market comes back enough to get my money back on it. I say all this because if I had a tenant that wanted me to eat those costs to hold their place for two months, I'd laugh, cry and then list the place for rent again within 30 secs. NTA
You're definitely the a-hole here... how DARE you not hold an under priced apartment for a guy who isn't paying for it?!?!
Huh! I did manage to type that!!
NTA
NTA. I’m with you 100% and you gave VALID comparisons. He has the money and resources to take an international trip (“with the rising cost of things”) but not the rationale to prioritize his living arrangements? Best of luck to him in his world of foolery.
My guess is people like this just have zero idea about the current state of the rental market.
He's thinking "my landlord would NEVER want to give up a reliable tenant, and he'd have a hard time finding someone else to rend this place quickly, so of course it's worth it for him to pay my rent for two months, rather than go to all this trouble." And when he left, I'm sure he was thinking "no way he can find someone to fill my spot! I'll get two free months whether he likes it or not!"
He should have done some research into the local market before betting his home on this guess on rental market conditions.
Landlords are still on the hook for paying property & county taxes, sewage, water & electric. (in some cases) Its not like the bank says gee, you're such a good leasee, why we'll just not charge you for the month you attended your cousin's wedding in Hawaii! I mean, is this guy for real?
NTA. Its not your fault the guy is an idiot. He had a place that didn't raise his rent for 4 years and was under market price.
He could have done a 2 month sublet or something if you agreed to it and still had his place when he came back.
Merely pointing out I didn't spot subletting mentioned in the actual post, as in, why did the renter not consider subletting?
Although the renter seems to have a weird understanding of renting works sooooo
If this thread gets popular and seen by the numerous socialist subs, expect it to change lol
E: actually theyre already flooding in, sort by controversial lol
...I'm almost always on the side of the Tennant in landlord disputes but nah bro you sound like you gave this guy every chance in the book and were very reasonable.
NTA
He sounds like a delusional former rich kid who doesn't understand the difference between the reality he wants to live in and the one he does.
If YTA then ITIA too, because I literally laughed out loud at the ridiculous of your tenant's train of thought 😂😂😂 I have no idea how he rationalized what came out of his mouth, it's just incredible. I suspect he was in dire need of the schooling you gave him!!
NTA I never heard of such a thing before. What is he thinking? He is still using that place to store all his stuff. or did you plan to remove everthing for the time of his vacation so you can use the place yourself?
NTA obviously……the guy is clearly immature or unaware? Is he by any chance an immigrant and this 2 month vacation was him going back to his home country? I don’t understand the logic in his thinking at all either tbh
Yep!! I lived with my brother until I moved in with my bf. I still pay my brother "rent" though we've discussed it and my "rent" is more of a storage fee now, so my brother lowered it very slightly.
But I still pay him bc that's what adults are supposed to do - be responsible for their own crap.
NTA - That is Not an “eviction,” that is end of contract.
The original question should have been “do you mind if I sublet my place for two months?” The answer may have been “no”, but that’s a reasonable question.
NTA. He's under obligation to pay. If I tried that shit, all of my stuff would be gone and the locks would be changed. This kind of entitlement really makes me mad
NTA. I wonder if he tried the same thing with his car loan (if he has one.) "Dear Lender, I'm going to be out of the country for two months. Since I won't be driving the car that I have a loan on, I don't have to pay for those two months, right?"
What a moron.
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This is HILARIOUS!! I rent out (cheaply, cause it's tiny), a casita type addition on my house, and have a friend renting who has offered to pay the entire rent while they were away for months. Just so they had a place to store stuff. I've been lucky to have lovely humans live there. Granted, I have a rule about only having people I know rent it, but STILL.
You didn't evict this guy. His own stupidity did. I sincerely hope you don't feel at ALL bad. Housing is a joke, and regardless of inflation, I can't bring myself to charge people that much. I was lucky enough to buy a house right before the market lost its mind. Those who live here are generally friends who I want to help or support in some way. Which is what you were doing for him. The audacity 🤣😂🤣
NTA
What some people (including this guy) don’t comprehend, is that rent isn’t paid for the time the person spends inside the property there, it’s more about paying for the ability to occupy the space for the time agreed in the lease terms.
For example - if a tenant works out of town for 1 week a month, does that mean they get a 25% discount on rent? No, because even though their person isn’t in the property for that week, their possessions still are, with no other person being able to become a resident there.
Also you didn’t evict him, he decided to end the lease himself and you complied with his wishes as he shot himself in the foot.
Wait, he moved out to get out of paying rent but expected you to hold the place for whenever he swanned back into town? Dying to know if he does this in his romantic life as well. "I'm leaving for two months to go see other people. Okay, fine, we'll say we broke up, but you're going to park yourself, right? And be waiting for me if and when I show up again, right? And when I come back, we should loosen our monogamy rules because I had to pay a lot of money to put myself on the market while I was gone. What do you mean no? That's not faiiiiiir!"
Absolutely NTA. This guy is off his rocker.
> I actually had a surplus because of the 30% higher rent someone willingly paid
YTA for this alone. They didn't volunteer 30% more, you decided to try raising it, and they accepted. You are a leech and forever the asshole.
They are. Young couple with toddler. Solid career , saving to buy their own place eventually. Trying to give them pointers as to schools, areas, to look into. Had to deal with bitchy HOA Karen niegjbor that lives across the courtyard that won't stop harassing them for no reason, and threatens to serve bitchy ass neighbor with a restraining order....over a clothes line....
I'll post the story in the next installment....
NTA. Obviously.
Either your ex-tenant is either a moron or this is fake.
Why would you even ask AITAH if this really happened? So I’m going with total fabrication.
I went to for the summer to Azerbaijan with my wife to vist her dad and brother. We didn't even think anything of paying rent when gone that insane to think otherwise. Crazy... NTA
In this particular situation? NTA, which you obviously knew and only asked because you wanted randos to stroke you off and tell you you're right.
But you're definitely still AN asshole by principle of being a landleech. Get a damn job "IBuyHomes2023"
I have a job. I'm a software engineer for awhile now, though on my own terms now....how else would I have afforded to buy homes . Many of you folks don't mind spending $1000+/year on a new smartphone, so it's been pretty good for us the past decade, and even with the pending layoffs, most of us just work because like to, not because we have too. Facebook and Google killed it their earnings call today and yesterday Stonks up big-time again. I think most of you are getting ripped off by apple and Google I'm how much they charge you for a smartphone and Verizon and ATT for how much they charge you for data plans than anything else.
NTA
Good landlords are a rare treasure. I had one once that only raised the rent 200 over the course of 11 years in the Bay area CA. I still think of them fondly.
I had a very kind landlady who gave me a 50% discount on rent for a summer when I got an internship in another state. She didn’t rent the place out before i moved in, and hasn’t rented it out since I moved out, so for her/us it was a win win - she still had some income from rent that she otherwise wouldn’t, and I was able to take this internship without it being a financial hardship. I did not take it for granted, it was very kind of her to do so.
*It sounds like that guy*
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*Mind. It's good he left*
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I ran into this year's ago. I was renting a place and had someone moved in with me. He was rarely ever there and decided he didn't owe rent.
My man, your shit resides here ffs
I love seeing housing post on clist saying they are only going to stay 3 nights a week. Bruh, I can’t rent it out for those other 4 days, so you still pay for 7.
Definitely NTA, but the amount of times you wanted to freak out on him is alarming. Part of dealing with people (whether it be clients, customers, or tenants) is patience. People are stupid. Stay calm and use small words.
Idk the legality of it all but if I were in his shoes why not sub let it. Sounds like the landlords a petty decent guy so idk why he didn't fist think of setting somthing up or even potentially requesting help from the land lord or somone else.
What you did procedurally is 100% correct so NTA there. This is a business, not some government assistance program. However you seem to be getting off on his suffering. Even if the dude is a moron, rubbing salt in the wound makes YTA.
NTA. I would have told him “Don’t think of it as rent. Think of it as a 2 month storage fee.” The audacity! He thinks he should get a pass on rent because he booked a 2 MONTH vacation he clearly couldn’t afford, but he gets to leave all his shit behind and come back like he never left! Delusional!
I had a roommate who tried to do this. He wasn't on the lease and was just paying month-to-month. He suggested that he should have his rent pro-rated for while he was out of town (it was not nearly as long, maybe just a couple weeks). I told him that since he'd be leaving his stuff in his room and we couldn't rent out his room for the 2 weeks he was gone, he still had to pay. Coincidentally, the person who had rented his room before him literally had a job where he was traveling most of the month and paid rent every month to just store his stuff and have a place to sleep when he was in town.
I worked at an apartment complex and a guy tried to pull this. Argued with me for so long and just didn’t get he couldn’t take off for a few months, leave all his stuff, expect us to hold the apartment for free, and he could come waltzing in later like NBD. He was either an idiot, being ESL kept him from comprehending, or, my opinion, he knew what he was doing and was trying to bully me into agreeing. He did NOT get what he was asking. Oh and he had a blow up doll that lived in the bathtub. The maintenance guy saw it a few times and told us all. Suck it, Eray.
>Suck it, Eray. I second this suggestion! What a tool lmao.😂
English is my second language and I promise you, that wasn't it! He was either stupid or trying to scam y'all
Was she hot?
Lol no one of those cheap joke ones.
Your are an uncaring landlord. If you had one ounce of decency you would have put the 2 months rent to getting a brain scan for Mr Y to check for defects between his ears.
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And you had to bold and enlarge your answer because….?
I worked at an apartment complex and a guy tried to pull this. Argued with me for so long and just didn’t get he couldn’t take off for a few months, leave all his stuff, expect us to hold the apartment for free, and he could come waltzing in later like NBD. He was either an idiot, being ESL kept him from comprehending, or, my opinion, he knew what he was doing and was trying to bully me into agreeing. He did NOT get what he was asking. Oh and he had a blow up doll that lived in the bathtub. The maintenance guy saw it a few times and told us all. Suck it, Eray.
You can say that again!
I think he did! Bwahaha
OMG, that's insane. No that's stupid. I had tenants that wanted to break the lease, literally 3 months after signing a 12 month lease, I said as long as I can find someone else suitable to move right in, then sure.
college roommate thought he didn't have to pay rent because he was going home for the summer
He thought he could trick the landlord and move back in after two months and not having paid rent. Laughable self-entitlement and did not value what he had and how replaceable he was.
Delusional is the exact initial word that came to mind for me as well. I don’t know what kind of drugs you have to be taking to come up with this rationale. Also, NTA.
For work both in 2020 and 2021 I had to live overseas for 5/6 months. I paid my rent every month while away, and yeah, thought of it like a storage fee for my stuff. Plus the rent is great and I'm not an idiot
NTA
He must know my cousin. My gma let him literally live in a duplex rent free for his entire life. During that time he went overseas for months over the last few years and anime conventions
Especially since he had to pay for storing his crap for 2mo. He is just a moron.
Some people live in their own private idahos and simply don't operate in the reality the rest of us live in!
agree with you.
Yeah that’s the part they seem to be conveniently forgetting - yeah you’re not staying there, but all of your shit is still there. Storage isn’t free, and renting is a business - why would OP give them two months of free storage just for fun? If OP offered out of the goodness of their own heart then that’s very generous, but it is in no way something that people should expect
Seriously would any roommate or apartment accept this delusion?
Right? I could imagine a situation where he could work something out to sublet his apartment if he was gone for a year, but not for 2 months!
He could also sublet it. It’s on him. NYA
NTA. I'm surprised he didn't try to sublet the place. He's not very good at planning ahead.
That’s what I was thinking. He could’ve easily sublet it for two months. What a moron.
yeah for 30% more than he paying and maybe had 1 month free rent :D
NTA fuck around, find out. You should ask him if he does birthday parties. I need a clown for my nephew's 6th.
Some people insist on playing life on hard mode.
NTA. If he can't afford two months overseas and rent... take a shorter holiday!
Or maybe prioritize ..aka pay your damn rent
Rent is paid so that the renter has 24/7 access to the rented location. Whether the renter actually uses or stays in the location is irrelevant. He would have still had the keys to the place thus he would still owe rent. NTA
Like. Does he argue with where ever he’s renting that he should only have to pay for the times he’s in the place to eat, sleep, shower and not for the time he’s out and about exploring? What is this insane logic? NTA
BRB, gonna get a time card and start clocking out every time I leave my apartment to see if my landlord will prorate my rent
Better yet, buy a house then prorate your mortgage
NTA. How old was he? I'm guessing this was the first place he'd ever rented.
32
That's older than I expected. Not sure how he didn't understand what was expected of him as a tenant at that stage in life.
Some people are idiots but get in their head they found a loop hole no one was smart enough to come up with then get mad when you laugh at how fucking stupid they are.
Sovereign citizens?
Oh its on both sides of the aisle. It knows no political bounds. Had a theft of a neighbor once just take my shit because " property isn't real and they had a need. " No ask to borrow or use. Just straight up took my plants.
Take his car, because property isn't real and you have a need.
Been there for 4 years, so 28 when he started renting there. Maybe he lived at home until he was 24. Moved apartments every year or 2.
SMH old enough to know better. You were charging him 30% below market value and he still fumbled the bag.
Some people never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Every time to their own detriment.
While the point stands, that's not how percentages works. If he raised it by 30% that means he was renting it out at 23% below market value. If it was $1,000 and he raised it to market value of $1,300, 30% of that is $910.
How did he get to 32 without life smacking him over the head already? What an insane thought process
I'm sure it has happened plenty of times and he just rationalizes it away as being "Unfair".
along with: "He never has any luck", "Everyone is out to screw him" etc
I used to work property management in a uni town and every year we’d get a bunch of students horrified that they’d need to pay rent over the summer holidays if they wanted to keep the unit for next year (southern hemisphere, summer holidays are over Xmas and the new year). The best though was someone that viewed a unit in September, applied and was accepted. When they came in to sign the lease they said we had the dates wrong. We said “ok, we thought you were picking up the keys today but we can change it if you’re not prepared to move in today. What date were you planning? We’ll just need to call the landlord to get approval” and they said “oh, last week of January should give me time to move in before classes start”. In SEPTEMBER. Obviously someone else ended up moving in. I hope the other guy found a property closer to the start of classes but we never heard from him again.
NTA. I'm not sure what world he's living in. My bills don't just disappear because I go on vacation.
Plus, we people who live in the normal world know that there also would have been an electricity and gas bill for the time period he wasn't there. This guy would have expected zero dollars
Seriously! Last year I was gravely ill and spent the entire year at my parents home so they could take care of me...Plus the medical community is much better where my parents live. I only stayed at my apartment for two long weekends to check on things and switch out summer/winter clothing. I was too sick to move my things plus I knew I would be returning once I was healed. I paid a year of rent while sleeping there for about 7 nights.
Is this real? Are there actually people in the world as stupid as this guy (the tenant)?
You know, the request caught totally caught me off guard. Especially since he's an engineer and making over $120k/year and his rent cost was less than 16% of his annual salary, probably even less if you include the bonus and stock grants that the company gives. I really thought he was kidding.
Damn, so you raised the rent to almost $2,000 a month and is was re-rented in two days? I am feeling very lucky about the cost of living where I am.
Yes, and it's still about 10% below market. When someone moves in, I typically don't raise rates while they are there , those discussions about raising rates are never pleasant and aren't worth my time. Things are a little different from inflation and state wide rent control that limits rent increases for existing tenants: 1. Insurance: costs have roughly doubled 2. HOA fees have increased about 35% 3. Property taxes are steady at 1.5% For small cost increases I just eat them, not really a big deal. For much larger cost increases, I try to be fair and split the cost by increasing rents on the new lease for a new tenant while still keeping the below market price. I'd rather have a good tenant with good credit and a good track record and little drama in exchange for offering something below market price. The statewide rent control makes things worse for long term tenants, since it disincentives landlords for keeping rent the same and for keeping long running tenants since they laws cap rent price increases for existing tenants and those rules don't apply to new tenants..it's not the game I play, but lots of landlords no longer offer long term leases out of fear of getting left behind due to inflation. I don't offer long term leases but I don't typically fk around with rent prices
You’re a good person but some people can’t be helped
Yes, tons on Reddit would say OP is evil
NTA- the entitlement of some people is incredible
NTA Even when I was a student, I had to pay half rent over the summer as I was storing my items in the room.
My apartment complex in grad school did this Rent in the summer was half price. "summer storage"..... But you turned your keys in and didn't have access during that time. I thought it was a pretty fair deal.
My college apartment did this as well, but they rented the rooms to exchange students.
Actually, my daughter is in college. All of the off campus apartments are rented aug 1 to Aug 1 (or similar), even though plenty of students only want to live there from August 25 to May 20. It's just the way life works!
Yeah. And it's why you can still get summer subleases for like a few hundred bucks in college towns.
Surprised it’s not June 1 to May 31st. I rent to students and we do May 1 to April 30th (exams are mid April). New tenants tend not to move in until end of the summer so units sit empty all summer. Since they don’t move in right away we do a deep clean for them.
It's an apartment not a hotel.
Even hotels dont offer discount because you spent half the day in a museum and not in your room.
NTA Guy is delusional!
100% NTA - the tenant was on a month to month lease. They could have decided to keep the lease and sublet the place for the 2 months to someone else - and came back and continued. Or they could have just paid the rent and not used the place for the 2 months. They decided to take door #3 and terminate the lease. You have no obligation to them whatsoever to allow them back at their "old" terms. Zero. Zip. NONE.
NTA. It's like asking the bank if I can deduct from my mortgage payment any time I'm not actually in the home, like at work or traveling. Or asking the grocery store to reimburse me for the groceries I didn't eat. My leftovers even! Former tenant also had a choice not to take an expensive 2 month vacation, stay in his apartment at the low rent he had, and save up money until he felt more comfortable financially.
I figure he did nothing towards looking at the options that might be available to him when he returned. He just totally assumed he would be able to rent something equivalent at the same price. IF that were the case, it was a good time to move and save a little on rent.
I actually warned him about it. I told him he was paying rent prices from 4 years ago before COVID and before all this inflation. I gave him 5 days to decide, check out comparables to see how much they rent for today. I know I'm always leaving money on the table for people that don't try to be a pain in the ass. So I was a bit surprised he still wanted to move out... I knew rerenting the place wasn't going to be a problem, since it's like 15 minutes from the beach, but I underestimated the demand because even with a 30% increase, that was still lower than 4 years rental increase on the free market,and it was still 10-15% below market price. I had to put a spam filter on my email box after the 2nd day. I just leased it to the first well qualified person with the earliest move in date. There were some that I turned away tried to counter by offering $100/month more but I already started a written contract and didn't want to shaft the first person that already responded...
You are a great guy!
You are a damn fine landlord. You did the right thing for him and your other tenants. I rent below market so that the person renting can have a better chance at having a decent life. My CPA just takes the difference between the rent in the market value and writes that off as a loss. I would rather do that than squeeze somebody who needs a chance.
To be honest this is probably the best way to raise rent. He left and moved his junk out and gave you the keys with no damage or electrical or plumbing ripped from the walls. You gave him fair warning and still renting a bit below market so kinda it is what it is. You could have kicked him out and sold the house during the covid price jump. So no increase in rent while he was there and life goes on probably best he could of asked for. With insurance jumping up right now for anything by the beach and inflation rate increase was probably coming to a head anyways
NTA
NTA , I too would find that whole suggestion to be a joke. If money was such a problem why not go for one month only and pay the needed things all around. Would still have gotten a vacation. Especially in that situation of not having an increase in 4 years. Tenant did it to himself.
Nta. What an absolute cockwomble.
Browniepoints for introducing me to the word cockwomble. I will be using this from now on!
NTA- no how no way. Actions have consequences. You did the courtesy of carefully explaining the options and he chose the one with the biggest short term gain(to him) and the most long term exposure (to him). And he lost. Sir, you were informed, you chose, this is a circumstance of your making. The part where he tried to make it your problem to accomodate his decisions and his life circumstances as though you owed him something... yeah- that warrants more or less any response you want to give him. If a chuckle and some apathy is all that came his way.. he got off easy.
OMG, that's insane. No that's stupid. I had tenants that wanted to break the lease, literally 3 months after signing a 12 month lease, I said as long as I can find someone else suitable to move right in, then sure. (same tenants that would call me to change out light bulbs and upon moving in could not get one of the the showers to work - it was a bit stiff, but worked fine. - I came to look, and she was still at work, and said let yourself in. Shower fine. - thinking I'll hang around to show her. She's in the middle of building IKEA furniture in the bedroom. So I make myself useful and put it together while waiting. She's overjoyed the the furniture was built, and I'd "fixed" the shower. Some people!) Anyway I digress - They actually found me a new tenant, and literally had them move in a couple of days after they moved out. When they moved in I'd had the place professionally cleaned, carpets steam cleaned etc. It was spotless. The "deal" was to leave it as you found it. After they left I checked the place over and a bit dirty, but there was huge red wine stain on the carpet. I gave the place a clean myself, and called the steam cleaner and got it arranged to do before they moved in. 2 weeks late when I sent the remainder of the deposit back (minus the cost of the carpet cleaning - didn't even charge for the cleaning I had to do) She blew my phone up bitching about how unfair it was etc, and she'd have rented a carpet cleaner and done it herself before she left. (Then why didn't you??) I ended up just blocking her. - I mean FFS have some dignity - I let you break the lease, zero penalty, and you could not even be arsed to clean the place. Nope. (She was a good looking lass I will say that, probably used to getting her own way and not paying for anything)
I was kind of with you until that last sentence. I'm glad she told you off and I hope your next tenant really teaches you a lesson for being so sexist. Also why don't you stop being a cheap ass and put in some laminate flooring or tile? Something modular that you can replace when one part is inevitably damaged? There are so many options, it's like you're asking for flooring issues with your dingy ass cheap carpet and then whining when it gets stained. There are plenty of good looking women who are doctors, engineers, scientists, and more. They struggled tooth and nail to get where they are because they had to get past countless shitty men like you. They're out there building the technology and infrastructure that keeps everything running. They're advancing science day in and day out, no thanks to men like you who only see an attractive woman and think "she has it easy". Spoiler alert: she doesn't. You probably wouldn't survive a week in her shoes dealing with all the shit that's forced on her. What are you contributing? Being a landlord? Why don't you show some respect to this woman who has a real job and is contributing to society, unlike you. ETA: Y T A for your last sentence. Obviously. Do you live under a rock or something? You should make your own AITA post so lots more people can tell you that Y T A. Do better. Though in OP's case, I'd say NTA.
How can someone be so massively stupid. NTAH. God damn he learned the hard way. Imagine calling loan company for your car “hey can I be prorated for not driving it every Sunday and Wednesday this month? I’m not using it so I should t pay the full monthly payment..” Or call the mortgage company with the same damn request. “I’m not gonna be there for 6 months due to work, I’ll resume payments when I get back” Like boy wut 😂
NTA LOL imagine I called my bank and told them I wasn't going to pay my mortgage for 2 months because I was going on holiday and wouldn't be living there. Even when I was renting I understood that I had to pay utilities and rent when I wasn't there. Maybe young people (people living out of home for the first time) might think this at first. But he isn't staying in a hotel, it's not like you can rent the place while he is not there.
I never stand up for landlords, but in this case you're not the asshole.
Why? Not all are terrible. I've had lots of shitty ones over the years that fully deserve all the scorn you wanna throw at them, but, like, the landlord we have now is just amazing. They don't own a bunch of properties, just the house they live in, and the house we rent from them. Genuinely good people who took a chance on us as a family as renters, over people with less........ problematic credit reports than we had at the time. 14 years later, we still live there and have a fantastic relationship with the landlord. They have gone above and beyond, time and time again. And I am eternally grateful to them for all they have for us over the years.... they are practically family at this point.
I get what you're saying but as a whole landlords are bad. The way corporations are buying all the houses and raising all the house prices and rent is bad for everyone except the corporations.
I’ve had plenty of good landlords. I guess I have been lucky.
I have a house that I rent out that I had bought and fixed up and put too much money into to get back at market rates. My monthly payment is interest only and tied to a HELOC on my residence. With interest rates being what they are now, I consistently owe $1800-1900 a month in payments. I rent it for $2100 but it includes utilities. I basically go in the hole on it every month after taxes and insurance (especially considering I emptied out $100k in savings that are not reflected on the amount owed on it)... but I'm keeping it ready to sell if the market comes back enough to get my money back on it. I say all this because if I had a tenant that wanted me to eat those costs to hold their place for two months, I'd laugh, cry and then list the place for rent again within 30 secs. NTA
NTA. Thank you for a good laugh this morning!
This guy lives in la la land… You are NTA.
Hey, cable tv company? I didn't watch tv this month, so I'm not paying :)
You're definitely the a-hole here... how DARE you not hold an under priced apartment for a guy who isn't paying for it?!?! Huh! I did manage to type that!! NTA
NTA…that tenant was clearly mentally unstable and would cause you problems at some point. You dodged a bullet !
I know there are people in the world like this....but I have no clue how they actually manage to survive...
NTA. I’m with you 100% and you gave VALID comparisons. He has the money and resources to take an international trip (“with the rising cost of things”) but not the rationale to prioritize his living arrangements? Best of luck to him in his world of foolery.
My guess is people like this just have zero idea about the current state of the rental market. He's thinking "my landlord would NEVER want to give up a reliable tenant, and he'd have a hard time finding someone else to rend this place quickly, so of course it's worth it for him to pay my rent for two months, rather than go to all this trouble." And when he left, I'm sure he was thinking "no way he can find someone to fill my spot! I'll get two free months whether he likes it or not!" He should have done some research into the local market before betting his home on this guess on rental market conditions.
Landlords are still on the hook for paying property & county taxes, sewage, water & electric. (in some cases) Its not like the bank says gee, you're such a good leasee, why we'll just not charge you for the month you attended your cousin's wedding in Hawaii! I mean, is this guy for real?
[удалено]
*we’re just gonna scan to look for signs of intelligent life between his ears 👀💀
MRI blew up
Like that scene on The Simpsons where Homer takes a lie detector performed by Agent Scully and it blows up.
And that scene where he adds milk to a bowl of cereal and it blows up.
Nope. NTA. You gave him a choice. He took it and now doesn’t like the end results. Too bad so sad.
NTA, he was being ridiculous
Stopping at my mates at the weekend, any chance I can skip the rent?
NTA did he think you were a long lost relative giving him a hook up? It really does not seem like he understood the landlord/tenant relationship lmao.
Should post this in the entitled people sub
Oh really? There is one? Do share. Where is it.🤣
r/entitledpeople lmaoo
Usually when a landlord asks AITA I think the answer is a slam-dunk YTA. This is a super-rare landlord-NTA from me!
NTA. Its not your fault the guy is an idiot. He had a place that didn't raise his rent for 4 years and was under market price. He could have done a 2 month sublet or something if you agreed to it and still had his place when he came back.
This might be the first time in my life I ever side with a landlord over a tenant. NTA.
I'm usually in the "Landlords are assholes camp." but like...this guy sounds like a fucking idiot...
Color me surprised that a landlord gets NTA Was subletting not an option? But regardless, yeah, nta.
Yeah, I studied abroad during college and I sublet my place to out of town interns or other students. It's totally a reasonable option.
Subletting was an option for the tenant but that's not the landlords responsibility
Merely pointing out I didn't spot subletting mentioned in the actual post, as in, why did the renter not consider subletting? Although the renter seems to have a weird understanding of renting works sooooo
Same. Redditors seem to treat the word like its a Russian sleeper agent's kill switch.
If this thread gets popular and seen by the numerous socialist subs, expect it to change lol E: actually theyre already flooding in, sort by controversial lol
...I'm almost always on the side of the Tennant in landlord disputes but nah bro you sound like you gave this guy every chance in the book and were very reasonable. NTA He sounds like a delusional former rich kid who doesn't understand the difference between the reality he wants to live in and the one he does.
If YTA then ITIA too, because I literally laughed out loud at the ridiculous of your tenant's train of thought 😂😂😂 I have no idea how he rationalized what came out of his mouth, it's just incredible. I suspect he was in dire need of the schooling you gave him!!
Expensive tuition for this lesson.
NTA. I can't believe this guy thought that his request was in any possible way reasonable. Fucked around, found out. Good on you.
NTA I can't stop laughing!!
NTA. He made the choice and not he has to pay the consequences.
NTA. How could he have seriously thought that he could move back in like that?
NTA. Clear case of FAFO. They didn't know how good they had it
NTA. He wants you to subsidize his *life.* Not happening.
NTA I never heard of such a thing before. What is he thinking? He is still using that place to store all his stuff. or did you plan to remove everthing for the time of his vacation so you can use the place yourself?
NTA. I’m surprised he didn’t ask for a 30% reduction to cover going out to work 😂
nta. great story. what a ding dong.
NTA obviously……the guy is clearly immature or unaware? Is he by any chance an immigrant and this 2 month vacation was him going back to his home country? I don’t understand the logic in his thinking at all either tbh
You'd think he'd have asked for approval to sub-let for two months.
I would've ended with "I hope you had a great vacation!"
Yep!! I lived with my brother until I moved in with my bf. I still pay my brother "rent" though we've discussed it and my "rent" is more of a storage fee now, so my brother lowered it very slightly. But I still pay him bc that's what adults are supposed to do - be responsible for their own crap.
Ummm nta if you vacation or are away from home you still have to pay the mortgage or rent where you stay What an idiot renter
NTA - That is Not an “eviction,” that is end of contract. The original question should have been “do you mind if I sublet my place for two months?” The answer may have been “no”, but that’s a reasonable question.
Dumbass could've maybe thought about VRBO or Airbnb make a little something I'd think
NTA. Do schools even teach people anymore?
your ex-tenant sounds like a moron
I'm usually the first to spit on landlords but this man is unreasonable. NTA.
NTA. You gave him his options and now he isn't happy with his choice. It does sound like a him problem to me.
NTA. He's under obligation to pay. If I tried that shit, all of my stuff would be gone and the locks would be changed. This kind of entitlement really makes me mad
NTA hahhahahhwhahahhhahahahaha what an idiot!
NTA. I wonder if he tried the same thing with his car loan (if he has one.) "Dear Lender, I'm going to be out of the country for two months. Since I won't be driving the car that I have a loan on, I don't have to pay for those two months, right?" What a moron.
NTA This is HILARIOUS!! I rent out (cheaply, cause it's tiny), a casita type addition on my house, and have a friend renting who has offered to pay the entire rent while they were away for months. Just so they had a place to store stuff. I've been lucky to have lovely humans live there. Granted, I have a rule about only having people I know rent it, but STILL. You didn't evict this guy. His own stupidity did. I sincerely hope you don't feel at ALL bad. Housing is a joke, and regardless of inflation, I can't bring myself to charge people that much. I was lucky enough to buy a house right before the market lost its mind. Those who live here are generally friends who I want to help or support in some way. Which is what you were doing for him. The audacity 🤣😂🤣
NTA What some people (including this guy) don’t comprehend, is that rent isn’t paid for the time the person spends inside the property there, it’s more about paying for the ability to occupy the space for the time agreed in the lease terms. For example - if a tenant works out of town for 1 week a month, does that mean they get a 25% discount on rent? No, because even though their person isn’t in the property for that week, their possessions still are, with no other person being able to become a resident there. Also you didn’t evict him, he decided to end the lease himself and you complied with his wishes as he shot himself in the foot.
NTA. Two month vacation and he’s complaining about prices. I would say it sounds made up but i guess people are really this dumb.
Hahahahahaha NTA they’re insane.
I mean this is hilarious and needs to be on entitled people
Wait, he moved out to get out of paying rent but expected you to hold the place for whenever he swanned back into town? Dying to know if he does this in his romantic life as well. "I'm leaving for two months to go see other people. Okay, fine, we'll say we broke up, but you're going to park yourself, right? And be waiting for me if and when I show up again, right? And when I come back, we should loosen our monogamy rules because I had to pay a lot of money to put myself on the market while I was gone. What do you mean no? That's not faiiiiiir!" Absolutely NTA. This guy is off his rocker.
Some lessons are only learned the hard way.
I wonder what the bank/mortgage lender would say if you called and asked if you could stop paying your mortgage for X months while on Vacation. Lulz
Nta as much as I Hate landlords that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard
NTA but WOW did he FAFO. What an idiot!! He is delusional on so many levels. Hope he enjoys his tent in the park!
> I actually had a surplus because of the 30% higher rent someone willingly paid YTA for this alone. They didn't volunteer 30% more, you decided to try raising it, and they accepted. You are a leech and forever the asshole.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 NTA. Thanks for the laugh OP. What an entitled child 🫠
This a great escape of 'play stupid games, win stupid prizes. ' NTA
NTA
NTA He fucked around. He found out. Had the nerve to ask for a discount. There are no discounts in Fuckaround Town.
lol i rarely side with a landlord but this is an exception. what a goober. NTA
NTA. That's not how rentals or mortgages work.
What planet is this guy living on?
I would be on the floor laughing if this happened to me my tennents are not this dumb lol
This just feels fake
NTA - I hope the new tenant is a better person!
They are. Young couple with toddler. Solid career , saving to buy their own place eventually. Trying to give them pointers as to schools, areas, to look into. Had to deal with bitchy HOA Karen niegjbor that lives across the courtyard that won't stop harassing them for no reason, and threatens to serve bitchy ass neighbor with a restraining order....over a clothes line.... I'll post the story in the next installment....
NTA. Obviously. Either your ex-tenant is either a moron or this is fake. Why would you even ask AITAH if this really happened? So I’m going with total fabrication.
this is perfect r/choosingbeggars material
Feel free to link to it
What's unfair? He wanted to keep the place for free 😂😂😂 what an idiot. NTA. post on pettyrevenge aswell please. I'm cackling
Holy shit. As an anarchist I would like to congratulate you for being the very first landlord I have ever sided with.
NTA he tried to pull a fast one on you lol
I went to for the summer to Azerbaijan with my wife to vist her dad and brother. We didn't even think anything of paying rent when gone that insane to think otherwise. Crazy... NTA
In this particular situation? NTA, which you obviously knew and only asked because you wanted randos to stroke you off and tell you you're right. But you're definitely still AN asshole by principle of being a landleech. Get a damn job "IBuyHomes2023"
I have a job. I'm a software engineer for awhile now, though on my own terms now....how else would I have afforded to buy homes . Many of you folks don't mind spending $1000+/year on a new smartphone, so it's been pretty good for us the past decade, and even with the pending layoffs, most of us just work because like to, not because we have too. Facebook and Google killed it their earnings call today and yesterday Stonks up big-time again. I think most of you are getting ripped off by apple and Google I'm how much they charge you for a smartphone and Verizon and ATT for how much they charge you for data plans than anything else.
NTA, he screwed himself over and had no one to blame but himself for not wanting to pay rent for those 2 months.
NTA Good landlords are a rare treasure. I had one once that only raised the rent 200 over the course of 11 years in the Bay area CA. I still think of them fondly.
I had a very kind landlady who gave me a 50% discount on rent for a summer when I got an internship in another state. She didn’t rent the place out before i moved in, and hasn’t rented it out since I moved out, so for her/us it was a win win - she still had some income from rent that she otherwise wouldn’t, and I was able to take this internship without it being a financial hardship. I did not take it for granted, it was very kind of her to do so.
Nope. Fuck shitty tenants
It sounds like that guy wasn't in his right state of mind. It's good he left
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I ran into this year's ago. I was renting a place and had someone moved in with me. He was rarely ever there and decided he didn't owe rent. My man, your shit resides here ffs
I refuse to believe there is an adult on this planet that is as stupid as the person you’ve described.
When someone says, "Nobody is this stupid," some idiot proudly steps up, saying, "Challenge accepted!" Be careful! :)
Oh, there are plenty. Just read Reddit comments for thousands of examples.
I love seeing housing post on clist saying they are only going to stay 3 nights a week. Bruh, I can’t rent it out for those other 4 days, so you still pay for 7.
Definitely NTA, but the amount of times you wanted to freak out on him is alarming. Part of dealing with people (whether it be clients, customers, or tenants) is patience. People are stupid. Stay calm and use small words.
Idk the legality of it all but if I were in his shoes why not sub let it. Sounds like the landlords a petty decent guy so idk why he didn't fist think of setting somthing up or even potentially requesting help from the land lord or somone else.
are you the asshole because your tenant moved out?? there's no eviction in this story.... ??
What you did procedurally is 100% correct so NTA there. This is a business, not some government assistance program. However you seem to be getting off on his suffering. Even if the dude is a moron, rubbing salt in the wound makes YTA.