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[+] 103 points 3 months ago (14 children)
  • [–] 44 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    If that fridge is still happily running then be happy, they literally don't make them like that anymore.

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  • [+] 21 points 3 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It's low on refrigerant and effectively unfixable. Depending on where you're at you can probably withhold rent by putting it in an escrow account until the landlord fixes the problems. You have to tell them by certified mail, and if appliances aren't included in your rent agreement don't do it because you're already screwed. In that case get your own fridge and keep the receipt.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It's probably also super inefficient and uses Freon

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  • [–] 59 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

    Do NOT be kind to your landlord.

    My landlord lost their house gambling so I offered them to rent one of my rooms at discount as a roommate.

    Now whenever my rent increases due to cost of living, I increase their rent due to cost of living.

    We are in a sick perpetual cycle and both our rents went up 5000% yesterday. We are comrades in this pain and promised to protect each other if liver selling operation goes wrong.

    It's a hateful bond, an adversarial friendship, and a dying survival. Somebody please help!

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Now that I think about it, if a circle exists somewhere where A rents to B, B rents to C, and C to A (make it as long as needed, of course), one increasing the rent leads to a perpetual rent increase until one of them collapses? Would be funny to see tbh.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    Well, imagine this, but A is also loaning the money to C to keep the circle going, and you've got the state of the "AI" market.

    And people are yet still convinced "it's not a bubble".

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    [–] 52 points 3 months ago

    That poor landlord is living from your paycheck to the next.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Our landlord wanted us to pay for the ac being fixed...during the hottest part of July.

    You could be on fire in front of me, and I'd piss on you. Tell me you're a landlord and I'll need the first month and last month deposit first.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    Piss would be too good for them. I'd just get some marshmallows and sticks out

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Wouldn't the pee just make the fire burn harder and be gross too and an insult? I feel like it is worse.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Oh it gets better. The hurricane that ripped through Georgia a year or so back ripped up our fence. They wanted us to keep it there until they could find someone to put it up.

    It was rotted and no one wanted to do it...they were gonna keep a rotted fence on the ground in our yard.

    I don't know about you, but Georgia got some bad snakes. I broke that bitch down, built a fire pit and burned it. They can marinate my family jewels if they think I'd keep a snake den in my back yard with my 6 yr old.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    My last landlord put a clause in the lease that made me responsible for any sewer line repairs. I was like what the fuck is this? He said it was because tenants tend to flush shit you shouldn't flush and that's why sewer lines need to be replaced. To his credit (sort of) he took that out when I said no way I was signing. He was a member of that species of landlord that just puts whatever into leases because some people will sign anything.

    The one thing he did that I liked which surprisingly does not seem common in rental leases was to require me to purchase and maintain renter's insurance. Not because he gave a shit about my stuff being stolen or lost in a fire (which renter's insurance covers) but because it's a source of coverage in the event of damage caused to the place by the renter. It was only like $15 a month so hardly a big deal.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Every apartment I've ever lived in requires renters insurance. It's so cheap that I'd argue it's a good idea to have regardless of whether required by the building. So many things are out of your control (floods, fire, weather damage, etc) and it's good to know that with the insurance you'd at least he able to get new stuff to maintain a similar living situation.

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  • [–] 82 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Imagine not tipping your landlord.

    This generation man...

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Being selfless is a burden?

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Sarcasm on Internet Boards doesnt stay sarcastic for long

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    People will start believing in a flat earth and that birds aren't real.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    This is shitposts, not shit takes.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The tip of my schwanz, maybe

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Actually lol'd at schwanz, I haven't heard that term in at least a decade

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Safe living? HA

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    That image just measurably raised my blood pressure.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    That spelling of entrepreneur is something else.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Its a satirical "business" channel on YouTube.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    Oh, do fuck off

    Edit: I retract this snark

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    My first landlord gave me a plank to hold the door shut so he didn't have to repair the lock and another plank to put over the hole in the bathroom floor that you could fall through to the foundations.

    'Safe' living.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Landlords should really rebrand to something like building consurvitours.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Fuck the leeches.

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  • [+] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    What in the world are you talking about? The rent only paying for the interest? You know buildings are not eternal, right? They depreciate in value. They have maintenance costs. And a hundred other things a good landlord should be taking care of.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    My old landlord was a Vietnamese family who built an apartment complex for a family business instead of running a restaurant. I respected them, they kept the place in running order.

    I feel like "landlord" is an easy group to hate, but some renters are absolutely filthy gross and I have seen what landlords sometimes deal with. No room for nuance here, of course, but how you do things matters a lot.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)