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“All I want to do is exploit struggling people for far more than my property is worth. Is that so wrong?!”

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Even more ironic is that the “professional” landlords/property holding companies hire property managers who do literally all the work, including both the upkeep for the house and interaction with the tenants. Like, what exactly do you contribute at that point? What would change practically if I hired the property manager directly with the money I would be paying you? Especially when the most common pro-landlord argument (used by landlords themselves) is that they fix things around the house and maintain it.

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“You expect me to unclog a toilet?!”

Yes. That’s exactly what I expect a landlord to do. And if you don’t live in the same city as your rental property, maybe that shouldn’t be allowed.

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I am against landlords like everyone else, but I draw the line at unclogging the toilet. It isn’t worth the effort to report that and I don’t need people unnecessarily seeing my shit in the literal sense. Provided that it is a standard clog and not something wrong with the toilet.

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I had a landlord who wrote into the original version of the lease that I (as the tenant) would be responsible for any needed repairs to the sewer system. This was a much more extreme version of being unwilling to unclog a toilet lol. I said fuck that noise and he took the clause out. He turned out to be a good landlord and he didn’t raise my rent once in seven years, but his tendency to just try and get away with whatever he could in the lease had me a bit worried at the start.

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For individuals who own like a single rental property as an investment property, you could blame the banks. Maybe the tenants don’t have the 20% the bank would require for a mortgage. But they can afford the monthly rent for the larger house rather than a smaller apartment. Also the landlord takes on the risk here. (Market value, no Rent payment, property damage, maintenance…)

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They take on the risk? That’s hysterical. Landlords don’t risk market value. They buy up all the houses when they’re cheap, make their money back and then some by renting the property, then make even more money when the housing market goes up and they kick the tenant out to sell the property. They don’t risk property damage, that’s the entire point of a security deposit. They don’t “risk” maintenance, that’s called doing their job.

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I don’t understand why a 20% deposit is necessary. If you can make repayments as you can make rent, let them own the house already

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In Australia its way more common for landlords to use propert management companies.

They charge about 5%, the tenant rings them and says “The hot water is out” they ring me and say “You need to authorise us to send a plumber” I say “Ok” they ring one of their go-to plumbers who attends super fast because they dont want to lose the repeat business of a property manager who has 100 properties to look after and they fix it at a fair rate because if they dont the property manager will find a new plumber.

When I was renting out my first house (had to move for work for a few years) I couldnt get an electrician for my own house as fast and as cheap as my property manager could get one for my tenants.

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You guys are joking and everything, but that’s what they actually think

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I bet. Mine inherited 17 houses and never works. He also talks to all his customers like he is doing us a favor.

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I know a guy at college who basically uses this as a pick-up line to get girls. He said if you’re with him you’re basically set because he’ll inherit a lot of house from his landlord parents so you won’t need to work anymore.

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Here is hoping he attracts someone that would work on.

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10 points

I never understood why people do that. Who wants to be together with a gold digger?

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The joke falls kinda flat for me because I hear this too much already, but not as a joke…

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I rent out homes and I dont get any of these because I only rent out to hispanic working families. Fight me

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Only some, usually the very right leaning ones or the very left leaning ones. Normal people behave normally.

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I can assure you the very left leaning ones don’t. If they did, they wouldn’t be left leaning.

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That was true a few years ago. Republicans were the good guys once too, but they sure as shit aren’t today. Things change.

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Im a left leaning landlord and im not like that at all. Im fixing everything thats needed and improving stuff from time to time but basically staying out of their lives.

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Good guy landlord.

I wasn’t saying psycho left is common or that you’re like that, just that they exist. It’s harder to spot them because there seems to be so very many psycho right nuts lately.

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“Left leaning landlord” is an oxymoron ;p

Or at least if someone actually held to their principles, they would not remain both for very long .

(The concept of a separate ownership class, which is the defining feature of landlordism, is in direct contradiction with leftism, which at the furthest end pushes for the destruction of these sorts of hierarchical class systems, or at the very least attempts to abolish the gatekeeping and hoarding of base necessities like shelter)

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4 liberals so far are mad at reality

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Someone I know is like this, unironically.

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Historically people with the title “lord” have had it so hard.

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The Gaylords would like a word

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“Fix my AC!”

Particularly ironic that this is being framed as “unreasonable” because landlords themselves directly argue that their upkeep of the house justifies the significant upcharge they take from tenants. Like, even if we argued that landlord as a career is 100% acceptable and valid, that would literally be your job, would be like a professional chef complaining about people saying “make me food!”

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Had a cook who literally complained about receiving too many different kinds of orders and the customers were not even in a hurry

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If they can’t handle a low pressure restaurant where the customers aren’t in a hurry, there’s no way they can handle McDonald’s where the customers are actively hostile.

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Cog in a machine

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As a professional cook it be like that sometimes 😅

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I’m sure that is a legit issue and the menu should be planned to reduce that load. In this case the guy was more suited to repetitive jobs in larger scale kitchens which mine isn’t.

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I had a rentoid that would call me for the most insane shit all the time. Changing light bulbs, fixing their own personal AC unit and stopping a neibourhood dog from barking.

When they were evicted I held the damage deposit because the hardwood floors and internal doors were damaged to fuck by their dog which they tried to claim as being normal wear and tear.

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Sounds rough man. Maybe you should just sell the property, then you wouldn’t have to deal with such things.

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Maybe you should buy the property then you won’t have to deal with renting.

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Or just evict them. I rent a portion of my home that I live in.

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Aw man, it’s almost like they think they are paying you…

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Not nearly enough. Rents due rentoid.

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Yup, people here are generally young and have only had experience being on the tenant side of the equation. Someday they may find out what it is like being on the other side and that tenants can be pigs.

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They may be good tenants and assume that most tenants are good tenants. Not realizing how rare that is.

Then you also have the ones who say every landlord is bad, which is clearly them just being a bad tenant.

I put my rent fairly low to help people out but the low income people are generally disasters to rent to.

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Bad renters exist, but for every story like yours I have five places I’ve lived in where it took months to fix the A/C in summertime and the landlord just let it fucking go meanwhile holding out their greedy mitts demanding $2000 a month.

2 grand! To live in 90° heat, if I wanted to do that I’d just live on the street.

Fucking landloids.

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demanding $2000 a month.

Could be very reasonable or even cheap depending on location.

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It truly is a wonder why y’all are hated. You’re so… humble.

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the alternative is that I don’t rent out part of my house and then there will be less housing

This is only part of it. The “housing shortage” exists not because there aren’t enough homes, but that there are not enough homes on the market. Truthfully, renting out a spare bedroom is not the focus of people’s ire (though through a certain lens it is still a problem, but I won’t go into it here). The problem is that rent seekers are pricing people out of the housing market, which is creating higher demand for rentals, which drives up the market price, ect. It’s a systemic problem, and not necessarily one of individual culpability. Another part of the problem is the commodification of homes: any action taken to address home affordability will necessarily drive down home values (they are the same thing, after all), and many people depend on the value of their home not dropping. It’s a bubble with millions of people at risk of loosing their homes if it pops.

There’s this convenient assumption for landlords that the rental market is full of people who simply want to be renters, or full of people who simply can’t afford to purchase their own home (usually by some moral failing), when the reality is that rent seekers are creating the problem that they claim to be solving. Houses wouldn’t be so expensive if there weren’t so many people buying houses for the purpose of renting out.

All these cucks can blow me.

Of course, there are other reasons why people might be angry with landlords.

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Or all these people are fucking idiots who are just obsessed with labels and culture wars.

New here?

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Well that’s rather snowflakey… if you aren’t part of the problem why are you identifying with them?

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The idea that ALL landlords are exploiting ALL tenants ALL of the time is just so fucking stupid it’s hard to listen to. Goods and services cost money, idk why that is such a hard concept to grasp. I lean left and will probably never vote R for the rest of my life, but it’s hard to listen to people like that who have no understanding of basic economics.

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Landlords must exist because people need to rent housing, and it sure sounds like you’re doing it right. Some landlords (and some tenants) are awful human beings who should not be landlords while others are good people.

A bigger problem is happening in areas with housing shortages. Housing prices have been skyrocketing for 10+ years and home owners have been leveraging themselves with their home equity to buy other homes. On a large scale, that eats up a lot of housing supply, increases prices, and makes it more difficult for people without existing real estate equity to buy a house.

In the city where I live, owning a house is essentially not possible for middle-class people unless their parents give them a down payment. Even my girlfriend and I, who combine for more than triple the average household income in the city, are taking years and years to save for a $300k+ down payment that’s needed to bring the mortgage payment down to $6k/mo.

Landlords didn’t create the housing shortage, but I can see why someone who’s struggling to buy a house while watching landlords buy multiple houses can develop a hatred for them.

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I feel this so much. I own a property. I rented it out. I ran into that exact same lineup of expenses vs income you note here and… I ended up taking my house OFF the rental market. It’s just not worth it.

I keep getting into these discussions with people who yell “It’s immoral to buy a house and rent it out. Landlords must provide housing for renters at a loss so I can have cheap housing” and then… “It’s an investment and you as the owner must fund my low cost housing because you might earn equity in the property when you sell it in the future.”

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🖕😁

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You can also tell by her anorexic physique that she’s no landchad. No fridge raiding happening here.

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