On Reddit, user u/xyvz-_ asked landlords to share their wildest reasons for evicting – and the story is hard to imagine! Here are 15 of the most surprising:
1.“The tenant was evicted for building a turtle habitat without a permit. He started a turtle breeding business and flooded the basement with six inches of water — the whole basement. It’s a concrete floor, but there’s still drywall on the wall, and it’s broken.”
2.“When I lived in the dormitory, there was a mysterious case of a small plastic bag filled with feces that appeared on a tree in front of the dormitory one night. There were students who did not want to use the shared dormitory bathroom, so they did business in small plastic bags. Instead of discarding the bags discretely, he decided to just throw the bag out of the window to the tree at night this did not go well with the management of the dormitory facilities, and he lost his dormitory room.
3.“My father was a landlord, and one of the tenants tore out the cabinet door and replaced it with chicken wire and put the chicken in the closet.”
4.“I had to evict people for not using the shower curtain. They took a long shower and flooded the bathroom, which ran down and flooded the apartment below the people. We lost the tenant below as well. Plus, the insurance does not cover the damage. because of burst pipes or other plumbing problems did not cause , then when he was evicted, he asked for a damage deposit.
5.“My brother used to have a duplex that he rented. One tenant was late paying for months and several times the tenant promised that he would get the money. My brother was very kind because the tenant was in a difficult place. One day, he went by to visit , and the tenant has a brand new arm tattoo all the way down the arm when confronted about whether the money was not used to pay the rent, the tenant said they really wanted an immediate eviction process.”
6.“My parents were landlords and had to evict tenants because they kept damaging things in the house, then took my parents to court to get them fixed. evicted.”
7.“The former tenant was planting weeds in the house and the other tenants complained. I called and told them to remove it. I don’t care if it’s illegal, but I take the other tenant’s complaints seriously. They said they would remove it, but a few days later, another tenant called and said the plant is still there, I found someone and said if you don’t ask to get rid of the plant, I called the police. So I was arrested and expelled.
8.“My tenant went to sleep and made pork and burned the whole house down.”
9.“Someone I know was kicked out of university housing because he used a fire sprinkler head as the end point of a clothesline. It broke the sprinkler head and flooded half the fourth floor and every apartment below to the ground level.”
10.“Our tenant has a dog, and we thought it was his. He was treated like garbage and barely took care of it. One day, he left this little puppy in the snow, and my mother was angry. The dog to give him some warmth, the tenant walked out, caught him , and slamming the door He used his ‘pet fees’ as an excuse to hold off on the rent, and we finally learned that A) he lied and B) the dog WASN’T even him from what I put together, he held the former dog hostage and take it out on him by not taking good from him.
11.“Not me, but one of my college friends was evicted by the landlord because he evicted the landlord’s daughter.”
12.“Evicted a man because he was running a shower without stopping to humidify the apartment. He believed it was his right because hot water was included in the rent. The apartment was so humid that mold and mildew grew in every corner. The building’s water bill increased by $500 during three months he lived there.”
13.“I had a tenant who started burning down his apartment and selling the equipment he had.”
14.“The tenants left all the windows open during the rain storm and didn’t clean the water that blew in. Every window in the house ended up rotting with black mold. They asked for their deposit back. 😑”
15.And, finally, “New year my dorm mate got kicked out for rolling around in the hallway in his office chair blowing up a big fire extinguisher.”
Well, as u / HeyYallWatchThiss said in this thread: “Landlords can get a bad rap, but you have to remember that they deal with a lot of assholes.” If you’re a landlord (or you’ve been evicted!) continue this conversation in the comments!
Some posts have been edited for length and/or clarity.
