• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    20 hours ago

    There’s some narrow slice where a “landlord” does something useful for money like maintaining the property. I don’t want to deal with the plumbing or repainting.

    But almost all of the time it’s just taking money for nothing, or charging way more than that’s worth. That’s not admirable. So fuck them.

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      13 hours ago

      You are talking about property management, my friend. A “landlord” gets passive income by doing nothing at all; that’s the point of it.

      (Of course a landlord could also be a property manager, but almost none are.)

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      19 hours ago

      There is really nothing wrong with the idea of shelter as a service (i.e. renting a place to live). The problem is more with buildings as an investment, whether in the form of landlords or home owners living in their investment. NIMBYs are in large part caused by the latter to take just one negative example.

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    23 hours ago

    I read this and immediately wrote a letter to the faceless corporation that owns and manages the building where I live. I told them how much I appreciate them and how I defend them when people criticize them for frequently out of service elevators, constant false fire alarms, and any other thing that people don’t like. I offered to pay more rent because I feel so bad that they get criticized at all. They said yes, so now I’m paying twice as much because they’re such heroes and I’m just a lowly renter. All hail beautiful landlords.

    Wtf

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      4 hours ago

      So many people forget to tip their landlords. It’s not easy to look in the face of the single mom after doubling her rent 😔

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    23 hours ago

    Awe, boo hoo, did someone’s no effort money machine get a spanner thrown in it. Whhhaaaa.

    The “I’ve done nothing and deserve everything” crowd at it again

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    11 hours ago

    More people would work in places like London if rent was less, tall about adding nothing to society yet being able to prey more and more on it

    Government housing seems to be the most peaceful solution where it forces the rent down providing great places to stay and gives a portion of the housing shares to the government which can now effectively regulate the real estate market

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    23 hours ago

    I love how they throw out stuff like “Business owners and landlords should be championed” as though everyone already agrees with them.

    My dude, you’re gonna have to try and justify that claim.

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    23 hours ago

    I thought championed someone meant send them into fights in our name…