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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!
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.
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.
Piss would be too good for them. I'd just get some marshmallows and sticks out
Wouldn't the pee just make the fire burn harder and be gross too and an insult? I feel like it is worse.
The gross bit sure, but from my understanding pissing on them would help put them out due to piss being mostly water
Thats wild
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.
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.
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.
Imagine not tipping your landlord.
This generation man...
So selfish and entitled
I didn't know until now that there is a debate about tipping your landlord. For me this sounds unbelievable. It's like tipping your politicians and policemen. Or in another way like tipping your mum.
like tipping your mum.
Widely believed to be impossible
Being selfless is a burden?
Sarcasm on Internet Boards doesnt stay sarcastic for long
What's gonna happen?
People will start believing in a flat earth and that birds aren't real.
Or that Landlords are good people
Tbh I thought it was just some meme made by landlords, for landlords, with landlords, from landlords and that kind of stuff.
This is shitposts, not shit takes.
The tip of my schwanz, maybe
Actually lol'd at schwanz, I haven't heard that term in at least a decade
That spelling of entrepreneur is something else.
Its a satirical "business" channel on YouTube.
Oh, do fuck off
Edit: I retract this snark
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.
Landlords should really rebrand to something like building consurvitours.
our rent.... you mean your rent

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.
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.
Selflessness?

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