College Landlords
 

So, I'm a college student now and I have an apartment with 3 of my buddies. As part of our lease, we are allowed to request furniture from our landlord which will be supplied for a small, and totally worth it fee. One of the things we got was beds.

My three roommates got fairly new looking mattresses. I got this and am having a little trouble getting my landlord to replace it.

What kinds of trouble have you guys had with landlords? And incidently, any sugestions? I've tried asking politely (3 weeks ago), calling back (2 weeks ago) and about every third day or so since then and they keep telling me "We just got a new mattress in, maintainence will be calling you to let you know when we are coming to replace it so you can pull your sheets off your current bed." At no point have I been uncordial, I just feel like I'm being ignored now.

You should be so lucky as for that to be a murder. No my friend, those are the stains of sweat and sex, crusted up over the course of many a year and unwashed, drunken collegian.

Come to think of it, there's probably a bit of vomit in there, too.

Oh now see, now you've got me all nostalgic.

That's what we call "walking through the mud on a rainy day."

or rather, having sex on her period in the dark on an unusually free flowing incidence of menstrual irrigation.

not that I would know anything about such things...

I am going to get banned for this, aren't I?

it was so worth it...

Yeah, if that was a Stabbing murder; where's the hole, or rather slit, when the knife hit the bed. With that darker stain in the middle you'd think it'd be there. No my friend, Fifth is probably right, you're not so luck. I just thank God that none of my dorm mates have never switched matresses with me to my knowledge. Besides that, you should be so lucky that you even get furniture from your land lord. You know what they give me? A rent demand. Or an eviction, but I'm only guessing that one.

The knife didn't have to hit the bed to kill.

I suppose not, but even then, it's not likely that blood would get to the legs in the first place then, as a fluid it'll follow the quickest path down (towards the earth). Say the person had cut in the legs too? Then it would hardly be faint. I still have to side with Fifth here because of Occum's Razor. To assume a murder happened on that matress, you have to assume it happened in secret and that you Land Lord didn't tell you about it (shitty land lord). Also that there was no poice report filed. Or (option 2 from the video) you have to assume the last person used that matress never cleaned it and had sex on it. And that you have a Shitty Land Lord. So this leaves the assumtions tied, so which are easiest to through out. You have a shitty land lord (evidence points to it from your first post). Now we're down to two each. So is it which is more likely? Sex between college students, or murder? I don't know where you live so I really can't say, but my money's on the former. Now then the last ones (for good measure) A police report not being filed over a Brutal Murder, that would surely have had some one hear a screem, or a college student not cleaning a matress that is only temporarily thiers. Barring the Mafia's involvment here I'd say it's more likely that a college student just didn't clean it ever. Honestly, start bugging that land lord till you get what you want, have him bust matinence's chops.

The most I ever got out of a landlord was 6 months rent that they didn't file because the landlord was a crackhead.
Not, I think he was a crackhead.
Not, I suspect he was a crackhead.
It was a I witnessed him smoking crack.
He offered me a hit.
I didn't know that he was using my fucking money for it.
All I got out of that was an eviction.
MMMMMmeeeeeemmmmmmmorrrrriiiiiieeeeesssss........

If only we had time for that at my school. But nooooo.... Mote is obsessed with making us a Top 10 Research school, so no fun for hardly anyone. Basically, you're lucky to get laid maybe once when exams come up, since everyone is too busy preparing for the hell of midterms to even engage in a little stress relief. And it's a dry campus, making matters even worse.

My last landlord was a real bad one, too. Completely incompentant to the point where I finally got out of there after a combination of things. One was the fact that Mara Salvatrucha started tagging down the street from where I lived (that's the only street gang I'm aware of being declared an organised crime entity by the FBI, btw), and that she didn't understand why this made some us more than a little nervous. Then there was the total lack of repairs.

She had two handymen working for her. One was a young guy who was a real tightwad; the other was an older guy who I'd pay out-of-pocket if I had his direct number, since he was working by reputation, and would actually like, fix things. Including stuff we didn't call him about that he saw needed work. But anyway, to give a brief rundown:

Both the washer and dryer were in a constant state of disrepair, finally getting replaced after about 5 months of constant complaining. Well, one of them did; the other didn't. Think the dryer had to catch fire first. She never, for some reason, charged the massive roaches, ants, termites, or silverfish rent, or provide them lost-cost poisonous alternative housing. The bathrooms were a similar disaster; and a family of squirrells took up residence in the garage. Both of these wound up being dealt with by the tenents, and we almost had to pay for carpeting in the basement which, having had the toilet explode, had resulted in her taking several days to even send someone over to assess damage.

Her one saving grace was with the deadbeat she evicted, and giving us out of his security deposit the $90 on Pay-Per-View Porn that he spent in a single day. No, not making that up.

Other roomates included the local NORMAL leadership. Who were all naturally stoners that wanted to make marijuana legal. And aforementioned porn-addict whose room, when he was evicted, had lots of cigarette stains on the floor, that POS landlord never removed and the NEXT tenant had to remove herself. Oh, and a bitch who stole one of my wireless networking hubs. Really rude, especially since in setting up the network, I had to spend six hours getting her machine to work as it was running Windows 98, unupdated for over a year, and had enough spyware that, for the first time, crashed HijackThis!.

You know, I didn't really believe a murder took place on my mattress, and I was pretty certain that it was the stains of sweat. But if it was sex, that doesn't explain why there is blood around the HEAD. Trying to figure out what happened there is actually kind of disturbing

Don't worry, we have to pay a rental fee for the furniture too.

You're going to have to forgive my ignorance. Would you please enlighten me as to how exactly one cleans a mattress? I'm going to assume it has nothing to do with a washing machine or a cheese grater.

Ok, yes on the washing machine (unless you know how to sew things back up). But I'm sure you could use a cheese grater for something if you were creative enough. Although they don't seem to say anything about it here.
I also wonder if one of those deep clean carpet cleaning vaccume's would work well. But as far as there being blood on the head, it's probably from a bloody nose in someone's sleep, my brother used to get them some times, a humidifier helps those by the way.
Or it could have been a mob hit, I mean anything's possible.