A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I rent two apartments in a state where all of that is not possible. Evictions take months and if repairs are not made quickly the tenant is legally entitled to withhold rent. But while on the topic I am most certainly on the hook for inflationary swings in:

any and all repairs
gas and electric
insurance
property taxes
landscaping and snow removal

There is no free lunch, no one side is correct. Stop pretending this topic is black and white. There are some good landlords, many bad. Same goes for tenants.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 12 hours ago

There is no free lunch, no one side is correct

Except the only reason they do any of the shit you just mentioned is because of government regulation. And it varies wildly by state.

There is a reason that those laws exist. Because they need to exist.

So no, this is not a "both sides" thing.

That's also completely ignoring the completely off-balanced power mechanic that exists between landlord and tenant, equating them as you did is super disingenuous.