>>22791733It’s fucking discouraging that so many Zooms and Lennials have bought into the propaganda designed to create this whole new “us vs them” manufactured battlefield of division between landlords and tenants.
Very few property owners want to be dickhead landlords. They set out to buy real estate (because they’ve been told it’s a good investment), they use some capital to fix it up, and then they want to rent it out to make “passive” income. Yes, it’s profit driven, but most don’t set out to fuck over their tenants or be unresponsive assholes about it.
>inb4 da jooz. Ok, got it.The problem with that idealistic model, though, is that it hinges on having reliable, trustworthy tenants.
Before I owned a house, I rented. Paid my rent on time every month, didn’t cause problems, didn’t break things. Guess what? My experience was fine. And my “landlord” was a corporate property management group, which is much more likely to be assholish than an individual owner/landlord.
But the more that landlords have to deal with bullshit from oil-drain, fuckoff tenants who have been propagandized into believing the “landlord” is the enemy, the worst the relationship gets.
>inb4 my special exception case>inb4 my landlord is a tier 1 asshole and enjoys itThere are alway cases like OP’s bait image. But for the most part, landlords aren’t assholes; they’re just capitalists trying to make passive income while doing as little work and spending as little overhead as possible. Sometimes, yes, that can cause friction.
But it also depends on WHY the washing machine is broken, so to speak. And in most cases, the landlord/tenant relationship gets fucked up because of the tenant(s), not because of the landlord.
You don’t want to hear this, though, because you’ve been propagandized to say “fuck landlords.”
