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6 True Creepy Tenant Stories from Landlords

Lets Read!February 22, 202459 min346,298 views
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Story 1: The Quiet Tenant's Dark Secret

  • 🏠 A young landlord inherits a Georgian townhouse and rents out the basement flat to a quiet, artsy tenant named Stefan.
  • 📦 Stefan receives numerous large deliveries, and his evasiveness about them raises suspicion, especially after a stranger is seen lurking on the property.
  • 🎶 One night, loud music from Stefan's flat is accompanied by screams, leading the landlord to break in and discover Stefan stabbed and another man, the ginger stranger, restrained and injured.
  • 🚨 The landlord calls the police, and an investigation reveals the incident may have been a self-defense situation during a roleplay gone wrong.

Story 2: The Terrifying Apartment Viewing

  • 🏢 A property manager's star employee, Vicki, is showing a high-end executive apartment to a prospective tenant.
  • 😨 The tenant, who claims to work in computers, becomes increasingly menacing, making disturbing comments about forcing Vicki through the apartment's large, openable windows.
  • 🔒 Vicki escapes to the bathroom, but the tenant waits outside, taunting her for hours until she eventually leaves, shaken but unharmed.
  • 🕵️ The police are called, but the perpetrator escapes, leaving Vicki traumatized and the landlord frustrated by the lack of justice.

Story 3: The Adhesive Addict

  • 🛠️ A handyman is hired to fit veneers on cabinets in an apartment while the tenant is asked to vacate.
  • 💨 The tenant, a woman in her 30s-40s, returns and becomes aggressive when the handyman doesn't immediately reveal the location of the cabinets.
  • 😵 She then proceeds to huff industrial-strength adhesive fumes, transforming from angry to a zombie-like state.
  • 🚗 The handyman leaves, disturbed, and witnesses the woman's young child crying in an open car outside, highlighting the woman's severe drug addiction.

Story 4: The Diaper Pyramid

  • 🏠 A property management employee is called to clean out a trashed rental home after the delinquent tenants disappear.
  • 🤢 The house is found to be extremely disgusting, with a waist-high pyramid of used diapers in an upstairs bedroom.
  • 👶 The cleaning crew initially assumes the diapers are for a baby, but later learns they are adult-sized, indicating the previous tenant was living in unsanitary conditions.

Story 5: The Decomposing Tenant

  • 🏢 A property manager receives complaints about a foul odor from a tenant's apartment.
  • 📞 The tenant's daughter calls from out of state, worried because her father hasn't answered his phone in weeks.
  • 💀 Upon investigation, the property manager and maintenance worker discover the tenant has died from natural causes, likely weeks prior, and his body has decomposed significantly due to the summer heat.
  • 💸 The apartment requires extensive and costly professional cleaning due to the state of the remains.

Story 6: The False Accusation

  • 🏠 A couple rents out the second floor of their house to an older lady named June who falls behind on rent.
  • 💰 June promises to pay the back rent and asks the dad to come upstairs, but then locks herself in her bedroom and calls 911, falsely claiming she was assaulted by the dad.
  • 🤕 The police arrive and find June has intentionally injured herself, confirming the dad's innocence.
  • ⚖️ Although not charged with filing a false report, June is given an ultimatum to move out, which she does.
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