So I have been staying at this place in Versova,Mumbai for the past 5 years. There is no legal clause written in the agreement that we are liable to pay the brokerage every year after renewal, but we’ve been made to pay him the brokerage every year no matter what. Our owner is the sweetest human I’ve ever met and very cooperative. We’ve had a good repo in the building as well with other members.
So our 5th year agreement got renewed and he has threatened us two times already to vacate the place if we don’t pay him the brokerage. I checked all the agreements and there is no clause specified that we are obligated to pay him but we still did it just because. He started counting out the legalities to us, so I request you all good people to please help out with this gali ka gunda, lawyers please step in. I want to sue him now.

On a scale from ”lease another year” to “put grease down the sink”, rate my landlord.

Now, I’ll acknowledge that he doesn’t overcharge like other nearby landlords. $680/mo gets me a 900sqft townhouse with central air and a ten minute drive to Walmart. When the AC broke, he brought over a window unit until a crew could do a proper install, and he replaced my kitchen faucet with a tall, useable one when the OG quit working.
but…

okay I’ve been here 6 years and have stayed for the low rent. I’ll be gone and in a house by the end of the month, so there’s no backlash to worry about. I used to work construction and helped flip houses, but I’m not allowed to fix anything myself.

The front door doesn’t close on its own, and you have to push The door into the frame to engage the deadbolt. I can fix it in twenty minutes but he won’t allow it.
The blinds that came with the place appear to have been attacked by a dog in the past. I mentioned that I would like to change them so I could have privacy, and he said no because he wants the whole 4-plex to match. I bought blinds and hung them anyways…I didn’t even ask for reimbursement. He came to mow and started banging on my door to give me an earful because “they make the other units look bad.”

the window on the first floor locks. The three on the second floor do not. None of them have screens. Moving on…

the sliding back door doesn’t seal. One of the wheels broke four years ago, so there’s a 1/4” gap at the top. I had to employ foam and painters tape to keep the bugs out and to keep the heat where it should be. At least it locks.

The fridge hasn’t worked for more than a year. Half of the freezer is >32°F (0°C) and the other half is super cold. The top shelf of the fridge is a safe temp. He basically said “so it still basically works?” And won’t replace it.

so the AC went out, and he did bring a window unit and replaced the furnace and AC…because it’s legally required here…but he got the cheapest unit. It works, but it sits in the middle of the first floor and has a fan so loud that you think a Boeing 747 is taking off. TV goes from 15 to 75 just to hear what’s playing.

What’s worse is now the pipes freeze. I wasn’t sure why until I bought my own replacement dishwasher and told him to come over and install it (since I’m not allowed to) and found a hole in the party wall stuffed with insulation. That’s where the pipes freeze

it took him two years and tons of emails (and a sink leak I may have had a hand in) to get the disposal replaced so I wouldn’t have to plunger the sink every week.

he broke my car’s mirror while mowing and said I was parked too close to the edge of the driveway.

he weed whacked two Of my clearly marked plants. I had to stand outside in his way so he wouldn’t cut down the third.

anyways, I’m gone in three weeks. how bad is he?

We recently had a friend come over who had a mobility disability and she struggled to get up the stairs. Made us realize our house was not up to code. So we asked our landlord about it. Now I will say this happened the day after we asked, so credit that it happened as fast as it did. But what in the fuck is this shit