Just had to move out of my place at extremely short notice as my landlord (who lives in the property) has been showing signs of psychosis. He became convinced I was keeping a woman in my room, despite the fact I had never let any guests into the house ever. Last Sunday I was laying on my bed reading a book and he came into the room asking where ‘the lassie’ is, at which point I lost my rag a bit and told him to look under the bed, in the wardrobe, but he wasn’t interested.
Last weekend he also started accused me of letting people into the house at four in the morning, saying that he was hearing voices. I very rarely get up in the night and I am certainly not coming and going at anything past 11pm. One of the most bizarre incidents was when he blamed me for there apparently being human hair on the outside of the kitchen windowsill (i.e. the outdoors bit)??? He once complained to me that there was hair on the carpet… when the house is shared between four people and a dog. Bear in mind he refuses to use a vacuum cleaner despite there being one, instead he always uses a dustpan and brush.
On Saturday morning I walked downstairs to use the shower to be greeted by the demand that I was to move out by the 19th February. I tried to reason with him and he appeared to have backtracked (he slurs his words to the extent that he is often completely unintelligible, especially when he’s angry). But on Sunday morning when I came down for breakfast he seemed to have flopped back to the intention of kicking me out on the 19th, “having spoken to his sister” (who does exist and doesn’t exactly seem nice either).
Thanks to all this I am now living in an Airbnb with half of my stuff in storage while I look for more suitable accommodation.
Content warning: harm to animals
I don’t think he is fit to be a landlord or to look after a dog. I witnessed him smacking his dog in the presence of his nephew, who must be around 13 years old.
