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One reason it’s obvious you don’t have experience with home ownership is that you’re acting like the repair man is free and not easily an aggregate of 250/month when expensive repairs are needed. That is $3000 my dude, which is easily a single plumbing problem that the landlord, not the tenant, has to pay for out of pocket.

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underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s clear you’ve never had to rent a property from a shitty landlord before or you’d know they would just evict you, condemn the property and sell the land to recoup their “investment” rather than pay $3000 of their hard earned money fixing the damage some ungrateful shit did to THEIR property. You keep coming up with convoluted hypotheticals that assume the landlord will always act in the best faith to justify a practice that fundamentally should not exist. One or two “good” landlords don’t redeem all of them.

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- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The people here arguing against this live in states that have literally legislated protections for tenants against predatory landlords. The only reason they even think they have an argument, is because people fought very hard in their state, for minimal tenant protections.
  
  Most of the same people would be doing every single one of those predatory things if they were legally allowed to.
  
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  - underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The funny thing is they’re arguing with someone who has been illegally evicted several times. What exactly do they expect poor people to do about it, hire a lawyer and sue? For the chance of what, getting back into a rental run by a now (more) hostile landlord? Get monetary damages? How much? Enough to buy a house? No? Then the problem just repeats.
    
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    prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    And how do they even pay the lawyer?
    
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alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
He received over a million dollars for the house in the end, plus the 5-10K in profit.

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gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

That is $3000 my dude, which is easily a single plumbing problem

If you mean busted water and all the repairs, sure, but that’s on the landlord for not ever checking on their property (unless the tenant did something very stupid, which is possible)

I own my home and just had some plumbing work done in California (king of expensive) and 3k is about 10x what it cost me for a couple hours of plumber work

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