• drkt
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    6 days ago

    A landlord working? in what world?

    They hire someone else and bill the last tenant

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        5 days ago

        Yeah, and they still charge a professional fee to the last tenant even though they did it horribly for half the cost

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      4 days ago

      Hopefully the last tenant tells the landlord to pound sand as there wasn’t a written agreement.

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      6 days ago

      Mine told us if we wanted to paint the walls we could

      With the obvious implication we’d pay for it or do it ourselves

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        Well it’s not uncommon to do that if the paint that’s there looks good enough already either let the next tenant paint it the colour they want or repaint in white and don’t allow them to change the colour…

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 days ago

      Eh, small landlords do that.

      They usually invest in property to secure funds for retirement, and to fund kids college, and basically afford life costs. Some actually have a regular job on top of this landlord “investment” thing going on. They mostly fix things by themselves because its cheaper (and sometimes the job is done poorly). Their “frugal” behavior is carried over from their personal lives into their rental bussiness, because they grew up in poverty.

      I mean, honestly, its not “landlord bad”, its more of “capitalism bad”. Landlords exist because capitalism fucks everyone and everyone is trying to get ahead, any means necessary. So some become landlords. I mean, to understand their perspective, they don’t view it as wrong because they think “if it’s legal, then its okay”. That’s literally what society tells everyone.

      I mean, these “small landlords” won’t need to hoard properties if society has UBI, retirement funds that policitians aren’t trying to cut all the time, free college, socialized healthcare, people actually being able to afford living, etc.

      Direct your anger towards capitalism, taking out your anger on these landlords (especially the small ones) is a waste of time, aim for the politicians and the top 1%.