Woman applauded for ‘petty’ house move revenge after new tenant makes ‘cheap’ request
Ben Thompson
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If there's anything better than revenge, it's a bit of petty revenge.
Not that I'd know from experience, of course.
One woman has taken to Reddit to share a story of how she got even with a 'cheap' renter.
And let's just say, everybody loved it.
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The anonymous woman wrote: "This happened several years ago.
"I rented from a social housing society, in the Netherlands.
"Over here the renter is responsible for flooring, wallpaper or paint, gardening themselves. I had taken great care and great pride in both decorating the house and growing a beautiful garden.
"When I moved, I talked with the next tenant to see what she wanted to keep. But for a price of course. That's how things are over here."
Unfortunately for this woman, the next tenant was not willing to part ways with cash.
She continued: "She was cheap and refused to agree upon a reasonable price for the lot.
"I got the feeling she gambled I was not able to remove the lot anyway."
Let's just say, this Redditor went above and beyond to prove a point.
The post read: "She gambled wrong. I gathered a bunch of friends and within two days everything was gone. Bare concrete floors. Bare concrete walls. Bare old dirty wooden stairs.
"The minimal kitchen. And the garden was just an empty, flat, black soil wasteland.
"Everything was gone including the 3mx5m wooden shed. The fence at the very back, gone. All the nice tiles, plants and flowers, bushes and a pear tree, gone.
"I was very pleased when I closed the door of that house behind me one final time."
I'll bet.
And the next tenant's reaction?
The woman wrote: "Later I heard from a friend who lived a couple of houses down the road from that house, that the new lady was upset with how she found the place, but there was nothing she could do about it.
"Well, perhaps the lady learned a thing."
Other Reddit users commented on the post to share their thoughts - and their own stories of revenge.
Given this all took place in a subreddit called 'Petty revenge', it was quite fitting.
One person commented: "I lived in housing on a military base where things were done he same way. My neighbor had added a concrete patio to the back yard, but the new tenant refused to give him the token fee he asked for it so he jackhammered it to rubble and carted it away."
Another wrote: "Did the same thing more than 10 years ago, girl refused to pay like €50 for a floor in a small studio my sister used to live in. Took the floor out in front of her eyes, revealing an incredibly ugly concrete floor. The look on her face was priceless."
Petty revenge, indeed.