I am not a PG but living here as a tenant-has taught me a lot about how predatory a landlord and landlady can be. In our case, it is the land-lady who is the master-schemer and orders her sissy-husband and her wimpy-son to carry out her vicious plans. They scurry about her following her evil orders like loyal dogs. Either they fail to use their own reasoning of what is right or wrong; or this sociopathic-behaviour runs in their family, I am not sure.

When we rented this place, we could not imagine what a hell-hole this would be. Here’s what we have experienced. During our initial years of stay, if we happened to wake-up late (ie anytime after 7:30a.m) on week-ends, our newspaper would disappear. Why? We eventually figured out that the land-lady wanted to discipline us to wake-up early.

If we ordered a pizza with our own money of course... the land-lady would give blood-curdling looks that could make anyone wonder what crime they had committed. Initially we were puzzled..but we finally guessed why? Why doesn’t the tenant’s wife cook instead of being pampered with take-away food!

I still remember the first time we paid electricity bill by cash, the landlord had coolly forgotten that it was paid. I don’t recall collecting it he had said a month later. From the next time, we started getting him to sign that it was being received.

And if no other form of intimidation worked and the land-lady was angry, she just got her family member to bolt the latch outside our main-door so that to get out we had to call her and request her. What bothers her most is when her victims (she regards us as that) do not call her up to complaint of how much discomfort she and her family is putting us through. It takes away her thrill, her sadistic joy of feeling superior that she can inflict such mental pain and torture on other people. That she can control their state of joy and sorrow. So anyways, when in the past, we enquired why it was locked- their reply was that the grandson had done it accidentally. But, then it’s been a year or so now and it still happened recently! I didn’t even know it had been locked that day because I did not get out of the house. I found out only when my family member came home from outside and opened it.

And, mind you, when staying here, your door-bell will ring very frequently...sometimes it will just be people enquiring for PG and at other times it’ll be the landlord’s family who’ll want you to open it at all odd-hours, when you are alone or at night when you feel uncomfortable on the pretext that they have to fill water in their inverter (Oh yes! They have cleverly placed it in our house and it charges on our electricity. And if that sounds bad...before you take this house-know that the meter is a shared one with the PGs occupying the back portion of the building. It may also be shared with the land-lord’s own home...probably is, but there’s no way of finding out! So you will never know, whose electricity bill you are landing-up paying for. We did not for some time. Now of-course, after taking a stand, we have been asked to pay a fixed sum.)

Beware also of the multiple-ever-present and monitoring CCTVs here. They are meant to keep-an- eye, not so much on the anti-socials, but on the tenants and PGs and what they do round-the-clock. I have one right in front of my door. I have to hide behind the door and open it to a family member, when I’m dressed shabbily; because as you know, you can’t always be dressed for a video-shoot and a CCTV camera monitoring your movements is exactly that!

While I am sure you can sense the frustration experienced in this post, it is also meant to inform future tenants and PGs at this place. Because, I always wished after coming here that someone had warned me about this place and these horrible people! There was a time, I believed that every human being had something good in them...that if we were nice to rotten people, we could help change them and build a relationship with them. I was so wrong! Living here, has changed my whole perception of mankind. I have come to realize that I was living in fool’s paradise. There are ‘some people like this landlord, landlady and their family’-who can never change for the better. They see your kindness as your weakness and will exploit it to take advantage of you. They will envy any and everything good in your life and hate you for it. They will copy your home-interiors, the way you dress and even the way you behave probably –all of it on the sly, without acknowledging it to you and then flaunt it shamelessly in front of you.

These people are absolutely what SADISTS and EVIL-SOULS. Stay away if you value your peace-of mind and happiness. Their nice-behaviour is just a MASK. They will take it off when they have got you under their spell and you have given them your money and have no-where to go until your lease expires