I feel so sorry for the poor rock man

3 years ago by no banana to c/lemmyshitpost

RaoulDook 94 points 3 years ago

"I am not tipping" - what the fuck? Does anybody actually add a tip to their rent payments?

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ObviouslyNotBanana 65 points 3 years ago

What, do you want your landlord to starve!?

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frezik 27 points 3 years ago

I mean, is that an option?

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ObviouslyNotBanana 1 point 3 years ago

I hope not

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Thief_of_Crows 0 points 3 years ago

Yeah, is there a best method to starve them or something? How do we ensure humans such as their children don't get caught in the crossfire while starving them?

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MightyGalhupo 1 point 3 years ago

*children get caught

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JoMiran 29 points 3 years ago

Bro, they're adding a tip option to vending machines. The world lost its fucking mind. Late stage capitalism indeed.

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herrvogel 7 points 3 years ago

Smh my head. I hear that 7 segment displays on vending machines actually get paid fair wages in Europe and that coin slots have a union.

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ChickenLadyLovesLife 4 points 3 years ago

The world lost its fucking mind.

I'm a school bus driver and while it's weird enough that we generally get tips (from the parents, not the kids of course) at Christmas and the end of the school year, a co-worker of mine last year handed out tip envelopes (like what garbage truck workers leave on the cans) to all the kids on his bus. At least he was suspended for doing this, as a bunch of the parents went apeshit.

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Peppycito 4 points 3 years ago

Garbage truck workers what now?

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ChickenLadyLovesLife 2 points 3 years ago

Every year before Christmas, the garbage truck guys "helpfully" leave an envelope taped to your bin so you can leave them a Christmas tip. You've never seen one of these?

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JoMiran 1 point 3 years ago

Did anyone tip?

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Mandarbmax 21 points 3 years ago

No, it is parody

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ObviouslyNotBanana 22 points 3 years ago

You are parody

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tdawg 5 points 3 years ago

Your mom is a parody

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ThatFembyWho 28 points 3 years ago

Parody's nuts

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mustbe3to20signs 4 points 3 years ago

Until it's not, so many memes and light trolling turned from fun to conspiracy theories.

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MyFairJulia 13 points 3 years ago

There was a landlord on TikTok who essentially asked for tips. He had his friend play a renter that refused to tip him and argued that if waiters get tipped just for delivering the food to the table, the landlord totally deserves a tip for being available for calls and fixing stuff.

One giant shitstorm later and we end up with this meme and the landlord making a TikTok in which he said that it all was a joke.

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Witchfire 9 points 3 years ago

It's usually called a "convenience fee" and is mandatory

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iAvicenna 3 points 3 years ago

I am also completely puzzled by this. I even started imagining a situation where the landlord is so poor he is working as a waiter in a restaurant. Otherwise this doesn't make any sense.

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ObviouslyNotBanana 9 points 3 years ago

Always tip your landlord

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DriftinGrifter 7 points 3 years ago

O he'll get the tip alright<3

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ObviouslyNotBanana 1 point 3 years ago

The tip of where to find good Thai food

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A7thStone 1 point 3 years ago

Why give them the tip when they go balls deep.

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ChickenLadyLovesLife 1 point 3 years ago

I'm a landlord and a school bus driver and I am poor as fuck. I bought a cheap house that needed a huge amount of renovation work, and I now rent it out while I live with my elderly parents. The rental income represents about a 50% increase over my salary (assuming nothing goes seriously wrong with the house) but I still make less than $40K. Not every landlord is the guy from Monopoly.

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systemglitch 81 points 3 years ago

Has anyone ever tipped a landlord and if so, what drugs were they on?

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ObviouslyNotBanana 13 points 3 years ago

I do every week and the drug I was on was care for the weaker humans in society.

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Retrograde 11 points 3 years ago

Nice that'll show em lol

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AngryCommieKender 1 point 3 years ago

I never tipped a landlord, but as a joke I paid my rent in Sacajawea Dollars so as to give him a "bag of gold." At first he was pissed, but then he asked me to continue. Apparently they turned out to be good tips at the bar.

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fatbeer 54 points 3 years ago

It’s rage bait, relax

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ObviouslyNotBanana 77 points 3 years ago

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BarrelAgedBoredom 22 points 3 years ago

Hey, fuck you!

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ElBarto 5 points 3 years ago

No, fuck you!

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Hupf 5 points 3 years ago

I'm trying, but it's very difficult.

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ObviouslyNotBanana 0 points 3 years ago
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JoMiran 52 points 3 years ago

Being mad at an independent landlord is like being mad at the dog shit you just stepped on instead of the motherfucker that didn't pickup after his dog.

Many independent landlords are people who decided to take her everything they had on a derelict home that nobody was going to buy, fix it up, and make it available. These are people that dream to get out from under the boot and are willing to bet it all for a chance. A landlord with one or two rentals are probably struggling to keep their head above water and almost for sure have a full time job as well as the maintenance of the rental, and probably the fixing up of another.

This is how the system is rigged. If you want to mortgage a house, you need to have a lot of money down, steady income, and a good credit score. Mortgaging a fully remodeled house in order to rent it doesn't work because you'll never be able to rent it for that much. Mortgaging an ugly house to rent doesn't work most of the time because you need to remodel it "nice" and you need to find a tenant willing to pay a premium for a pig wearing lipstick. Most times, even when the house is done up, the neighborhood isn't. Next up, if you want to mortgage a derelict house that you plan to bring back from the dead, wether to rent or live in, YOU CAN'T. The only way to buy those homes is cash. In other words, neither homebuyers nor wannabe landlords have access to the only homes that might provide a good value. Wanna guess who can? Investment funds. They are the ones raping renters, not the poor schmuck that's trying to play the game the way they were told it was supposed to work. That schmuck is fucked, they just don't know it.

My wife and I owe the current life we lead in great part to a lady that decided to rent her duplex to two college students for $275 twenty years ago. She died and her daughter sold all the houses the lady owned (she owned the entire street in that ghetto) to a fund. Each duplex (meaning, half a house) now goes for $1200 (still a ghetto) and now requires a credit check and two months deposit.

Get mad at the rigged system, not at the other suckers stuck in it. Don't be a crab in the bucket.

EDIT: There are good independent landlords and there are bad ones. There is no such thing as a good real estate investment funds.

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DJDarren 31 points 3 years ago

But, like, no one has to be a landlord. If it’s so hard, sell the fucking house.

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JoMiran 19 points 3 years ago

You do as you're told. You study hard, you go into student debt, you get a job, you make your debt payments, you live frugally and somehow end up with a few bucks extra in your bank account every month. After a few years you've got yourself some money set aside. What do you do with that money in order to get out from under the boot off the system? Here are your options.

  • Invest in the stock market. You know, the rigged casino that cheats you if there's any chance for you to make a profit. It's all a game of musical chairs and someone is gonna left holding the bag. Will it be you?
  • Buy a fixer-upper, work hard, make enough on rent to basically cover the mortgage, taxes, and maybe most of the maintenance, all in the hope that you can sell it at a profit before prices crash. It's all a game of musical chairs and someone is gonna left holding the bag. Will it be you?
  • Crypto! It's all a game of musical chairs and someone is gonna left holding the bag. Will it be you?
  • Literally buy lottery tickets.
  • Stick your money in an interest bearing account and watch it lose value daily because nothing ever keeps up with inflation.

At least when you buy and fix a wreck there is some sense of agency. It feels like you can do something about it. We are told to do our part, be responsible, play our part and we will be rewarded, but it's a lie. It's been a lie since Reagan was elected and it got way worse under every administration since. They love it when we get at each other's throat like this because it's what stops us from setting fire to the whole thing.

PS: Person buys home to rent with the dream of actually owning something tangible. Person nets 2% if they're lucky but they are happy because at least they aren't losing. Everyone on the Internet hates them. If the same person buys shares in a real estate fund that's literally making people homeless, buying trailer parks and evicting everyone, etc., they will make as much as 20% return yet nobody here bats an eye. That's the poison right there. That's the disconnect and how they keep us down. Why own anything and be a decent human being when I can log into this app, give it my money and not have to worry about who my money hurts?

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shalafi 10 points 3 years ago

Love how you're getting downvoted for making clear and logical arguments. Notice how no one has, or will have, a rebuttal?

It ain't the landlords kids, it's the real estate empires fucking you over. The answer is federal legislation saying any single entity can only own, I dunno, 10 or 100 houses? Devil and details and all, but these megacorps should not be able to own 10,000 homes. And of course, we need exceptions for lenders like banks that have an inventory of foreclosed properties that don't magically get insta purchased and fall off the books.

Who am I kidding. There's too much money to ever turn that boat around.

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twopi 5 points 3 years ago

You're solution doesn't solve the thing you're trying to solve.

E.g.

There is a "mom & pop" landlord with just 10 properties. But they don't purchase anymore. Now there are 1000 such landlords. The landlords all incorporate and create a REIT that owns 10,000 homes. You have created a "megacorp" through just "mom and pop" landlords.

What is the difference?

The true answer is the abolition of landlords in favour of housing coops and community land trusts.

To prove a point to you I'll ask you a question.

What is the difference between the goal of small landlords vs REITs and "megacorps" represented by row 4 of the graph found here?:

https://www.smalllandlords.org/...

The group is a small landlord group from my city.

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twopi 4 points 3 years ago

I don't have a problem with the players necessarily, just the game.

I'm lazy so I invest because I don't want to deal with being a landlord. Anyone who chooses to be a landlord deserves no sympathy. They chose to be a landlord instead of investing. You can get easy R.E. exposure by just being R.E.I.T.s so any extra work is your problem. On top of that landlords expect extra respect for something that REITs do. It's all the same game so all should be looked down upon.

Wanting to play as a boot when the game rewards playing the boot is ok so long as you advocate against the boot. But a lot of these people glorify the boot and try to become one sooo bad and for that, all of them can have the death penalty on them.

In short, want real estate? REITs, do you want to become a boot? Invest. But most importantly of all, be a boot abolitionist. If you're a boot defender then you rightfully get criticism.

I think your saying doing something physical is better than through an app. It makes no difference. It's all the same. But I do agree more awareness needs to be had with REITs. The solution is not to go easy on landlords but rather to go hard on REITs.

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MonkRome 4 points 3 years ago

A bit off topic from your point, but there is no way to get screwed if you just invest for 10+ years in all market index funds from something like vanguard. The only way you're going down in that situation is if the whole system goes down for good. Also government bonds go well above inflation. There are options for regular people, but both of those options likely mean financially supporting things you might not believe in. Like a imperial government and a dirty energy focused economy. The only way it's a casino is if you buy individual stocks. Index funds are the safest way for regular people to make more money than inflation, you just have to be willing to let your money sit for a long time. You don't invest in index funds if you're unwilling to wait for the boom and bust cycles to pass a few times.

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Alteon -5 points 3 years ago

It's not hard, it's just expensive and intense at times. But it's lucrative and pays off after years of upkeep and maintenance that the renters NEVER do. I ain't selling the house. Don't hate the players, hate the game.

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DJDarren 9 points 3 years ago

maintenance that the renters NEVER do

But why would the tenant maintain the property? I mean, I'm a tenant and will carry out low level repairs if I cause any damage, or if entropy means that something looks shabby. But beyond that? It's not my fucking house. My landlord just put my rent up by Β£50 a month to cover "the rising cost of maintenance". They've not done a single bit of maintenance in the year I've lived here.

I can hate both the players and the game, because it's rigged.

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ObviouslyNotBanana 4 points 3 years ago

Right. I'm paying you for the home I'm living in. It's a service you're providing me as a tenant. I don't own the house, if I did I would pay someone to fix my shit.

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Steve -8 points 3 years ago

Spoken like a lazy pos

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shalafi -10 points 3 years ago

OK, what's your plan for housing then? Run right out and purchase your own home? Got the cash and credit for that I assume?

Oh, and if your HVAC dies, the only phone call you're making is to the local contractor. Hopefully it's a $20 capacitor and not a $5,000 new unit. Hope you've got a lot of DIY experience or a load of cash!

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twopi 5 points 3 years ago

If the renter doesn't pay for maintainance who does? Are you willing to run a monthly loss of $100/month or would raise rents to cover or even sell the property?

The solution is cooperative housing and community land trusts plus social housing.

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tetris11 20 points 3 years ago

My landlord is a farmer. He's out on the fields everyday. Comes to fix our boiler with his hands covered in fresh chicken shit. The rent is expensive, but it could be much worse considering.

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ObviouslyNotBanana 16 points 3 years ago

My landlord was a single mother and she provided for me for years before becoming my landlord. She had me paying rent since I was 7 and that's when I learned to appreciate landlords.

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Kase 6 points 3 years ago

Bro you're killing it in this comment section. Bravo

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ObviouslyNotBanana 3 points 3 years ago

I hope so, people need to learn to sympathize with their lords.

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MonkRome 7 points 3 years ago

I knew this guy years ago that bought up basically free property during the housing crisis. Houses were so undesirable in Detroit at the peak of the housing crisis, you could buy a house for $100, as they were considered a liability. His goal was to fix them up himself and then provide them to the community as extremely low rent residences, if anyone wanted to buy them after they were fixed up he would give priority to his renters at slightly above cost (cost of materials) as a rent to own system (not one of the scummy ones but a real system in their favor). He had no intention of making money, he just believed it was the right thing to do. Dude was just a good person through and through.

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JoMiran 2 points 3 years ago

Nah man. The dude was a saint. It takes a special kind of selflessness to do something like that.

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RandomCucumber 6 points 3 years ago

This is me.

Bought a nearly 100 year old house earlier this year, 1.5 hours away from where I live. I work full time.

I've spent nearly every weekend and ALL of my free cash (plus credit that I'll likely be paying off for a few years) to replace the sewer lines, insulate the crawlspace and basement, replace the roof, replace the siding, replace the leaking windows, update the electrical, update the plumbing, replace old appliances, replace corroded cabinet hardware, seal holes around the house from rodents, paint the walls, ceiling, and cabinetry inside the house, remove and clean up a dilapidated wood shed, empty an incredible amount of rotten and corroded junk from the basement, CLEAN the basement, replace the broken door to the basement, fill in and repair cracked and broken concrete, replace the rotten hot tub, and ongoing efforts to prevent water from flooding the basement every time it rains.

And I'm not finished. Not even close. There is so much to be done to make this place work and make sure it stays in good condition for years to come.

The initial priority was pest control, deep cleaning, painting, and furnishing. Once that was done the place was listed on AirBnB. It's helped to offset the costs, but will take decades to break even. After utilities, taxes, supplies, and expenses for cleaning between guests I'm pulling in maybe a couple hundred dollars a month. But it helps.

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JoMiran 8 points 3 years ago

AirBnB is also a big part of the problem. If you want to rent your fully furnished apartment for $1300 (net to you), by the time AirBnB is done with fees to you and the tenant, the tenant is being charged $2200. It's obscene. AirBnB and VRBO were originally meant to help homeowners offset there cost of their homes by renting a room or the entire place while they were away. Now they are these monstrosities that do nothing but syphon money from homeowners and tenants.

I'm glad you're fixing up the place and keeping it off the hands of investment funds. Once it's fixed up, if possible, I'd recommend renting it directly to a tenant for a bit under market rate. Management companies tend to price gouge tenants (and owners), and they con you into raising rent every year. They don't care if the tenant can't afford it or if the place stays empty for months. If you can find a tenant that is decent and treats your property well, stick with them, even if you make less than maximum on a monthly basis by charging less than market. Pass the savings of not having a middle man to your tenant and everyone (except the middle man) wins.

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shalafi 8 points 3 years ago

renting a room or the entire place while they were away

We need solid legislation getting us back to this. It's a great idea, but now it's abused to hell and back.

OTOH, aren't renters and owners alike leaving AirBnB in droves?

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RandomCucumber 2 points 3 years ago

We are actually fixing it up for family to live in. We have overseas relatives who visit for 6 months a year. When they are not here, we might use it for ourselves as well - but more likely we will rent to traveling nurses.

I'm not interested in being a long term landlord. I've lived with enough self-entitled roommates to want to never have to be on the other side of that relationship as a landlord.

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Sotuanduso 3 points 3 years ago

> Spends loads of time and money on fixing up an old house
> Rents it out to offset costs
> Gets downvoted for being a landlord

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ObviouslyNotBanana 3 points 3 years ago

Landlords, can't do anything right

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JoMiran 2 points 3 years ago

> Spends money buying microshares of a ruthless real estate fund on Robinhood

> Gets upvoted for gaming the system

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shalafi 3 points 3 years ago

Why AirBnB and not the usual lease agreement?

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turddle 3 points 3 years ago

Guessing so they can continue the work in between guests. Probably not in a state to lease out as then they are under a lot more obligations to quickly fix bigger issues

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twopi 0 points 3 years ago

Don't make your problems everyone else's.

You can just buy a REIT.

Imagine the contractor that works for a REIT. Should they get full rent because they broke their the same way as you? Or hourly, just like my roommate?

You get the rent because you're a landlord, not because you work hard.

If working hard on a property, instead of owning it, meant getting all of the high rents then the REITs' contractor should be collecting rents instead of the REITs but that obviously doesn't happen.

Don't defend landlording. Oppose it, you can still be one, but just oppose it.

Would you make the same if you sank all of your money in investments and work a second job as a contractor? Same story but different results?

If you had long term tenants and but they owned the property but contracted you? You would still work hard and be compensated for the work isn't that enough? If the work the justification for your rental income then why not just be a contractor instead of an owner? And better yet leave the owning part to the people who live there.

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RandomCucumber 0 points 3 years ago

So instead of buying a home that needed a lot of work and spending a lot of money locally in order to accomplish that work and making minimal (if any) profit, I should just give my money to an investment firm who will be both shittier AND more expensive to renters, while siphoning money away from that local market?

Please explain how me investing in a REIT rather than actual real estate solves your problem.

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halferect 1 point 3 years ago

How about not hording property? Did she have a house? Did she need to own a entire ghetto? I have no pity or empathy to people who own multiple houses and rent them.

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JoMiran 6 points 3 years ago

She and her husband literally restored an entire street that had been derelict since the Louisiana oil crash by using her husband's pension and disability after having destroyed his body working on the rigs. Literally abandoned homes that they fixed, made livable and rented, without credit check or any other bullshit, for affordable prices. Our street was the only safe street in the entire neighborhood, and also the only one where the homes were in good condition. Nobody wanted this homes. Nobody had the means or desire to fix them. Stop trying to manufacturer villains around the narrative you're being fed. People can't afford homes because of funds and companies specifically designed to hoard shit. That's why prices are skyrocketing.

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Organichedgehog 1 point 3 years ago

NOPE SHE'S A PIECE OF SHIT LANDLORD SCUM

signed,

the internet

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MaxHardwood 1 point 3 years ago

You're overlooking the fact of why these homes were available and left in disrepair.

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JoMiran 0 points 3 years ago

I mentioned it before. There was a major economic collapse. Louisiana had an oil boom followed be a collapse. Families bought homes they could comfortably afford, then one day they had no job and no prospect for a job. Nobody did. Entire communities moved out or collapsed.

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Cannacheques 1 point 3 years ago

Agreed. The average landlord is playing the long game for themselves but isn't much of a target and can't do much about the market as a whole, it's usually about a lack of collective pushback across the board that allows things like rents or food prices to spike or shift above CPI and inflation ranges, I won't pretend to know what I'm talking about because there's obviously a lot of factors involved that myself and many others all have yet to figure out, but I don't think landlords are the only people we should be mad at, that's just biting your friend or caretaker rather than looking for a systemic answer that provides collective benefit

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Wiz 40 points 3 years ago

TIPPING landlords? Is that a thing?

I hope not.

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SuddenDownpour 26 points 3 years ago

"Please take this extra money, sir, I don't feel cucked enough by the housing market."

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Thief_of_Crows 4 points 3 years ago

Hopefully it's like cow tipping

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ObviouslyNotBanana -10 points 3 years ago

It is in Germany, or so I heard from a German in this thread

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v4ld1z 25 points 3 years ago

Am German and am living in my second apart now since moving out. This is absolutely not a thing. You pay your rent on time and that's it. Anything else on top would be inappropriate.

Edit: In case this is a whoosh moment, we do absolutely pay a tip. Like 20%-ish

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ObviouslyNotBanana 5 points 3 years ago

I'm of course just shitposting. It is indeed a woosh moment.

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ChickenLadyLovesLife 3 points 3 years ago

Don't you guys have to bring your own kitchen or something when you rent a place? At least in the US we get a kitchen out of the deal.

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v4ld1z 2 points 3 years ago

It depends on the landlord. Some have built-in kitchens that come with the rental "free of charge", some expect you to furnish the kitchen yourself, usually offering some kind of discount because the kitchen isn't included.

In my current flat, the previous renter had installed their own kitchen and sold it to us as to not have to move the entire kitchen to their new flat. But it varies a lot from flat to flat.

What we usually don't have is fully furnished flats and houses as people in the US oftentimes do.

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Mr_Blott 7 points 3 years ago

Is that "Actual" German, or "My great great great great great great great great grandpappy once rimmed Kaiser Wilhelm's cat" German?

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ObviouslyNotBanana 3 points 3 years ago

Hint: we are in Lemmy Shitpost

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kureta 2 points 3 years ago

So an actual German then?

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ITypeWithMyDick -10 points 3 years ago

People give tips to other who do nothing outside their job, oh you made the coffee i ordered and hand it to me sure have $5, thanks for handing the pizza i ordered over the counter have $10, payed for my groceries that i picked out myself and paid via self checkout sure have a 25% tip.

Why not tip someone who ensures where you live, where you children live, where all your precious posesstions are kept is safe, secure, and supported? Seems like you don't actually care about the money, just want to have someone to shit on and feel mighter than them.... (Kidding im a landlord and id call someone nuts for tipping me)

Edit: Apparently everyone is missing the massive /S

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IgnacioM 3 points 3 years ago

Rent seeking is not the same as providing value. Buying a house to rent it out is like buying concert tickets to sell them at a high price when the concert is sold out.

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Thief_of_Crows 1 point 3 years ago

Because those people provided something to you. They made or delivered the food. All a landlord does is gatekeep a necessity that people can't live without. He didn't build it. The only thing he did to you is prevent you getting housing. That is why they are leeches.

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MuuuaadDib 32 points 3 years ago

Who the fuck tips a landlord?

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ObviouslyNotBanana 0 points 3 years ago
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ILikeBoobies -8 points 3 years ago

The same people that tip in restaurants I assume

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F_Haxhausen 29 points 3 years ago

Then don't be a landlord if it is such a terrible job.

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DillyDaily 16 points 3 years ago

Exactly, if you've got money lying around, invest in something that doesn't require you to get off your ass and ensure the singular person/family selling their labour for your dividends isn't forced to shelter in a mold infested leaky death trap.

You're profiting of someone else's undeniable need for shelter and housing. You can at least fix the broken extraction fan above the gas cooker and not winge about the loss your precious rental income for that week.

The stock market is way easier to invest in than the property market. I genuinely don't understand why landlords take it on, then bitch about it.

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twopi 1 point 3 years ago

Absolutely. And you can get real estate exposure by buying REITs.

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specfreq 29 points 3 years ago

You can't see the tenants rocks because they're so big

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Witchfire 20 points 3 years ago

The tenants are chained to the earth

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ObviouslyNotBanana 14 points 3 years ago

There are ten ants!?

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turddle 3 points 3 years ago

The origin of the word tenants is from the fact that it takes ten human sized ants to carry their rocks.

The more you know 🌈

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ObviouslyNotBanana 2 points 3 years ago

It's a shame all the ants were killed, now the poor landlords have to do the lifting

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cooopsspace 3 points 3 years ago

The planet they're standing on

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themeatbridge 28 points 3 years ago

Look at all these rocks I just bought from desperate people! Pay me and you can sleep under them.

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ObviouslyNotBanana 19 points 3 years ago

Landparasites am I right

Edit: damn someone loves landlords

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MedicPigBabySaver 26 points 3 years ago
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ObviouslyNotBanana 7 points 3 years ago

Yeah, fuck him, he's a real hemorrhoid!

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Something_Complex 24 points 3 years ago

Eat shit die is what I say. We keep fighting among ourselves for fucking scraps and we thing is a meal.

Nah fuck those big investment companies, fuck the humongously wealthy.

(I don't think most celebrities are rich, because people like musk, bezzos and certain corporations, stole the money of an entire generation)

I think it was the 400 richest people own more assets then the poorest 60%

That literally means we just need to focus on the titans of the industry. Not my landlord gary

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MycoBro 10 points 3 years ago

Lol. It’s hilarious you said Gary. I worked for a contractor who son (he and everyone knows his daddy gave him everything) had a couple rent houses. His name was Gary. He’s alright.

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Something_Complex 4 points 3 years ago

Idk why it's a landlord thing to be called Gary, in my family betweent me my parents and my brother we all had at least one landlord called Gary at some point in our lives πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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isVeryLoud 2 points 3 years ago
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Jeanschyso 21 points 3 years ago

Those aren't rocks they're bags of money

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rbesfe 18 points 3 years ago

ITT: people forgetting what sub they're on

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ObviouslyNotBanana 17 points 3 years ago

It's fucking incredible how much I love landlords

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ObviouslyNotBanana 14 points 3 years ago

Hemorrhoids are a pain in the ass.

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ares35 5 points 3 years ago

mine's named after my ex for that reason.

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spittingimage 14 points 3 years ago

But why can't he pull himself up by his bootstraps?

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ObviouslyNotBanana 17 points 3 years ago

He's wearing loafers

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MartinXYZ 2 points 3 years ago

We all are, these days.

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Colorcodedresistor 14 points 3 years ago
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ITypeWithMyDick 7 points 3 years ago

This is peasent thinking, not lord thinking. This is why you won't rise up the ranks.

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exhaust_fan 6 points 3 years ago

Dude I hate them more than anyone but I'm working in a jurisdiction where the legal term has been changed to "rent provider" and it's a total fucking shitshow. A name is what you make it.

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ObviouslyNotBanana 12 points 3 years ago

I thought the tenant was the rent provider.

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samus12345 6 points 3 years ago

The landlord is the rent demander.

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ObviouslyNotBanana 7 points 3 years ago

rent eater

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ObviouslyNotBanana 3 points 3 years ago

Yes, it's a lordship.

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Sheeple 13 points 3 years ago

The landleech bootlicking in the comment section is real

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ObviouslyNotBanana 1 point 3 years ago

Ikr they fucking love their betters

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Thief_of_Crows 13 points 3 years ago

Why is he carrying a rock labelled hard work? Is that what he calls your rent check or something? I work hard, my land lord does not. That's literally the entire relationship.

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ObviouslyNotBanana 7 points 3 years ago

He's weak, which is why he deserves a tip

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Thief_of_Crows 4 points 3 years ago

If he's short on cash, he should get a job, like the rest of us, rather than leeching off of others.

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dangblingus 9 points 3 years ago

Hahaha the only one to blame for your bad pay is yourself, my guy. You could try getting a real job if being a landlord isn't the gig you thought it would be.

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ObviouslyNotBanana 2 points 3 years ago

Hahahaha yes very true

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Stumblinbear 9 points 3 years ago

based landchad evictionpilling the cringe rentoid

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EmperorHenry 9 points 3 years ago
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BigBananaDealer 13 points 3 years ago

rent increased by 50% for not tipping

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RenegadeTwister 3 points 3 years ago
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Potatos_are_not_friends 9 points 3 years ago

Rentfoids vs landchads

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kevinbacon 2 points 3 years ago

TLD

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ccdfa 8 points 3 years ago

He'd better watch out or that blood and tears bag will get significantly bigger.

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PixellatedDave 6 points 3 years ago

Does it go against the narrative that my ll is a fireman and bought the house from his friend and he spent two full days stripping the deck out and putting a new one in?

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ccdfa 8 points 3 years ago

In my experience there are some landlords who have people's best interests at heart. I do believe landlords are parasitic, but not everyone does, and out of those people there are some who become landlords because they think it will actually help people. And to be fair, when I was in undergrad, I rented a house with some guys and our landlord charged us $290/month/person and paid for all the utilities. I couldn't have saved any money from my part time job in any other situation. The house was nice, we each had our own room, and we shared 3 bathrooms. He was quick about repairs too. No lease agreement either, and when anybody moved out he didn't raise the rent. I stayed there for 3 years, others for longer.

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Cannacheques -2 points 3 years ago

Dude lots of dumb things are parasitic. Sex work, childcare and babysitting, hell Uber eats is parasitic. The more complex a system becomes the more useless work is produced until the system either collapses or some of that work becomes devalued before society produces new utility so to speak.

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avater 4 points 3 years ago

You guys tip your landlord?

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ObviouslyNotBanana 7 points 3 years ago

Every week

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avater 4 points 3 years ago

Is tip a synonym for rent? Sorry I'm German maybe I don't get it because of language, but I know "tip" mostly in the context of tipping the service at a restaurant...

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ObviouslyNotBanana 5 points 3 years ago

No tip is on top of rent of course.

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avater 4 points 3 years ago

I really dont know if you are fucking around...in case you're not, why would you tip on top of your rent?

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JoMiran 4 points 3 years ago

Just the tip though.

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MeanEYE 3 points 3 years ago
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Patches 2 points 3 years ago
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badbytes 3 points 3 years ago

Dude is f-ing super strong.

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ObviouslyNotBanana 5 points 3 years ago

You have to be strong to care for so many weak tenants

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ZeroCool 2 points 3 years ago
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ShitOnABrick -2 points 3 years ago
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ObviouslyNotBanana 4 points 3 years ago

LANDLORD LOVE ❀️

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Something_Complex -15 points 3 years ago

Stop blaming small landlords with a few properties, bc we all should be able to have a few eventually if ya luck and work.

Blame corporations that keep on buying everything in order to make us live in rented land forever. Fucking hell it's like the Chinese.

Edit:Fucking dumbasses look into BlackRock for example

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MaxHardwood 5 points 3 years ago

You believe the supply problem is because there isn't enough housing for everybody to own multiple homes?

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Something_Complex -2 points 3 years ago

Look into BlackRock and their sistematic purchase is land.

When the biggest trust fund buys properties so do the other

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