Update: the landlord has called and claimed that i broke the toilet in the other bathroom (there was a bathroom attached to a master suite upstairs that i normally didn't use, because it was occupied by a girl and you had to get through her bedroom to get there. Now, the toilet in there has NEVER flushed right from day one, it's always been slow to flush properly, and clogged at the drop of a hat if you took a dump in it (so i only ever used it to pee, and when the girl was still living there, only in dire need, like when the landlord/roommate was taking a shower and i had to go)
First off, he's claiming that me plunging the toilet counts as me making unauthorized repairs. Am i wrong, or is that not complete common sense that plunging the toilet is not any kind of invasive repair that the landlord should be called upon for? If he didn't live there, for instance, would i be required to call him every time a big turd plugged it up? Of course not.
So i now i made the implicit threat explicit. I told him if he takes a cent out of my security deposit, i'll take him to small claims court, and told him to go fuck himself. I'm just exuding anger right now (why this shit has to happen at night, before i go to bed).
But i'm going to win this. I'm going to take him to the mat for the $25, any "toilet repair fees" his lying ass dreams up, and for the night he locked me out because he never bothered to get replacement keys made (except for himself, of course), and was apparently too deaf to hear me ringing the doorbell frantically to be let in (my phone had broken the week before, so my new phone didn't have his cell number, but either way the dereliction was when he changed the lock on the front door and didn't provide me a key and then locked the deadbolt on the back door).
Hate to drag up hackneyed fantasy terms, but this fuckwad's going to rue the day he tried to screw with me.
Taking it nice and slow, though, on the advice of my parents. I'm forwarding them and my lawyer cousin a copy of our correspondence, as well as a copy of the lease, and i'm not talking to him until August 15th, when i have to surrender the keys.
I'm also looking up landlord law for the state of pennsylvania, and preparing a list of tripwires i know he's not going to follow through on, try to get him in as much trouble as i possibly can.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
