It’s what they did with us. Supported Accommodation; we’d been complaining about the faulty shower tripping the breaker for over a year; it didn’t get replaced until it just stopped working entirely.
Well I am trying to get 1200$ worth of stuff fixed if that’s what I’m going to be paying. I’m kinda hoping my ac goes out so they have to get a new one
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As someone who has had to deal with shite landlords for the last 6 years this comic is most def relatable. It could be in the lease to fix things and some landlords will still nickel and dime stuff that is by law for them to fix.
Generally the problem landlords are the ones who are billionaires owning tons of property abd doing the bare minimum. Retired people renting out their old business building only count insofar as populists want to tribally witchhunt an Other to declare as the enemy causing all their problems.
No, its a little more complicated than that. There is an upside in that my renter is paying in to my equity of the house. Additionally, I tried to sell when I first had to move out but would have taken a bath. Selling a house is not a cost free transaction unfortunately. The housing market in the area has not changed much since.
So, you're a person renting out 1 property then, as I understand it.
If so, You're not the problem. Small scale renting is useful for society as long as owning real estate doesn't become your "job". And a tenant can actually approach you and not some rental company.
That said i am hostile to the idea that the person paying the mortgage on a house ends up not owning the house. Real estate as a speculative investment asset is really fucking up the world and this system of buying houses with a loan that a renter will pay, is a big part of how.
I reached out to my landlords when my toilet was backing up due to some weird thing with the plumbing line and they got back to me three weeks later. Paid the $330 for it to get fixed myself because i only have the one toilet and its pretty important.
The real answer is that the entire commercial real estate industry is turning a basic human necessity and right (shelter) into a solely profit-driven endeavor.
People don't hate landlords, specifically; they hate Capitalism. They just don't know it yet.
I believe that it is more nuanced : some very capitalistic countries don't really have landlords (I think Singapore, can someone confirm this?) since the government owns the most of the countries land. Capitalism is far too vague in this particular criticism.
Just because the government owns the land doesn't mean private landlords don't exist. It just means that instead of owning the land outright in perpetuity, the landlord has a long term lease on it.
since the government owns the most of the countries land
That, by which I mean the system of land usage, is not a "very capitalist" system. In fact a huge part of paper communism (as opposed to what communism ends up turning into in practice) is the land being owned by the government and provided on an as-needed-and-available basis to citizens.
The land is owned by the government but whatever is on it can be bought. (Yeah it wasn't the best example for my point... I was trying to say that capitalism doesn't necessarily equals landlords.)
Anyways people don't complain when their houses belong to them. The very definition of capitalism. This point doesn't really work for this generation since most of us will not own a house or apartment.
I mean yes, that's all true (at least etymologically speaking), but the modern version of a bad landlord is very much a product of the real estate industry being driven by an unchecked profit motive with no consideration for the human consequences of squeezing every last drop of profitability out of rental properties and new housing developments.
Lol, people have been grousing about shitty landlords since a LONG time ago. It's not a modern problem at all.
Juvenal was complaining about landlords in Rome during the first century AD. With literally the same complaints about high rent, and lack of maintenance.
Many of them are on a power trip, and for good reason. The only times people use the word "lord" is referring to a landlord or when they're on their knees on Sunday morning.
Before we rented a place I had no idea how to fix anything as the landlord was too slow to respond or would simply not respond at all to emergency repair calls
After years of having to do it myself. Now, I can probably fix just about anything.
Really helped us buy a fixer upper house for cheap so we could stop giving that asshole our money
That rental gome gave us so many problems that whenever we find ourselves driving by our old place we give it two middle fingers while driving by
I looked for apt, duplex or house rentals that were so trashed nobody else would take it. The landlord was usually someone who had it for retirement income.
I would agree to their bottom-low rent, on condition I deduct my rehab materials expense off the rent. With my DIY experience, I'd rapidly work through the unit cleaning and repairing everything: plumbing, electrical, windows, doors, appliances, furniture ...everything.
When I was done I'd have the nicest house on the block, with appreciative neighbors and landlord. Landlords never raised my low rent for fear of losing me. Frugality and DIY for the win.
It's a small thing, but when the ice maker in the fridge in the last place I rented broke, and when we asked our cheap ass-landlord to fix it he said "Well if it were me I would just use ice trays." Sure, Bill, but when we signed the lease this place had a working ice maker and that's the expectation so do your job and fix it. He never did. We basically did what we wanted with that place though because he was such a slumlord.
Yeah, i honestly don't know how so many people are constantly running into insane landlords.
Part of it, I think is the age of the building. I've mostly lived in relatively modern and decently upscale corporate owned apartments. So i've never really had issues that needed fixing. Only once in 15 years of renting and several different places did i have a real issue. My AC went out one time, and the corporate office sent the maintenance folks to fix it pretty quick.
But my sister rented a shitty house in college, and she has some horror stories about how sucky that place was.
So maybe people living in cities with 100 year or older buildings may have way more maintenance issues and thus more friction with their landlords.
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u/CwispyWhiskey 1d ago
I got a 100$ a month raise in my rent and I made them replace the fence and fix some shit