We don't have an instance stance on landlord apologia, but maybe we should make one, based on the number of people from other instances defending these mooching rent-seeking parasites.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 days ago

i hope you do; seeing it is a depressing reminder of how much americans think that exploitation like this is okay and even more depressing to see people exploited like this want to perpetuate it.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago

/me sorts by controversial

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 72 points 6 days ago (17 children)

Landlord said to me "property tax has gone up. This is my only form of income. Will need to increase rent"

Told him "yeah, everything has gone up and my paycheck is still the same".

Like, these types of relationships are so parasitic. This is the "nice" mom and pop style landlord too that every liberal seems to want to give a pass too.

Sure, are they less bad than the big corporate faceless landlords? Yes. But the entire relationship is the problem.

They get to justify forcing me out of my home because the value of the house that they own WENT UP.

That's why their property tax is more. They literally own something that is more valuable and making it further impossible for me to ever buy a place of my own.

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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

You know what's the fastest way to make landlords disappear? Ask about some broken shit around the house that they are required by law to fix. Radio silence for months guaranteed. Until the next rent increase of course.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

For a lot of them, they don't even care if there's tenant turnover, especially if its a high-demand area. There's no incentive to fix a broken AC; the tenants already signed the year lease. They can get to it next year when its time to clean up the place for the re-listing.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 days ago

If it's a longer term tenant, the landlord is actually disincentivized from fixing the AC, because they can fix the AC and jack the rent way up as soon as the old, abuse tenant inevitably leaves.

One of my friends suffered through this during the recent heat wave. They've been told there's no budget for AC despite a recent $50 rent hike.

Their landlord is an independently wealthy multimillionaire — they don't even need the money!

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If i had Jeff Bozos money, I'd buy a bunch of houses and offer them to the homeless to get the back into society. Fucking bozo Bozos is. And that's why I'll never have Jeff Bozos money.

[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Capitalism rewards the worst most selfish hoarders of wealth. How can we build a system like this and expect this type of altruism? Makes no sense. The system was always broken.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 days ago

Oh, I know. I was just explaining why I’ll never be a billionaire. I care about people. Sad that that’s a fact of life

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"understood, create a factory town and offer housing in exchange for employment." ~ Bezos

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 16 points 6 days ago

Hey, those buildings and apartments aren’t gonna rent themselves! /s

[–] xantonin@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (17 children)

When I married my wife and she moved in we tried renting out her house with a property management company. She got one tenant and had that tenant for over 2 years with no complaints and we never raised the rent, just enough to cover taxes going up too.

But when we wanted to move to a larger house we gave her an 8 month notice we couldn't renew since the market is so bad and we needed to sell. And my wife wasn't profiting at all, she was still in the red from the repairs and setting up the house to rent out. We offered her like $10k off the price.

Anyway long story short, the tenant gave us hell for those 8 months, and when she moved out we found she never complained about anything because she ignored all the problems which made things worse and the house needed thousands of more dollars to prepare and sell.

She'll never try being a landlord again, she hated it and the tenant shit talked her "landlord" on Facebook all the time like she was some evil monster.

I don't know how anyone else does the landlord thing, this must be all the ones run by evil corporations.

This was a house my wife bought for like $150-180k originally.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 days ago

Cry us a river

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah being a landlord makes you into the bad guy despite intentions. You'll always make back whatever "losses" you incurred in equity, because we have a crazy for profit housing market.

Landlord/renter is an abominable financial relationship.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Tough shit. Must be so inconvenient for you to not keep up on repairs to your own building. That's on you.

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