Chinese Landlords Part 2 – Evil Ones
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This experience with my current landlord was actually pretty painless. I have a couple horrors stories about
really, really evil landlords I’ve had in the past – like the one who wrote our contract on the back of a
napkin and tried to make me pay a bunch of different fees (like a new gas meter, new pipe, etc) and
also tried to make me pay a few months extra rent. He and his buddy came over to my place uninvited
and demanded that I hand over my passport and said that I could get it back when I paid all these
“fees”. Thinking on my feet, I said my passport was at the visa office (getting a visa processed) and I
can’t give it to him at the moment. That night, I found a new apartment on the internet, called a
moving truck, called my friends, and did a one-swoop overnight move, thereby ducking out on these
“fees”. The landlord called my cell phone everyday for a long time, but I was long-gone.
My new place felt so good!
Conclusion:
The nice ones are usually rich and/or are the landlord’s friends and are just collecting the rent money for the landlord. The rich landlords don’t care as much about replacing fridges and such. Poor landlords may never get you a new fridge. I know it’s hard to pick and choose landlords, but try to go for a rich one!
