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 18 points 5 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 4 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!

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 33 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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 19 points 5 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.

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[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 74 points 5 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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[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 114 points 6 days ago (23 children)

How do people still argue that landlords are useful and necessary?

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 88 points 6 days ago (1 children)

By being landlords or personally knowing landlords.

[–] killingspark@feddit.org 31 points 6 days ago (17 children)

I swear my uncle is a good landlord. Keeps prices low, I swear he doesn't rip off his renters. He would never do that.

If there were as many good landlords as I have heard this story we wouldn't have any problems Kyle, sit the fuck back down.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 45 points 6 days ago (51 children)

Assuming this comment isn't ironic: there is no such thing as a good landlord. Landlords are parasitic middlemen who live by leeching off the value created by workers. They contribute no value whatsoever.

This is admitted even in mainstream economics, its termed rent-seeking.

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My parents own multiple rental properties and completely straight face told me it's a charity cause they rent to people who can't afford homes.

Meanwhile I'm engaging with my mutual aid group every week handing out about 400 meals, and survival gear for people who can't afford anything.

Glad their fucking charity has turned enough profit to pay off the rentals, their main home, and their vacation spot though. /s

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 days ago

The people saying that are usually hoping to become landlords themselves.

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[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 75 points 6 days ago (21 children)

And then they raise rent. For what? They haven't upgraded anything. They haven't added any of that value to the property. Every year the house gets older. Cars lose value every year even if you maintain it perfectly.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 6 days ago

And then they try to fuck you over when you leave the place by pinning all the costs of normal dilapidation on you. Fortunately where I live the law forbids it but it doesn't stop them from trying every time.

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[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 5 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 4 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 4 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 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 31 points 6 days ago (7 children)

lazy moocher doesnt even begin to describe what this class of parasitic pieces of dog shit are. there are no words to even describe them. they’re a cancer, a plague, they need to be eradicated.

i can not imagine thinking in my brain that i should just get a free house that someone else has to pay for by getting a real job just because i was able to secure a loan and they werent

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