I’d entertain sending landlords to the tip if they wanted.
This started as a joke on Reddit, making fun of landlords.
Tipping them of a cliff? 🥺👉👈
I think we should go for defenestration. Saves gas and travel time, plus the Russians have had a monopoly on the practice for far too long
A landlord wrote this.
ChatGPT wrote this after receiving a prompt from a landlord
As an AI language model, I cannot make the action of tipping landlords appear reasonable, as it is unreasonable and can lead to confusion among renters. Ultimately, it is advised to give the landlord as much work as possible, while keeping the payment low.
If you want more money, FIX MY FLAT FFS!!!
Christ if this isn’t satire these people are out of touch
It’s called marketing
Right? This doesn’t read as satire, but I’m baffled how anyone could write this with a straight face.
Their another blog post is this:
The Case for Landlord Unionization: A Collective Voice in Times of Adversity
If they want tip they better come and clean my house every week.
Tipping is an odd word to use, I think the correct term is Defenestrating.
Tipfenestrating.
I like how the landlord duties they mention are usually completed by other people.
They pay tradesmen to fix things and a lot rely on management companies to handle the houses/tenants. The cost of those services is then passed onto the tenant in the form of higher rent.
I’m sure they’re tipping the tradesmen and management companies.
You know who doesn’t make enough money? The people who control more housing than they can live in, and who, instead of selling that extra housing, exploit the basic human need for shelter, and we as a society just seriously undervalue how important this role is.
I hate tipping in general, but I understand some people like to show their appreciation for a service done well. If that’s the case, tip the repair person doing the labor, not the landlord!
Just in general, let’s stop tipping like the people doing a job need my generosity to survive. Pay the people what the job is worth and stop asking me to make up the difference.
Landlords are one of the most self-entitled classes to exist.
They have a long history of leeching off of society, all the way back to feudalism (or likely beyond). It’s almost like it’s ingrained in their psyche.
Class dynamics in action. Landlords are leaches, by definition.
As if I’ll tip the “socially acceptable” scalpers. They’re still scalpers, but worse.
With scalpers you get a product and you own it, With landlords it’s scalping as a service so you don’t own it but you still pay for it.
Maybe I would tip a landlord that goes above and beyond their role, but I’ve yet to meet one that even really does the bare minimum in maintaince, most hire out to avoid any responsibility.
My place was “professionally painted” which is why most of my floors, baseboards, windowsills and even my kitchen counter have paint stains on them. My “luxury apartment” that he advertised had mice coming in through some easy to patch holes in the wall. My driveway is literred with trash from previous tenants which I eventually picked up after his maintaince guy kept sweeping it to the side. I have no ventalation in my kitchen which can be a health hazard while cooking. The small lawn area got mowed once last summer and only after the city posted a notice to maintain it.
If a landlord wants to be tipped for “exceptional service” maybe they should be doing more than the bare minimum of collecting rent and paying property taxes.
Read your lease and check with an attorney. If the landlord is violating either (sounds like they are) you could be entitled to reduced rent or compensation. IANAL, but many states have laws to help tenants but you need to know them or where to look
Shitty as it is, my rent is still a couple hundred bucks below the market average. I’ve pacthed the mice out and I really like my location. I’d rather not risk having to move.
Landlords shouldn’t exist, much less be tipped
I doubt I’d have been able to move cities and change careers without renting an apartment. I think there is a role for landlords in society, but I also think a lack of regulations and poor housing/urban planning laws has blurred the lines of that role and pushed the priority into profits over everything.
There are valid reason to want to rent over owning such as short term employment, college/university, or just feeling out a city/area before commiting to a property.
Housing cooperatives can fill the void you’re thinking about. We don’t need landlords, they’re just leeches on society.
I’ve never heard of housing cooperatives as a way to rent. If I’m renting from a co-op, aren’t they my landlord then?
No, it’s more like being a member of a union. Your cooperative owns the property, and everyone elects stewards to manage the property
I think landlords could exist with better regulation, lisencing needed to become a landlord, proof of maintaince etc. Currently all it really takes is to own something and post an ad.
And that role can be covered by the government
They didn’t say renters shouldn’t exist, they said landlords shouldn’t.
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Tipping landlords makes the same amount of sense as tipping dentists or food servers: none.
Fuck too.
I’ll tip a dentist for heavy painkiller usage during
