Why all the landlord hate?
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My landlord once didn't call the repairman when the air conditioning went out on a Saturday when it was 110°F outside (and remained that way all weekend). She made the excuse that her AC repairman was at a tournament and didn't have anyone come over til the following Monday. You know. When rates were cheaper.
Nevermind the fact that she made >$20,000 in rent from us. She couldn't spend the extra $150 for the weekend rate.
That was the moment I was radicalized against landlords.
Probably because they're legally required to fix heat immediately but not AC. I agree with your PoV, but that's probably their thinking.
My ceiling leaked water anytime it rained. I woke up next to a puddle more than once. The landlord had his maitnence guy come, he went up into the attic crawl space, and placed a bucket where the leak was. A bucket. My kitchen sink also had a small leak, and I just placed a bucket under it, I had to empty it about once a week. Did that for over a year.
All landlords are bastards.
ALAB!
Couldn't really rent apartments without having some sort of landlord. And not everyone wants to buy
Some are obviously better landlords than others
Alternative idea if you want a more vapitalist solution than government owned and distributed housing would be mandated rent to own. End of year, current owner tallies up all expenses, anything over is used to purchase equity at market rate. You either sell the equity when you move, or eventually own the place. No landlords just a delayed title transfer.
Of course this wouldn't solve the fact that housing is a human right that all should have access to but any capitalost solution requires a "loser" to suffer some form of horror
I think there's a difference between like a landlord and a property management company.
Property management that fixes stuff, cleans up common areas, and such adds value. They do labor that's useful.
A landlord that just gets money because they legally own the place is not adding value. That's what most people hate.
You can, of course, have horrible people assigned to manage the property.
Sounds like Satyrn to me. Six one way, Hexagon to the peak.
Housing is a human right and should be free.
Ban landlording and put a high fucking tax on vacant homes. I'm talking 100,000 a year. Watch the price crash. People with mortgages will complain because they now have negative equity. I don't care. Housing is a human right.
Can't afford the fine? Don't worry, your debt is forgiven if you give the government your house. Boom. Everyone with a little money gets to own a house, everyone else gets a government house.
Put a 5 year timer on the law so people know it's coming.
In your plan, no new housing on spec to sell would be built. Great solution.
That's because housing is only ever built so it can be sold to landlords to charge rent.
And the problem with that theory is, it's wrong.
First, plenty of luxury housing is built to sell to rich people. The rich people move into the luxury housing, and sell their posh housing to well-to-do workers. They move into the posh housing and sell their nice housing to working professionals. Who sell their run-down housing to poor workers. Who will, under this system, either sell their crap housing to the destitute or just give it to the government to avoid the new taxes.
And second, housing is the government's job to provide. Private capital should not be responsible for building the housing. Housing is a human right, so the govenment should be building it. We shouldn't trust markets to distribute resources people need to live. Markets are okay for, like, video games and shit... but we shouldn't trust markets with human rights.
Would be nice but I doubt it's going to happen
Regulate landlords!
Meh, just regurgitate them to heavin' and don't call 'em back. Shrug Whatever.
Absolutely!
I didn't stutter, fuck land lords.
What about people who don't want to buy homes?
We figured out alternative solutions to private transportation ownership in many parts of the world.
What sort of solutions from that would fit the case of housing?
Wow he even cut him a deal on the blood clean up rate? Do you know how much money he could make if he charged market rates for hiring a hit man and bio cleanup crew?
Here is my petition to remove the word lord from the title and henceforth refer to the as land managers. To be a lord one must be noble and to be noble one must oblige and for certain they do not oblige aka noblesse oblige
Landscalpers
Nobles are always cunts, so landlord fits.
I move to make an amendment. The amendment being to change the wording of land managers to housing parasites.
I'm curious, what's your ideal circumstance? People don't technically have to rent if they don't want to but typically that means giving up a lot.
That is correct, Lord just doesn't fit in within modern times. Also like stated, it only refers to the person who manages the land.
Glad im finally out of renting
happy for you. shits expensive af
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