People like that will do anything. I lived in a building where due to some bizarre dispute with the city, the landlord removed the front door.
He had a section 8 tenant, and section 8 requires that anything in the home be in good order. The door locks didn't work correctly, and that tenant reported him. He believed that removing the door would solve his problem, as a door that is missing is not broken.
I ultimately escaped paying a few months rent when he was arrested for trying to set another building on fire.
Landlords are by definition rent-seekers peddling a highly constrained resource. At scale they tend to self-organize into local cartel business models, and thus trend towards the asshole side of the behavioral spectrum.
People like that will do anything. I lived in a building where due to some bizarre dispute with the city, the landlord removed the front door.
He had a section 8 tenant, and section 8 requires that anything in the home be in good order. The door locks didn't work correctly, and that tenant reported him. He believed that removing the door would solve his problem, as a door that is missing is not broken.
I ultimately escaped paying a few months rent when he was arrested for trying to set another building on fire.