#landlord

[nando161mando]

[political-us]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I moved to an abandoned island to live in a gothic mansion only to get into a toxic relationship with the vampire landlord (who later died of grief when I broke up with him).

[danikatze]

[ID in alt text]

Someone requested Tzila playing fetch with Landlord in the Midst discord four months ago and I finally finished it :D

[emirrart]

04,02,2025

season 3 needs to come out in t-2 seconds

[saywhat-politics]

Florida landlord fatally shot tenant in dispute over thermostat setting, cops say

[gnarlyskipleg]

Humans

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[luna-drinker]

I know people hate landlords on here but I've also experienced the flip side of dealing with horrible tenants. My family rented two of our old family homes to people who would end up trashing both houses.

One couple killed off all the vegetation in the backyard, which included my great-grandmas massive rose garden and ivy, all because they were too lazy to call my dad to let him know the sprinklers broke until it started causing water damage.

At the other house a bunch of army girls flushed their tampons down the toilet and got a fishing hooks stuck in the carpet, my foot kept getting sliced up and it took me a year to find the damned thing because it was so deep into the carpet.

[nando161mando]

[isaacsapphire]

Is it just an inevitability that rent will go up regardless of the labor supply in an area?

Because during the pandemic, immigration went way down and even kinda reversed as people returned to their countries of origin, so the labor supply shrank, pay rose, and so landlords spiked rents because they could because people had money that could be squeezed.

If immigration increases, demand for housing increases faster than construction, and rents increase.

What situation would cause rent to decrease? Is “major local employer massively reduces labor force/local labor demand craters” the only thing that would ever lead to rents going down in an area?

[gamer-of-the-day]

Today's Gamer of the Day is: Allan's Landlord from Smiling Friends

[2022dirt]

Landlords will paint over anything.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My new landlord sent me an invoice charging me $80 extra dollars a week, stating that my lease didn't say that I could use the water, gas and electricity meters, and I needed to pay extra rent if I'm going to let utilities companies read the meters.

[victusinveritas]

[bitchesgetriches]

Hello, bitches! I don't think I saw this in the renter's master post, but how does one go about breaking a lease in the least financially ruinous way possible? My apartment flooded for the 3rd time in 12 months due to an improper drainage system, and I am FED UP. I have family telling me to sue over it, but I'd be content if they let me break the lease without fees or penalties.

If your apartment keeps flooding and your landlord has not fixed the problem... then your LANDLORD HAS ALREADY BROKEN YOUR LEASE.

A lease is a legal contract. Which means the landlord AND tenant both have responsibilities in order to keep the contract valid. There is usually language in there about the landlord keeping the unit in good maintenance. Constant flooding is NOT good maintenance. And if your property has been damaged by the flooding, the landlord could actually owe YOU, either for temporary housing or replacement of property.

So go read your lease, find the clause about maintenance, and take it to your landlord and say "According to this clause right here, you're in violation of our rental agreement. Therefore, I am moving out without penalty. If you'd like to discuss this, I'll have my lawyer get in touch." (Note: not everyone can afford a lawyer, but if you know anyone even tangentially related to a law firm, use the line about the lawyer. My husband's uncle and aunt are lawyers and the one time I used this line to resolve a labor dispute, it scared the bastard so much that they stopped their bullshit and paid me for my work with no further argument.)

Lastly: we are not infallible. Your state government website should have a section on tenant's rights. Look up this information to see if there are any other protections you can take advantage of before going nuclear on your shitty landlord.

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