Built Between Bedtimes – Episode 46: The Tenant Stopped Paying, Then Fell, Then Sued for $700K — and It All Came Down to One Millimeter

Built Between Bedtimes · Oct 23, 2026 · 49m

In this episode, Dylan finally closes the book on a lawsuit that’s been running for a year and a half — a tenant who stopped paying rent, fell on the stairs, fractured a vertebrae, and came after him for $700,000. The stairs were off code by one millimeter. One. The property was in his personal name, not an LLC. The case landed in Multnomah County — the worst possible venue for a landlord. And the mediator’s opening pitch was straight out of a timeshare playbook. Meanwhile Chris survived three weeks straight of back-to-back family travel, did an annual deep clean at the Rhododendron short…