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WotD: Deadbeat landlord
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Before looking at what a deadbeat landlord is, we need to make sure you know what it means to be a deadbeat.
Someone who is a deadbeat is lazy and good for nothing.
They will never offer to help, and if you ask them to contribute, they will find a way to wriggle out of it.
With that out of the way, we can now look at deadbeat landlords.
If you are renting an apartment or commercial property, your relationship with your landlord is significant.
Find a good one, and they will take care of any problems promptly and properly.
Deadbeat landlords, on the other hand, will never fix anything.
Did you know that Donald J. Trump’s father was a deadbeat landlord in New York?
Yep, he made his money by cheaply buying apartment blocks, filling them up with tenants and never fixing anything.
If tenants complained too much about the terrible living conditions in his apartments, he first evicted then replaced them with someone else.
That’s how the Trumps originally made their millions as deadbeat landlords.
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I have stayed in more than my fair share of crappy apartments through my travels and dealt with many deadbeat landlords.
One time a landlord refused to return my damage deposit.
This was at the end of the year, and I was moving out after the holidays.
Incidentally, they left the country on holiday for Christmas and New Years’.
I got my revenge, though.
During my last month in the apartment, I used the gas oven to heat it.
I kept it on almost 24 hours a day for 15 days.
My deadbeat landlord may have kept my damage deposit, but it wasn’t enough to cover the extremely high gas bill.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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