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> If the paint in my personal home starts peeling, my incentive to fix it is higher - I don't want to walk down the hall and see peeling paint. > If the paint
by AjithAntony 10y ago
> If the paint in my personal home starts peeling, my incentive to fix it is higher - I don't want to walk down the hall and see peeling paint.
> If the paint in a corporate-owned tenement starts leaking
LOL. It's the opposite effect. If I own the place, and The paint is peeling, and I have to fix it... then maybe I'll just live with it until it gets worse, or I plan to sell. If it was a rental, then I complain to the landlord to fix.
- alistairSH 10y agoAre you married? Own a house? ;) What incentive does the landlord have to fix minor problems? It costs you more to move/sue than it costs him to sit on the problem.
- AjithAntony 10y agoYeah, not married, so there is not that particular stakeholder motivating cosmetic repairs. As a landlord I want my current and future tenants to respect the valuable asset I have entrusted to them and maintain a good relationship. Fixing the little things is important in a "broken windows theory" way. "the cobbler's children have no shoes"