You’d expect that landlords would go out of their way to make sure their tenants are comfortable in these wild weather days, but I guess this one didn’t get the memo…
A woman posted a video on TikTok and showed viewers what happened when the house she rents with friends in Portland, Oregon basically got destroyed during an ice storm.
The text overlay on the video reads, “The ultimate landlord special was mine refusing to turn the water off for four days straight during the Portland ice storm.”
And boy, does it look bad in there!
The woman wrote a long caption for the video to explain the situation.
She said, “On January 14th due to the combinations of the portland ice storm and negligence from our landlord, our beloved mid-century home of 3 years is being deemed condemned and uninhabitable.”
She continued, “The furnace inside the home burst leading us to suffer through 3 days of freezing temperatures and, not long after the pipes in our home started to burst open causing a flood. the flood had been going for 4 days straight before we were able to turn the water off. This caused many of our personal belongings, furniture and sentimental items to be lost due to water damage.”
She also wrote, “Due to this flood, 4 people and one senior cat 20 years of age are also left facing homelessness with little left.”
The woman added, “This event has been extremely triggering as two of the people living in this home are college students who have struggled with homelessness at multiple points in their lives including childhood. one tenant residing here was a vintage furniture collector that took pride in their treasured pieces, another was a lifelong pokémon card collector who lost a large portion of their collection.”
Here is a link to her GoFundMe page if you’d like to chip in.
Here’s the video.
@dudewheresmyvibrator On january 14th due to the combinations of the portland ice storm and negligence from our landlord, our beloved mid century home of 3 years is being deemed condemned and uninhabitable. The furnace inside the home burst leading us to suffer through 3 days of freezing temperatures and, not long after the pipes in our home started to burst open causing a flood. the flood had been going for 4 days straight before we were able to turn the water off. This caused many of our personal belongings, furniture and sentimental items to be lost due to water damage. Due to this flood, 4 people and one senior cat 20 years of age are also left facing homelessness with little left. This fund would help benefit the renters to relocate to new housing, repurchase furniture, a commercial dehumidifier, storage costs for what we can recover, food, repurchasing college supplies, pet medicine, moving trucks, dry clothing, toiletries, new computers and other technology that was lost. This event has been extremely triggering as two of the people living in this home are college students who have struggled with homelessness at multiple points in their lives including childhood. one tenant residing here was a vintage furniture collector that took pride in their treasured pieces, another was a lifelong pokémon card collector who lost a large portion of their collection #fyp #portlandicestorm #portland #displaced #landlordspecial #homeless
And here’s what people had to say about it.
One viewer said she needs to see a lawyer.
Another TikTokker brought up a good point.
And this individual pointed out something that a lot of folks don’t know about.
This sounds illegal to me.
Either way, what a mess!
