*landbastard intensifies at the right of replacing a 2 dollar light switch".

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41 Comments

velma@sh.itjust.works · 92 pts · 23d (3 replies)

A landlord complaining about having to do their job? Shocked

mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 31 pts · 23d

Based on every landlord I've seen, they're complaining about not doing their job twice as much

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 23d

Landlords just don't want to work anynore

usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 23d

In the most charitable interpretation, the rent price only barely covers the wear and tear without wfh, but we all know that's not true.

RiverRock@lemmy.ml · 59 pts · 23d (1 reply)

Damn, poor landlord will have to spend a little bit more of my fucking money to fix it.

mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 23d

Yeah. When they complain I always want to ask them "Really? What did you do with the last $2,000 I gave you?" like a disappointed father.

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 36 pts · 23d

Well, if you think that's bad you should get a job

zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 23d (3 replies)

So, we get rent discounts for going on vacation then right?

SchadeMarmelade@feddit.org · 6 pts · 23d

Hahaha

Leviathan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 23d (1 reply)

I turn on the light maybe 20 minutes a day for eating and maybe finding something. Do I get a discount because I like to live in the dark?

zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 23d

As a fellow creature of the night, I keep my windows and blinds closed at all times, that's cutting down on both UV and other weather damage.

Check please.

ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 29 pts · 23d

So much woe is me with these fuckers. If it's so terrible being a landlord then sell up and get a job.

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 23d

You can live in the home you pay rent for, but only during certain hours.

PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 23d

Just rent by the hour like in brothel L-MAO 土改 now

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 23d

So you rent an apartment, but are only allowed to be there a certain amount of hours per day? What's next, every 5min you have to listen to ads? Only allowed to use the toilet 3 times a day, otherwise the toilet door hinges will wear too fast?

tazeycrazy@feddit.uk · 19 pts · 23d (2 replies)

This guy isn't a landlord. Property's degrade far quicker and worse when left unoccupied for long periods of time. Leaks go unreported. Water freezes in the pipe. Air becomes damp and mold takes over. Squatters move in and trash the place.

Leviathan@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 23d

That guy is an idiot, which as far as I can tell is all the prerequisites needed to be a leech.

Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 23d

If all landlords knew that, there wouldn't be an "unoccupied houses to homelessness" ratio, tbf.

rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 23d

Yeah, you're renting, but that doesn't mean you can just live in it.

ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 23d

Can I be unemployed from home? UFH

cannedheat@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 23d

If I'm paying rent, I'll be in the unit as often as I damn well please. Simple as.

TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 23d

Says the man who fixes every problem with white paint.

Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 23d

Yeah, hi, um... Fuckface McParasite... You have literally zero fucking say over what people do in their home you fucking moron. If that means your precious fucking lightswitches wear out faster, too bad, so sad.

Magister@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 23d (2 replies)

Isn't a light switch 99¢ or less especially if you buy a pack of 10 ? This does not justify a $200/month increase if you WFH like I saw in an ad. I wasn't sure it was a joke or not

4am@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 23d (1 reply)

A decent switch will run you about $2.48USD. Not sure about contractor packs but I’m sure it’s cheaper. Your point still stands.

RusAD@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 23d

As if a landlord would ever buy a decent switch and not the absolute cheapest one

Folstar@lemmus.org · 14 pts · 23d (1 reply)

Mao had the right idea about landlords

DudleyMason@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 23d

I always thought he was entirely too kind to them.

atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 23d (1 reply)

So they don’t rent to stay at home parents either then right???

zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 23d

Raise the rents on home schoolers too, that's extra wear and tear.

slacktoid@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 23d

Let me play a dirge using the worlds smallest violin

klep@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 23d
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 23d

Just wait until I get my package of live termites in the mail! I ordered it off of amazon while I was working from home!

ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 23d

Just to check, this isn't someone pretending to be a poor landlord complaining about themselves being at home all day?

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 23d

I spend every moment in can in my Basement. I paid for it, im gonna use it!

CyroSignal@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 23d

Lol

pleiades@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 23d

Won't someone think of the landlords? They're the real heroes who run society, without them no one would have a place to live! /s

StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 23d (1 reply)

Is this legally enforceable? Or can we just lie?

pineapple@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 23d

No, they can see with the in wall camera they installed.

Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23d

Upvote for landbastard

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d

The only explanation I've heard that makes sense is when it's running a business out of the home and you have clients/customers coming and going. The increase in traffic is not accounted for in their insurance and blah blah. Extending that to WFH is either someone not understanding some landlord's rights posts they read on some dark corner of the internet or, I don't know, idiocy? Either way you're signaling you'll be a problem landlord.