Landlords: You may not have pets. You may not paint this property, or put up paintings, posters, or hang a TV. This property is pristine and all damages must be paid for.
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this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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Mr. Bean actually put painstaking effort into protecting everything that shouldn’t be painted, such as the doorknob. This landlord probably just decided to let the occupants chisel free whatever outlets/thermostats/windows/doors they needed. Then later considered the chiseling as damage
Had a landlord paint the inside of my bathtub with white latex paint. Did you know that latex paint is slippery as fuck when wet? Because I fucking do now. I literally bought adhesive grip tape for the bottom of my tub/shower. By the end of my stay ~15 months later, nearly all the paint was chipped away from repeatedly being blasted with hot water and stepped on, revealing the years of hard water limescaling they were trying to cover up. Why fix it when you can cover it and create a serious safety hazard? But of course I had to scrub every spec of every surface before I left or lose my entire deposit.
You forgot to mention the part where you'd take a bath and come out with all the paint flakes sticking to you.
Had the exact same experience
And sometimes the old bathtubs, when the enamel is damaged, expose you to lead, so that’s fun.
Latex is water soluble. Why the fuck would you use that in a shower? Use a coating meat for it. It was probably shitty wall paint too. This isn't a landlord problem, this is just a shitty homeowner problem. As an ex professional journeyman level painter, we used to call this the homeowner special - it's always some dumbfuck bad solution or something wildly inefficient and the worst kind of overkill: ineffective overkill where it would have been cheaper to just replace. I'm having ptsd flashbacks of all the stupid stuff I've seen. I hated being a painter for many reasons. But one of them was that I was exposed to so many stupid, lazy, entitled people from all walks of life and in all kinds of ways. Unfucking people's stupid stuff, stupid cowokers, stupid bosses, stupid companies, stupid clients. Ughhh... I just remember one time being deployed to a site where the lead painter was using a putty knife to skin off all the paint of a peeling paint job on a ralmbler - it was all lead paint, which changes malleability depending on temperature, so he was on a step ladder, chain smoking cigarettes with torn off filters, with no ppe, doing circles around this house FOR DAYS dropping lead paint all over the ground with no safety catches or anything. And the worst part is the pm for the company at the time sold the gonna homeowner on a low cost contract and set into motion an insanely impossible job to do at any quality within budget because that's how competitive the market is and how nobody wants to ever pay for lead abatement because it really is like 10-20x more expensive to do properly and safely.
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I left that job and never went back. I later quit to go back to school and got my bachelor's in software engineering, only to have constant massive layoffs all across the industry and AI and trump come in and spicy diarrhea all over my life.
Latex is water soluble. Why the fuck would you use that in a shower?
So you don't have to give the deposit back because your tenant stripped off all the paint?
landlords should be banned ~~from buying paint tbh~~
ftfy
That’s some good looking wood under there. I do not understand why people paint hardware.
I'm guessing it probably wasn't good looking before they decided to paint it. OOP did say "professionally refinished".
How bad can metal be, that you'd think it would look better covered in paint?
Because 9 out of 10 people don't care and don't take care of anything under their responsibility.
I liked the pareidolia :D
In case anyone's like me, living in a very old rental conversion, they make replica door hardware that you can buy. I had to replace a couple of door handles and other hardware due to wear and found the replicas were an affordable drop-in replacement
My parents renovated their kitchen and somehow matched cabinet handles that were original to the house that was built like 30 years prior. Crazy.
The ol' landlord special
I stripped all the paint off the oak moldings and doors in an old apartment I lived in. It took a while but it was worth it. The building sold eventually and we moved but it was so beautiful.
The “…from buying paint” part was unnecessary.
This reminds me of the weird partial cabinet around my gas meter that came with the house 18 years ago. The paint is the only thing holding it together and I’d need a real carpenter to replace it.
Landlords should be banned
I feel like some of them just put a big bucket of paint in the middle of a room, put a stick of dynamite in, close the door and leave.
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"I painted over your outlets with leaded paint. Anway because I think I did such a great job ill increase your rent but since im feeling generous I'll only raise it by 40%"
-Average landleach
"I may have bough the paint anf all with money I got from your rent but trust me it would be so hard to pay for the paint and all if not for me"
I rented a place that had a really bad mold problem in the bathroom. We tried cleaning it but it kept coming back, it was clear it was deep in the sheetrock and baseboards (which were also rotting). I told the landlord again and again about it and he kept promising that he was planning on refurbishing it and taking care of everything.
Well, one day he finally shows up with a big bucket of paint and just paints over everything. Didn't even bother scraping off the old paint. That was my final sign to move. Just ridiculous he thought that would solve anything.
We had a similar problem with an upstairs bathroom. We ran the fan constantly, but still mold was everywhere. You could see where it was painted over in the past with a different color paint. The owner's handyman friend decided that replacing the fan would help. When he was removing the old one, we realized that there was no ductwork attached to it. The fan was just sucking all humid air into the space on the other side of the bathroom ceiling.
Ew, what a nightmare
Yeah. His solution was to cut a hole so now it vents into the attic crawlspace. Which, I guess is better, but if I was the owner, I'd be worried about the entire house rotting.
I mean the whole house shouldn’t rot from normal bathroom moisture and hopefully their attic is ventilated but for sure the mold problem isn’t going to go away from that solution. Some people don’t see mold as a problem because they aren’t sensitive or allergic to it themselves.
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