Ssn Luxurious Pg — They'll lock your door from outside and say their grandchild did it

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Bangalore, Karnataka

I am not a PG but living here has taught me a lot about how controlling a landlord and landlady can be. In our case, it is the land-lady who is the master-schemer and orders her cowardly-husband and her feeble-son to carry out her vicious plans. They scurry about her following her evil orders like loyal pets. Either they fail to use their own reasoning of what is right or wrong; or this anti-social behaviour runs in their family, I’m not sure.

When we rented this place, we could not imagine what a hell-hole this would be. Here’s what we have experienced. During our initial years of stay, if we happened to wake-up late (ie anytime after 7:30a.m) on week-ends, our newspaper would disappear. Why? We eventually figured out that the land-lady wanted to discipline us to wake-up early.

If we ordered a pizza with our own money of course... the land-lady would give blood-curdling looks that could make anyone wonder what crime they had committed. Initially we were puzzled..but we finally guessed why? ‘Why doesn’t the tenant’s wife cook instead of being pampered with take-away food!’ It’s not a landlady’s business to monitor how a tenant’s household runs, right?

I still remember the first time we paid electricity bill by cash, the landlord had coolly forgotten that it was paid. “I don’t recall collecting it” he had said. From the next time we started getting him to sign that it had been received.

And if no other form of intimidation works and the land-lady’s angry, she just get her family member to bolt the latch outside your main-door from outside, so that to get out you have to contact her husband. What bothers her most is when her victims (she regards us as that) don’t call her up to complaint of how much discomfort she is putting us through. It takes away her thrill, her sadistic joy of feeling superior that she can inflict such mental pain and torture on other people. So anyways, when in the past we enquired why it was locked, their reply was that the grandson had done it accidentally. But, then it’s been a year or so now and it still happened recently! I didn’t even know it had been locked that day because I did not get out of the house. I found out only when my family member came home from outside and opened it.

And, mind you, when staying here, your door-bell will ring very frequently... Sometimes it’ll just be people enquiring for pg and at other times it’ll be the landlord’s family who’ll want you to open it at all odd-hours, when you are alone or at night when you feel uncomfortable on the pretext that they have to fill water in their inverter (Oh yes! They have cleverly placed it in our house and it charges on our electricity). And if that sounds bad... Before you take this house-know that the meter is a shared one with the pg’s occupying the back portion of the building. It may also be shared with the land-lord’s own home... Probably is, but there’s no way of finding out! So you’ll never know, whose electricity bill you’re landing-up paying for. We didn’t for some time. Now of-course, after taking a stand, we have been asked to pay a fixed sum.

Beware also of the multiple-ever-present and monitoring CCTVs here. They are meant to keep-an - eye, not so much on the anti-socials, but on the tenants and pg’s and what they do round-the-clock. I have one right in front of my door. I have to hide behind the door and open it to a family member, when i’m dressed shabbily; because as you know, you can’t always be dressed for a video-shoot and a cctv camera monitoring your movements is exactly that!

This post is meant as a warning to anyone who will be staying here. They will see your kindness to be your weakness and will exploit it to take advantage of you. They will envy any and everything good that you have in your life and hate you for it. They will copy your home-interiors, the way you dress and even the way you behave probably –all of it on the sly, without acknowledging to you and use it to suit themselves. These people are absolutely DIABOLICAL!