Many landlords are no strangers to doing shady things, and one particular property owner in Iowa took the cake after he allegedly threw away a tenant’s furniture without permission. The renter, who goes by Lemonadeandfireflies on Reddit, shared her frustration over her landlord on r/mildlyinfuriating, where she explained how he’d essentially stolen her outdoor couch while she was out of town. “He told me it was ugly,” she recalled.
Lemonadeandfireflies’ teenage daughter found their missing couch in a garbage pit used by the landlord. And if that wasn’t proof enough of his wrongdoing, OP claims that she and the property owner were on very good terms to begin with. “He also told me [my] camper is a piece of crap,” she added, pointing out how she lives in a campground in a rural area.
The ironic bit is that the tenant had left out a pile of stuff she was planning to haul to an actual dump later on, not the landlord’s makeshift landfill he made out of a big hole in the woods. “He took a legit piece of furniture instead of the actual trash,” Lemonadeandfireflies sighed. “I didn’t ask him to get rid of it, and he never contacted me or asked permission,” she added.
Besides Stealing, Redditors Also Believed the Landlord Was Guilty of Illegal Dumping
Among those who commented on her post, many Redditors collectively suggested she take this situation straight to the authorities. “File a police report,” recommended a commenter. “Call me crazy but I don’t think dumping into a random hole is entirely legal,” pointed out another. “Someone stole your property and illegally dumped it? Yeah call the cops,” agreed a third.
For clarification, Lemonadeandfireflies added how the laws in her rural area were different from those in other counties and states. So, accusing the landlord of “illegal dumping” might not be effective, though throwing out trash into a forest is still objectively unethical.
However, since stealing is a crime, the woman claimed she would be calling the local deputy and starting a paper trail to hold her landlord accountable for running off with her furniture and tossing it.
