Yeah, especially since unfortunately it seems this landlord is well-acquainted with the tenants from hell——if I were him and I, say, just had to go through a 6 month eviction process after the tenant failed to pay for like 3 months… AND I walked in and the place was trashed?? Yep, next tenant gets a Christmas bonus if they don’t massively eff it up
my dad managed to buy a very small house and rented it out to a new couple with a baby, and there were so many months he let them go without paying rent that he had to tell them he couldn't do it anymore and was selling the house. he still feels bad about that too.
Lived in several apartments... due to many circumstances lived in "the bad part of town" for about 6 months. Going into it i thought "maybe its not that bad. Theres no lights downstairs, really small, but im sure theres good people"
Constantly hearing shootings, sirens, emergency lights compensated for the lack of lights ig, didnt go one day without seeing something shady go down.
The other tenants would often skip payments and when they got evicted they would tear up the floors, break mirrors and windows, heard of one dude smearing shit all over the place.
So yeah. I could see someone renting out a second home they still owe mortgage on handing out some cash to not deal with that
My dad has dealt with some awful tenants. Building random walls, demanding new appliances when they were replaced a few months before, leaving behind huge stains or holes in walls. It got to the point he ended up selling a property rather than deal with trying to evict one.
But he’s had this one family as tenants since the houses were built and they have been super amazing the whole time. He lets them do whatever they want because he trusts them to do it right. They changed the carpet on the daughter’s room to pink recently I think.
I could definitely see him sending some of their rent back as a thank you. He keeps the rent low as he can specifically because he loves that family
No fr, if you're a landlord who's had shit tenants and you have one who's normal, nice, pays on time, and treats your property well, it makes perfect sense to try and keep that tenant
Agreed, my landlord loves that he rarely has to send a pro out for something and his home is well cared for. He used to spend hundreds a year just on general maintenance that I am easily able to do just as well. He was getting ready to send out a painter but came by and I had already touched up a bunch of spots and repainted all of the railing.
Ive had a landlord waive rent for December. We were neighbors and id help him out some just being neighborly. Was a good dude, and he had hell finding decent tenants.
Not only possible, but actually happens quite a bit. For my first apartment with my husband, our landlord wouldn’t charge us for December any year after our first year. Why? Because we were probably his best tenants. Whenever something minor needed to be done that was within our capability, we would do it as long as he paid for or gave us the supplies. Garbage disposal broke, I installed the new one once he brought it. Cabinet door hinges getting old and cracking/breaking; husband installed new hinges after landlord dropped them off. Obviously we couldn’t do electrical or major plumbing issues, but we weren’t going to wait a week for him to get a chance to come around if we could do it in a few hours. So as long as he paid for the items, we happily did some of the work if we knew how. So as a holiday gift and thank you, no rent in December. It was amazing.
Our second landlord was very nice, but the place was recently renovated and needed nothing fixed, so nothing to do to make ourselves seem like extraordinary tenants.
yeah, I'm not sure what's with this online idea that every landlord has 20 investment properties and is trying their best to squeeze as much money as possible out of every tenant. that's some (and probably a growing amount) of them, but a lot are just normal people who are relatively well-off and are just as capable of being generous as anyone else.
it’s probably just the crowd with bad landlords being a lot louder than those with neutral/nice landlords and so you almost never hear the positive stories (or any neutral ones bc there would be no story there) and that makes the negativity spread faster and wider
My landlords of 5 years are pretty awesome. Invite me on their boat, added a grill to the property because I said I liked grilling, gave me $150 worth of electrolytes recently because they had a ton gifted to them. I'm sure it's not easy to find good, helpful tenants. I could see being appreciative if I owned a rental property and had some good ones.
From even a strictly business standpoint, it makes sense to give the people who pay on time and don't destroy the house incentive to keep renting from you.
I lived in my last apartment for five years and the landlord didn't raise our rent once, even though he probably could have doubled it compared to similar listings in the area. I'm assuming because the entire time we lived there, we always paid rent on time and never caused any trouble with the neighbors or damaged the property. His previous tenants must have been nightmares, because when we moved in, they had literally just replaced the front door because cops had to kick it in.
Nothing bad I hope, I saw them at the store recently and we were all pleasantly chatting! I just moved out of that house with roommates so I could live alone. Got my full deposit back too. I didn’t realize how ominous this sounded, haha.
My husband is a landlord. Two days after renting to his tenant he was sending their CVs asking me to find them a new job because theirs sucks. Now the woman is pregnant and he was taking her to the hospital to help her get assistance and navigate the system because she doesn't speak the local language. Now that he is on a work trip to another continent he is still translating for her at the doctors via phone. In this country you cannot evict a pregnant woman, which she didn't know because she's an immigrant, and he told her with no prompt.
Out of all the random anecdotes I read online, I really really hope this one is true. That’s really wonderful, and I’ve always found that helping others is the most surefire way to vouchsafe for our own humanity.
If I was going to make up a story I'd make up something less convoluted than some guy translating over the phone from South Africa for an Indian woman in Poland :D
He retired las year and bought a flat next to the university with the idea of renting to students until my stepson needs it. But I advertised them in one of my immigrant groups and got flooded with requests, and he thought it would benefit a young foreign couple more than a student. I am also an immigrant so he has seen the absolute nightmare that is renting as a foreigner.
He's not very concerned with not getting paid for a while if she cannot find work while pregnant because honestly our combined income is more than enough for our lifestyle. Not like we are super rich, but he has a high retirement + a salary from work + I also make above average.
My Dad rents out a few houses, he always does a thing where if you’re on time with payments for the rest of the year he gives you December free for the holidays
My landlord is pretty cool, our rent is pretty cheap considering the overall economy. He's not creepy, he's genuinely helpful when we say something is wrong. Literally the standard of what a landlord should be.
It just sucks theres so many shitty landlords that it became the norm so its hard for folks to believe a landlord not being greedy or a cunt like my landlord before my current.
Every year with my current tenant, since 2021, I waive the December rent fee as a generous gift for the holidays. This does two things: 1.) it gives me assurance that she’ll more likely than not: stay (renew her lease), and 2.) she’s a good tenant, pays on time, and rarely gives me grief, and when/if she does, it’s always a good exchange, and I fix the problem promptly. It also gives her a break since I know she can use the extra cash: it’s a win win.
can confirm. was a landlord for a short while. the old man that rented my place had a hard time making ends meet. I would let him owe an entire month if he needed to. moved out on his own when it built up to two months he couldn't pay, riding on the third. he kept insisting he'd get me back for those two months, I said don't worry about it.
Most rents where I live have gone up by 50-200€ this year, just bc of inflation. Mine has remained the same, even tho I know they absolutely could have raised ity about 100 easy. They're actually kinda potentially legally fucking themselves over with this. Genuinely, I have nothing bad to say about my landlords.
The landlords of our last place started us with a really reasonable rent in 2019, never gouged us with big hikes for over six years through COVID when they absolutely could have, and then when we moved out gave us back our entire deposit PLUS the pet fee. There were some unusual dings beyond normal wear and tear they could have groused over, and they just didn't.
They had their shortcomings of course and I don't love the world we have where needing to pay for your right to be housed is normal...but with that world as a given there actually are decent landlords. Those two left thousands and thousands of dollars on the table with us.
My family moved into a new apartment just as covid lockdowns really began. Our apt. manager knocked $200 off rent citing some small relief from a difficult season. It's rare, but it happens.
I had a landlord like that. He worked for the local college and used to live in the house he rented out.
He was doing his best to keep things up, but the house was an illegal rental because of the crazy 1900s layout. He gave us Xmas gifts every year, gave me $500 to redo the kitchen flooring and paint, and gave my full deposit back despite leaving a bit of a mess behind. We were there for 5 years and he never raised my rent.
I had a very kind landlord, he had to raise the rent once, and the only time he did it in the 9 years I lived there. It was such a paltry sum compared to all the rents around I actually offered a larger amount. He was stunned. He accepted a slightly lower amount but he really was a kind and generous human.
Of course if I relayed this story to some they wouldn't believe or think I was a mug. The rent was still ridiculously cheap even after the increase.
My landlord made me soup when I first moved in and in ten years has only increased the rest twice because things in general were getting more expensive, no doubt about that. If she were more well-off I could see her doing this.
A lot of people forget that landlord can also mean "normal person that has an extra home and is renting it"
Like, not all landlords are the horrific kind that just buy houses/apartments for the sole purpose of renting them and to extract every drop of profit from you.
But… if I bought the home when it was $150,000 and the current sale price is $750,000 then whoever is buying it out from me isn’t going to be one of the people who need it, it’s likely also going to be someone who is looking for an investment (welcome to a lot of Toronto). Obviously in an ideal world I would sell it for what I bought it but I need some funds for a new house, right? Or, I can rent it out at a great price and upkeep it for the tenants. This is all theoretical btw, but I don’t see how it’s evil, considering (depending on where you live) most people who are actually buying houses in certain areas ARE investors.
A lot of people forget that landlord can also mean "normal person that has an extra home and is renting it"
Even if it's not that, they're still businesss, any smaller landlord that isn't completely scummy and narrow-minded would realize the value of good customer relations. It makes sense for them to lower short term income to keep a good customer rather than roll the dice on a bad one who may be much less profitable.
I've been able to rent from Nov 2023 to Apr 2026 (at least) at the same rate because of this philosophy. Building's passed through three owners in the time that I've lived here and lower unit has gone through three tenants, all with several months of vacancy between them. They've all been willing to keep the rent exactly as-is and even improve the unit with the promise that I sign on for another year and keep the unit in the condition I've been keeping it in rather than throwing it back up on the market to lose in one month what it would have taken ten months for a rent increase to give them. The new(est) owner personally manages the unit instead of going through a property management company, and he's been more than happy to help out getting things improved and calls me his anchor tenant, especially after the downstairs neighbor moved out nine months early because she bought a house.
if you look at just about any monthly price for a house, this is literally nothing, even if it's 100 a month, you'll still get 800 a year, and you own multiple houses. this isn't actually that generous. it is good business though. and well... yeah if my land lord gave me 400 dollars of my own money I wouldn't say anything I am taking that. but also this isn't generosity.
Yeah, fucking up the housing market and witholding someone's right to a roof over their head unless they pay your mortgage sure is generous. Fuck all landlords. Eat the rich.
So you’d rather pay a soulless bank who will take your home from you without a thought rather than find a decent human being to pay to live somewhere instead?
You’d rather be in debt to a corporation for the rest of your life, trapped in the same property regardless of what happens or what kind of emergency might happen?
Call me crazy, but I’d much rather find a decent landlord and just pay rent and if I decide I want a life change I can just… move. Try that shit with a bank.
I’ve been late on my rent and my landlord is cool with it as long as it gets paid before or with the next payment.
I know my landlord’s name, I know their dogs… I know that when I pay for my house I’m feeding those cute dogs. I’m not paying a faceless bank to chip in on some yacht for a billionaire who is also declining loans to people and bleeding them dry.
MOST landlords suck ass. But I’ll take a mediocre or even grumpy landlord over a fucking bank or corporation. Because that landlord is a human being who can be reasoned with. The alternative is an infinite line of faceless employees all placing the blame above themselves until you reach the top and they place the blame at the bottom again in a never ending cycle of dick assery. Ypu ask your bank for an extension or temporary discount because you’re having a hard time… go ahead, fucking try it… lol I have asked my landlord for some help and she did… and it meant a lot to us and helped us out a ton.
So you really see big banks as the better alternative? Explain.
Because we live in a world where you have to pay for the stuff you consume, including a home. It’s not ideal, but it’s normal. You’re going to pay to live somewhere regardless…
So explain to me how a soulless bank is better than a human being you can meet, and talk to and reason with?
If you’re SOOO sure that I’m wrong, it should be easy to prove your point.
Explain to me how a landlord is a worse option than a bank? Sure, I’ll concede that some landlords suck absolute ass… and a large portion are mid to bad. But that’s not ALL. I have a great landlord now who did use a huge favor and let us move in with one month free… and let us move in with no deposit. As long as we pay and don’t destroy the place they’re happy.
Tell me how that’s possible with a bank? How do I find a place to live with medical debt from lung cancer from second hand smoke.. through no fault of my own I can’t buy a house because a bank says so, even though I could theoretically afford it.
How is a bank better for me in this situation, I’m dying to know.
You're putting so many words in my mouth, I have said barely anything. You seemingly cannot conceive of a world where neither landlords nor private property exists, where everyone has a personal home to live in without the threat of homelessness being used to exploit people and extort them of money.
It really depends on the landlord. My brother is renting a house and did a lot of work on the yard and shed which increased the value of the house so he has reduced rent from that.
Ive had a landlord like this. She was very kind and understanding to any issues the building had. Maintenance was always dispatched by her asap, she didnt charge late fees for almost 2 years during covid, and if power or water ever went out she would deduct from your rent how many days it was out. Landlords can be nice but its rare
A lot of people now literally think that if you own an empty house, and someone else needs to live somewhere, and you mutually agree that they will pay you a fee to live in your empty house, that that makes you the devil.
I was late 1 time. In 2 years and by late I mean maybe 2 days. Have the new ps5 and Xbox pro. No joke... walk in once amd said like,must be nice having that kind of money.
Is very possible with the reason, having good tenants is a blessing if you're a average joe landlord and 400 bucks ain't anything too crazy
Yeah, especially since unfortunately it seems this landlord is well-acquainted with the tenants from hell——if I were him and I, say, just had to go through a 6 month eviction process after the tenant failed to pay for like 3 months… AND I walked in and the place was trashed?? Yep, next tenant gets a Christmas bonus if they don’t massively eff it up
my dad managed to buy a very small house and rented it out to a new couple with a baby, and there were so many months he let them go without paying rent that he had to tell them he couldn't do it anymore and was selling the house. he still feels bad about that too.
I hereby invite your dad to be my landlord. I'll even pay rent.
Lived in several apartments... due to many circumstances lived in "the bad part of town" for about 6 months. Going into it i thought "maybe its not that bad. Theres no lights downstairs, really small, but im sure theres good people"
Constantly hearing shootings, sirens, emergency lights compensated for the lack of lights ig, didnt go one day without seeing something shady go down.
The other tenants would often skip payments and when they got evicted they would tear up the floors, break mirrors and windows, heard of one dude smearing shit all over the place.
So yeah. I could see someone renting out a second home they still owe mortgage on handing out some cash to not deal with that
My dad has dealt with some awful tenants. Building random walls, demanding new appliances when they were replaced a few months before, leaving behind huge stains or holes in walls. It got to the point he ended up selling a property rather than deal with trying to evict one.
But he’s had this one family as tenants since the houses were built and they have been super amazing the whole time. He lets them do whatever they want because he trusts them to do it right. They changed the carpet on the daughter’s room to pink recently I think.
I could definitely see him sending some of their rent back as a thank you. He keeps the rent low as he can specifically because he loves that family
No fr, if you're a landlord who's had shit tenants and you have one who's normal, nice, pays on time, and treats your property well, it makes perfect sense to try and keep that tenant
Agreed, my landlord loves that he rarely has to send a pro out for something and his home is well cared for. He used to spend hundreds a year just on general maintenance that I am easily able to do just as well. He was getting ready to send out a painter but came by and I had already touched up a bunch of spots and repainted all of the railing.
I hope you get discounts on your rent for doing the labor your rent is supposed to pay for…
The rent is really fair and hasn't gone up in the 7 years I have been here.
Ive had a landlord waive rent for December. We were neighbors and id help him out some just being neighborly. Was a good dude, and he had hell finding decent tenants.
Not only possible, but actually happens quite a bit. For my first apartment with my husband, our landlord wouldn’t charge us for December any year after our first year. Why? Because we were probably his best tenants. Whenever something minor needed to be done that was within our capability, we would do it as long as he paid for or gave us the supplies. Garbage disposal broke, I installed the new one once he brought it. Cabinet door hinges getting old and cracking/breaking; husband installed new hinges after landlord dropped them off. Obviously we couldn’t do electrical or major plumbing issues, but we weren’t going to wait a week for him to get a chance to come around if we could do it in a few hours. So as long as he paid for the items, we happily did some of the work if we knew how. So as a holiday gift and thank you, no rent in December. It was amazing.
Our second landlord was very nice, but the place was recently renovated and needed nothing fixed, so nothing to do to make ourselves seem like extraordinary tenants.
yeah, I'm not sure what's with this online idea that every landlord has 20 investment properties and is trying their best to squeeze as much money as possible out of every tenant. that's some (and probably a growing amount) of them, but a lot are just normal people who are relatively well-off and are just as capable of being generous as anyone else.
it’s probably just the crowd with bad landlords being a lot louder than those with neutral/nice landlords and so you almost never hear the positive stories (or any neutral ones bc there would be no story there) and that makes the negativity spread faster and wider
My landlords of 5 years are pretty awesome. Invite me on their boat, added a grill to the property because I said I liked grilling, gave me $150 worth of electrolytes recently because they had a ton gifted to them. I'm sure it's not easy to find good, helpful tenants. I could see being appreciative if I owned a rental property and had some good ones.
Your landlord has what plants crave?
What plants and tenants crave !
Yeah my landlords a cousin and ill swap a few receptacles for him which i dont think anything of outside of materials and hell knock $500 off my rent.
From even a strictly business standpoint, it makes sense to give the people who pay on time and don't destroy the house incentive to keep renting from you.
Exactly. No different than an employer giving bonuses.
you guys are getting paid?
I lived in my last apartment for five years and the landlord didn't raise our rent once, even though he probably could have doubled it compared to similar listings in the area. I'm assuming because the entire time we lived there, we always paid rent on time and never caused any trouble with the neighbors or damaged the property. His previous tenants must have been nightmares, because when we moved in, they had literally just replaced the front door because cops had to kick it in.
I had really kind landlords once.
What happened to them...
Nothing bad I hope, I saw them at the store recently and we were all pleasantly chatting! I just moved out of that house with roommates so I could live alone. Got my full deposit back too. I didn’t realize how ominous this sounded, haha.
I thought that was on purpose for dramatic effect, lol.
I had kind landlords once… until they raised the rent. They would regret that forever.
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My husband is a landlord. Two days after renting to his tenant he was sending their CVs asking me to find them a new job because theirs sucks. Now the woman is pregnant and he was taking her to the hospital to help her get assistance and navigate the system because she doesn't speak the local language. Now that he is on a work trip to another continent he is still translating for her at the doctors via phone. In this country you cannot evict a pregnant woman, which she didn't know because she's an immigrant, and he told her with no prompt.
Out of all the random anecdotes I read online, I really really hope this one is true. That’s really wonderful, and I’ve always found that helping others is the most surefire way to vouchsafe for our own humanity.
If I was going to make up a story I'd make up something less convoluted than some guy translating over the phone from South Africa for an Indian woman in Poland :D
He retired las year and bought a flat next to the university with the idea of renting to students until my stepson needs it. But I advertised them in one of my immigrant groups and got flooded with requests, and he thought it would benefit a young foreign couple more than a student. I am also an immigrant so he has seen the absolute nightmare that is renting as a foreigner.
He's not very concerned with not getting paid for a while if she cannot find work while pregnant because honestly our combined income is more than enough for our lifestyle. Not like we are super rich, but he has a high retirement + a salary from work + I also make above average.
Well all of that is lovely, and a balm in times of frenzied pain. I appreciate you sharing!
My Dad rents out a few houses, he always does a thing where if you’re on time with payments for the rest of the year he gives you December free for the holidays
If your landlord's not a giant corporation, I can see something like this happening
I am a landlord. I rent my unit for half the market price, because this amount already cover everything. So it makes a win/win.
Identical unit on that street is getting rented for double what I ask. I could have increased it, the unit was brand new when I got it, but I won’t.
Who would have thought? Property as a place to live instead of an investment to milk dry? Crazy!
My landlord is pretty cool, our rent is pretty cheap considering the overall economy. He's not creepy, he's genuinely helpful when we say something is wrong. Literally the standard of what a landlord should be.
It just sucks theres so many shitty landlords that it became the norm so its hard for folks to believe a landlord not being greedy or a cunt like my landlord before my current.
I can see both sides is what im saying.
My father viewed our upstairs renter as a son, so he'd frequently be like "don't worry about rent this month" and let him live up there for free.
My next door neighbours rent out their basement
My friend lived in said basement, and apparently my neighbours are just as kind and will buy stuff for them.
Every year with my current tenant, since 2021, I waive the December rent fee as a generous gift for the holidays. This does two things: 1.) it gives me assurance that she’ll more likely than not: stay (renew her lease), and 2.) she’s a good tenant, pays on time, and rarely gives me grief, and when/if she does, it’s always a good exchange, and I fix the problem promptly. It also gives her a break since I know she can use the extra cash: it’s a win win.
can confirm. was a landlord for a short while. the old man that rented my place had a hard time making ends meet. I would let him owe an entire month if he needed to. moved out on his own when it built up to two months he couldn't pay, riding on the third. he kept insisting he'd get me back for those two months, I said don't worry about it.
there's a reason I'm no longer a landlord...
Mine gives me 100 for Christmas. Nothing crazy but still nice
Most rents where I live have gone up by 50-200€ this year, just bc of inflation. Mine has remained the same, even tho I know they absolutely could have raised ity about 100 easy. They're actually kinda potentially legally fucking themselves over with this. Genuinely, I have nothing bad to say about my landlords.
The landlords of our last place started us with a really reasonable rent in 2019, never gouged us with big hikes for over six years through COVID when they absolutely could have, and then when we moved out gave us back our entire deposit PLUS the pet fee. There were some unusual dings beyond normal wear and tear they could have groused over, and they just didn't.
They had their shortcomings of course and I don't love the world we have where needing to pay for your right to be housed is normal...but with that world as a given there actually are decent landlords. Those two left thousands and thousands of dollars on the table with us.
My family moved into a new apartment just as covid lockdowns really began. Our apt. manager knocked $200 off rent citing some small relief from a difficult season. It's rare, but it happens.
I had a landlord like that. He worked for the local college and used to live in the house he rented out.
He was doing his best to keep things up, but the house was an illegal rental because of the crazy 1900s layout. He gave us Xmas gifts every year, gave me $500 to redo the kitchen flooring and paint, and gave my full deposit back despite leaving a bit of a mess behind. We were there for 5 years and he never raised my rent.
Dave was a real one.
But that's the sub that judges whether or not smth is legit, and I remember they deemed this post trustworthy 🤨
I had a very kind landlord, he had to raise the rent once, and the only time he did it in the 9 years I lived there. It was such a paltry sum compared to all the rents around I actually offered a larger amount. He was stunned. He accepted a slightly lower amount but he really was a kind and generous human.
Of course if I relayed this story to some they wouldn't believe or think I was a mug. The rent was still ridiculously cheap even after the increase.
I will destroy all landlords with my mind
still leaches but i do believe the story
My landlord made me soup when I first moved in and in ten years has only increased the rest twice because things in general were getting more expensive, no doubt about that. If she were more well-off I could see her doing this.
A lot of people forget that landlord can also mean "normal person that has an extra home and is renting it"
Like, not all landlords are the horrific kind that just buy houses/apartments for the sole purpose of renting them and to extract every drop of profit from you.
According to some in this thread, not selling the house so others can own a home makes them greedy.
But… if I bought the home when it was $150,000 and the current sale price is $750,000 then whoever is buying it out from me isn’t going to be one of the people who need it, it’s likely also going to be someone who is looking for an investment (welcome to a lot of Toronto). Obviously in an ideal world I would sell it for what I bought it but I need some funds for a new house, right? Or, I can rent it out at a great price and upkeep it for the tenants. This is all theoretical btw, but I don’t see how it’s evil, considering (depending on where you live) most people who are actually buying houses in certain areas ARE investors.
Even if it's not that, they're still businesss, any smaller landlord that isn't completely scummy and narrow-minded would realize the value of good customer relations. It makes sense for them to lower short term income to keep a good customer rather than roll the dice on a bad one who may be much less profitable.
I've been able to rent from Nov 2023 to Apr 2026 (at least) at the same rate because of this philosophy. Building's passed through three owners in the time that I've lived here and lower unit has gone through three tenants, all with several months of vacancy between them. They've all been willing to keep the rent exactly as-is and even improve the unit with the promise that I sign on for another year and keep the unit in the condition I've been keeping it in rather than throwing it back up on the market to lose in one month what it would have taken ten months for a rent increase to give them. The new(est) owner personally manages the unit instead of going through a property management company, and he's been more than happy to help out getting things improved and calls me his anchor tenant, especially after the downstairs neighbor moved out nine months early because she bought a house.
if you look at just about any monthly price for a house, this is literally nothing, even if it's 100 a month, you'll still get 800 a year, and you own multiple houses. this isn't actually that generous. it is good business though. and well... yeah if my land lord gave me 400 dollars of my own money I wouldn't say anything I am taking that. but also this isn't generosity.
I rent a room in a city I spend lots of time in for work
My landlord does this annually for tenants with no problems. It’s not tons but around the holidays especially, anything counts!
My landlord let me live in one of his houses for 5 years, telling me to save my money and I didn't have to pay rent.
you know what? i dont believe it either
It's an oxymoron. If they were "generous", they'd sell the house, stop generating passive income over it, and do something useful with their lives.
Yeah, fucking up the housing market and witholding someone's right to a roof over their head unless they pay your mortgage sure is generous. Fuck all landlords. Eat the rich.
So you’d rather pay a soulless bank who will take your home from you without a thought rather than find a decent human being to pay to live somewhere instead?
You’d rather be in debt to a corporation for the rest of your life, trapped in the same property regardless of what happens or what kind of emergency might happen?
Call me crazy, but I’d much rather find a decent landlord and just pay rent and if I decide I want a life change I can just… move. Try that shit with a bank. I’ve been late on my rent and my landlord is cool with it as long as it gets paid before or with the next payment.
I know my landlord’s name, I know their dogs… I know that when I pay for my house I’m feeding those cute dogs. I’m not paying a faceless bank to chip in on some yacht for a billionaire who is also declining loans to people and bleeding them dry.
MOST landlords suck ass. But I’ll take a mediocre or even grumpy landlord over a fucking bank or corporation. Because that landlord is a human being who can be reasoned with. The alternative is an infinite line of faceless employees all placing the blame above themselves until you reach the top and they place the blame at the bottom again in a never ending cycle of dick assery. Ypu ask your bank for an extension or temporary discount because you’re having a hard time… go ahead, fucking try it… lol I have asked my landlord for some help and she did… and it meant a lot to us and helped us out a ton.
you're too far gone bud.
So you really see big banks as the better alternative? Explain.
Because we live in a world where you have to pay for the stuff you consume, including a home. It’s not ideal, but it’s normal. You’re going to pay to live somewhere regardless…
So explain to me how a soulless bank is better than a human being you can meet, and talk to and reason with?
If you’re SOOO sure that I’m wrong, it should be easy to prove your point.
Explain to me how a landlord is a worse option than a bank? Sure, I’ll concede that some landlords suck absolute ass… and a large portion are mid to bad. But that’s not ALL. I have a great landlord now who did use a huge favor and let us move in with one month free… and let us move in with no deposit. As long as we pay and don’t destroy the place they’re happy. Tell me how that’s possible with a bank? How do I find a place to live with medical debt from lung cancer from second hand smoke.. through no fault of my own I can’t buy a house because a bank says so, even though I could theoretically afford it. How is a bank better for me in this situation, I’m dying to know.
You're putting so many words in my mouth, I have said barely anything. You seemingly cannot conceive of a world where neither landlords nor private property exists, where everyone has a personal home to live in without the threat of homelessness being used to exploit people and extort them of money.
We had to move out of our last place and our landlord gave us our last months rent back. 🥹
ive only ever had 1 landlord (who is a genuine piece of shit), but this is absolutely believable
It really depends on the landlord. My brother is renting a house and did a lot of work on the yard and shed which increased the value of the house so he has reduced rent from that.
Ive had a landlord like this. She was very kind and understanding to any issues the building had. Maintenance was always dispatched by her asap, she didnt charge late fees for almost 2 years during covid, and if power or water ever went out she would deduct from your rent how many days it was out. Landlords can be nice but its rare
No, this is straight bullshit.
It IS true, but that cost has already been amortized as a part of next year’s rent increase.
A lot of people now literally think that if you own an empty house, and someone else needs to live somewhere, and you mutually agree that they will pay you a fee to live in your empty house, that that makes you the devil.
A screenshot of a Reddit post that was a crosspost of an X post with a screenshot of a text. Oh yeah, it’s big brain time.
I was late 1 time. In 2 years and by late I mean maybe 2 days. Have the new ps5 and Xbox pro. No joke... walk in once amd said like,must be nice having that kind of money.