Money: Today, after spending two weeks renovating my room and $1000...

By Anonymous - 15/11/2010 12:06 - Netherlands

Today, after spending two weeks renovating my room and $1000 on paint and a new floor, my landlord told me that he's sold the house. Also, he was kind enough to inform me that unless I paint the walls back to white, I won't be getting my $500 deposit back. FML

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LoveINKs 0

Monday 15 November 2010 19:11

why would you spend that money replace you rent anyways YDI

Xquisite1 28

Monday 15 November 2010 19:12

ydi, for making changes to a place that inlt yours

Comments

LilaBear 1

Wednesday 17 November 2010 11:43

You're an idiot for painting and renovating in a house that didn't belong to you. Everyone knows tenants don't modify the house unless there has been explicit permission to do so. Why would you want to spend that much money on a house that's not yours anyway??

pandora4037 0

Thursday 18 November 2010 5:07

That sucks. But why would you renovate a place you don't own.

poppetsauce 4

Thursday 18 November 2010 10:17

uhm okay this is just ******* stupid. It does not matter what country you live in. You DO NOT paint or renovate a place you are RENTING without asking the owners permission first! This is UNIVERSAL! And if you have $1k to waste on a place you rent month to month, you can obviously spare the $500 deposit. STFU.

ChaChaNiceGuy 0

Friday 19 November 2010 2:02

No it's NOT UNIVERAL! It DOES matter what country you're in! In Germany for example you can paint your walls in whatever color you want without the landlords approval! You're just expected to paint it back to white before you move out.

Marcelb 17

Tuesday 14 December 2010 13:58

Which is universal. That is the entire point of this FML. She needs to paint it back to the original state, if she doesn't she doesn't get her deposit back.

mrbrown2195 0

Saturday 20 November 2010 23:01

If you want protection from your landlord selling the property, bring your lease to the Recorder's office and record it! Also, you're a moron for renovating rental property.

aarontheawesome 0

Thursday 2 December 2010 8:13

Use the force. Choke him until he coughs up $1500.

k9obsessed 5

Tuesday 21 December 2010 21:16

YDI. If you don't own the property, you have no right to renovate. Next time don't paint the place if it isn't yours to paint. Dumbass.

WldTaliban 0

Saturday 2 July 2011 0:12

It is sad that over 13,000 people agree with your fml. The only thing you should be upgrading in a rental is burnt out lightbulbs. You moron.

Mpower121 2

Sunday 10 July 2011 12:53

why the **** would you do that without asking the landlord first?

usnwife 18

Thursday 5 January 2012 17:30

We're renting, and we plan on being here for about 3 years. I sure as hell am going to paint, but do plan on painting it back. Floors? I add rugs, and if any major damage happened if replace it to the same thing (I'd be charged to have it done -more expensively- when we moved out anyway). But someone did mention earlier that where op is from it can sometimes be bare cement floors - that I would most certainly put some carpet down on!