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Fake. A report would list the violations, the code reference, and have a lot of extra text describing the municipalities rules regarding said violations and a list of consequences for failing to correct said violations.
It would certainly not list a price because the inspector doesn’t set repair costs or estimate them, and these were fines they aren’t “estimated,” much less printed out on a sheet like this. Even if it were remotely real, why would the tenant ever get a copy? The notice of violation goes to the landlord.
One of the apartments I lived in as a kid had started with the best kind of landlord: completely absent unless something needed to be fixed. But after a year or two, he sold it to essentially the opposite: Always there unless something needs fixing.
The actual owner was a retired guy who owned a bunch of apartments on the other side of town, and didn’t want to be bothered with actually running this one building. He bought it so his weird son could move there and have a place to work on cars. So we now had a nosy neighbor that was always ready to tell us our business but wasn’t going to be responsible for any actual upkeep, while the real landlord might as well have been in witness protection anytime we needed something. And as an added bonus, we had to move the car from the safe, spacious parking lot to the busy street in a fairly shitty neighborhood.
When I got my driver’s license, a friend of the family sold me a really shitty car for $5. I got it home but needed to get it worked on because I’ve always believed that when it comes to steering and brakes, a car should be able to do at least one of those things reliably.
The next day, the bipedal rodent next door asked my mom about the car and she explained that it was mine and I was going to be getting it worked on so I could have a car. He offered $50 for it so he could fix it up and sell it, which my mom politely declined.
Later that day, my mom and discount Norman Bates got into an argument about some trivial bullshit and the by the next morning, my car got towed away. The shit head then went on to explain that the street in front of the apartment would be restricted to two hour parking, and that my mom would have to move her car if she didn’t want it towed. He didn’t care that there was nowhere else to park, not his problem.
So my mom showed up to work crying and on the edge of a nervous breakdown, which caught the attention of her boss, who just happened to be a member of the city council. She explained what had happened and he told her not to worry about it. Turns out the little unregistered business running out of our parking lot was about 7 different kinds of illegal, and while the place was being inspected by the city they also found several violations that would get very expensive if they weren’t fixed.
In the aftermath of the legal colonoscopy, the lost heirs to the Habsburg dynasty were suddenly willing to be a lot more reasonable. We still had to park on the street (which was bullshit) but dipshit junior talked to his dad and the right to park there was going to be added to the lease agreement and they were both going to be off our backs for at least a few months because they were too busy dealing with the city.
Sadly, I never did get the gas guzzling death trap back. It would take a year and a half before I finally got my hands on an even more fucked up car.
More relevant to this post, there was a time when the plumbing backed up and the toilet started backing up into the bathtub. It’s Saturday afternoon, my mom calls dipshit the elder (now actually answering the phone in the wake of the previous story) who says he’ll come take a look at it on Wednesday or Thursday. My mom hangs up and calls a city renters hotline and asks what would happen if, hypothetically, someone were in this situation and complained to the city. Turns out, a lack of functioning plumbing is a pretty serious code violation and the fines could start after twenty four hours. When my mom called the old man back, suddenly he found the time in his schedule to come look at it the next day. And then when he couldn’t fix it himself (shocked-kirk.jpg) he had a plumber there on Monday morning.
In cases like this, can the landlord mysteriously choose not to renew the rental contract?
in some jurisdictions that have tenant protections, if a complaint is filed a landlord can’t ‘retaliate’ by raising rents, not renewing, evictions would get much more scrutiny by the courts, etc…
Which if a jurisdiction is willing to inspect a unit to this level, its a safe assumption that it has those protections you listed
Probably
Reeks of affluent college town to me
And then everybody clapped. “Wires are crossed. $6,500. 21 days to fix.” Am I playing pretend with my nephew?
You could save yourself some letters by reciting the old 4chan mantra:
fake and gay
That image is certainly one of those things
I’m not sure.
It’s not saying it’s real but I can envision a world where it’s at least conceivable.
They’re not saying it should take 21 days of labour, just that they have 21 days to be compliant.
And the runs between units might indicate other issues like insufficient panel sizes, or long runs of wall that are expected to get cut up and are expected to be repaired properly. Maybe permits and subsequent electrical inspections. They might even pad all their estimates too.
It’s high, but not impossibly high.
it’s not unheard of. i had an outlet that wasn’t on my own electrical service. when they replaced the fuseboxes in the back with breaker boxes they double-checked what circuits went to which units and it got ‘fixed’. the fridge was running on that outlet when i moved in.
Switching neutral with live generally won’t cause any issues. Switching neutral with ground is much worse but most likely would go without major issues. Switching ground and live would make things just not work at best, and become a huge fire and/or electrocution hazard at worst.
I’m 99% sure neither the original post or the one you are responding to are talking about crossed wires inside an outlet. They’re talking about an entire outlet/switch/etc. being on the electrical service for a neighboring unit.
So someone is paying for the usage of a neighbor. And if power is shut off for non-payment, they move out, etc. then one of the outlets will seemingly randomly stop working because it’s on a different electrical service.
At least it wasn’t your water heater or HVAC
Aww, did someone find out?
SLOP
Saw this as a text post on r/maliciouscompliance like two days ago. Author of the post did not post this image. At least one of them is bull
Let me use AI to fact check it
How
I actually know a few landlords that are very responsible with stuff like that
It’s their tenants that end up breaking things
It’s fucked both ways. When you rent, landlords treat you like shit. When you’re the landlords, the tenants fuck up your property.
Seems like if your tenants keep wreckinh things like willing the paint off the walls, it’d be a lot easier to just sell the property to someone that lives there. Then it could be their problem.
Thankfully the landlords I’ve had are pretty cool with me
I also know how boots taste…
I’ve never heard a landlord complain about not affording to feed their kids because one of the tenants spilled something on the rug.
Now that’s some slum-lord shit
Didn’t you know? Every landlord is a monster stealing from people who get absolutely no benefit from the arrangement. At least here on Lemmy, that is.
You can tell when people haven’t experienced home ownership before. It’s definitely a “grass is greener” thing, but owning a home is a major pain in the ass in many ways. I actually work with a few people who sold theirs and went back to renting because of it. I’d join them if we didn’t have more pets than the city allows.
The equity thing is always brought up, but any gains you make because of market fluctuations are only good for taking out loans, or making a profit when you go back to renting. The other houses on the market have increased in value along with it. Plus, any maintenance expenses are just keeping your house from losing value.
You’re just going to completely ignore the principal benefit of home ownership?
“Renting” means 70 years of annually-increasing monthly payments, and leaving nothing to your kids.
“Owning” means 30 years of fixed monthly payments, 40 years of no payments, and bequeathing an actual estate to your kids.
I’ve been in my current home 20 years; I’ve already made 20 years of payments on my current home. I’m paying the fixed monthly price I negotiated 20 years ago, back when my house was worth a fraction of what it is currently worth. My mortgage payment now is a little more than the rent payment would have been 20 years ago. My mortgage payment now is about 1/3 the rent payment for comparable homes in my area. My mortgage payment will continue to be fixed for the next 10 years, while rents will be hiked 10 more times. I don’t need to fight for “rent control”; I already have it.
The equity thing is always brought up,
You do not entirely comprehend of the concept of “equity”. You come close, but you just don’t quite get there:
The other houses on the market have increased in value along with it.
Exactly. The proceeds from the sale of one home pay for the next, and the next, and the next…
I’ve made 20 years of mortgage payments on my current home. I have also made 20 years of mortgage payments on my next home. And 20 years of mortgage payments on the home after that. In 10 years, I will have paid off my current home, and I’ll be living “rent free”, wherever I happen to be living. (Theoretically,) I won’t ever need to make another house payment, and I’ll be able to leave a home, (or the value of a home), to my kids.
That’s what “Equity” actually means. Not this “taking out loans” crap, nor the “making a profit when you go back to renting”.
The entire concept of “renting” needs to die in a goddamn fire. You’re literally better off playing the lottery than pissing away your hard earned money on a housing subscription.
I’m paying the fixed monthly price I negotiated 20 years ago, back when my house was worth a fraction of what it is currently worth.
A nitpick: no you aren’t, unless you don’t have property tax and homeowners insurance in escrow paid out of your mortgage payment. I bought a house in 2010, thanks to the 2008 economic crash I picked it up for $43k on a FMV of 90k. I was young and had a low wage job at the time so I went for a 30 year mortgage instead of 15, and my payment with escrow was only $386/month. Fast forward to last year when I sold it, my payment at that point was nearly $600/month due to taxes and insurance both nearly doubling.
Also fun fact, even though I sold it for nearly three times what I “paid” for it, I didn’t profit nearly as much as you’d think due to that massive amount of interest I paid over the 15 years of a 30 year mortgage. If I had taken the 15 year loan it would have been paid off for six months before I sold it, and in fact I probably wouldn’t have sold it. When you’re in your 30s, 30 years doesn’t seem much longer than 15. If I bought a house today I would go for 15 years…not that I can afford to buy one today. I’m lucky that I live in an inherited house now but most people don’t have that going for them.
Renting would almost make sense if it was dirt fucking cheap. The reality is it often costs an amount comparable to a mortgage, but without any of the benefits.
Personally I think housing should be a right and everyone entitled to it, and should not be used as an investment or vector for wealth.
Owning and living in it is completely different than owning and renting. I don’t rent anymore, and I also don’t own multiple homes, but just from seeing what happens to the house next door, renters are not maintaining your property value. Selling your rental after it has been rented for ten years is no guarantee. That’s part of why rent has gone insane, people literally treat anything that isn’t their own as something to be destroyed.
I don’t think anyone thinks owning a home is easy, more that housing as an investment has priced people out of the option entirely.
You’d be surprised. In the coms like boringdystopia, latestagecapitalism, and anarchy, the attitude is that there’s absolutely no upside to renting. Every tenant is getting screwed by every landlord.
