Former Landlord Tells Lies To Keep Deposit, Gets Reported To IRS For Tax Fraud

It seems as if the world's never going to run out of slimy landlords that are all trying to pull fast ones on tenants that they vastly underestimate. In this case, good on the tenant for sniffing out the landlord's shady intentions pretty much from the get-go. It sounds like the landlord really did himself in when it was all said and done. Generally, it's only a matter of time before the world's sketchy landlords end up hitting their own self-destruct buttons. For some more juicy landlord drama check out this landlord who refused to return a deposit, got taken to court, appealed that, and then lost everything.