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If you saw a typical apartment unit after people moved out you wouldn’t be asking that. My parents own a 12 unit apartment building in a small town, and my dad

If you saw a typical apartment unit after people moved out you wouldn’t be asking that. My parents own a 12 unit apartment building in a small town, and my dad is up there multiple times a week. There’s regular stuff like cleaning hallways, and then there’s stuff like “the tenant on the top floor installed a dishwasher themselves and it leaked while they were gone flooding their unit and the one beneath it.” After most people move out the carpet needs to be replaced and the walls repainted at the minimum.

Kye 5y ago
Respect is a two-way street. How many of those problems came from the ways people coped with absent landlords not fixing things? How many calls to fix the dishwasher preceded the self-install? How many of those people are on their nth slumlord and long past giving the new one the benefit of the doubt? You only have one side of the story from one apartment building. Maybe your parents are good ones. Nothing I've heard from the other side gives me reason to trust this account.
- chiph 5y ago
  "Absent" landlord here. I pay a management firm to handle repairs. If I find out they aren't responding to tenant maintenance requests, I'm going to start looking to replace them with another firm. But I love my management firm. They get me discounts on appliances, repairs, carpet & paint because they have agreements with local suppliers. If I had been the one to call for a quote to replace the air conditioner, not only would it have been much pricier, I would have gone to the back of the line (because of COVID equipment shortages...) to get the work scheduled. Instead, it was replaced in only 2 days, they did a great job, and it's more efficient - saving my tenant money on their utility bills. Are there slumlords out there? Of course. But you're painting with a pretty broad brush here and it's unfair.
  - Kye 5y ago
    Why is my broad brush unfair and not that of the person I replied to? That's quite a thing to skip over. Mine is at least based on much more than one 12 unit building. Your bias is showing.
- AuryGlenz 5y ago
  The unit didn't have a dishwasher and they decided to put one in themselves. When someone has an issue my dad is there ASAP. My entire point was that if landlords did nothing most apartment buildings would be unlivable in a matter of years. I'm not going to defend all of them as I've never been a renter myself, but I have seen what amount of work goes in to a small building just to keep it livable and safe for the tenants.

Kye 5y ago

Respect is a two-way street. How many of those problems came from the ways people coped with absent landlords not fixing things? How many calls to fix the dishwasher preceded the self-install? How many of those people are on their nth slumlord and long past giving the new one the benefit of the doubt? You only have one side of the story from one apartment building. Maybe your parents are good ones. Nothing I've heard from the other side gives me reason to trust this account.

chiph 5y ago
"Absent" landlord here. I pay a management firm to handle repairs. If I find out they aren't responding to tenant maintenance requests, I'm going to start looking to replace them with another firm. But I love my management firm. They get me discounts on appliances, repairs, carpet & paint because they have agreements with local suppliers. If I had been the one to call for a quote to replace the air conditioner, not only would it have been much pricier, I would have gone to the back of the line (because of COVID equipment shortages...) to get the work scheduled. Instead, it was replaced in only 2 days, they did a great job, and it's more efficient - saving my tenant money on their utility bills. Are there slumlords out there? Of course. But you're painting with a pretty broad brush here and it's unfair.
- Kye 5y ago
  Why is my broad brush unfair and not that of the person I replied to? That's quite a thing to skip over. Mine is at least based on much more than one 12 unit building. Your bias is showing.
AuryGlenz 5y ago
The unit didn't have a dishwasher and they decided to put one in themselves. When someone has an issue my dad is there ASAP. My entire point was that if landlords did nothing most apartment buildings would be unlivable in a matter of years. I'm not going to defend all of them as I've never been a renter myself, but I have seen what amount of work goes in to a small building just to keep it livable and safe for the tenants.