Scamming the Scamming Landlord and Other Reddit Revenge Stories

Landlord Scam and Deposit Dispute

• 💡 The narrator recounts a dispute with a landlord who attempted to deduct £400 from her deposit for garden maintenance.
• ⚠️ The landlord's tenancy agreement explicitly forbade certain gardening activities, making her demands unreasonable.
• 🎯 The landlord also made it difficult to access the deposit, initially providing an incorrect email address, preventing a timely dispute.
• ⚖️ Upon gaining access, the narrator discovered the landlord had failed to protect her deposit within the legal 30-day window for all five of her tenancies.
• 💰 This failure allowed the narrator to claim compensation of one to three times the deposit amount for each tenancy, leading to a settlement of over £6,500.

Grandfather's Business Betrayal

• 💔 A narrator's father passed away, leaving two businesses and a family to support.
• 👴 The grandfather took control of the businesses, promising to help the family but secretly siphoning funds for himself.
• 📈 He lied about the companies' profitability and used company assets, like office space, for personal gain.
• ✊ The narrator, upon discovering the truth, took control of her father's estate and became the representative, ousting her grandfather.
• 💼 She secured a job in the treasury department and ensured her father's profit-sharing would go to the intended beneficiaries, including her mother.

Volunteer Firefighter's Revenge

• 🔥 A volunteer firefighter recounts an incident involving a cocky recruit named Aaron.
• 🍰 Aaron took advantage of a kind lieutenant, Amy, by ordering expensive items during a crew outing, which Amy paid for.
• 📱 The narrator discovered Aaron bragging about this on his MySpace page and also found him glorifying himself with exaggerated claims.
• 📢 The narrator anonymously exposed Aaron's behavior to the entire fire department via pager messages, including screenshots of his MySpace profile.
• 🏃 Aaron subsequently deleted his online presence and quit the volunteer fire department.