Oh God, Where do I begin? When the pandemic began we found this place and thought to ourselves that for the location the price was too good to be true. After 3 years of residing there, we were right. The landlord is a lonely deceptively kind 70 year old woman who lives with her 40 year old autistic daughter who is obsessed with Pokémon and illegally downloading movies on flash drives. At first, they seemed very kind and hospitable, but over the years you can see through their facade; that the kindness is just an act for passive aggressive control and manipulation. The listing says there is a private entrance, but whenever my girlfriend and I would come home they would stop us trying to force us to have dinner with them or make plans to participate in their arts and crafts. The landlord makes terrible and cheap quilts and creates little paper crafts as gifts to us. We used to appreciate the gesture, but their “gifts” were always useless garbage adding clutter to the already small space we had. We always ended up throwing out their poorly made crafts. As for the kitchen area, the stovetop doesn’t work and the electric oven was unusable. It never properly warmed up or heated things like a real oven. Also, the refrigerator is extremely tiny. Not even a week’s worth of groceries could fit inside. There is an air conditioner, but on really hot days above 85 degrees it just blows out warm air. She plastered it in the wall for some reason so it’s not even replaceable. If you want genuine privacy, this place is not for you. Our car was stolen a few months into living there and she told us she watched them steal it because she thought they were mechanics fixing the car. No one repairs a car on the side of the street at 2am. She let our car get stolen. Also, she is very racist. She always gossips about the black neighbors saying that their son dances on their roof at night and that the mom throws used condoms in their pool. If this sounds strange, it’s because they are the most saddest strangest mentally unstable people you will ever meet. One night we were sleeping and she was told by another neighbor that there was a kid with a bat walking around the neighborhood. She kept calling and calling and when we weren’t picking up, she ended up banging on our doors and windows exclaiming, “For the love of God, protect your cars there’s someone with a bat outside.” She startled us so much it was borderline traumatizing. It seemed like she had schizophrenic paranoia to the extreme. On the other hand, the autistic daughter is insufferable in a different way. She constantly calls to hang out even though she knows we’re busy. She tries to use her disability to guilt us to get her way like trading Pokémon or forcing us to swim in their pool. Even as we were moving out the daughter said she didn’t want us to move because she has a crush on me right in front of my girlfriend. It seemed very disrespectful. I’m telling you, these people are inbred and radiate Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibes. I know they may seem well at first, but honest to God, they are overwhelmingly intrusive, nosy, disrespectful, and controlling. The landlord is so lonely that it seemed like she wanted to adopt us. It was such a very embarrassing and cringeworthy experience. My girlfriend and I were quiet and civil and kept to ourselves, just living there to save money in order to start a new life. We kept the place clean and tidy and I even made repairs to the bathroom at my own expense. The main reason I am writing this warning is because although we kept the place better than we found it, she did not want to return our security deposit. She said she thought an electrical outlet was damaged and hired an electrician to look at it. He stated it was fine and that there was no damage, but still wanted to use OUR deposit to pay him. Why should we pay for an unnecessary service that did not even have to occur? She also said there was a cleaning fee, but we cleaned that place thoroughly for an entire day.
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