I’ve been renting a small room from a man, he owns four neighbouring apartments.
It was brand new when I moved in, I specifically asked him about long-term rent as it was close to my office and I loved the neighborhood, he said sure. He had a clause in the agreement that if I moved out before the term of 11 months he’d leave the deposit to himself, I didn’t mind it as everything seemed perfect.
It appeared that this four rooms were sound-proofed extremely poorly, if someone coughed at night all four of us woke up. I will not describe the neighbors but I had a LOT of sleepless nights.
In the course of half a year, all the neighbours moved out and were all deprived of their deposit. He asked me to show the neighbouring apartments to people free of charge for around twelve times.
New ones moved in, including an alcoholic woman who always shouted at night, I told the landlord several times about that as well as about the fact that she once barged into my room when I forgot to shut the door after walking my dog at 5am. She also moved out herself after one month, but the door incident affected me a lot and I no longer felt safe and all in all decided to move out despite losing the deposit.
The fact is that there also were lots of lies on the part of the landlord: he promised that he will arrange for Wi-Fi to work but as all of us but never did. The tv technically was there, but we could not watch it as it was not connected to anything. There were ‘tubes’ to be connected to an air-conditioner but there were none. All these things were listed in the advertisement and are also listed in a new one.
He also charged me for all the broken stuff which is totally okay, but he overpriced it as hell and I feel like he made some costs up and also feel like some things were “meant” to be broken.
All in all, am I overreacting? I really want to post about my experience under every new advertisement of the apartment, Should I do it?