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Happy Labour Day to people who are not landlords. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm sorry for your negative experiences, but please be mindful that not only your subjective world exists. I might have been extremely lucky, but all my previous rental places were maintained by nice folks.

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

    Its not that the person themselves cant be "good" but the act of hoarding and limiting access to a basic human need, like shelter, to use it as leverage in order to extort profit from others is wrong.
    Landlord-ing is inherently bad it doesnt matter if the person doing it is the nicest person on earth.

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

    "Nice folks" doesn't mean shit if they are paying the absolute minimum to upkeep a building and never missing a chance to raise the rent. The overwhelming amount of landlords are the above.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    None of these points have applied to them. I get the feeling it might be a case of culture differences, maybe the toxic landlording mentioned in the meme is more prevalent in the US?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Will you tell us a story about a good ethical landlord?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    My previous one hasn't raised rent for five years, and even then he asked if it would be okay with us. Which it was, for even the raised rent was significantly below the market rate and he always responded quickly to any issues we have raised. He was a blue-collar worker who inherited a flat he didn't want to sell, so rented it out to those who couldn't afford to buy a property on their own.

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