Lazy landlord did the unthinkable when new tenant found roaches in apartment: ‘My worst nightmare’

This is the worst-case scenario.

Finding a nasty roach in your apartment, especially in NYC, is unfortunately a common thing. But how a landlord reacts to it can make or break a tenant’s experience.

Sadly, upon moving in, one tenant found dead roaches inside their kitchen cabinets and their landlord’s solution was beyond shocking — and kind of gross.

The disgruntled resident shared their grievances in the r/ApartmentLiving forum on Reddit.

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“I moved into my new apartment Oct 1st. At this point, I am 90% unpacked and even finished building all of my IKEA furniture. I wanted to decorate my kitchen and put stuff on top of my cabinets,” the poster wrote.

They expressed how the cabinets were covered in dead roaches. “I guess the previous tenant had a roach problem… and a mouse problem! I looked under the cabinets on the floor and found a hole full of more dead roaches and mouse poop.”

After emailing the landlord and having maintenance come out to fix the problem, all they did was paint “over the dead roaches and glued a piece of wood over the hole where the mouse poop is. I doubt they cleaned it first.”

The fact that the maintenance person didn’t even remove the roaches is beyond gross — and Reddit agrees.

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Many empathized with the tenant and offered advice.

“Demand that this is resolved by a date certain! Invite her to look in person. This could be a health department issue…”

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“My goodness this is my worst nightmare. I have a real fear of roaches and mice. You gotta keep complaining or terminate the lease if they won’t properly fix these issues. It’s beyond unacceptable.”

This isn’t the first time and won’t be the last time that a roach problem is mishandled in an apartment.

A 30-year-old NYC tenant was forced out of her Upper East Side apartment after her bathroom ceiling collapsed, unleashing water and live roaches into her $2,400-a-month studio apartment.

She posted a video about it on TikTok, which has since gone viral, and also raised concerns about building safety and pest control in old NYC buildings.

“It all busts through — just like pieces everywhere,” she told The Post. “Then water starts falling. And then I look at the ground and all the debris and I see, like… I saw at least five to 10 cockroaches come into the debris.”