Reply #11: I love those signs! My sister needed them in the late 80s... [View All]

[NewWaveChick1981]

..Her landlord, a professor at UNC-CH, thought that since her apartment was his property, he could enter anytime he liked for any reason. He owned the house where it was (house was divided into three apartments). He was originally from Egypt and treated women like dirt. The renters (two women and one man) talked with each other, and apparently he didn't do that to the man. The two women were treated terribly, and that kind of treatment upset my sister a lot. One Saturday morning, she had just gotten out of the shower and had her hair up in a towel. She had just dried off and thought she heard something in her kitchen. She wrapped a towel around herself and saw him there, looking through her stuff. He said (without even batting an eyelash), "You should not be cooking fish in here. You need an air refreshener." (Yes, he said "refreshener".) Sis was stunned, but she said, "You scared the hell out of me! I know you own the building, but the lease says you must give adequate notice of entering the apartment before you can." He said: "I have a key. I can enter anytime I like." She said: "No, you can't. It's a violation of state law." He got mad and left. She called the police non-emergency number and they told her that yes indeed, it was a violation of law. The officer told her that he was documenting it and that if it happened again, they'd send the guy a warning.

Well, two weeks later, she was fixing dinner (no, not fish :rofl:), and she hears a key in the door. Lo and behold, it's the landlord who wanted to ask her if she was renewing her lease. (It was up in six weeks.) She went ballistic and told him, "HELL NO! Not if you just barge in anytime you feel like it." He huffed out and went over to the other woman's apartment and did the same thing. Her neighbor came over shortly after and asked her if he'd barged in again on her too. They called the cops, and they dispatched an officer to the guy's house (where he lived, not the rental property). He argued with the cop too. Sis moved out gladly when her lease was up, and so did the other woman. I don't know what happened to the guy.

I'm sorry your landlord is such a shit. :hug: Sis' landlord was too. :(