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> 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 up
by 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 agoIndividual 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