Alright, so my wife and I finally had it with our landlord. We've been renting a house for them for two years. We've kept our mouth shut (mostly) on so much crap. Like the passive aggressive way the telle their concerned we are destroying their house when a kid tells me the flag fell off the mailbox. Our dishwasher has somehow taken almost a month to fix and it's still not fixed. It was all to the point that I just started fixing stuff myself and only telling them about things I knew were not our fault and I didn't want to pay for. Their bad enough that we stopped hanging out with people in the neighborhood cuz we know they know people here and it felt like they were spying for her or relaying info and being told things about us that was weird to tell them. We've been trying to get away by suggesting they be ok with ending the lease early so we can clear out and the can sell their house during the prime selling months.

A few months ago, they told us they were going to list the home and they were wanting to work with us on the lease. They declined to be specific but implied that we would be able to leave early and not pay for the remaining months as they were trying to sell. Since then, we have kept the house show ready, despite having a few kids ranging from 1-9yo. My wife and I both work, so we were adjusting our schedules to make sure the house was in ship shape in case they wanted to do a showing that day. They kicked us out for 3-4 hours on a Sunday for a open house and we didn't argue. They listed showings during prime kid need hours, 6pm isnh, when we needed to feed kids and do bedtime stuff. We even packed things way earlier than we needed to be the relator said it would help the home to feel bigger. We did it all because we wanted to go above and beyond for the landlord to help them sell as they were so willing to end the lease early. We found a perfect home for us and our offer got accepted.

Very recently, they told me the washer wouldn't be fixed because none of her friends were free to install it due to this being a holiday weekend. I got pissed. At this point, we've gone through all these hoops and hand washing constantly with three kids is not a fast process. I asked if was possible to waive the rent for the two day of May as we move out may 2 and all of the inconveniences We've put up with, including the washer taking a insanely long time to repair. They replied stating we are responsible for all of rent for May and implied if we weren't nicer, then we'd have to cover June too.

It clicked. This lady wasn't being generous. She was just going to charge us till she legally couldn't because she no longer owned the house. She lied, or left out major bits of info to take advantage of us.

So we decided to hit her with her own medicine. We don't have to keep the house in a certain state per the lease. Seeing as she's always quoting the lease for her benefit, we might as well do the same. So I informed them we are done keeping the home show ready and they can do what they want but we will also be doing what we want. I've moved some things back into the home that I only moved out for visual appeal. My wife and I will let them know that we will rent the place till end of June and we will keep the place how we want if they don't work with us on May.

Are we being ridiculous? Yes the contract says they have the right to do this. The issue is more that they implied we could be decent human beings and work together. Not abusing the other to the fullest extent possible. My kids have asked about this and I told em "sometimes you gotta stand up to people who are exploiting you bc of some power they think they have over you." I think she thinks we lack money and we do whatever bc we can't afford to stand up.