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"Is this a job?"

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"Is this a job?" - Lemmy.zip

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EatYouWell Nov 9, 2023

I know people like to shit on landlords, but owning and properly maintaining a home requires a ton of work and money. You should be spending 1% of your homes value on maintenance each year, which many people don’t/can’t budget for.

A good landlord takes care of that mess for you.

I know several people who sold their homes and moved into apartments because they were sick of the hassle of home ownership.

Don’t get me wrong, I have no plans of doing that myself, but the ever growing list of maintenance tasks is getting exhausting.

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ceenote Nov 9, 2023

I don’t disagree, and I’ve had landlords that were decent people who took good care of the properties. Still, the fact that someone can neglect their property and make it mainly someone else’s (the tenant’s) problem is just another reason this system sucks.

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Fried_out_Kombi

Exactly. We shouldn’t have to rely on our landlord being a decent person. We should live in a housing market where landlords have to take proper care of their properties or else face vacancy. It should be an actual competitive market, where landlords have to compete to attract tenants, rather than tenants compete to attract a landlord. The negotiating power imbalance is completely wack in so many cities.