He’s actually kinda close to getting it.
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The idea of a corporate landlord who can just sit in some office demanding rent from you without ever showing their faces on the property really is insane.
If I think of it myself, I've never met my landlord - they communicate exclusively through their estate agent, I only ever see their name on the rent bill.
When you have no ability to confront your landlord, you have no ability to negotiate. People's living spaces shouldn't be an investment.
Do you want your landlord showing up all the time just to remind you that the place you’re living in isn’t actually yours?
No, but I want to give my landlord the opportunity (responsibility?) to see me as a person and not just an income source.
There was a great episode of This American Life where they interviewed a kid who took over managing one of his dad's properties. One of the tenants was a couple who had lost a child, and they fell behind on rent (and on life in many ways).
One of the things that stood out to me was how difficult it was for the kid to put in the work needed to accommodate this couple. He worked his ass off coming up with payment plans and helping them budget. His big takeaway was that he didn't ever want to get involved with his tenants again because it was too heartbreaking to be in a position where you're supposed to evict someone that's struggling.
Act three of this episode if you want to check it. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/323/the-super
I like how point number 2 is just "I am dumb"
No, they are right. In the US national, state, county, and local laws all interact with each other and there is rarely an easy way to get clarification when the statutes are vague and things are mostly done by regulations which may or may not be posted in a publicly available and findable location. Then the odds of the publicly available information being up to date is pretty slim. There is rarely any notification of changes, and if you travel 30 mins to the next town they might have completely different laws with different enforcement methods.
Hell, a lot of statutes have been invalidated by court cases so the laws are on the books but cannot be enforced. I imagine most other countries have a similar blend of different laws at the local and regional levels and weirdness due to litigation.
It really is impossible for the average person to know complex law unless knowing the law is their job, and even then nobody knows all of it and all regulations.
That doesn't mean it is slavery or fascism and that is there this person's valid complaint turned into loony tunes territory.
Every law is posted online. If there are exceptions those are also posted.
What are you smoking?
>be me
>want to be cool so i go out to buy undercarriage lights for my car
>also don't want to be pulled over so i check laws in my state
>legal
sweet.mp3
>buy lights and install them
>next day get pulled over on highway
wtf.jpeg
>sheriff tells me lights are illegal in county
>get ticket
>look up city laws
>legal
>look up county laws
>illegal
>look up laws in neighboring county that i pass on way to work before rejoining my county
>legal
>decide to go buy weed because clearly i'm high and smoked it all
legalstate.yuss
>go to dispensary in my city
>medical only
>city opted out of recreational
mfw
mfw i have no face