HAPPY LANDLORD DAY, EVERYBODY...

Yes, today is National Landlord Day, when people like you thank people like me that you aren't living in a cardboard box under a bridge somewhere.

Cardboard box renting is about all most renters will be able to afford in a few years. I wouldn't be trying to do yourself out of a market.

For once we agree. Just for different reasons.

Just as there are good and bad tenants, there are good and bad landlords. Hopefully, you're a good one.

Enjoy that bursting property bubble, douchebag.

yup, some of us are board members to non profit land trusts, while the others are parasites profiteering at the expense of stable communities.

from what I understand of LL obligations to tenants in the US, I'm not sure there's even a picture of what a good landlord is?

Hey man, my toilet is broken. Get your ass down here to fix it or I'm suing.

Haven't rented in decades but I still think proper upkeep and response to tenant's needs is the key. And notice of increases too.

Toilet? That's extra!

broken as in the float is stuck or there's water and smashed porcelain? because that's the difference between a few days and "on the way, do you know where the shut off valve is in your unit?"

either way, it's being replaced with a low-flow.

Ends up being an outhouse in the backyard... A no-flow.

Does this truly spark joy in your life?

Christ, this is sad

a few years ago the hot water tank i my unit had the bottom finally rot out.
It's in a small closet with a bit of a lip to get to the average height of my floors, and I'm on the uppermost floor. My neighbour had about a half a foot in his place before it continued to the shops and basement. Ballpark several hundred (if not thousand) cubic feet of water if you figure an average of 5 G/m for at least a couple hours until we clued in and got the water shut off.

of course this was at 4am in January.

had a couple days without water, but it got fixed at the LL's expense.

Golden1 Credit Union is my landlord but they can't ever raise my rent.

rent controlled/non profit here.

I'm dying in this place.

OMG, someone who owns something might charge someone else for using it! The horror!

Hmm yes, everything that is legal under capitalism is morally good. Thanks for providing us with the reminder.

Why the facepalm? The point of your post seems to be that it being wrong is by definition something worth mocking, which implies it's pretty much always right/good.

Is there a meaning you meant to provide in words you forgot to include?

Diagram that sentence.

Bailey? Are you secretly Kamala Harris? Or her speechwriter?

American schools, everybody!

Allow my to introduce all you mighty progressives to a parable called “the tragedy of the commons.”

Allow us to retort with the Capitalist bible The Wealth of Nations. But just like the real bible, conservatives only follow the parts that are to their advantage.

Most of us are very familiar with it. One of the great examples of how regulation can actually be better for long term sustainability and fairness of private enterprise.

izzat the one that boils down to:

Yep, that'd be it. Unsurprising that you take the exact wrong meaning from it, tho.

I usually take one or two, then go from there. I never take three right away.

O RLY?

this oughta be interesting.

The parable teaches that something that is owned by everyone winds up maintained by no-one and ruined by the thoughtless overuse of the many. History demonstrates the truth of that. If you somehow think it demonstrates the virtue of selflessness then you don't understand it at all.