• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      I’m physically unable to keep up maintenance on a home and the land around it. Landlords do have a place in society, in my opinion

      You might be physically unable, but you’re not monetarily unable. Most landlords just pay someone to do it with the money you gave them.

      Whatever you are paying in rent is enough to cover the costs of that property and then pay for your landlord’s own lifestyle on top. You are being robbed.

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          It’s pretty straightforward math. A landlord’s income is necessarily the cost of maintenance of a property plus some extra as profit. Otherwise they’re losing money and therefore wouldn’t be a landlord. But since their income is the rent you pay, you are therefore paying for everything plus their own cost of living.

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            Correct. I’m paying him to take care of everything so I don’t have to do it. Lawn. Plumbing. Damages. That’s all one person for me. I’m paying that one person to take care of all of those things so I don’t have to. And the price never changes.

            See what I mean?

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              Lawn. Plumbing. Damages. That’s all one person for me. I’m paying that one person to take care of all of those things so I don’t have to.

              No, you’re paying that person to then pay other people to take care of those things. If you tell me your landlord handles the lawn, plumbing, all repairs, etc, I’ll just call you a liar.

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                What. Why would you call me a lier lol. My landlord handles all of that. That’s why I’m renting. That is the reason to rent. Otherwise I’d own a home and have to do all of that myself.

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                  because your landlord simply does not do all those things, I don’t believe you. your landlord hires someone to do those things.

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                    I don’t want to deal with hiring anyone to do anything. I pay my landlord to do all of that.

                    Yes, I’ve already said that. That’s why I’m paying him every month.

                    If my pipes break tomorrow I call him and he takes care of it. Someone comes and fixes it that day or the next. If I owned the place I wouldn’t be able to get it fixed until next month.

                    I think you and I have very different financial situations if you’re having a hard time understanding this.

                    Don’t call me a lier again. You don’t even know me.

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      Housing in the ussr used to cost like 5-10% of monthly income. The state can certainly regulate housing if not outright provide it.

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        Oh absolutely. But Investors make money off of it, so “what can we do?” Gotta protect the people on wall street that don’t do anything.

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      Landlords by and large also dont keep up on maintenence. If and when maintence is done, its usually by someone else who isn’t them. They don’t personally provide anything, and yet take 1/3 to half if not more of working peoples income, which is the problem we have with them.

      That’s cool if the people you’ve rented from are different. I’m not saying that in a person to person, individual basis they are all bad people or anything, but as a class it needs to end

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        I don’t want to deal with hiring anyone to do anything. I pay my landlord to do all of that. That’s worth it to me.

        For example, when I moved in the fridge died about a year in. I told my landlord and he sent me the name and number of a repair place. I told him that’s nice, but it’s not my fridge and I’m not going to call anyone for it. That’s his job. That’s why I’m paying him. That’s why I’m calling him.

        I’ve got other things to do. He owns it, he deals with it.

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            Sorry, unfortunately I live in the real world and don’t have an extra few hundred laying around for an unexpected new fridge. And no, owning my own home would not give me that extra money. Because, again, I live in the real world.

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              What real world exists where paying a massive % of your income to a landlord is cheaper than doing those things yourself???

              Getting a fridge fixed is a fraction of what rents cost basically everywhere anymore. i could get a really nice new fridge for less than my monthly rent.

              And remember they tried to pawn it off on you in the first place. They’re parasites. They need to go. Que the quote about the Maoist uprisings against the landlords.

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                When’s the last time you bought a new refrigerator? A cheap one is at least half my rent.

                What’s your living situation? There’s a couple extremely bad takes from people in this thread about other people’s situations.

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                    If you’re not being charged rent then either you live in a house you own, or you live rent-free in a house you don’t own. In the first instance then either you’re rolling in cash and own it outright, or you have a mortgage on it. In the second instance then you’re likely living in your parents’ basement.

                    So: if you’re living rent-free in your parents’ basement or you’re so rich you own your house outright then you have no idea what you’re talking about.

                    And if you have a mortgage then that means you’re making monthly payments that strictly speaking aren’t rent but might as well be. Thanks to interest rate changes in the UK my mortgage recently nearly doubled, so that’s several hundred pounds a month I’ve had to find for LITERALLY NOTHING. Owning is generally cheaper than renting which is why I do it, but you’ve still got that substantial monthly outlay that restricts your ability to buy fridges and other stuff.

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                    I’m done with this. This is one of the most ignorant things I’ve read in a while.