A friend who works as an agent said that a school district house has been listed for two years without being rented out. It’s not the location; everyone in the building knows that the house is “haunted.”

The original owner is an elderly woman who initially rented it to a young man working nearby. When he moved out, the old lady insisted that three pieces of wall plaster had fallen off and deducted 1,800 yuan from his deposit. The young man didn’t argue and moved out.
A month later, a new tenant moved in, and on the third day, he complained about a foul smell from the drain. When someone checked, they found the cast iron pipe filled with crystalline salt deposits—someone had poured dozens of pounds of industrial salt into the toilet. The salt reacted with the iron pipe, causing rust from the inside. They replaced the entire vertical pipe, but the downstairs neighbor refused to allow the removal, so a lawsuit was filed.
Even more astonishing, the salt seeped into the walls, and during humid weather, white powder oozed out, which couldn’t be wiped away. The old lady hired three renovation teams, all saying the wall needed to be torn down to red bricks and rebuilt, costing over 20,000 yuan just in labor.
Now, the house is listed at a rent 30% lower than similar units in the building, but no one dares to rent it. The old lady called the police; the surveillance only captured the young man carrying two woven bags into the corridor at midnight, but no one can prove what was inside.
To save 1,800 yuan, she spent at least 50,000 yuan and lost two years of rent. How do you think this adds up?
Do you think the old lady is wronged?