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Mars Ramos is a museum educator and freelance writer. She loves long walks in nature, doing yoga, and baking brownies.

Mars Ramos

Property management workers take $300 worth of home decor from apartment after renters get evicted

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‘The laughing is crazy’: Property management workers take $300 worth of home decor from apartment after renters get evicted. It backfires

Charlotte is a regular Daily Dot contributor with bylines in Insider, VICE, Glamour, The Independent, and more. She holds a Masters&#8217;s degree in Magazine Journalism from City, University of London.

Charlotte Colombo

Tenant says complex removed stairs while he’s inside his second floor apartment

no stairs

‘The only way out of this apartment’: Tenant says complex removed stairs while he’s inside his second floor apartment

Melody Heald is a culture writer. Her work can be found in Glitter Magazine, BUST Magazine, and more.

Melody Heald

Renter says apartment complex sealed her cat into the wall

Cat Dry Wall

‘I’m SO glad you got this on video’: Renter says apartment complex sealed her cat into the wall

Tiffanie Drayton is a geek culture and lifestyle reporter whose work covers everything from gender and race to anime and Xbox. Her work has appeared in Complex, Salon, Marie Claire, and elsewhere.

Tiffanie Drayton

young woman in empty apartment with caption "BEWARE OF SCAMMERS!!! ZIPRENT IS NOT SAFE!!! WHOLE APARTMENT WAS ROBBED!!!!"

ziprent

‘$875 a month should have been your first red flag’: Woman warns against Ziprent after what happened to her 5 days after signing lease

Tangie Mitchell is a creative writer, journalist, and editor based in New York. Her interests include pop culture and entertainment, poetry, and morning cups of herbal tea.

Tangie Mitchell

Tenant says apartment complex wouldn’t accept cash for a 2-cent bill

not accepting Cash

‘We don’t take cash’: Tenant says apartment complex wouldn’t accept cash for a 2-cent bill. Here’s how he got revenge

Grace Fowler is freelancer reporter and past summer media fellow with the Daily Dot. She&#8217;s a graduate of Texas State University, where she studied mass communications.

Grace Fowler

Tenant says she’s out over $300 after her apartment towed her car because it wasn’t registered on their app. She has proof it was approved

Car Towing

‘IM LITERALLY GOING INSANE’: Tenant says she’s out over $300 after her apartment towed her car because it wasn’t registered on their app. She has proof it was approved

Brooke Sjoberg is a freelance writer who graduated with her Bachelors in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020.

Brooke Sjoberg

Tenant says their apartment upped laundry fees to $30 per load

Laundry Price

‘I am now gonna be washing all my clothes in my shower stall’: Tenant says their apartment upped laundry fees to $30 per load

Maya Wray was a Fall 2022 FOIA intern for the Daily Dot. She is currently a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studies journalism in the Moody College Honors Program. She has written for the Daily Texan and the Austin Chronicle.

Maya Wray

Tenant finds flyers accusing her of stealing packages all over apartment complex

Porch Pirate

‘Resident porch pirate’: Tenant finds flyers accusing her of stealing packages all over apartment complex

Stacy Fernández is a freelance writer, project manager and communications specialist. She’s worked at The Texas Tribune, The Dallas Morning News and run social for The Education Trust New York. Her favorite hobby is finding hidden gems at the thrift store, she loves a good audio book and is a chocolate enthusiast.

Stacy Fernandez

person speaking in front of posters and white wall with caption "When raising rent $700 and kicking out good tenants backfires" (l) hand with house block above green arrow wooden blocks on yellow background rent increase concept (r)

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‘Karma exists’: Landlord raises rent by $700. It backfires

Braden Bjella is a culture writer. His work can be found in Mixmag, Electronic Beats, Schon! magazine, and more.

Braden Bjella

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Unclick

‘How are you Airbnbing something you’re renting?’: Man says Airbnb host listed their rented apartment, scammed him out of $1000

person holding paint scrapper speaking sitting on floor (l) wooden house with rolled up 100 dollar bills inside security deposit concept (c) person scrapping black paint off of cabinet door sitting on floor (r)

security deposit tiktok

‘They always find some tiny bs so I just give up’: Tenant calls out landlords for using ‘anything’ to keep the security deposit

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tenant says landlord increased rent before her 12-month lease is up

‘They tried to play ya girl’: California tenant says landlord tried to increase rent before her lease ends (updated)

Gisselle Hernandez is a freelance journalist based in Belize, where she writes travel and internet culture pieces. She enjoys watching anime, playing video games, and covering all things TikTok.

Gisselle Hernandez

woman talking on speaker phone caption my landlord is pulling some shady sh*t" "after days of ignored texts & emails I decided to call them *hangs up on me" (l) woman knocking on landlord office door caption "time to visit the office she won't answer" (c) woman speaking in kitchen caption "Even if they're not this is still bullblank" "I'm not in violation of my lease. I am not behind on rent. She decided to terminate our lease and the squeeze us for another $1k knowing she could keep my whole $2,700 deposit when she evicts me" (r)

shady landlord

‘My landlord is pulling some shady sh*t’: TikToker says landlord suddenly terminated her lease—then ghosted her

young woman pointing at $2,200 text in background with caption "My current rent in Austin Texas" (l) key on house keychain (c) same young woman with dismayed look in front of $4,678 text in background with caption "rent if I renew my lease"

rent increase austin congratulations

‘The audacity to write ‘congratulations’ in the email’: Woman says her rent went up by $2,500 in Austin, apartment sent her email congratulating her

You can find her byline in Vice, Teen Vogue, Epic, and the Independent, among other publications. You can find her on Twitter @GagliardoSilver.

Victoria Gagliardo-Silver

Messy room with laundry trash and random garbage and cat caption "when ur nightmare of a housemate finally moves out but leaves their room like this and ABANDONS their cat" (l) Cat eating in messy room with caption "when ur nightmare of a housemate finally moves out but leaves their room like this and ABANDONS their cat" (c) Messy room's closet and other side caption "when ur nightmare of a housemate finally moves out but leaves their room like this and ABANDONS their cat" (r)

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