Facepalm

Landlords should be banned

Landlords: You may not have pets. You may not paint this property, or put up paintings, posters, or hang a TV. This property is pristine and all damages must be paid for.

Also landlords:

I feel like some of them just put a big bucket of paint in the middle of a room, put a stick of dynamite in, close the door and leave.

"I painted over your outlets with leaded paint. Anway because I think I did such a great job ill increase your rent but since im feeling generous I'll only raise it by 40%"

-Average landleach

Had a landlord paint the inside of my bathtub with white latex paint. Did you know that latex paint is slippery as fuck when wet? Because I fucking do now. I literally bought adhesive grip tape for the bottom of my tub/shower. By the end of my stay ~15 months later, nearly all the paint was chipped away from repeatedly being blasted with hot water and stepped on, revealing the years of hard water limescaling they were trying to cover up. Why fix it when you can cover it and create a serious safety hazard? But of course I had to scrub every spec of every surface before I left or lose my entire deposit.

I rented a place that had a really bad mold problem in the bathroom. We tried cleaning it but it kept coming back, it was clear it was deep in the sheetrock and baseboards (which were also rotting). I told the landlord again and again about it and he kept promising that he was planning on refurbishing it and taking care of everything.

Well, one day he finally shows up with a big bucket of paint and just paints over everything. Didn't even bother scraping off the old paint. That was my final sign to move. Just ridiculous he thought that would solve anything.

I fucking hate how everything is painted white now, the most soulless fucking paint

Frankly there's a good chance the paint job was the idea of a realtor. They LOVE painting everything white because apparently that's the color that sells best. Fuck your hundred-year-old brickwork. "It's a blank canvas!"

landlords should be banned ~~from buying paint tbh~~

ftfy

Landlords suck of course, but real question: could the paint have acted as a kind of preservative for the wood and metal beneath?

I have to say that I've seen this same level of effort on the left from homeowners.

So while landlords should be banned (not just from painting, but from existing, especially as they are permitted to operate today), the "paint everything" is an idiot owner problem that is not landlord exclusive.

Landlords see a bucket of white latex paint and go, “YOOOOOOOO!”

I can't close the AC vent in my bedroom because the little handle has been snapped off and entirely painted over so I can't even use a tool to move the fucking thing, which sucks because it's getting closer to summer and someone keeps turning the fucking heater on. 😬

Everyone is like:

"Ban Landlords"

"Ban Private Healthcare"

"Fair Wages"

I'll do one phrase that just encompasses everything:

"Ban Capitalism"

That’s some good looking wood under there. I do not understand why people paint hardware.

I liked the pareidolia :D

In case anyone's like me, living in a very old rental conversion, they make replica door hardware that you can buy. I had to replace a couple of door handles and other hardware due to wear and found the replicas were an affordable drop-in replacement

The ol' landlord special

You're blaming landlords/homeowners? Just blame lazy humans as a given and be done.

I've bought a house nearly 80 years old and the poor girl has had so much paint put on it, if it was makeup, it would be a rubber mask.

And it was done by tennants! Not the landlords, not the owners, the tennants! The answer was putting on a fresh coat of paint every year. And preferably in different colour from the previous.

The result was a mess of a house I bought for a really low price but needing a ton of love and maintenance. With 80 years old prime woods covered with paint that never belonged there to begin with.

Mr. Knobnose looks so happy now!

Went from "oh no!" to "oh WOW!"

I stripped all the paint off the oak moldings and doors in an old apartment I lived in. It took a while but it was worth it. The building sold eventually and we moved but it was so beautiful.

The “…from buying paint” part was unnecessary.