Yeah, that's straight up fraud btw
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if they had had an apartment to rent out it would've been totally OK and not fraud and a very normal thing to expect a landlord to do though π
No I'm pretty sure that's the guy that loves cocain and wants to fuck his mother
No, you're thinking of pioneering psychologist Sigmund Freud.
Fraud is when a rope begins to break one stand at a time
No, thatβs frayed. Fraud is an amphibian known for hopping.
No, thatβs frog. Fraud is the opposite of frozen.
No, you're thinking of thawed.
Fraud is a type of long robe or gown
I believe you mean thawb. A fraud is a term for a deep geological formation filled with water, in Scandinavia.
That's a fjord. A fraud is a unit of electrical capacitance.
That's farad. Fraud is the short jerk from the Shrek movies
No, that was Farquaad. A fraud is when you have a lot of people together in one place.
Hmm, pretty sure that's a farad. A fraud is what you call the leaves of any sort of palm tree.
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i sue landlords for fraud. passive income.
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"I have passive income" is literally just "I run online scams".
This is no different from people in places like india doing phone call scams.
Yes that would be the joke.
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Application fees? For renting? Man America is cooked.
Don't forget the downpayment and the security deposit and first and last months rent. Oh and if you break the lease you have to pay 4 months rent or the remainder of the rental period, whichever is higher
Don't forget that your landlord forces you to pay through a 3rd party company that charges a "convenience" fee of ~3% so your $600 rent is actually $620.
Ask me how I know.
Usually there's some way around that though? Like mailing checks or something.
I had a landlord that would let you mail checks to get around it. But the leasing docs explicitly stated there was a 6% fee for every day rent was late and rent wasn't considered received until the check cleared.
So we had to mail the check like 2 weeks in advance in case it didn't arrive quickly enough and then sometimes he'd deposit it 1-2 after receipt and then it'd be a nail biter if it fully cleared in the 24-72 hours necessary for him not to consider it "late".
I hate that guy and he's like 90 now and still not dead despite cancer and two heart attacks.
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Add $75 for each pet if allowed! My buddy was apartment hunting recently and was given a rental agreement that said he would have a deductible on repairs and would have to cover anything over $250. The landlord was just looking to scam and sue someone for repairs he had to do to keep up to code. America's cooked indeed.
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Oh yeah super common unfortunately
Lmaooo Dudes, US people have no business making fun of communist if they do things like this. What do you mean you pay for an application for rent a space to living for????
We also sometimes have to pay "pet rent", and no this does not cover pet damages.
No fucking way this has to be a joke
My cat costs me $30 per month in pet rent. And she still has the gall to lay around and complain like she pays the rent.
My cat cost my insurance company whatever they paid my doctor to write a note to tell my landlord I wouldnβt be paying a pet deposit equal to a months rent (non-refundable) and pet rent.
She seemed annoyed by the whole thing but unsurprised. Apparently part of her job is to write the landlords fuck you notes.
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You also have to prove you make 2x rent, sometimes 3x rent in order to actually qualify for an apartment (alot of us create fake paystubs for this) :)
We also will have a deposit that is usually 2-3x rent that we are supposed to get back when we move out. However every time this happens the landlords conveniently find damage to the property that didn't exist the day you moved out so you don't ever get that money back (or if you do, you only get 25-50% of it). :)
At the place I just moved out of, there was a roach infestation that the landlords refused to hire a pro to take care of that got entirely out of hand. They are holding my deposit for this. :)
You also aren't allowed to have anyone stay over longer than 3 days if they aren't on the lease without prior approval from the landlord. :)
Edit: Sometimes people have to get renters insurance too. :)
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Nope, 100% real. My roommate has a pet and the landlord forced them to pay a $50/month pet fee.
The real fun is having to pay extra on an application because you have a pet, then getting to pay an additional pet rent monthly. Also it's sometimes per pet, literally trying to treat them like bonus tenants.
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Not a joke. I suspect the creation of pet rent contributed to the dilution of the concept of service animals (people insisting that Rex the psychotic chihuahua is an emotional support animal).
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You mean "pet tax"
Not to be a capitalist pig but even under capitalism in the USA that is just fraud.
Most people have no ability or funds for recourse and justice. It's just going to be a SOL moment.
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yeah, that's not passive income
Americans be like "we're the free-est nation in the world!" then do shit like pay application fees
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What if I could earn a passive income by scamming scammers? It would be morally correct?
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And someone has the audacity to tell me these are people.
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