Do you have an awful landlord who is impossible to get ahold of, or simply refuses to take care of problems? How about the Landlords out there? Have you had any terrible tenants that ruined your investment?

Here is this weeks Tale of Terror. Kelsi Griner from New Port Richey, FL shares her absolute horror story in dealing with a landlord who did not want to take care of his rental.

"About two weeks after we moved in here, we noticed there was water all over the floor by the kitchen sink. We opened the cabinet and saw water flowing UPWARD and leaking all under the sink. We checked the bathroom, and it was doing the same thing. We also couldn't flush the toilet. We called the landlord, and he blew it off. I KEPT calling, and finally he sent someone to snake the system. We thought it was fixed.

A week later, it happened again, but THIS time, it was feces-water. Our whole house had water everywhere, and it STUNK. We couldn't even use the tap water to wash dishes or our hands. I called the landlord again and got no answer, so I left a nasty voicemail. My boyfriend went outside, and unscrewed the cap to the system, and toilet paper, poop, and urine water overflowed all over our yard. The neighbors came outside, and said their trailer was doing the same thing, so I called the landlord again. It was not just our septic that was causing a problem, and he needed to fix it.

He never answered, but sent the maintenance man over to check it out. The maintenance man snaked it again and gave us some stuff to flush down our toilet. We thought it was fixed AGAIN.

Right before Christmas, it happened ONCE AGAIN, and it was the worst. There was running water through our house on the floors. It even got by the Christmas tree and ruined some presents. I noticed our two next-door neighbors were having the same problem yet again. Extremely frustrated, because after all it was Christmas time, I blew up the landlord’s phone. He answered the phone, but with lots of attitude, saying:"what do you all flush down your toilet? This only happens to your house!" I proceeded to tell at him and let him know that the other two neighbor’s trailers were doing the same thing. The poor maintenance man came over AGAIN, and told me that we were all 3 connected on the same line, and that it always acted up. I asked the landlord why he never told us that before we moved in, and he ignored me. We lost over $78 in rugs, and over $20 in towels, not to mention we had to re-wrap all our Christmas presents and BREATHE that excrement in the air. I told the landlord if it didn't get fixed we would be breaking our lease and moving out, because it was unsanitary.

I guess that scared him, because the next day some trucks came out and fixed everything. We haven't had a problem since, but I’m not holding my breath. The landlord ignored our requests to be reimbursed for our rugs and towels. (They weren't cheap) Bottom line, he was extremely unprofessional, and if it happens again we will be moving out!"

Hopefully, none of us will have to go through a similar situation. The fact remains that there are horrible landlords out there (tenants too!). If you have a story to submit, we would love to hear it! Email your story to Brianna Buchanan at briannab@cpfloans.com