this shit (what the landlord did) should be illegal and prosecutable?
imagine renting farmland out to a farmer, waiting for them to plant and grow crops right up till before harvest, then try to pull a switch and up the rent because “🤓☝️the land is worth more now.”
like no shit the plants on the property add value. value that came directly from the tenant in hundreds of hours of labor and materials!!??!!
good on this tenant for getting the W on the situation. im sure for countless poor others the opposite has been true :(
That’s not a great argument at all. Assuming a rent agreement with say a 1-year term, there’s a huge difference between trying to change rent in the middle of the contract period (obviously violates the contract unless it has specific provisions for this, which is also unlikely in most places) and asking for higher rent to renew for another term (which Occam’s razor says presumably is happening here). A farmer renting farmland would never be leasing for less time than it will take their crops to grow, as that would obviously be an insane risk.
The better point here is on improving the property. Some rental contracts I’ve seen have terms where if the tenant spends money improving the property they get some kickback (part of it can be reduced from rent, e.g.). If you’re improving property someone else owns for free and expect not to be taken advantage of, then I don’t know what to tell you except that you’re a sucker.
If there are takeaways from this post, it’s either that 1) more jurisdictions should include stuff about this as part of their legal protections for tenants, or 2) don’t be a sucker and give your landlord money for free.
Edit: if I wasn’t clear, my point was that imo there should be better policies around tenants improving the homes they live in to begin with (because obviously nothing here was illegal)
How is this different from a tenant taking their patio furniture with the? “It’s worth more with the patio furniture”. “The new tenants are expecting the nice patio furniture to be there!”
Plants cost money and effort and, in many cases, can be successfully transplanted to a new location. It seems to me that the tenant simply took their property with them when they left.
Won’t someone think of the landlords.
I hope the “/s” is superfluous here, but:
/s
Can’t believe how heavily propagandized we must be to have people blaming the friend instead of the landlord
I think he was perfectly justified in removing the plants, but should have done so before he wound up screwing the innocent new tenants who probably can’t break the contract unless it specifically includes the plants. By delaying, he’s basically handing the landlord a check from the new people.
Probably should have done it before the viewings so that you’re not screwing over the renters.
“Screwing over the renters.” You mean the ones that AREN’T being made homeless?
They’re now stuck in a contract for a year in a home they might not have went with, all because they were lied to by the landparasite.
So get mad at the parasite, not the person who likes his plants at living places.
in my uni house, the landlord once barrelled in without notice (highly illegal!!) to give us a rug, a new coffee table, and a bunch of crappy canvas wall art.
After we decided to sign for another year, following a few viewings, the landlord barrelled in without notice again to take it all back lmao.
