Landlord won't let me MOVE OUT of ROACH INFESTED APARTMENT
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | My entitled landlord refuses to allow me to move out early, despite the fact that his apartment that he rented to me is full of cockroaches. |
| 0:07.0 | So, I decided to get some revenge on this guy by suing him into oblivion, which will eventually lead him into financial ruin and ruining his business entirely. |
| 0:16.0 | And I'm honestly feeling so satisfied about this, and I can't wait for it all to go down. |
| 0:20.0 | Here's what happened. Okay, to begin with, I'm a lawyer. I know the laws in my city pretty well. So when I moved into a new apartment and learned that I had a cockroach infestation, I started planning. And you know what? I decided to move. I asked the landlord of my building to enter into a mutual release form so we could just go our ways amicably. I mentioned the cockroaches |
| 0:38.1 | and my frequent maintenance requests, and I even offered to find them a new tenant for them. |
| 0:43.1 | I mean, I figured it's the best for the both of us, right? Well, they waited for about a month to |
| 0:47.8 | even respond. And during that time, I had already contacted multiple lawyers who found a legal |
| 0:52.9 | loophole for me to break my lease clean and easy. |
| 0:55.9 | Not only that, I pay the lawyers $700 to do it, they filed the lawsuit, the landlord then has to pay my |
| 1:01.4 | attorney fees and back the rent, and I get my $700 back and then some on top of it, which is really |
| 1:06.9 | nice. So when the landlord finally got back to me on my mutual release proposal, |
| 1:11.2 | which would have greatly benefited them, he said to me, no, only if you pay this exorbitate |
| 1:16.0 | several thousand dollar break lease clause. And when he said this, I couldn't help but smile. |
| 1:20.6 | You absolute idiots, you morons. If I asked for something nicely, just give it to me the first |
| 1:25.4 | time, because I already have six evil backup plans. Anyways, I responded back and I said, I do not agree to the break lease clause. And the property manager wrote back with something condescending, saying something like, I'll let the landlord know your disapproval. So, unbeknownst to the landlord, I send the money to the attorney and now it's all going down. Because why would I pay thousands of dollars to break the lease when it's literally free to sue this guy? Like what an idiot. So not only will they get a surprise lawsuit, they'll also lose out on months of rent, plus the back rent that they owe me. And they won't get rent from the new tenant that I could have and would have found them. I'll leave the place as gross as I |
| 2:01.2 | found it and I will be driving into the sunset while they scramble and realize they played themselves. |
| 2:06.2 | Oh, on top of that, I also call the city building inspectors, and I helped them investigate in the |
| 2:10.5 | meantime. So now the landlord would get a big fine and a formal violation by the city, which they have |
| 2:15.9 | to disclose by law to future tenants. So the chances of them even finding a new tenant who would agree to live with cockroaches will be very, very low, unless they drastically reduce the rent, but either way, I win. You may have been able to mislead me about the cockroaches and the cleanliness of the place, but you won't be able to fool the next person. So I guess you should have done the mutual release form, huh? Hope you learned your lesson, because I am not the one to mess with. So that's my story of my petty little revenge against my slum lord. Stay safe and stay smart, and always play chess and not checkers. Dude, this original poster is my hero. Like, seriously, this guy swooped in like Batman and he's like, oh, you don't want to sign the mutual release proposal, huh? Welcome to the next six months of your life where I win a lawsuit, get all my money back, and then you've got to deal with it probably forever. Because I've been there with landlords before. Dude, let me tell you, some people suck at managing their properties. Like, seriously, I had one guy who literally did nothing about like a spider infestation, where they just didn't do anything and those things were everywhere. And I don't know about you, but like I don't like spiders. Like just thinking about it makes my skin crawl. So I can only imagine what the original poster went through because cockroaches are right up there, dude. So yeah, this guy's my hero. And hopefully when I grow up, I get to be just like this guy, because he is absolutely amazing. If you like Am I the Jerk, you're probably going to love Am I the |
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