ULPT: If you're renting a new apartment, save a newspaper from the day your rent starts. (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by dystop@lemmy.world to c/unethicallifeprotips@lemmy.world

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That way, if there are any damages, you can take a picture with the newspaper and "prove" that the damage was there when you moved in.

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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago

Just make sure you strip the meta data from the picture before you send in your evidence.

[-] mom@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 11 months ago

Why strip it when you can alter it to reflect any time and date? :D

[-] whodatdair@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Timestomp

[-] reflex@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Why strip it when you can alter it to reflect any time and date? :D

That's right, Lorraine!
As Marty says after Doc rips up his letter, "I've got all the time in the world! I've got a time machine!"

[-] dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Just hope the landlord has a lawyer who's dumb as dirt.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Won't work if the landlord is smart enough to do their own inspection before a new move in and document it

[-] livus@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

I had a landlord once who gave me an enormous folder of datestamped photos and made me sign a statement that they were a true and accurate record when I moved in.

Came in handy when I moved out and they tried to get me to pay for the crack in a window pane that was clearly visible in several of their own photos.

[-] lasagna@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

One of my previous one tried to charge me for cobwebs. It was a farm house.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Mine tried to charge me for the expanding foam an exterminator put in to fix a mouse infestation caused by the landlord's disregard for the building

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

Well you couldn't have cleaned them otherwise you would have risked damaging the aesthetic.

[-] lasagna@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Spiders work fast. They rebuild webs in a matter of hours. It's not a realistic demand.

Though at the time the amount they wanted was not worth the grief so I just moved on. But minor deposit frauds are extremely common and almost always unpunished. Landlords have essentially nothing to lose by trying it, certainly not morals.

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