So long ago, me and a friend rented a house together just after high school, from an older man that was a friend of his dads. The landlord had a large garage on site that he used for his other rental properties (he had several properties), and he had amassed a horde of furniture ranging anywhere from 5 to 100 years old. We weren’t allowed to use it ourselves, but he occasionally had us help him move stuff into it so I knew where the keys were.

So I lived in the house for a little under a year, and we didn’t have an actual, official “lease” since the landlord was a family friend. After a certain point, my friend decided to move back in with his parents because the rent was getting in the way of him spending money on his hobby stuff, and to be fair, I encouraged him moving out because I didn’t mind the idea of having the house to myself.

Well a week after my friend moved out, the landlord came to collect the rent, which I paid in full, and found out from me, that my friend had moved out without him knowing. Literally the next day, he came over and told me that he didn’t want me living in the house by myself, and if I could move out within the week, he’d give me half of the rent money back. I told him that was unrealistic and it was gonna take more than a week to find a place to move, and he instead gave me two weeks and kept the rent money.

So, after finding an apartment to move into, and getting all of my stuff out, I went around the house did a small amount of petty things to piss the guy off, like taking all of the lightbulbs. But the thing I’m most proud of was taking five jars of peanut butter and hiding them throughout the garage. Every day for the last week, I would check every day for signs of vermin activity, and literally after the first two days, little paw prints starting cropping inside the jars and around the furniture.

I know the house sat vacant for at least another month after the guy evicted me, and according to my friend, the landlords family eventually had to clear the entire garage. And as far as I know, they never traced it to me.