oooh, reminds me of my old basement apartment where the landlord lived upstairs. I was home sick one day about a month after moving in and in the afternoon I heard him tromp down the stairs, open the door to the apartment, look around for 30 seconds, mutter the word "pigsty," drop the mail and tromp back upstairs. Now to be fair, we were still unpacking and it was, in fact a pigsty, but that's none of his damn business. Unfortunately I was sick and thus hadn't really dressed or brushed my teeth for the day and was in no form to refute the pigsty allegations. A few days later we emailed him, requesting that he leave the day's mail in an exterior box and he was incredulous, stating he would never, NEVER enter our apartment. I always felt like I had to clean up the apartment before we went on vacation after that.
The situation later devolved significantly with the landlord playing the same Celiene Dion track on repeat at 100 decibels at three in the morning and getting in epic yelling matches with his significant other. It's pretty awkward to call the cops on your landlord so that's a situation I'll avoid in the future.
In other landlord crumminess, our most recent landlord kept about $150 of our security deposit for ridiculous things like not cleaning out the window sills and leaves being in the yard (very hard to control when there's no fence between you and the neighbor who does 0 lawn work). He was out of town when we originally took possession of the house and clearly hadn't seen the condition we received it in (which wasn't bad, just wasn't sparkling)--we definitely left it in better shape than we found it. In my opinion/experience, deposits are insurance against people who stop paying rent or people who trash the place, not triflings like that. Being 35 weeks pregnant and trying to renovate our new house, I was in no mood to argue but I think it's bad landlord karma--would be interested to know what the landlords among us think of that.