{"id":28502,"date":"2025-07-28T10:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28502\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:47:12","slug":"i-was-deeply-shocked-by-my-tenants-bizarre-act-after-she-moved-out-yet-shes-calling-me-dramatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28502\/","title":{"rendered":"I was deeply shocked by my tenant’s bizarre act after she moved out – yet she’s calling ME dramatic"},"content":{"rendered":"

A landlord was gobsmacked after discovering his tenant had taken his big-ticket items when she moved out – despite them being part of the furnished rental.<\/p>\n

Renter Katie was living in the apartment, which included essential appliances such as a fridge, washing machine and dishwasher.<\/p>\n

But when she moved out, she took the bulky gadgets, worth more than $2,000, with her, mistakenly believing they were hers to keep – leaving the landlord baffled, as they were his property.<\/p>\n

‘Hi, just wanted to say I’ve left the keys on the counter. Thanks for everything,’ Katie said in her goodbye text message to the landlord.<\/p>\n

Baffled, he replied: ‘Hi Katie. Just been to the property. Where is the fridge?’<\/p>\n

Appearing unfazed, she casually replied: ‘Oh, I took it. Same with the washer and the dishwasher.’<\/p>\n

Taken aback by her response, the landlord said: ‘Sorry? Those weren’t yours to take. They were part of the tenancy.’<\/p>\n

Katie tried to justify taking the appliances, saying: ‘Yeah but I used them every day. I assumed they were mine?’<\/p>\n

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A landlord was gobsmacked after discovering his tenant had taken his big-ticket items when she moved out – despite them being part of the furnished rental<\/p>\n

As the products came with the rental property, he explained: ‘They’re listed on the inventory. You signed it. Can you return them please?’<\/p>\n

‘That’s a bit awkward now. They’re already in my new place,’ Katie replied.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He demanded she bring the gadgets back because ‘they don’t belong to you’.<\/p>\n

‘I genuinely thought they did. Like, I used them. They felt like mine,’ Katie insisted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Furious with her response, he replied: ‘Katie. You’ve taken items worth over a grand. This isn’t a grey area.’<\/p>\n

Trying to find a way out of the situation, she suggested: ‘Can’t you just claim it on insurance or something? I’m not trying to cause drama.’<\/p>\n

However, the landlord gave her an ultimatum as he accused her of stealing.<\/p>\n

‘If I don’t have them back by Friday, I’ll have to treat it as theft. This is serious,’ he said.<\/p>\n

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Renter Katie was living in the apartment, which included essential appliances such as a fridge, washing machine and dishwasher<\/p>\n

Katie ended the conversation with: ‘Wow. Over a few appliances? Bit extreme, don’t you think?’<\/p>\n

It’s unclear what happened between Katie and the landlord – but British property strategist Jack Rooke re-shared the pair’s text exchange.<\/p>\n

‘She took over \u00a31,000 ($A2040) worth of appliances\u2026 Then told the landlord he was being dramatic. And people still say landlords are the bad guys,’ Jack said.<\/p>\n

‘That’s a bit extreme. She’s just robbed him.’<\/p>\n

His video has been viewed more than 770,000 times, with many divided over the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘She’s been paying the guy’s mortgage for years, the least he can do is let her have a few white goods,’ one suggested.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘To be fair, she’s used them. Every day the new tenants won’t want secondhand appliances – she’s saved the landlord a job by removing them,’ another shared.<\/p>\n

‘Dammit Katie you’re making me agree with a landlord here,’ one said.<\/p>\n

‘I never rent anything out furnished, literally they steal something every time. Over 10 years there was nothing left – no sofa, fridge, dryer, bed, table and chairs. Every single item stolen,’ a tenant revealed.<\/p>\n

‘My last tenant left with my fridge. Exactly the same conversation,’ one added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A landlord was gobsmacked after discovering his tenant had taken his big-ticket items when she moved out –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[97,519,59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-28502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-femail","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}