Landlord — I am complaining about my landlord who charges exorbitant for every thing

Address:

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, 500080

Sir/madam,
I, hemanth kumar, civil services aspirant, have taken a flat for rent in the vicinity of my institute on 16th july 2017. For showing this flat to me, broker charged rs. 4500 (Half of the rent). It is a norm here in hyderabad. And landlord knows this. He came to know that we are vulnerable now once we get into the flat as he can threaten me to vacate that if i don't comply with his unreasonable rules. Before joining this flat he said clearly that there won't be any water charge and water will be provided 24x7. Everything was fine for some days. My landlord has a building which has 8 flats. He lives in one flat and remaining 7 flats are given for the rent for students who are preparing for various government examinations.in the initial days everything was fine for some days. Then suddenly water stopped coming. And water in the night time became an item of luxury. When i asked the same he threatened me to vacate the flat by saying "if you don't like the flat just vacate it.. You are always complaining about the water". Then i said, if i can't complain you whom should i then? After some days, he came and collected rs. 300 as water charge from everyone and said "don't you want water for 24x7?". That means he said "if you want water then pay rs. 300 every month... Otherwise you won't get". This clearly tells how greedy person he is and how vulnerable we were.

I live alone in my flat and i told him i will be living alone as i didn't get anyone to share my flat. He is charging rs. 8700 for 1 bhk i am living in. When my friends came to visit me and stayed for some days, he confronted with me and said why your friends are coming frequently. Then i said "friends and relatives commonly visit now and then". He insisted them to not to come. Then i said "why don't you consider them as my roommates". Then he said nothing.

Today, 09th september, 2017, he came to my room and said your friends are not allowed to come here. When you joined, you said you will be living alone but why are your friends coming now and then. Then i said why don't you consider him as my roommate as you are charging another flat rs. 8500 for two people but you are charging me rs. 8700 for living alone. Then he said "no.. You can't share your room with anyone because you said you will live alone when you came here. If you can't follow what i am saying just vacate the flat".

Sir/madam, i am writing this complaint on behalf of 8 students living in different flats. He allowed 2 people to share a single room for rs. 8500, 4 people for rs. 11, 000 but he is refusing me to share a room with my friend. He collected the power bill from everyone for 15 days. He collected from me rs. 500 for 15 days which is obviously too much. He thinks he is out of the reach of the law. We all are ready to complain against him. I am gonna provide his phone number here: [protected].

He comes every now and then and asks for this charge that charge. He is depriving us of much needed peace to study properly. We all 7 will go to any extent to complain against him as he breached the boundaries and whatever he is doing is nothing short of harassment. He is harassing not only me but everyone. Charging extra money for everything. Please do something about him and please help us.

Thank you