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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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EatYouWell Nov 9, 2023

Yeah, there absolutely needs to be a board like the labor board that investigates those types of issues for the tenants at no cost to them. I know some places have them, but I think it needs to be a federal system instead of a state/municipality system.

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ceenote

We can mitigate it with responsive boards and authorities, but this disconnect between the owner and resident (the same disconnect that sometimes leads to tenants trashing the property) is inherent to the system. As long as renting a primary residence is a thing, the problem isn’t going away. Not fully.