Imagine if landlords decided to strike. The consequences would be…
There’d be noone to…
The land doesn’t lord itself you know!
They can’t strike, it’s illegal. The ones that do are called slum lords and they’re literally criminals.
They can’t strike because it’s not a job.
Good ole Dave Paladino never saw justice. Got so bad guys plane had to take care of things itself.
There is another form of strike
Hey we should have that. Maybe if people that own 30 houses will stop buying more as an investment I can buy one.
Not striking per se, but if you piss them off they could start turning away the majority of applicants so they don’t have to deal with society’s more desperate. The corporates already do that anyways, though.
Satire is no excuse for landphobia, you’re still putting out problematic content that could be taken out of context and weaponized to trigger Persons of Land. Delete this
those rentoids need to be silenced, the landphobia is just cruel and unfair
Chin up, king. At least we can sleep each night knowing we’ve done a long day of hard and honest work, unlike these lazy leech rentoids.
Preach, brother! I hammered in five crooked nails, slapped primerless paint on a whole door, and only jacked the rent $250 this week. The plebs don’t know how good they have it.
With rent spikes that low, you’re basically running a charity, and I bet you didn’t even hear a peep of gratitude from your ungrateful tenants. Raise those rents even higher bro, at least $100 for each nail you hammered. You deserve it for all that thankless toil.
You’re right I’m gonna celebrate by raising the rent 50% again. Thanks bro.
Only 50%?
Hahaha oh what am I saying, I mean:
Probably the best comment I’ve read all day.
I can never tell if the comments on these posts are made ironically or if there really is a large percentage of people who think being a landlord is a real job
Landlords should get a real job. Like day trader.
I feel like landlord can be a real job, if you actually maintain and upgrade the property and charging a reasonable price. That’s different than a landowner who pays some schmuck to manage it for them, pays the manager shit and charges the tenants unreasonable sums simply bc they can.
Unironically like my landlord. He leaves me alone, I leave him alone, and my rent only went up $50 in the 3 years I’ve been here. He’s fixed 1 major issue in that time because I take care of my shit.
Personally, the less interaction I have to have with my
liegelordlandlord, the better.But it doesn’t stop most of them from being money grabbing assholes. But the real problem is those speculative investment house flippers putting $10000 and a 6-pack into a home and marking it up 50%
And the fucking zoning committees ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
Lol depends on the community. In this thread I’m pretty sure they are all sarcastic
There are fewer good landlords than bad ones, but the good ones work hard to maintain their investment and provide homes to families despite it being a liability. These properties are majority purchased on loans, after all.
Ironic humor isn’t a thing. If someone says something and then backpedals and says it was ironic, it’s a lie and they’re just scared of being judged for takes they know are stupid. It could be satire or sarcasm, but considering how landlord meme subreddits are I really doubt it
The humor understander has entered the thread.
I think There are some genuine humour/satire cases, but on the whole I agree that ironic humour leaves the door open to actual bad actors. We’ve got to be able to drop the mask and say that no really landlords have no right to complain
Feudalism never died, it just rebranded
Geldadel (money aristocracy). It didn’t even change that much. In the past their excuse was religion now it’s “proficiency”.
Can we really not leave his “ironic” pro-landlord bullshit on reddit? They don’t give a fuck about you, they will never want anything for you other than paying your rent, you’ll never be one unless you’ve already got really good money. “jokingly” jerking them off isn’t gonna change any of that
Istg if I see the word rentoid on here regularly I’m chucking my phone in a river
This post might just be taking the piss at those trying to defend landlords. Or its a genuine effort to take their side, I’m not sure. Anyway, criticism of landlords was bound to bring people to defend them and/or criticise renters in response. Don’t fret too much, many of us also despise the accumulation of weath through acquiring real estate.
Yup
Our landlady is pretty cool. If we want to buy something that can be an addition to the flat (like furniture or appliances or something) she gladly pays for it. So far in two years she paid for our coffee machine, rice cooker, balcony table and chairs, living room rug, and a new bed in my room. Downside of course is that if we move these have to stay, but honestly it’s such a good place for about half the market value that we’re not planning to do it any time soon. And of course if there’s any maintenance required, we just send her a photo and a link with a price to a part that needs replacing or supplies that need to be bought and she pays for it, and I guess she’s glad she doesn’t have to pay for a technician, we just do it ourselves.
So.
She bought herself those things, and you do the maintenance on your apartment, while she charges what used to be considered an ok rate before the market got captured by algorithmic price fixing and private equity firms.
Yes, unfortunately that does make her “one of the good ones.”
Yes, you CAN twist the narrative of almost anything to sound shitty!
They’re taking the piss out of people who defend landlords, why so mad. This is a shitpost community, don’t need to be so serious
Rentoid
rentoid
rentoid
I visited my landlady every week and listened to her tell stories about growing up 90 years ago in the house I live in. I made double portions of dinners and brought half to her. She made me cookies from her mom’s recipes. I called her kids when she seemed disoriented and I stayed in the hospital all night with her when they weren’t sure she would make it till morning. I stayed with her when they brought her back to her house so she could look at her garden a last time and I held her hand while she passed.
Not all landlords are bad.
There are nice people everywhere. There were nice aristocrats who lived off the favour of the courts, whose wealth was also stolen.
Look, I’m also considering renting my house out for a very low amount to a young family and living in a garage when I’m older, but at least I know I’m taking advantage of a system that gives me unearned advantages for getting in on real estate early.
I don’t need anyone to defend me. I have actual privilege.
I’m sorry I have to ask. Are there really landlords that expect a tip?
This is the one that just baffles me. Tipping a landlord? For what, existing?
You don’t understand tipping culture, their bosses don’t pay them enough so they need to make a living on tips. Give them the tip or they can’t pay rent! /s
Well they expect their tenants to subsidize their living completely… I could imagine they would also at least want a tip from them because without the landlord they wouldn’t have a place to live…
/S for those in the back who can’t swim in sarcasm
No, that’s not a thing
Who tips a landlord? What kind of bs is that?
If anything, landlords should gift steady and good tenants with something nice, a cash gift card or something.
Found the beta male 🙄 (but fr tho, this is just satire, it originated from making fun of those “do this to be a millionaire” type of posts)
So he’s burdened by kindness and love?
Indness Nd Love*
Blindness wand love
Yeah that’ll happen if you use it too much
bland love*
Holds a landlord back from being their best selves.
Is that a fart coming out from his ass?
So true
Landlord’s are a cancer on society
Don’t forget to tip your landlord folks
Are there actual cost increases for landlords that justifies them charging so much more on rents now, or is it solely based on “market prices”? I imagine taxes increase, maybe insurance, their own mortgage may fluctuate, and then you have things just breaking down in a house on a regular basis, so imagine they do need to pad the rent a little bit just to cover additional costs, but current prices seem excessive. To me it just seems like price gouging, but I’m not a landlord, so I don’t know what goes into it.
The big thing is pricing in an eviction moratorium, it’s going to be a while before landlords are ok with thinking the government won’t remove their recourse for unpaid rent.
My only comment on the landlord stuff is that there are landlords that are good, but they’re extremely rare. My landlord from college, whom I now consider to be a friend, and regularly keep up with, became a friend because he was an exceedingly great landlord.
He would regularly visit the property to check in, do the work around the place that needed to be done. Stuff like shoveling snow, cutting the grass, etc. He made sure everything was running correctly and there were no issues; if there was ever a problem he would address it right away and at the very least, give you a rough timeline on when things would be fixed.
You could call him 24/7 and he would drop whatever he was doing and head out to address any issue that needed immediate attention. He was lenient on payments, often foregoing first/last/security payments with little more than the commitment to pay by a certain date, which could be months into the future. We were students and sometimes our financial assistance didn’t come in exactly when we needed it, and we had to argue with our financial institution to get our cheques for the semester. He provided everything included in the rent, from heat/power to internet. Rent was reasonable and often under market value for what was provided. He was less concerned about making profit and more concerned with the house paying for itself, and running smoothly.
Before anyone has the chance to comment, this guy is a unicorn. I’m damned lucky to have rented from him. By no means does he represent even a fraction of 1% of landlords. He did everything in his power to ensure we were taken care of and that’s why I rented from him the entire time I was in college, and a few of my friends ended up moving into my student house over the course of my college career. I don’t expect to ever find another landlord that’s anywhere near his quality ever again. I’ve had the need to rent from others, because he doesn’t really have any units that served my needs later in life (and now I have a mortgage, so never again), and the difference is dramatic. Most landlords seems to do everything in their power to avoid taking responsibility, visiting the property, or have anything happen that doesn’t either sweep problems under the rug, or make it someone else’s problem. They just want their money, and damn everything else.
99.9% of landlords are garbage, and they deserve every ounce of hate towards them. They’ve worked hard at earning that hate and they get the hate that they have earned. I recognise that my experience with this one landlord does not and should not excuse any of that loathing that others feel about landlords in general and the vast majority are not worth the oxygen that they consume.
My entire point is that it’s not 100% of landlords that are shit. It’s damn close to 100% but it’s not. A very small fraction of a percent are actually good at what they do, and take issues seriously. They get involved in issues without hesitation and resolve problems quickly, without complaint. It is an extremely small number of them. My (now) friend who happens to also be a landlord is one such example. That being said, it’s not worth it to maintain an entire industry full of shit for the few that actually do things well and provide something valuable. So I’m still in favor of burning it all down and rebuilding from scratch. Temporary/rental living has a place in society for those who will be living in an area for a small amount of time (college/university is an easy example), but on the whole, ownership should be a painless experience, and it’s not. In no small part because of landlords buying up anything they can. Another contributing factor is house flippers, whom I consider to be a scourge to society, since so few of them do anything remotely correct. Many don’t do things that will even stand up to moderate use and buying from a flipper often results in having to have most of the work re-done correctly within a few years.
It’s a horrid part of society and should be abolished.
It’s the ones left with an extra property as a result of inheritance or moving in with a partner that are probably OK to rent from.
Although letting agencies are always there to bring the big landlord misery experience to smalltime landlords.
Anyone buying a third property or more should be charged 100% stamp duty.
Dunno, not all agencies are shit either. I rented an apartment for 2 years through an agency and their fee was stupid high where I live, sure, but they took care of all the issues we had, they called the technicians for reparations and if the technicians said that stuff broke because it was old or it was faulty, the landlord had to pay it. 100% of our issues were like that. When we left, the landlord returned us all the deposit the day before the agency came to check how the house was (it was clean ofc).
Iirc the landlord bought the house as a future investment for his kids, so we had the best renting experience for me at least. I live in a small european city with high prices so the experience will differ wildly from other places, even in other neighbourhoods of my city lmao
lol poor discriminated against landlords
