• no banana@lemmy.worldOP
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          5 months ago

          I would but my low, low income as a landlord with only 14 properties makes that impossible.

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            I wish people would stop treating landlords as a charity case. Why are we always sending public money to landlords? Subsidizing their bills? Giving them easier access into universities and training programmes? Going easy on them when they steal - yes, steal! - ‘essential’ goods like memes!

            Landlords should pull themselves up by their bootstraps, work hard, and spend less on avocado toast! Don’t buy what you can’t afford! One day, with enough hard, honest landlording, you might even be able to become a tenant.

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    6 months ago

    Can’t believe tipping landlords was considered even as a meme lol

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    Lmfao.

    My landlord’s hardwork: Calling the service repair guy. Making sure the property management company pays him my rent. Paying for a new AC he cheaped out on decades ago.

    He has multiple properties. I don’t know if it’s possible to use each one at the same time, if so that’s a wild power, and I would totally not rent them out.

    And if the pay is inadequate maybe he should get a job lol

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    6 months ago

    The “inadequate pay” one got me rolling. 😂

    Inadequate pay for what exactly? Owning some land and squeezing money from the people who actually take care of it? Fuck landlords!

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    6 months ago

    It probably doesn’t apply to many people posting here or in general, but if you became a landlord how did your view of tenants change?

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      My wife and I own three homes, each purchased below our means so we could invest time and money into renovations while living in them. One is currently rented, and we’re working on the second, with plans to have it rented by next summer.

      Balancing full-time jobs with these projects demands a lot of our time and resources, but I take pride in the work we put into each home. I treat my rental properties with the same care and quality as my own home—because they were my homes.

      I also expect my tenants to treat the house with the same respect I do.

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      I’ve had to rent out rooms and the basement of my home as a “landlord” and I lowered the rent on people in stead of raising it because they were giving me enough to cover part of my mortgage. It still felt shitty and exploitative to do. Especially if something broke and they had to wait to say, use the toilet.

      I’d never want to do that again if possible. Also my “tenants” were not people or friends I knew beforehand. I just tried not to be a piece of shit about it.

      When I see “real estate experts” gouging people to buy more real estate and bragging on social media about it - I do think they are, in fact, fucking parasites on people that do actually contribute to society. It doesn’t have to be this way. Housing should not be a commodity.