How can I stop my neighbors from using my clothes dryer?

Question

I live in an apartment where we all have to buy our own dryer but one keeps using mine. I have asked many times but they will not stop. The Land Lord will not take action on this. How can I stop them?

Answer 1

can you pad lock the dryer?  

Answer 2

Have you tried a great big fake snake in the barrel?

Answer 3

Lock your apartment door so they won't get in. That was easy.

To your detail--- Now you tell us.

Answer 4

Talk to a neighbourhood help perosn, and they may be able to help. Remove the powercord after each use, and padlock the door. Put something unpleasant in the barrel. You can ask your land lord again, and ask the people who use your dryer not to again. Is it possible to put the dryer in your apartment?

Answer 5

Lock all doors and dont let them in

Answer 6

Put a lock on the door.  

Answer 7

I don't understand. Your dryer must be in the commons area, right?

I like the response about the padlock. Can you remove the power cord when you are done?

Answer 8

can you take off the power cable on your dryer? I had similar problems with people using my printer. Every week I had to buy ink, when I barely used my printer. So I just took off my printer power cable, every time I didn't use it, and that fixed the problem.  

Answer 9

Take their clothes and throw them out.  They'll get sick of having to buy new clothes.  Then they'll pick on someone else.  I wonder if their behavior would qualify as theft of services.  Do you pay for your own electric/gas?  You could take them to small claims court.

Answer 10

yeah padlock sounds good to me!! HAHAH that would be awesome!