Communicating with landlords: How renters should handle texts

Always be sure you are texting the right person. That’s a lesson one renter learned the hard way after accidentally firing off a text to his landlord instead of his roommate. The bemused landlord shared the exchange on social media after accidentally receiving the wild text message from his tenant. “Like what? Why you take s**t out of my room. Damn. You want to argue,” the message began. Then it got weird. “I pi**ed on myself again. I got stuff for chilli dogs and you a beer but f**k me,” the message continued. “I got to drop off these groceries. Maybe I won’t be the sorry piece of s**t. F**k it I will.” The text message took the landlord completely by surprise. Picture: Supplied The utterly confused landlord could only reply to the expletive-laden tirade with “what” before receiving an apology from the sheepish tenant. “Sorry if you got that message. You was the wrong person. Sorry,” the tenant ended the conversation. People responding to the landlord on social media were quick to see the funny side of the incident. “One of the worst accidental texts you can send,” one person said. “Who’s ‘the right person’ to receive these texts? I’d argue there’s no such thing in that case,” ano...