These 9 People Talking About Why They Were Kicked Out By Their Landlords Is Truly Scary

Good landlords in India are hard to find. You know, the kind who are concerned only with the rent and keeping everything fixed? Yeah, there¡¯s very few of those. You will, however, find landlords who are all about what¡¯s happening in your house, provide moral lectures and do very little for the upkeep of the house that you have to inhabit.

At the end of it all, it¡¯s somehow still your fault. These 9 people recount the times they were asked to move out by their landlords and you may just thank your landlord after reading these stories:

1. I was renting a flat with a friend who had shifted to Delhi from New York for a fellowship. One fine day, we come home to our landlady talking about how our house was dirty again and the television wasn¡¯t working. We never even switched on the television. Moreover, our house help would come for cleaning in the evening since we were both working. We asked her how she would know all of this since only we had the keys to the house. She said she goes in for regular inspection daily. Imagine our horror at not being informed about these regular inspections beforehand! She asked us to move out by the end of the month.

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2. So, my flatmates and I were without water for seven days. Seven whole days of no water in the bathroom or kitchen. Our landlord just wouldn¡¯t do anything. His excuse being that he is an office-going family man and has no time. We got a plumber to fix it. We got an electrician to look into it. It all cost a lot of money and we were miserable. Eventually, our landlord opens the door to the terrace where all the overhead tanks were kept and turns out someone had stolen our water connection. The landlord was absolutely surprised by this and said we need to move out immediately because the house suddenly felt unsafe to him. Of course the fact that we had been through so much trouble and it was us who eventually discovered that stolen water connection was nothing.

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3. The last house where I stayed was owned by an old woman and her son who must be in his late thirties. Once while I was having a bath, I noticed that the son had made a hole into one of the walls of the bathroom and was looking at me. I obviously went straight to the lady who offered me all my security back as long as I move out within a week. I took my money and left.

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4. I threw a housewarming party and two of my friends started making out in the balcony. The neighbours called the police and the very next day, my landlord evicted us. I haven¡¯t thrown a housewarming party for this house.

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5. The last and only time I ever got evicted from a place was unfortunately not my fault. An old friend connected me to a colleague of hers when I needed a flatmate. We met and she seemed like a decent girl who talked at length about how she is all about doing the right thing and is the appointed adult in her college group. My friend assured me she is very responsible as a person. We took the flat together. However, the rent was always late even though she went to expensive places to drink. She bought expensive sarees not below at least four grand but never paid the househelp. She also liked to order things online from the best brands but the newspaper man would always be begging our landlord to pay him. Our landlord had had enough of it and asked us to move out after about six months.

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6. Back when I got my first job, I was on the shift system. I barely even stayed home. Hence, when the landlady told me to never get non-veg food home, I just agreed because I practically didn¡¯t live in my house. However, one day, work was too heavy and I skipped dinner. I got myself a chicken burger from an all-night delivery and just took it home. My landlady discovered the pack in my garbage and asked me to move out.

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7. When I was in college, I started a band with my mate. We all moved in together and would jam till late at night. When our landlord asked us to move and he did this very respectfully, we were annoyed and frustrated. We hated every bit of it and even blamed him. However, now that we¡¯re all adults, we sort of get his point and we¡¯re just happy he was nice enough to let us stay for a month instead of overreacting to the situation. We did, back then, make even more noise during that one month and I don¡¯t know about my friends but I feel bad about it.

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8. Our landlord and landlady had some differences regarding the rules for us. We were two girls who had just one year left at college. However, we were shown the house by the landlord and handed over the security along with a month's rent to him. A couple of days later when the landlady was visiting, she was very unhappy to see our male friends over. She made a scene, scolded us and asked our male friends to get out. We called the landlord who said having male friends over was totally cool. This whole difference between opinion between the wife and husband went on for a bit till the landlady asked us to move out. She didn't even return us the security.

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9. This couldn't be called eviction because it happened before we moved in. However, put us into a lot of trouble. I decided to rent a place closer to my office to save all the money spent on traveling. A couple of colleagues were going to join me and we spent about three weeks looking for a perfect house for working people. Meanwhile, we were all serving our notice period at our previous rented places. Our landlord seemed like a decent guy and we paid the security, brokerage and a month of rent before shifting in. However, a day before we had to move in, he asked us to submit photos of our mothers and sisters. When we asked him why he would require those, he simply said because we were not supposed to have girls over. Suddenly, out of the blue, he decided to come up with these new rules. We told him we won't have girls over but we couldn't submit photos of our mothers and sisters. He got really weird after that and told us not to move in. Luckily, the broker was nice enough to show us houses within the same budget but really, finding a new house was a mess. Not to mention how difficult it was to get our money back from this creepy landlord.

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