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The sad thing is that individual landlords are among the most responsive to tenant needs, while corporate landlords often are sons of Hell who should be Thanos-

The sad thing is that individual landlords are among the most responsive to tenant needs, while corporate landlords often are sons of Hell who should be Thanos-snapped out of existence.

mjr00 4y ago
> The sad thing is that individual landlords are among the most responsive to tenant needs, This is extremely dependent on a lot of factors. When you are an upper-middle class tech worker renting a luxury condo, your landlord will absolutely be responsive and helpful. I've been in those condos and they're great. But I wasn't always able to afford to live in nice condos. When I lived in a cheap ground-floor unit and my bathroom started spewing feces out of the toilet and bathtub because the building's main sewer line was clogged due to the individual landlord fucking up a DIY fix, my individual landlord decided to ignore my calls because I was being annoying, and then I had to fight them through my local tenancy dispute board to reclaim the money I spent on hiring a plumber over a holiday weekend. So yeah... it depends.
- goatcode 4y ago
  Individual landlords may vary in how they treat you, but don't corporate also? In my own experience: For corporate landlords, being a poor grad student or a tech worker didn't seem to make a difference; I was still treated like I didn't exist. In several instances there were serious issues with my unit that were affecting my health, and they were ignored. Individual landlords were awesome people -- fast and responsive to issues big and small, and even did things to make my stay better. Seems that many results vary, but I suspect that when there's no human connection, you'll get a lot of bad stuff going on
pessimizer 4y ago
You should tell my landlords that, the spoiled son and daughter who inherited a bunch of passive income from their mother (who was actually a great landlord), and who let the leak I could hear, and called them about, fester for over a year until a large chunk fell out of my ceiling.
- goatcode 4y ago
  What's worse: that person, or the company that that person runs, that has 10x the units that he might have otherwise, with a protective layer between the owner and the tenant?
- efsavage 4y ago
  In my experience landlords who bought the property themselves are great. The ones that inherited it are terrible. It's something every tenant should find out, and avoid the latter.
treeman79 4y ago
Yep. My rental (invitation Homes ) had a major gas leak that they covered up by keeping windows open when I did walk through. When I asked about smell they kept saying it was new carpet etc. Turned our cap for gas was just sitting on pipe. All the gas pipes were hand done (badly) and against code. So permanent brain and nerve injuries for while family and hundreds of thousands in hospital bills. Screw them.
- vel0city 4y ago
  To be fair, most gas connections are done by hand and can be done reasonably safe when done right. The fact it was hand done probably wasn't the problem, the problem was it was done by someone unexperienced and potentially without the right tools and parts. Unless you're saying all the plumbing was only finger tight and they never used a wrench, which is just so wrong it didn't even originally cross my mind as what you're saying as done by hand. You're gonna need a good pipe wrench to get your gas connections tight.

The sad thing is that individual landlords are among the most responsive to tenant needs, while corporate landlords often are sons of Hell who should be Thanos-snapped out of existence.

mjr00 4y ago

> The sad thing is that individual landlords are among the most responsive to tenant needs, This is extremely dependent on a lot of factors. When you are an upper-middle class tech worker renting a luxury condo, your landlord will absolutely be responsive and helpful. I've been in those condos and they're great. But I wasn't always able to afford to live in nice condos. When I lived in a cheap ground-floor unit and my bathroom started spewing feces out of the toilet and bathtub because the building's main sewer line was clogged due to the individual landlord fucking up a DIY fix, my individual landlord decided to ignore my calls because I was being annoying, and then I had to fight them through my local tenancy dispute board to reclaim the money I spent on hiring a plumber over a holiday weekend. So yeah... it depends.

goatcode 4y ago
Individual landlords may vary in how they treat you, but don't corporate also? In my own experience: For corporate landlords, being a poor grad student or a tech worker didn't seem to make a difference; I was still treated like I didn't exist. In several instances there were serious issues with my unit that were affecting my health, and they were ignored. Individual landlords were awesome people -- fast and responsive to issues big and small, and even did things to make my stay better. Seems that many results vary, but I suspect that when there's no human connection, you'll get a lot of bad stuff going on

pessimizer 4y ago

You should tell my landlords that, the spoiled son and daughter who inherited a bunch of passive income from their mother (who was actually a great landlord), and who let the leak I could hear, and called them about, fester for over a year until a large chunk fell out of my ceiling.

goatcode 4y ago
What's worse: that person, or the company that that person runs, that has 10x the units that he might have otherwise, with a protective layer between the owner and the tenant?
efsavage 4y ago
In my experience landlords who bought the property themselves are great. The ones that inherited it are terrible. It's something every tenant should find out, and avoid the latter.

treeman79 4y ago

Yep. My rental (invitation Homes ) had a major gas leak that they covered up by keeping windows open when I did walk through. When I asked about smell they kept saying it was new carpet etc. Turned our cap for gas was just sitting on pipe. All the gas pipes were hand done (badly) and against code. So permanent brain and nerve injuries for while family and hundreds of thousands in hospital bills. Screw them.

vel0city 4y ago
To be fair, most gas connections are done by hand and can be done reasonably safe when done right. The fact it was hand done probably wasn't the problem, the problem was it was done by someone unexperienced and potentially without the right tools and parts. Unless you're saying all the plumbing was only finger tight and they never used a wrench, which is just so wrong it didn't even originally cross my mind as what you're saying as done by hand. You're gonna need a good pipe wrench to get your gas connections tight.