• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    31
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m physically unable to keep up maintenance on a home and the land around it. Landlords do have a place in society, in my opinion

    You might be physically unable, but you’re not monetarily unable. Most landlords just pay someone to do it with the money you gave them.

    Whatever you are paying in rent is enough to cover the costs of that property and then pay for your landlord’s own lifestyle on top. You are being robbed.

      • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        27
        ·
        1 year ago

        It’s pretty straightforward math. A landlord’s income is necessarily the cost of maintenance of a property plus some extra as profit. Otherwise they’re losing money and therefore wouldn’t be a landlord. But since their income is the rent you pay, you are therefore paying for everything plus their own cost of living.

        • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Correct. I’m paying him to take care of everything so I don’t have to do it. Lawn. Plumbing. Damages. That’s all one person for me. I’m paying that one person to take care of all of those things so I don’t have to. And the price never changes.

          See what I mean?

          • booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            23
            ·
            1 year ago

            Lawn. Plumbing. Damages. That’s all one person for me. I’m paying that one person to take care of all of those things so I don’t have to.

            No, you’re paying that person to then pay other people to take care of those things. If you tell me your landlord handles the lawn, plumbing, all repairs, etc, I’ll just call you a liar.

            • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              What. Why would you call me a lier lol. My landlord handles all of that. That’s why I’m renting. That is the reason to rent. Otherwise I’d own a home and have to do all of that myself.

              • booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                23
                ·
                1 year ago

                because your landlord simply does not do all those things, I don’t believe you. your landlord hires someone to do those things.

                • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  1 year ago

                  I don’t want to deal with hiring anyone to do anything. I pay my landlord to do all of that.

                  Yes, I’ve already said that. That’s why I’m paying him every month.

                  If my pipes break tomorrow I call him and he takes care of it. Someone comes and fixes it that day or the next. If I owned the place I wouldn’t be able to get it fixed until next month.

                  I think you and I have very different financial situations if you’re having a hard time understanding this.

                  Don’t call me a lier again. You don’t even know me.

                  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.net
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    10
                    ·
                    1 year ago

                    If my pipes break tomorrow I call him and he takes care of it. Someone comes and fixes it that day or the next.

                    Right, he paid for that plumber with money from your rent in excess of the cost of the mortgage. If you didn’t have to pay that excess cost you could have paid the plumber yourself.

                    The only service he’s providing here is scheduling an appointment with a plumber who is the one actually fixing the pipes, not the landlord.

                    He’s also trying to make a profit so the rent minus cost of mortgage and minus cost of repairs that he covers is almost still a positive number so that he is actually making money on this.

                    Again I want to stress, the service he’s providing is paying other people to do things for you with money that you gave him.

                  • booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    9
                    ·
                    1 year ago

                    If I owned the place I wouldn’t be able to get it fixed until next month.

                    What? How does your landlord do it? Because you would just do that, and then you wouldn’t have a parasitic third party leeching off your income. You would have the exact same service and more money to spare.

                  • clorthocranston [she/her]@hexbear.net
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    3
                    ·
                    1 year ago

                    you would still just be calling someone to take care of it, it would just be directly and not through a middle man who charges you for the privilege of paying his mortgage