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I feel like there's a city vs suburbs correlation here too. If you live in a city, (nevermind the fact that you're probably renting and paying way to much in r

I feel like there's a city vs suburbs correlation here too. If you live in a city, (nevermind the fact that you're probably renting and paying way to much in rent consider fixing anything yourself) you probably don't have the space and the tools to enjoy taking apart and fixing things. In the suburbs, you probably have a garage and a side yard where you have the space to entertain these kinds of hobbies. Just recollecting: the last thing I fixed was a bolt that broke off inside a nut that was welded to a pipe. Luckily I have a workshop table, a vice, and a drill with various attachments. All of this takes space.

bredren 4y ago
> If you live in a city, (nevermind the fact that you're probably renting and paying way to much in rent consider fixing anything yourself) you probably don't have the space and the tools to enjoy taking apart and fixing things. The way housing is now, overpaying for rent is just “paying rent.” There is no special circumstance as a renter where repairs come faster or with less pliant and nuanced communication to the landlord. The places are actually worse, because competition for below market single family homes, (which are basically always in need of repair,) is extremely fierce. My experience is landlords don’t fix up anything and you have to pick and choose the most important stuff for them to fix. Technically are they on the hook to fix everything? Maybe? But only people who don’t rent or haven’t rented in too long to remember think this is actually what happens. And anyway there is some implicit understanding that since they are not absolutely gouging you like every other landlord, you owe it to them to not ask for too much. So implicitly, you either have to learn to fix things or have a home that is sorta kinda broken / jenk six ways from Sunday. Either learn how to fix stuff or live the life of death by a thousand paper cuts.

bredren 4y ago

> If you live in a city, (nevermind the fact that you're probably renting and paying way to much in rent consider fixing anything yourself) you probably don't have the space and the tools to enjoy taking apart and fixing things. The way housing is now, overpaying for rent is just “paying rent.” There is no special circumstance as a renter where repairs come faster or with less pliant and nuanced communication to the landlord. The places are actually worse, because competition for below market single family homes, (which are basically always in need of repair,) is extremely fierce. My experience is landlords don’t fix up anything and you have to pick and choose the most important stuff for them to fix. Technically are they on the hook to fix everything? Maybe? But only people who don’t rent or haven’t rented in too long to remember think this is actually what happens. And anyway there is some implicit understanding that since they are not absolutely gouging you like every other landlord, you owe it to them to not ask for too much. So implicitly, you either have to learn to fix things or have a home that is sorta kinda broken / jenk six ways from Sunday. Either learn how to fix stuff or live the life of death by a thousand paper cuts.