Friday, April 17, 2020

Tenant's Pipe Breaks, Stuff Gets Ruined, Landlord Won't Break Lease


What a fine and mighty example of a property manager being totally unreasonable. In this case, a tenant moves into a new place, a pipe breaks, their stuff gets ruined, and as they're living out of a motel while repairs are being made, the property manager won't break the lease. Well, due to that display of inconsiderate rudeness, a domain name was basically held hostage until proper negotiations were had. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge u/moderate_extremist • 2y + JOIN 1 Apartment had broken pipe the first day I moved in and ruined all my stuff. They wouldn't break the lease while I was living out of a hotel for weeks, so I bought their domain name and made them buy it back. I had just moved cross country for a job with my girlfriend, and found a nice apartment in the suburbs. Building was nice, staff seemed fine, everything seemed in order. After unloading all of our boxes and organizing clothes on the floo

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Text - I rushed back to find 4-5 inches of water, and a massive hole in the ceiling leaking water everywhere. All of my stuff was ruined, including all my clothes, my piano, multiple computers, electronics, everything was gone. I did have renter's insurance, but found myself living out of a hotel until the repairs were made. Fast forward two weeks. I'm stilI living out of a hotel after the building claimed they would have my place fixed in a week. I go in to inspect the place and there is black

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Text - So I work in digital marketing, in real estate actually. I have a follow up meeting with her boss in an hour, and decide to do some research into their URL. Their website name is the full name of the residence, which is pointlessly long. i find the .net available for purchase, as well as multiple iterations of shorter url's which presumably have higher search volumes. I spend $50 and buy them all up. Then I call a lawyer buddy and talk to him about how to use language that will avoid soun

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Text - That's when the most satisfying moment of my life happens. I slide over the whois information of all the URLS. She doesn't understand what she's looking at. I tell her "I purchased these domain names for this property. I'm planning on building a website that explains my story, and including links to your local competitors for free on the homepage of the site". I let her know what I do for a living, and hand over an SEO audit I pulled for free on the internet of their current site, and exp

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Text - Her face drops, and she's white as a ghost. She has me wait while she gets her lawyer on the phone. I explain everything to the lawyer, being very very careful with the language I use. We settle on $5000 for all the websites, no bad reviews ever, and they break the lease.

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Text - A week later when the check comes in, I transfer the domains to a very confused IT person who wants to know why I have URL's of their company name. The lesson in all of this, buy good renters insurance and don't let landlords push you around. 14.5k 406 1 Share Award

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