You guys are joking and everything, but that’s what they actually think
No one really understands our struggle
Submitted 1 year ago by landlordlover@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 year ago
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I bet. Mine inherited 17 houses and never works. He also talks to all his customers like he is doing us a favor.
sheogorath@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
db2@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Only some, usually the very right leaning ones or the very left leaning ones. Normal people behave normally.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can assure you the very left leaning ones don’t. If they did, they wouldn’t be left leaning.
sapient_cogbag@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
“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)
SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
bouh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The joke falls kinda flat for me because I hear this too much already, but not as a joke…
PatFussy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I rent out homes and I dont get any of these because I only rent out to hispanic working families. Fight me
1847953620@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Someone I know is like this, unironically.
SnepKayz@pawb.social 1 year ago
Lot of landphobia in this thread. As a POL (Person of Land) it’s concerning to see this sort of bigotry in 2023.
Stay strong fellow Landchads, together we’ll get through this.
marmo7ade@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]rifugee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or all these people are fucking idiots who are just obsessed with labels and culture wars.
New here?
archomrade@midwest.social 1 year ago
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.
WaterChi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well that’s rather snowflakey… if you aren’t part of the problem why are you identifying with them?
solstice@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
dipshit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It truly is a wonder why y’all are hated. You’re so… humble.
SnepKayz@pawb.social 1 year ago
It’s a hard life, but someone’s got to do it. My tenants’ rent wont raise itself.
TheControlled@lemmy.world 1 year ago
🖕😁
Skabb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can also tell by her anorexic physique that she’s no landchad. No fridge raiding happening here.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Historically people with the title “lord” have had it so hard.
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 1 year ago
The Gaylords would like a word
ComradeSpood@lemmyunchained.net 1 year ago
Even the father of caputalusm thought landlords were parasites that only leeched off the economy
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Adam Smith justifies the existence of rent as improvement in the value of land.
adamsmithworks.org/…/chapter-xi-of-the-rent-of-la…
Perhaps you’re misunderstanding the term ‘rent-seeking’ which is a different concept entitely
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I read through until chapter 1 in that section you linked and he is pretty scathing of landlords and if I understand it correctly his argument is that landlords exist solely to soak up all extra profits above what would leave the tenant just enough to survive.
Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I feel so bad for mine I’ve raised the amount I tip them every month from ~12% to 20%. You should, too - they struggle so hard.
(Lol)
Koala@feddit.de 1 year ago
Because I love my landlord so much I only communicate with him through my lawyer to make extra sure every letter is worded really nicely and politely, much more polite than anything I would every write him. Also got him two very nicely worded court orders by know he would’ve missed out on if it wasn’t for me.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Your know, I guess experiences vary widely, but the landlords I know don’t fit all the hate. For instance, one of my employees decided to rent her house instead of selling it when her family needed a bigger one. They’ve been renting to the same family for a decade or more without ever raising the rent. The family could not afford to buy any house, let alone the one they’re in, so renting allows them to live in a kind of place they couldn’t afford otherwise. My employee has let them skip rent a few times when times were hard.
I know a few similar stories. Maybe it’s different with people who own apartment buildings or whatever, but I just don’t see being a landlord as inherently bad. Like anything else, you can do it ethically or unethically.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sounds like a problem with the price of housing, which is a not entirely unrelated issue.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, for sure - I live in southern California, which has about as high a cost of real estate as you’re going to find, but that isn’t caused by landlords. I mean, if you bought a new car and were selling your old one, you’d probably sell it for whatever the market would pay, right? Maybe if you’re really well off you’d just give it to someone, but most of us are going to sell for the going rate. It’s the same with houses. If I can easily get $500k for my house, I’m not going to list it for $400k just to be nice - I could use the money.
Do people feel like it’s inherently more laudable to sell their house than to rent it? It seems like, as long as they’re not gouging, they’re doing more of a service by renting to people who can’t afford to buy, and also covering all the costs of repairs and risk of damage that renters don’t have to worry about.
I just don’t get the hate broadly, though the management company who ran my daughter’s apartment complex were assholes.
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My last land lord raised rent by 2.5x after the first year. When we moved out he kept the full security deposit because “the inside of the oven was dirty”
Your mileage may vary
Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 1 year ago
4 beautiful words that worked wonders with my shitty landlord who tried to keep my deposit “normal wear and tear”.
As soon as I stated that, the lady changed her tune completely.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, that’s pretty shitty.
My point wasn’t that there are no terrible landlords, just that this popular concept that being a landlord is inherently wrong is misguided.
I only had a couple landlords in my life, and both were good experiences. One was the parents of a friend, and they just asked me to make an effort to do low-cost or low-effort repairs myself (e.g., a dripping faucet) rather than call them, and in return they made our rent much less than it should have been. The other was an apartment, and the lady managing the property liked me and hardly ever raised my rent. She said she never had to deal with issues from me, and wanted me to stay as long as possible.
Maybe that’s why I don’t have the visceral hate so many seem to.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Your landlord is allowed to raise it by that much? I’m Dutch and we have limits on how much rent can increase, which was a maximum of 4.1% in 2023.
ConfuzedAZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m a land lord, did exactly what people say we all did. 15 years ago I bought two 200k homes for 30k each… they are an income plan for my kids so they don’t have to necessarily worry about taking a better paying job instead of something they want to do. Probably a little naive now. But I run the houses at a bare minimum profit just so the government won’t come after me due running a loss on my taxes. I have raised rent only enough to do that. I pay for a property management firm to take care of the properties so that the tenants have 24 hour response to issues. I’ve had the same tenants for 12 years in both properties. Every 4 years or so I have one of the rooms that the tenants want renovated. It’s a right off so doesn’t costa fortune ava the house gets slowly updated. Not every landlord is an asshole. Some of us play the long game without screwing people. But I realize that I am part of the problem. I am part of the reason for less supply in the market. But selling my properties will make my children’s lives less secure and I’m not willing to do that. So i do partially deserve some of the blame.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t see you having any blame. Supply and demand for housing includes everything, including rentals. You would be part of the problem if you bought those places and left them empty as vacation spots or something. You didn’t, you’re supplying them to people who I’m guessing wouldn’t be able to buy them themselves. You’re not driving up the cost of housing. I’d argue that, since you’re charging less than you could, you’re actually lowering it.
gmtom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This shows one of the most common things landlords tell themselves to justify it.
But I run the houses at a bare minimum profit
You tell yourself this, to make you feel better, but you don’t acknowledge that almost all the money your tenants pay you is profit, since they are paying for the mortgage. Even if you rented at 0 immediate profit, for the entire time until you paid off the houses, you would have actually made 1.2million in profit, since you now own 2 houses at 600k each.
And those families, instead of paying a mortgage and ending with hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity, that they could refinance, or use to buy a better house or leave as inheritance for their kids, now have nothing, as all that money has gone to you.
There is no such thing as an ethical landlord. Even the “”“good”“” ones are still exploring people’s basic need for shelter to make them rich.
If you really wanted to be a “good” landlord offer those families the chance to buy the house with the 15 years of down payments they already made to you to start it off. But as you said they’re an “income plan” for your kids I don’t think you would do that.
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How the heck did you find not one but two 200k houses for 30k? Or are you saying you bought them for 30k and now they’re worth 200k? Either way holy balls I wish I could do either of those lol
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Maybe it’s different with people who own apartment buildings or whatever
Yes. My landlord is literally a corporation.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Nope. My landlord is an asshole who never fixes anything he says he will (even things he’s legally supposed to.) Can’t use the law against him because he’s allowed to raise the rent any time he wants with a few simple changes to our lease.
I’ve never had a good landlord. Most of them are greedy trash.
gmtom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is the whole “not all cops are bad a guy I know is a cop and he’s nice” argument just for landlords.
Or you could phrase it about slave owners “my freind owns slaves, but he just owns the one and he treats them really well!”
Landlording is inherently immoral and explotative, not matter hoe “”“ethical”“” the landlord is.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Landlording is inherently immoral and explotative, not matter hoe “”“ethical”“” the landlord is.
That’s what I’m not seeing. Can you explain what makes it inherently immortal?
Borscht@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Idk I feel like there’s also something to be said to have the freedom to just buy another house after saving a bit. It sounds so easy, but most families would have to sell their house in order to upsize.
Never moved but my mom was in credit unions and the trade in of the house was pretty common. In all fairness, there were many “multiple apartment complex owners” at that same CU, they were notably colder and exclusively about numbers (i.e. throwing a fit and sending another appraiser to their barely functional building to get a dozen k).
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, there are honestly a lot of reasons to rent instead of buy. One of the main ones is uncertainty about the market. Lots of times people think that the prices in an area are inflated and likely to come down. If you buy, you risk taking a big loss. The landlord, in that case, is the one with the risk. Similarly, if you don’t plan to stay in an area for several years, it can be more trouble (and even cost) than it’s worth. I’ve also known people who simply don’t want to be bothered with the upkeep, even if they can afford to buy. There’s a real freedom in being able to just pick up the phone when anything isn’t working, there’s a leak, or whatever.
wisefoolkp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Even if you try being a good landlord, dealing with some tenants can really darken your soul…
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No such thing as a good landlord.
Hyperi0n@lemmy.film 1 year ago
All rentoids are bad. Rents due poor.
dangblingus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What’s a “good” landlord? Someone that upholds all of their obligations that the law says they have to do in order to make money off of the actual work of others? Still a parasite.
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 year ago
ThEy PrOvIdE a SeRvIcE!
Yes, the service of buying property so now property is unaffordable for me and I HAVE to rent if from you for more than my mortgage would have been, but you know, banks…
kaesaecracker@leminal.space 1 year ago
There might not be a good landlord, but there might be landlords that are not bad. My rent is low (too low and the government starts adding taxes to compensate your “non-competition”) and did not get increased in the years I have been living here. Broken things get fixed in a reasonable time, there are no scammy charges and so on.
marmo7ade@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I worked for money and then bought a house. Try it. But that would require getting a job in a field that actually matters, and then actually doing the work. I work in IT. What do you do for a living? :)
skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s also not as lucrative as most would think. I have a few rentals and it’s certainly not enough to quit my day job in IT. It’s maybe an extra $15-20k in my pocket at the end of the year after expenses and taxes and such, and I spend at least 10-20 hours a week doing accounting, maintenance tasks, coordinating contractors, legal stuff, etc. Sure, the equity is nice too, but it doesn’t do a whole lot for me until retirement age.
As far as whether landlords can be “good”, I see myself as providing a valuable service to those who cannot or don’t want to become homeowners. In a perfect world, those who cannot but want to become homeowners should, but the cost of housing has little to do with rentals and almost everything to do with zoning, development restrictions, and tax structure. Until that world exists, someone has to offer rental properties to these people, otherwise where would they live?
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Until that world exists, someone has to offer rental properties to these people, otherwise where would they live?
If all the available housing wasn’t bought up by people wanting an extra 20k a year in rent, they’d live there.
Polar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
My old landlord refused to fix our water heater, the leaking roof causing mould and water damage, the outlets that were falling off, the broken light switches that didn’t work, the ceiling light that was flickering and and literally hanging by the wires. All for $2000/month + utilities. Then he kicked us out because he wanted to sell the place, but now he can’t sell it because no bank will touch it with the amount of water damage it has lmao.
Oh ya, can’t forget the 5 times he’s banged on our door threatening us with his lawyer because he stole $100 from us, we asked for it back, but he refused to answer our calls, so we had to wait 12 fucking months before our lease was up and we started paying month to month for us to subtract the $100 he owed us for 12 months from the payment.
ZodiacSF1969@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeh I support LGBT…
Landlords GOP Billionaires The Police
😎
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’ll get your rent when you fix this damn door!
HellAwaits@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You’re trash, Brock
Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I run a small senior living complex in a rural town. We have the cheapest rent in town. We scrape by, trying to make improvements here and there. They are maintained though. We seriously charge hundreds of dollars less than the next closest complex in the area. We refused to raise our rent in the past 4 years dispite rising taxes and utility bills. Most our tenants are widows/widowers living off a fixed income. We are either too nice or bad busseliness owners because that “fix my AC” One always stings and reaches into my personal budget. And by “personal budget” I mean I eat ramen for a couple weeks.
Anyway, I actually feel like this meme. Other than my tenants are usually happy. Occasionally we get someone who is just never happy no matter what you do. I know all the other complexes are owned by one company essentially creating a monopoly and they have exploited this town. We get calls from people crying because they will be homeless.
cooopsspace@infosec.pub 1 year ago
For every one good landlord like you there’s 1mil slumlords that don’t think you even need AC, or think that black mould isnt a health hazard.
Bless you.
phx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Tenants deserve to live in house conditions that the landlords themselves would be willing to live in.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s the model of housing as a business that is the problem, no matter how benevolent an operator may try to be. The market is designed to eliminate you as competition and reward the exploitative monopolistic company.
More importantly is whether or not you are or would ever act as a firewall against competing (or at this point any) housing development.
Like if a subsidized public housing for seniors opened up next door to your complex offering rates at or below your own: would you support it given this persistent at risk population?
JPAKx4@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Not all heros wear capes
Selmafudd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ours put our rent up 25% so just because I was upset I paid this month’s rent a week late and they were complaining they needed the money to pay their montgage… Bitch please I don’t wanna her about your financial problems
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 year ago
They need your money to pay their mortgage. Looks like you are paying for their house. I guess it’s one thing if that house is entirely occupied by you, but I’ve had this very same situation where I’m renting their basement yet paying $1300 (which was actuallymore than their mortgage)
It’s so fucking disgusting and insulting to not only not be able to afford your own home because of all this b.s, but to also be paying for someone else’s home…
jaschen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m a landlord. I’m priced WELL below the market because my tenant is state patrol and is a great guy and a good family. I haven’t raised his rent ever. I will raise it when my HOA goes up next year, but that’s only to help cover my fees. If keep the rent so I can pick the right renters that is compatible with me. I rather have a good renter than a few bucks more a month.
pwalshj@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re a bum. How dare you. You take money for nothing. You should let him live there for free. No one should own anything. I hate tipping. Fuck cars. I think that about covers it. :)
aidan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A company selling something I don’t like should be illegal.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gimme gimme gimme!
OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Just bc you are a great landlord doesn’t mean anyone should be able to hold such power over anyone. Not to mention ownership of land is a human concept we can live without.
seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I think the real test is if you give their deposit back. I’ve never gotten my deposit back without a fight, even after cleaning the apartment top-to-bottom. That’s why I always take photos before leaving.
Fraeco@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is the way!
My previous landlord was like this. Lived there 4 years, rent never went up. We left the place like we found it (which was pristine).
Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh, the hard, hard life of the rent-seeker who is stupidly greedy and unwilling to lose a little bit of profit to pay somebody else - like an agency - to take care of all the work and manage their assets, so instead of making money purely from having money without lifting a finger, they have to suffer the indignity of actually working a few hours a week like poor people.
The pain and suffering must be unbearable…
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Rent-seeking” as an economic concept is not when you collect rent, as a landlord does.
joebiden4life@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We need more landlord rights. And stop these filthy peasants from getting our carpets dirty.
Veraticus@lib.lgbt 1 year ago
So brave… thank you for your sacrifice!
Now fix my (your) AC.
dynamo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
ah, the typical landlord. A good example of a useless “jobs” that litter the world
infyrin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All I say is that if you’re gonna get into some sort of business such as being a landowner, take the responsibility and shut up or get the hell out.
NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Landlords. They won’t be the first ones to be beheaded in the coming revolution, that’s for sure.
Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I remember being so disgusted when Reddit had a sub Reddit start for “landlordlove” or similar. So ridiculous. No I don’t give a fuck if your life is hard while you’re making everyone else’s life twice as hard. Not my fault you chose this as a living. Get out if you don’t like it.
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s missing the wad of 100 dollar bills to wipe away the tears of this hardship
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chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Poor poor landowners. 🖕🏿 suck it🏴🏴🏴
trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Landlord struggle lmao. Must be nice living off of other peoples paycheques, ngl
db2@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Tenants do have rights. If the AC is owned by the landlord and part of the lease is on the landlord to fix it. And rent control is to keep rent from reaching New York closet for $6K levels.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Paranormal story here…
I have the first good landlords I’ve had in my entire life. We have a clean, decent townhouse - two stories w/ unfinished basement. It’s in a safe residential/school zone, right behind my work, and he’s renting it to us for several hundred less than he could be getting based on other similar rentals. I guess he grew up here and has sentimental attachment, and just wants it taken care of. He purchased the connecting unit and is renting it equally low to other great tenants who take care of it. Guy is a defense lawyer and doesn’t need to squeeze every drop out of it I guess.
Him and his wife are super considerate of our time and our needs, get us nursery gift cards in the spring and Christmas baskets every year. They’re fucking anomaly and it’s absolutely perplexing after two decades of shitty landlords.
dipshit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pretty much. I will say, although it’s extremely rare to find, but does exist (I know a landlord like this): some landlords get into landlording to try to make places affordable for others, meaning they barely take a cut for themselves. These are not the people you see raising rent at every opportunity. I’m also not refering to any landlord who decides to take “section 8” housing, as some of them are also predatory. To that end, her struggle is the same struggle as her renters, trying to make ends meet, herself. She owns her own “place” but her “place” is on wheels, making her technically a homeless landlord. I doubt that she is the only landlord like this in the US but as a long-time renter, I’m well aware she’s in the minority of landlords. Most landlords do so to earn a profit, the worst offenders being for-profit corporations who own many properties. Some landlords do try to help others, and I really wish there were more like them. I think the majority of landlords simply try to “price what the market will bear” which is usually “increase rent as much as we can by law” with the excuse that “we, the landlords take on all the risk so we need all the profit”.
I would love to see more “worker co-op” style landlording, although I don’t know how that would work techncially.
archomrade@midwest.social 1 year ago
There are a ton of landlords in here that are MALDING.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Friend tried renting some property in FL. It was a miserable experience with tenants who constantly trashed the places, having to hound them for rent while she had to pay the mortgage on time, etc. She eventually sold it and said “Never again.”
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“All I want to do is exploit struggling people for far more than my property is worth. Is that so wrong?!”