• REgon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    why be a landlord at this point?

    What do they mean? Everytime a la dlord posts or talks its about how hard they work to maintain their property. Constantly fixing things and dealing with unreasonable tenants. Such upstanding citizens surely would fix mould, wether or not the law required it, right? Then there’s no practical change.
    The only way this could be bad, is if landlords don’t actually do anything

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      It’s worse. Even the ones who would fix it on their own will get up in arms about being made to. If they do it on their own, they can feel good about themselves; if they have to do it, they don’t get that sense of moral superiority

    • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      the mould is obviously from unreasonable tenants just hosing down the walls all the time. it’s like the zoolander gas station scene in there, 24/7. So it’s bad you have to fix that because it removes the serfs incentive to not do the zoolander gas station scene 24/7

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    ukkk: “Sorry, but this product you’re selling can’t be dangerous.”

    porky-scared-flipped: “UGH, you’re KIIILLING MEEEEEEE! What are we, a bunch of BROWNS?!?!?”

    What a baby.

  • sweatersocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    landleeches when they have to do 0.3 seconds of work (calling their tweaker handyman and telling him to go spray some bleach)

    man fuck these parasitic pieces of shit for real. if you arent gonna fix the mold in the property people are paying you to live in then wtf are they paying you for? lazy entitled worthless pigs. fuck landleeches

    sorry this shit made me heated

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    why be a landlord at this point?

    If they don’t want to be landlords any more they can give their speculative real estate to the people who live in it and get real jobs instead of being landlords.

    For some reason they never do that, even though being a landlord is so horrible.

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      Bare in mind that most of these properties will sell for a profit even with mould and shit dripping off the window sills. These people act like theyre trapped into their wildly appreciating assets.

      I viewed a house last week that stank of mould and damp, looked like absolute shit and even the estate agents said it would need someone to strip the walls and treat it (like £2000+) but they still had it accepted for asking price which was a healthy £50,000 profit over 2019.

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    It’s not even landlords lmfao this is for social housing AKA councils and housing associations providing rent fixed to your income. Private Landlords can still mould it up however they like.

    (ok technically social housing can have landlords but still it’s such a small share of the UK housing market that it won’t meaningfully harm the average mom-and-pop landleech)