A Landlord Broke Into a Studio Apartment to Break a Portable Heater During Night Time

You would assume landlords are people with a higher class than your average person

On the day of moving in, the floor heating didn’t work; it was freezing plus icy.

You would expect everything to work when your new rental contract starts however that wasn’t the case.

After a few days of trying to solve the problem myself, I’ve decided to give the landlord a message about it; he calls that he is in Germany, he has a friend that could fix it.

The next day, I opened my door; I saw a portable heater lying in front of my door, something I didn’t ask for nor wanted as all I wanted was for the floor heating to work.

After a few hours of confusion, I receive a call from the landlord.

Asking if I saw the box, I shared that yes; however, I didn’t want a portable heater; I like the floor heating to work.

After a minor dispute, the landlord says it’s crazy for wanting floor heating, plus it’s normal for the floor to be cold.

That statement made no sense as the apartment has no wall heaters; it’s all floor heating.

However, I’ve emailed the rental agent representing this apartment as the landlord claimed his English wasn’t good enough.

That was odd as many Dutch people, especially around Amsterdam, speak fluent English.

The rental agent notifies me that it is weird for heating not to work, as the apartment beside has it working; however, I need to wait for a long time for the heating to work.

That did sound strange as having heating is a human right; nevertheless, after that, I didn’t think much of it. I’ve accepted that a portable heater is something I’ll be using for the time being.

After two months of waiting, nothing happens.

I did ask the landlord twice so far for the heating to start working; however, asking the third time felt wrong, so I’ve decided to make the landlord’s life a little challenging.

So what I did was crank the heater up to 37 degrees for around six days for 24 hours each.

It was so warm that I was sweating by walking around the apartment; however, rest assured, I’ve decided to open two windows in my apartment.

I am aware this wasn’t the most astonishing thing to do; however, in my defense, I wanted to have the feeling of the floor heating working, so I’ve tried to mimic that by using the portable heater to the maximum.

It was my dream to have an apartment with entire floor heating; many say you need to fulfill your dreams, so I’ve tried.

Using the heater at that capacity will make the heater work at 2k watts, which sounds like a lot of funds per day for heating; however, since my bills are fixed amounts per month, with my rent; not a worry about this.

After one day, I realized my heater didn’t heat upwards to 37 degrees anymore, which was quite strange as the night before; it worked fine, making my small apartment like a sauna.

Something felt different as when I cranked my heater upwards to 37 degrees; the heating didn’t go up. It stayed at 24 degrees.

After one day of sniffing around the heater, I’ve realized something was wrong.

Then something clicked when I saw a line mark on the floor as if someone had turned the heater upside down.

I don’t remember turning the heater upside down, then why is there a mark on the floor?

Why would anyone turn the heater upside down? However, I’m asking many questions with fewer answers, as I couldn’t understand why the floor was marked.

Something smelled quite funny. Very funny plus strange.

So I’ve decided to unplug the heater, wait for a little, then turn it upside down.

I’ve tried to fix it from the outside; however, there wasn’t anything unnormal about it.

As I remember, there is a screwdriver in the cable area of the apartment, where you would find all the controls for electricity, internet, etc.

So I’ve decided to go deeper by opening up the heater to see why it isn’t heating.

During that time, I realized a shoe mark on the floor as if someone was squatting near the heater; strangely enough, that shoe mark didn’t belong to me.

As a minimalist, I only own one pair of shoes; however, that mark didn’t match the bottom of my shoes.

That shoe mark looked like the landlord’s brown shoes when I met him for the first time.

Speaking of the first meeting, the landlord never warmed him coming over for a visit; he just knocked on my door without an appointment.

Plus, it felt like he was on some drug when I opened the door as he glided towards me by lifting his head backward, then his knees bent a little.

Then he mumbled his language a little during my conversation with him as if his tongue was getting tangled.

Anyway, going back to the story.

So I tried to open up the heater; quite strange the scurs were randomly screwed on, so a few were tight, some a bit lose.

The heater was new, so this felt unusual.

When I opened the heater, I saw finger marks with a cable torn apart.

Yes, that’s correct. There were fingermarks inside the heater.

So the landlord came to the apartment at night when I was sleeping, opened up the heater, snapped off a cable so the heater wouldn’t heat anymore, then left like a villain.

When I saw the fingerprints, my heart started to beat fast; I’ve felt violated to the point a little disgusted that a grown adult didn’t message about using the heater too much.

I’ve never gotten any instructions or limits on usage. It was like the wild west, do whatever you please with it.

However, I didn’t do much about it; I’ve fixed the heater then went back to enjoying my sauna for a whole month.

After the entire month, I’ve stopped using the heater at full power, mainly because it wasn’t as good as underfloor heating which I’ve never gotten fixed.