Renting an apartment is a special kind of nightmare.

While I want to believe there are good, decent, human landlords out there--I have yet to meet a single one. Landlords know they can take advantage of tenants because living situations take up a massive majority of everyone's income. Fixing broken appliances or even potentially dangerous apartment problems costs a lot of money, and most landlords would rather just let is slide until you report them than do the extra work of creating a comfortable home.

I've had landlords enter apartments unannounced, massive leaks, illegal rent hikes, and appliances so broken they're essentially just toy props. City living is already hard enough, and renting makes it a whole lot harder. So, when #VentYourRent started trending on Twitter, enraged renters everywhere were ready to share their horror stories from apartment living.

Rented a place that had a condemned boiler. Landlord refused to replace it despite it breaking down repeatedly and causing damp. When we moved out there was black mold on the walls due to the rising damp and they tried to charge us our whole deposit to pay for refurbishment!
— ASynfulSoul (@Synthetica4) November 25, 2019

When I was a student, I rented a house with 3 girls and had issues with our toilet from the beginning. Logged the issue repeatedly - told someone was going to fix it repeatedly - end of tenancy, whole deposit taken off us for “not reporting it”.
— Emma (@ej_edmondson) November 25, 2019

Charged 10% of our deposit because we didn't fully make the beds when leaving the furnished property and we didn't put things in the correct cupboards. The deposit scheme sided with the landlord #VentYourRent
— Jason Scott (@DrJasonScott) November 25, 2019

#VentYourRent one of my previous landlords deducted the £60 cleaning fee off my deposit at the end of the year. After my flat had burnt down.
— snufkin_with_knife.jpg (@mxmothman) November 25, 2019

An old landlord let us move in knowing that our oven didn't work at all.

He stopped answering calls after 3 weeks & replaced the broken oven swiftly after our rental payments didn't arrive. 3 months later.
— This Country is a Mess #votebielsa (@L4kepond) November 26, 2019

We complained about not having a co meter or alarm. landlord tried to fine us for damp in the bathroom saying it was our fault for not keeping the heating on long enough. Our heating is on a timer set by the landlord. We can't change it. 💀 #VentYourRent
— JIGGLYPUFF 𓆚⁷𖧵 if i unfollow 📌 (@attackontee) November 25, 2019

I once lived in a flat where the landlord had given her mates keys

I came out of the shower in a towel as three strange men walked in my front door for a "property inspection"

I ran into the kitchen, grabbed a knife and screamed until they left #ventyourrent
— Six Cylinder Limited (@6CylinderLTD) November 25, 2019

Landlord entered property with no warning, and one day started throwing out all the boxes in our storage cupboard we used for moving because “he didn’t want things in the cupboard”. Also told us we should “ask his permission nicely” if we want any visitors over #VentYourRent
— RBD 🔴 BLM (@redbaumday) November 25, 2019

I was charged £60 to clean a single spiderweb behind a bookshelf.

The same flat had flooded 2 weeks before we were due to move in and they never told us.

A pipe leaked 6 months later and we were forced to take up the entire concrete floor.#VentYourRent
— Sarah C 🐜 (@potatosezzy) November 25, 2019

10.

you say all landlords are bastards - when the hinge on my street level, city centre bedroom window broke, the window was open all the time. meanwhile, night temperatures fell to just above freezing. my landlord recognised the urgency of this, and had it fixed in just 6 weeks
— Kate Flood (@KateFlood) November 25, 2019

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My landlord came to visit the house without notice 5 times in 6 days. When I wouldn't give him permission to go into my personal bedroom he threatened to evict me. That was after we tried to get him to help sort out the mouse problem and he blamed the tenants. #VentYourRent
— chaos with ed miliband (@tinymattresses) November 25, 2019

12.

Yeah. Totally unjustified all this hate towards them. pic.twitter.com/U6d579Mqbu
— Daniel dePlantagenet (@dePlantagenet) November 26, 2019

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I had a landlord leave me without heat during a blizzard even though the building had a supply of space heaters. How could anyone talk badly about these amazing people?
— Lindsey 🐉 (@techevangelista) November 26, 2019

14.

Loved my last landlord's favorite response to every shitty thing wrong or broken in the apartment: "it's just the nature of the beast."
— Defund fascism (@TomaNistor) November 26, 2019

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Landlords are heroes.

When the ceiling was leaking in my bathroom, he came by, stabbed a hole in it with a broom like a caveman so more would come through and told me he'd fix it after winter was over. LL's are the REAL first responders.
— A. J. (@DogOnTheRoof) November 25, 2019

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When our boiler broke in the middle of winter, the landlord kindly lent us 1 portable heater to share between 4 tenants - it was perfect for evaporating the condensation off our clothes in the morning.
— El Davo (@eldavoo) November 25, 2019

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My landlord once graciously didn’t tell me for weeks that the extraction fan in my bathroom was faulty, the wrong type and could electrocute me in the shower.
He didn’t want me to worry.
— Craig Mills (@excession100) November 26, 2019

18.

when my landlord illegally increased our rent without notice, he told us it was “1000% legal” but as a favour he would give us the (mandatory) 60 days. How kind.
— the Void (@entervalhalla) November 26, 2019

19.

Lol yeh was moving out of my place bc landlord raised rent x2 (siliconvalley),charged me $3000 for cracking the sink. Had a pic of it the day we were shown the place and it was cracked then. Confronted her when she drove up in a sportscar (Iwork minwage)-she drove away quickly ??
— skyler (@skycelium) November 26, 2019

19 people who rent share stories of terrible landlords.