- her dogs, right outside my bedroom window, her bitchy dogs barking nonstop starting at 9am and going all day

- moving furniture right outside my bedroom door (live in a duplex with a shared porch) at 11:30 at night

- slamming doors so hard my bedroom shakes

- uses the back porch right in front of my bedroom window as her conference area every morning when i'm still asleep (i work late)

- will not let me use the entrance that goes directly into my room via the back porch and driveway, which belongs to the entire house, because HER dogs get excited when someone is on the back porch.

i'm subletting and really need to stay here another month to give myself time to find my permanent place to live, but i don't know i can deal with the woman for much longer. i'm scared i may either poison her dogs or empty some rounds into her.

please help me avoid unsightly and tacky violence. what should i do?
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  • TMIbo
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    Re: am at wit's end with the landlord of the person i'm subletting from

    Tue, April 1, 2008 - 2:50 AM
    You've got to get M.A.D...and what I mean is you need to acquire and deploy a couple of nukes. Once they're in place, no one will feel hostile towards you again...since they would be sure to be blown off the face of the Earth if they did anything to annoy you. To be fair, you should give a few nukes to your landlady too so that you both can calm down and come to an easy understanding.

    Peace.
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  • BUCK...
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    Re: am at wit's end with the landlord of the person i'm subletting from

    Tue, April 1, 2008 - 5:37 PM
    >her dogs, right outside my bedroom window, her bitchy dogs barking nonstop starting at 9am and going all day<
    get a dog whistle and blow it intermittently throughout the day/night.

    >moving furniture right outside my bedroom door (live in a duplex with a shared porch) at 11:30 at night<
    show up an hour later with the rent check in hand.

    >slamming doors so hard my bedroom shakes<
    slam your doors twice as hard immediately after she does.

    >uses the back porch right in front of my bedroom window as her conference area every morning when i'm still asleep (i work late)<
    loudly interject your BA opinion on all of it and end each sentence with 'bee-yotch'. When she confronts you, deny everything and say you must have been talking on your sleep.

    >will not let me use the entrance that goes directly into my room via the back porch and driveway, which belongs to the entire house, because HER dogs get excited when someone is on the back porch.<
    use the entrance via the back porch and driveway- you're already up, who gives a shit if the dogs get 'excited'?
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  • JSin
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    Re: am at wit's end with the landlord of the person i'm subletting from

    Thu, April 3, 2008 - 1:25 AM
    zippity feared:
    >"but i don't know i can deal with the woman for much longer. i'm scared i may either poison her dogs or empty some rounds into her. "<

    I am trying to figure out what the problem is... Let nature take it's course... You know the dogs deserve to die and you will feel much better after emptying a couple clips into her.

    JSin
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    • zippity
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      Re: am at wit's end with the landlord of the person i'm subletting from

      Thu, April 3, 2008 - 9:41 PM
      see, i knew y'all wouldn't disappointed. =) i just gave my subletter dude 2 weeks notice, as yesterday, me working from home, was her with 100 decible power tools, dogs yowling outside my bedroom window, and liter slams against the wall of the shower i was naked in, as if cujo was trying to knock his way in. today, it was gangster rap (and this is a hippie berkeley white girl) blasted so loud you could hear it across the street. i also found my motorcycle tipped over, right mirror shattered, throttle broken, and it will take a week and $300 to repair my bike.

      i think i need to get far, far away. see, i'd love all the suggestions, but the guy i'm subletting from lives in the room right above me, so i would need a revenge that wouldn't disturb him. which is very hard to find.
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      • Re: am at wit's end with the landlord of the person i'm subletting from

        Sat, April 5, 2008 - 7:05 AM
        Ooooh a hippie! Couldn't soap and water just scare her away?
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        • Re: am at wit's end with the landlord of the person i'm subletting from

          Sun, April 6, 2008 - 4:25 PM
          in the bay area, you gots them sewer pipes that run on the outside of the building. take the plug off of his section, connect a cloths dryer tube to it, and reroute it to the back of his car, when you know he ain't going out for a bit, and is using the toilet often. this happened once, with a family of beer drinking burrito eaters, they would eat and crap and eat and drink from friday nite thru sunday nite. monday, when they got up for their week of work, they found their car filled. with ............ burritos and beer n stuff.
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          • JM
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            Re: am at wit's end with the landlord of the person i'm subletting from

            Wed, April 9, 2008 - 6:34 AM
            Hope things go better.
            But, if not, just remember, each time she makes you angry, to let that thought take you back to all the previous times she made you angry. Mull them over, in chronological order, then come back to the present situtation again.
            Don't you feel angrier about it now?
            Good. Just sit on that feeling.
            Be sure to revisit it just before bed and on waking.
            And stop coming here to vent about it.
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            • TMIbo
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              Re: am at wit's end with the landlord of the person i'm subletting from

              Wed, April 9, 2008 - 11:31 AM
              I've tried that method in the past...and it worked...up to a point. With your anger, you need to have fantasies of revenge, and the more convoluted, etc, the better. Eventually you'll no doubt need help acting on that revenge so, um. come back here for ideas and support.

              In fact, here's an idea! Create another alt on tribe and have them yell at your landlord--that way, you won't have to take the blame since you'll be screaming at them...anonymously! That ought to keep your Internet stalker landlord at bay...
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