Yup
A landlord I used to have, back in the days of renting shared houses, was a cock of the highest order. Not only did he have a gleeful disregard of any form of maintenance or safety, but he would insist on coming around unannounced, ogling the girls, and regaling us with tales of his colourful past.

According to him, he used to be a Yuppie in The City, trading millions every day and living the Gordon Gecko lifestyle. When we enquired why he was now a crummy landlord in the seedy end of Brighton, he would blame his ex-wife, who apparently got it all - apart from his legendary custom-painted Porche, which was his one-of-a-kind pride and joy.

Of course, we never got to see this car, so presumed it was all part of some creepy fantasy world - he probably thought he was impressing the girls, totally failing to spot the dreadlocks and anti-materialism lifestyle, not to mention the barely-suppressed dry heaves they tended to suffer from whenever he was around. Eventually I managed to find out the real story, and it was beautiful.

It turns out that a lot of it was true - he was a rich wide-boy yuppie parasite, he did have a custom Porche, and he was reamed by his ex wife, so that all he managed to keep was the car. Which he put into storage, in a lock-up garage, sometime in the late 1980s.

Just in time for the Great Storm of 1987, which caused the garage to collapse onto the car, totalling it.

Buahahahaha!
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 14:39, 5 replies)

you should have moved out sooner

(waxdart hello., Thu 10 Feb 2011, 14:42, closed)

so he still had the porsche though?
right?
( zulu eh?, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 14:50, closed)

In a way
I believe he had a pile of twisted metal. It wasn't insured, not being on the road at the time (and his fortunes having taken a turn for the worse).
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 15:03, closed)

Ummm
What are the laws like in regards to landlords turning up unannounced and all that shit? Were they allowed to? Could you tell them to fuckoff? Were there nice binging agreements written in black and white with nice biro marks making cute squiggly lines?
(lemonadegame, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 17:47, closed)

They are allowed to turn up
But they have to arrange to do so in advance. I believe the phrase is "Quiet let and enjoyment"
(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 20:36, closed)