Slumlords stuck me

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I used to rent a nasty house from two nasty women. I was in a hurry to find somewhere to live before the snow came and I didn't have to drive across the state to get to work (a one hour commute one way.) So I opted to rent their house. The house, along with the three mobile homes/trailers on the property had at one time been condemned. I thought once condemned, always condemned? Regardless, only two of the trailers were barely liveable and rented out. The house made me ill from the mold. No insulation, outrageous gas bill. It was -20F and the highest affordable temperature was 58F. I vowed I'd leave within the year, which I did. Landlords were pissed off I had bought a house. The agreement, the selfsame agreement dreamed up by THEM and signed by THEM, stated I needed to give 15 days notice. I gave them 18 and she has the nerve to say "Well, I WISH you had given me MORE notice!"

There were plenty of other things wrong with this situation. Winter came and when they finally got around plowing, they plowed the snow right up to the side of the house, which aided in the constant flooding of the basement. I worked, as did my neighbors. Big storms came and where were the landlords and their plow? They finally show up at 5 pm, I had to be to work for 7 AM! So my boyfriend snowblowed the whole driveway including the two trailers so people could get out. Landlords grateful? NO. "Tell your boyfriend we KNOW what our responsibilities are!" 7 am.....5 pm.....

I shared a well with one of the trailers. I paid the electric bill that covered the water being pumped, I paid the electric bill for the water softener that hardly put a dent in the iron and blood-stink water. Then the landlords insisted we hook up the trailer to the water softener and I'd have to pay for all the softner salt. My boyfriend stepped in and said no way.

So happy to be out of there and far away from the creeps! Unfortunately, as part of my punishment they didn't have the gas bill put in their names until the end of January. I paid nearly $140 for 13 days of gas pumped into a house I wasn't even living in.

I will never rent again, I would rather live in my car or a tent, than go through that again. Never.