{"id":18983,"date":"2025-11-18T11:23:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=18983"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:23:40","slug":"my-landlord-refused-to-fix-my-home-so-i-made-sure-he-paid-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=18983","title":{"rendered":"My Landlord Refused to Fix My Home, So I Made Sure He Paid the Price"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I rent in a tiny building where my landlord lives upstairs. The place is beat-up and honestly falling apart, but it\u2019s all I can afford right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For months, I begged him to fix a kitchen sink that leaked so badly I had to set buckets under it and empty them several times a day. He kept promising, then shrugging, then promising again. Nothing changed. Meanwhile, I kept signing for his pricey packages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the hundredth wet floor and the thousandth \u201cI\u2019ll get to it,\u201d I snapped, but I didn\u2019t want to do anything that could hurt anyone. I wanted him to see the problem the way I did, and to feel the kind of irritation I\u2019d been living with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So one morning, I quietly removed the leaky sink and carried it out to the front entryway. I didn\u2019t leave it to block the door or cause a hazard; I propped it up on the building\u2019s little welcome bench and arranged a note on top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rent in a tiny building where my landlord lives upstairs. The place is beat-up and honestly falling apart, but it\u2019s all I can afford right now&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":318,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18985,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983\/revisions\/18985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}