Comment on Don't forget to tip
ccunix@lemmy.world 8 months agoNothing wrong with being a landlord. There is a problem with being a tosser.
The landlord/tennant relationship seems to be different to every other business relationship. The landlord always seem to think they are doing the tennant a service by allowing them care for the house. The reality is that the tennant is exchanging large sums of money for a service.
- Deep cleaning ready for the next tennant is the landlord’s problem, not the tennant.
- All maintenance of the infrastructure of the house (walls, water, heating, etc) is the landlord’s problem. This includes modernisation. No rental property in 2023 should be without structured cabling and modern electrics for example.
- The tennant is not there to pay the mortgage. The landlord may lose money at times and that is just the cost of doing business.
HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fixing houses is already a job. It’s called being a repairperson. Some landlords work as repairpeople in addition to being landlords, and that’s great, because the repair work is the only part that’s actually a job. Plenty of landlords contract it out and only do the job of landlording, which is sitting on your ass.
ccunix@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Don’t care if they do it themselves or contract it out. They just need to be make sure it is done.