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My landlord is a sneaky bastard.

I offered him to pay back a month of missing rent by working for him, since he needs IT stuff done in the future.

He'd heard that I needed to practice my driving though, so he offered to give me some lessons.

Result: I'm actually working up *more* debt to him, in the form of a favour I now have to return, and the original problem hasn't been solved.

He's very good at getting you into situations like this. All you have to do is have a conversation with him...