Welcome to our slash malicious compliance, where OP gets revenge against his stupid landlord.

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In my last apartment, my roommate and I were living in a basement place with upstairs neighbors,

and the owner decided he wanted to sell.

The upstairs neighbors ended up buying it and became our new landlords.

And they were awful at it. I could fill a whole post with the

amount of stuff they tried to get away with, but we're here to talk about one particular instance.

Suffice to say, they had no idea that landlords had responsibilities, and they simply saw us

tenants as a source of income that should be ever growing.

Hence, our rent suddenly spiking and why we left.

But there was one time that they maliciously compliance themselves.

See, they had a habit of trying to push stuff on us that was blatantly illegal.

Their first contract, for example, said among other things that they had the right to enter the apartment at any time they wanted,

and they could go through all our stuff if they wished because we were living on their property.

I pointed out that this was highly illegal, and they grew very upset saying,

Well, we'll see about that.

This clause later suddenly became the real one before we signed.

One day, however, our lone fire alarm stopped working. As dutiful tenants, we reached out and said,

hey, the fire alarm stopped working. Their response was a predictable sort of, so what?

We need to have a working fire alarm, we replied.

And it's the landlord's duty to provide working fire alarms.

No, it's not.

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