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Landlords also absorb all the risk if the tenants skip out on two months of rent and leave the unit with no appliances, dog piss stained floors, a body sized hole in the bedroom wall, a toilet that leaked noticably but never reported resulting in extensive water damage, etc.
While its guaranteed that theres a lot of shitty landlords out there, and a ton of price-gouging corporate management companies (who are the real problem these days eith affordability).... I'm fully convinced every user who says "landlords are the devil" are they, themselves, the Tenants from Hell who do not pay the building they live in the tiniest modicum of respect; then wonder why every landlord hates them and hassles them.
People will assume you are exaggerating but I will back you up here. These things happen and can all easily happen at one property.
Oh yeah. I've lived it and breathed it... a few times. Cleaning up a ruined house fucking sucks and it's expensive too. Makes me wonder how some people stay alive with how quickly they wreck stuff.
Agreed, there has to be a level of understanding. Just because you live in a space and pay rent doesn’t mean you can go wild and let the place crawl with refuse and roaches. I have an upstairs neighbor in my apartment complex that is the quintessential definition of the renter from hell. And we get all their roaches even though we keep the place spotless. And not to paint the landlords as martyrs here, as they have their own issues, but some people have a bad case of main character complex and think the rest of us that have to suffer with the stench and infestation are just the NPCs.
What risk? A landlord that isn't a complete idiot would have set aside some of their extortion money or required a deposit.
Do you know how easy it is to do a rental deposit's worth of damage to a property?
Do you know how easy it is to extract other people wealth enough to fix it?. Shit happens. Use your that extortion money you've been saving.
Chris you people are a special bunch.
Who's Chris?
You wouldn't know him.