Anyone here ever lived with their landlord/landlady?

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This is a graph of my happiness over the past three months in my flat, Eggshell Palace. I am "p" and she is "c."

Has this EVER worked out for ANYONE? I swear this lady is the most uptight fuckstick I could have possibly taken a flier on.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

the graph appears not to have worked out.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The Swimmer tonight has all the answers dude

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Jerry the Nipper not to thread :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

actually it did...just took a while to download, soz.

yes, it has worked out for me. In both of the houses I've lived in here in Oxford I've lived with the landlord. First one 1993-5 and second 1995- present. Biggest advantage - cheaper rent.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, both, but they're my mum & dad so it's great.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

1. On telling her that some friends from school were coming over for dinner the next day, she said "well they can't use the downstairs toilet," without explaining. I knew not to pry. Eventually she said "and they can't use the wineglasses." She has probably twenty wineglasses. "And you should probably use the dishwasher to clean up. But you have to put the dishes a certain way." I looked with her. It was a normal dishwasher. "No problem," I said. "Do you put the cutlery in upside-down, or right-side up?" she said. Uh-oh. "Upside-down," I said, "because you might cut yourself on a knife." She looked at me evenly for a moment. "I'll run the dishwasher afterwards."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Good grief, yes. I hated it, but then again I only had a teeny tiny room and nothing in the house felt like it was ever available for me to use. I was very happy to get out of there.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

2. I cannot wear shoes in the house.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I am not a very tidy person, but I am tidier than my landlord.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

are you gonna try and move out of there tracer?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

3. I bought some bananas one time and got a telling-off for not buying organic. This is a woman who refuses to recycle bottles or plastic on the grounds that Islington Council did not provide her with a lid for her recycling bin.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes I am Julio, I'm moving to Brixton.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Some years ago in 'somewhat tense' accomodation set up -

DQ: "Will you please stop just randomly moving my shit around early in the morning? I need to be able to FIND it, so I can go to work!"
Landlady: "Yeah, must be annoying, would make me want to FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE if that happened to me"

― dave q, Monday, 1 December 2003 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

4. My landlady rings my mobile at 10am Sunday morning. "blelllelaaahg?" I answer. "You didn't lock the door last night after you came home." "I didn't?" "No, and I'm very concerned." My mind races back to the night before. I look around. I'm sleeping on my friend Lisa's couch. "I didn't come home last night though. I'm on a friend's couch right now!" She sounds unconvinced. "I'm leaving next month and I don't think I can trust you to keep the house safe."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

5. Today I asked her if it was alright to leave her my security deposit as the last month's rent. "But what if you cause damage to the house between now and then?" (I move out on December 17th.)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

6. After the friends-for-dinner debacle, she says "have you and your girlfriend given any thought to finding a place together? I mean, I'm not trying to push you out. But it would have a lot of advantages for you."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

argh

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

7. Every day she goes into my little study and opens the blinds.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

She's hitting on you, Tracer.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I did used to work with someone who moved into a house where the landlady was abt the same age as him. We used to tease him that she was after more than his rent money and eventually they did get together!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

8. i lived with my landlord+landlady once and they were pretty good, actually. Ok they have a load of dogs and they smell, apart from that they never bothered with me, and the old lady gives me slices of her apple crumple on sundays. (no it was not a euphemism!!!)

i still moved out after three months, mind, it's just not as convenient.

― ken c, Monday, 1 December 2003 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

8. Last weekend I woke up to loud drips. It turned out they were coming from the ceiling, two feet away from the minidisc recorder I was issued by the journalism department. I go down to the kitchen to fetch a bucket and a bowl. My landlady is there. "Oh yes. That only happens when it rains very hard, though." When I return from class, the bucket and bowl have been taken back from my room, and there's a puddle on the floor.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

9. My landlady is about my age or a bit older. The second or third week after I'd moved in she mentioned her "boyfriend." I was like, oh I didn't know you had a boyfriend. She genuinely glowers at me, saying "I've HAD boyfriends!!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

my landlord is nine years older than me. he often works at home and is one of those ppl who can focus on his work to the exclusion of everything else and so can do things like turn out the light when he walks out of the room even tho I'm still in it. I'm used to this now.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I lived with my landlord for 6 months. He was a train driver and motorbike enthusiast. The house was full of random bits of wood, engine parts, old newspapers, glue, paint tins etc. I never felt very 'at home' in the communal areas (and the kitchen worktops were too high for me as well as being covered in bits of machine) but at least he never came into my room. The most awkward thing was moving out - he got very upset eek.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm Chris's landlady. I hope he has no complaints ;0)

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

dastoor lives w/ his. she lets him keep the cat in his cupboard, sometimes.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

10. Upon moving in, I was told to keep my key either in the door, or just next to it. I told my landlady that I never let my keys leave my pocket: that's how I always knew where they were. She disagreed, telling me that leaving the keys next to the door was the only way to ensure I'd be able to leave quickly in case "an attacker" got in.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(Americans plz don't ask why you need a key to get OUT of your apartment)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i was kind of wondering why you would need a key to get out also

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

so that you can get back in after the attacker has gone.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't think /anyone/ double-locked the door from the inside. Whatever happened to bolts and chains?

― cis (cis), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

bolts and chains are no good in shared acoomodation, as you don't know if everyone's got in the house/even coming home that evening. I remember trying to wake my housemate up at 3am once, when she'd put the chain on the door when she went to bed.

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I lock one of my locks with the key on the inside. Not the Yale, obv. And I have a bolt as well. But my god your landlady sounds like a control freak.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

the lock in our flat can't be opened from the inside at all (even if you have the keys) so before I go out i have to make sure my flatmate is definitely out before i lock the door or he'd be locked in.

― ken c, Monday, 1 December 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

ken lives in prison

― chris (chris), Monday, 1 December 2003 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

That was the case in my old flat too ken. Though only with MY set of keys, so Matt could lock me in but I couldn't lock him in. Last time I send HIM to get the keys cut...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 1 December 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

we had a crazy situation a few years' back when my landlord lent the spare set of keys to his then girlfriend who went out and locked the door and then I came home from work to find that my set of keys wouldn't open the door! I had to wait around until she came back again then ring the doorbell, but it was a good excuse to go the pub for an hour or two.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 1 December 2003 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to live with my landlord and she was very nice. The rent was cheap and she let me have the master bedroom. Her hippie friends would come over all the time and smoke LOADS of pot in the living room which would all waft up through my vents. And she had two little dogs that Pepper loved to play with.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 1 December 2003 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

These problems don't come up when the landlady/landlord in question is already a friend or acquaintance. Tracer's first tactical error was to become A Lodger to a stranger. In 99 per cent of cases this person just sees you as £400 embodied each month and wants you to stay out of the way and not remind her how much you are needed to pay what must be a very small mortgage. People like this should not be allowed to let out rooms (make sure when you leave that you tell the college accomodations people that she's a wrong'un). From what you've told me, Tracer, the woman seems like she'd hassle her tenants a lot less if she HAD A FUCKING LIFE.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 1 December 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I lived with my landlord at university and my only problem was trying to think of a way to tell him that hearing him give his boyfriend a slurpy blow job (our bedrooms were adjacent) was not the kind of thing to lull me off to sleep when I had an exam the next morning. Oh, and when I asked him to teach me some Welsh, he made me say "I have a gaping wet fanny" and THEN told me what it meant. Apart from that he was lovely and hassle free.

In my last ever (hopefully) flatshare, I lived with my landlord's daughter, which definitely had its difficulties. Announcing that daddy was letting her off the rent for the next six months and that her boyfriend was moving in too was not conducive to a good atmosphere, especially as the boyfriend was an arsehole who hung his unwashed territorial army gear on all the radiators after weekends hacking up mountains in Wales. I don't like being complained at for not doing my share of the washing up when (a) I was doing it and (b) I was the only one paying anything to live there. And then when I moved out she tried to rip me off and get me to pay extra council tax and phone bill. "Please pay £90, no I'm not showing you the bill..."

Re. leaving key next to the door - tell the silly cow that Mr Burglar is quite happy for you to do that. He will just poke a straightened out coathanger through the letterbox, hook the keys and let himself in, thank you very much.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to live with an old lady and her (40 yrd old) daughter in moscow - her first words to me: "I am your mother"

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhh!

cue scenes of me desperately trying to rememeber word for 'hello' in russian while they ask me in very quick russian which way round on the bed i want to sleep -> total non-comprehension "ah yes i would love to watch brasilian soaps with you"

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

11. Her list of house rules (which needless to say includes nothing about wineglasses or downstairs bathroom use) includes a provision that forbids "tiresome guests."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

(So now you know why I've never invited you over har har.)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm kinda on the landlady's side for most of these. The bucket thing is, admittedly, a bit ridiculous.

― Kris (aqueduct), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you have a flatmate, Kris?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Because if you share my landlady's attitude about these things, NEVER GET ONE.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but I know them. Most of the time I've lived with people I didn't already know it hasn't worked out too well. The one time I lived with my landlady it worked out fine though.

Anyway, your landlady sounds eccentric, but not necessarily malicious.

― Kris (aqueduct), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Defend the indefensible: tiresome guests.

― Kris (aqueduct), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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Clearly the only possible solution is to staple wood to the soles of your feet.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

12. We started a "kitty." It consisted of one ten-pound note, that I contributed. Now it's gone.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

swimmer

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

steves already there. move it!

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan I still have to get my deposit back. I don't want to give her ANY ammunition.

13. On a sound tip: she plays Radio 4 in every room of the house (except mine, so far). You can't escape its numbing blanket. You move from one room to the other and it picks up right where the last room left off. She even has a little water-proof radio on the toilet tank, which she turns on very loud every time she goes to the toilet, I guess to cover up the sounds she makes.

One time I changed the radio in the kitchen to a pirate station, while I was fixing dinner. She said "ohh that's horrible!! You like this kind of music?" I said I did, it was kind of interesting, you know, pirates and all, and the music was even newer than the commercial stations, etc, and without saying anything she went into the living room and turned up Radio 4 to be twice as loud!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

on my way!!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

12. We started a "kitty." It consisted of one ten-pound note, that I contributed. Now it's gone.

I don't know if I want to go down the "animal cruelty jokes" route or the "inappropriate landlady sex jokes" route.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 December 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

She even has a little water-proof radio on the toilet tank, which she turns on very loud every time she goes to the toilet, I guess to cover up the sounds she makes.

And in her mind, this actually works? [LOUD radio babble....whoosh...LOUDER radio babble]. MI6 could have used her cunning.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 1 December 2003 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

haha "we crazy brits". :-/ I hop moving out day comes along soon tracer.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 1 December 2003 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Aww Tracer, you have all my empathy. Your landlady sounds like she needs some lessons in etiquette for shared accomodations. I had a landlord-as-roommate situation for a few months. The rent was dirt cheap, which was good, but still...never again! He somehow managed to make me feel guilty for every moment I was in the apartment. Ugh!

― mouse, Monday, 1 December 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"hope", not "hop".

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 1 December 2003 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

yes!!! like they're doing u a favor!!

Thank you Pashmina!!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 December 2003 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont really know much about landpersons or living with strangers or compromise but yes this sounds awful. before leaving you should accidentally knock the waterproof radio 4 into the loo. and then laminate her toaster and melt her keys into a scale model of mike skinner.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

when you leave, you should tell her its been a pleasure and that you have really enjoyed living there, that you hope you're next place works out as well, and ask her about who she is going to get in next. also, give her a box of maltesers all wrapped up as a thank you present.

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

u R the rightest evR, charlton

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

tracer hand! he's the man!

― geeta, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

or I could just show h3r this thread.

HEY GEET4

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Charlton is right, actually. It would really do her head in. You could also take a kipper, and sneakily attach it to the underneath of her living-room table with drawing pins.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

wrap each malteser separately!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

and inside the maltesers hide some of luna's gum-that-does-a-poo

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracer do you live in the League of Gentlemen? The house rules are out of control!

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I was waiting for the audience applause, myself.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I got them the second day I was there. dude mark she needs to try a different radio station altogether I think, radio 4's a bit talky for poo!! We almost won the quiz at the Swimmer. We won the first round and got crashed out in the second because 1) the back-up quizmaster couldn't pronounce a question about Shakespeare and 2) didn't know the diff between a LOCH and a LAKE. (Dude I will miss the Swimmer!!)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

ken your lock situation is mentalism!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

your landlady and my mom's ex-husband ought to have tea together. in a closet. on a deserted island.

and yes, I live w/my landlord now, after a fashion. he came into my reputedly private bathroom and rearranged the five items I own that were in there. I move out end of January.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

also, I am dying to know when the definition of "tiresome houseguest" became universally applicable, since one person's idea of what/who is tiresome isn't necessarily anyone else's. sorry, Kris, Tracer has it all over you on this one.

which reminds me: the day before he left for the week, my roommate told me his friend would be staying at the apartment for the weekend. I got back from San Francisco yesterday morning and he was still there. he still is. and he's eaten half of my fucking cereal.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Sacreliege! The 14th Commandment: "Lazy ingrate shall not outstay his welcome and eat my frigging cereal."

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Tell him you get unlimited use of his razor

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not home all that often and I'm not sure how long he's gonna be there. The other day he was using my shower--there's an upstairs and a downstairs, I live downstairs w/a haha "private" bathroom--and my bedroom door that opens to the bathroom was open. I wake up and he's like, "Hey there!" Believe me, the first words out of your mouth in the morning should not have to be "Please shut the door."

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine would have been, "Get the fuck out, thankyouverymuch."....but you're nicer than I, half-asleep.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

haha it depends how he says it.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Matos If it's "private" doesn't he have his own shower?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I said it politely but I've been fuming for a few days about this. I'd forgotten all about it, too, till I got back.

This isn't my roommate, it's his guest. He was staying on the downstairs couch because my roommate was still in town. The roommate is gone now but the guest remains.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

You can't get rid of the guy, before the roommate returns? Insane that your roommate would invite the guy over---without being there.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

he's the roommate's friend and it's the roommate's place, so he's within his rights that way. still, he could've fucking TOLD me that he was going to do it and that dude was going to be there for a week (or less, I fucking hope), not to mention that dude has NO RIGHT eating my fucking cereal.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Ask him to go get some bagels

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Exactly! WTF happened to simple, common courtesy? That's all I'm saying.

(xpost)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm very bad at confronting people, is the biggest problem here. also, I'm chronically not at home--up, straight to work, there for a long time, out to dinner, back home around 12am or so.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not saying you should knock the fool with a bat, but your privacy deserves to be respected.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

who thought you were saying that?

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha! Just in case you were tempted by the idea.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracer has definitely got one of these on-site landlords who want their mortgage paid but none of this messy 'sharing' with other people nonsense. I wonder how many mailing lists this woman is suddenly going to find herself on once Tracer moves out? I know: join her up with QPD and send her the entire scope of 'why can't I get laid or make friends?' books (or sign her up for Dateline).

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

OH MY GOD, TRACER, I TOLD YOU SO, I TOLD YOU SO!!! You are living with The Dirt Queen's evil twin! I could just get going on the Dirt Queen's irrational, crazy, ridiculous rules, but I won't, because it would bring up bad memories and make me cranky and upset. Mine managed to screw me out of my deposit, as well. Fuxor, god I hated her so much. I should call the health department on her, honestly. (Though my former housemate says that he recently spoke to her, and apparently she's "taking a break from renting" - read: she couldn't find a sucker stupid enough to live with her and her mentalist regulations and her ENDLESS FILTH.)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

the condo associations president lives on the first floor of my building. He has one leg. He knocks on my door at all hours of the day and asks me at least once a week if i know who owns these random cars parked on the street. He's the parking nazi.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to live with my landlord for a couple of years. I never saw him as he spent all his time either in his room watching telly, or at the gym doing stupid weightlifting things. The kitchen used to be full of that horrible mix-up powdered power drinks stuff, but it meant he never nicked any of my food because he didnt' seem to eat real food. He was an ace landlord, as he didn't give a shit what I got up to, or seem to mind that the future mr ailsa had virtually moved in too for no additional rent.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The best living with landlord situation I've ever had, was in Swiss Cottage, where I lived on the top floor of my landlord's house. A very nice older couple who sort of adopted me. However, it was a complete separate flat, so there was no friction. Sharing facilities with the person that owns the place is a total no-go.

Sucks that we left on bad terms, when they suddenly decided to rennovate the entire flat just when I gave notice, so that I didn't even get to live in my own house for the last month. Grrrrr.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

When I had a roommate, she had all sorts of rules that she'd like tirelessly try to enforce about how and when laundry was done, who cooked what, how we shared food, etc etc etc. KEEP IN MIND IT'S MY BLOODY APARTMENT AND SHE PAID NOTHING EVER IN RENT THE ENTIRE TIME SHE LIVED THERE!!!!!!!!!! I am not even someone with rules, as anyone who's been over knows, I'm pretty nice and easy going, just don't use up all my shit and don't throw soup out the window and we are A-OK but she had crazy rules! "The cat is allowed to stand on this table but not that table" etc etc--I mean, how is the cat even supposed to know? She'd hit him with her hairbrush if he messed up. It was horrible horrible horrible but the funny bit was that it wasn't even remotely anything approaching her apartment, as I said.

Haha she should go live with your landlady, Tracer, dont you think her and St3ph@ni3 would be a good situation?

― Allyzay, Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean it was my fucking tables, if I wanted to let the cat stand on them I don't even see how it was her business.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Ally unintentionally hits the nail on the head about what sucks most about living with your landperson. They can make the rules - even if they are for NO APPARENT REASON - and enforce them, but even if you come up with perfectly logical rules (I'm not saying your housemate's were, Ally) you have no recourse to enforce them, even if they are for the common good.

Argh, this thread just makes me crosser and crosser and it just reinforces my gratefulness that I'm now living with a partner and not a landperson or housemate.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I dunno, Kate, I was the landperson and she was the flatsharer yet she made up all the rules. I was just too exhausted and flabbergasted by it all to argue and instead just prayed she'd leave. Anyway I think you should all try it! Just go around making up rules and see if you can stun your landperson into following them!

― Allyzay, Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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