“I am not tipping” - what the fuck? Does anybody actually add a tip to their rent payments?
What, do you want your landlord to starve!?
Bro, they’re adding a tip option to vending machines. The world lost its fucking mind. Late stage capitalism indeed.
Smh my head. I hear that 7 segment displays on vending machines actually get paid fair wages in Europe and that coin slots have a union.
The world lost its fucking mind.
I’m a school bus driver and while it’s weird enough that we generally get tips (from the parents, not the kids of course) at Christmas and the end of the school year, a co-worker of mine last year handed out tip envelopes (like what garbage truck workers leave on the cans) to all the kids on his bus. At least he was suspended for doing this, as a bunch of the parents went apeshit.
Garbage truck workers what now?
Every year before Christmas, the garbage truck guys “helpfully” leave an envelope taped to your bin so you can leave them a Christmas tip. You’ve never seen one of these?
No
Never ever. That’s quite a concept! So you leave it taped to the bin for a week with $5 in it?
And what happens if you don’t tip them?
No, you generally put the money out with the bin on the morning it’s picked up (and it’s more like $20 to $50 lol). My neighborhood is quite safe but even here an envelope filled with cash wouldn’t last a week.
Nothing would happen if they didn’t get a tip. There’s a huge turnover in that job and none of the workers ever last more than a couple of months, so even if they had a grudge against you they’d be gone in no time.
Garbage workers in my city are city employees who make decent pay
Did anyone tip?
No, it is parody
You are parody
Your mom is a parody
There was a landlord on TikTok who essentially asked for tips. He had his friend play a renter that refused to tip him and argued that if waiters get tipped just for delivering the food to the table, the landlord totally deserves a tip for being available for calls and fixing stuff.
One giant shitstorm later and we end up with this meme and the landlord making a TikTok in which he said that it all was a joke.
It’s usually called a “convenience fee” and is mandatory
I am also completely puzzled by this. I even started imagining a situation where the landlord is so poor he is working as a waiter in a restaurant. Otherwise this doesn’t make any sense.
Always tip your landlord
Why give them the tip when they go balls deep.
I’m a landlord and a school bus driver and I am poor as fuck. I bought a cheap house that needed a huge amount of renovation work, and I now rent it out while I live with my elderly parents. The rental income represents about a 50% increase over my salary (assuming nothing goes seriously wrong with the house) but I still make less than $40K. Not every landlord is the guy from Monopoly.
Has anyone ever tipped a landlord and if so, what drugs were they on?
I do every week and the drug I was on was care for the weaker humans in society.
Nice that’ll show em lol
I never tipped a landlord, but as a joke I paid my rent in Sacajawea Dollars so as to give him a “bag of gold.” At first he was pissed, but then he asked me to continue. Apparently they turned out to be good tips at the bar.
Being mad at an independent landlord is like being mad at the dog shit you just stepped on instead of the motherfucker that didn’t pickup after his dog.
Many independent landlords are people who decided to take her everything they had on a derelict home that nobody was going to buy, fix it up, and make it available. These are people that dream to get out from under the boot and are willing to bet it all for a chance. A landlord with one or two rentals are probably struggling to keep their head above water and almost for sure have a full time job as well as the maintenance of the rental, and probably the fixing up of another.
This is how the system is rigged. If you want to mortgage a house, you need to have a lot of money down, steady income, and a good credit score. Mortgaging a fully remodeled house in order to rent it doesn’t work because you’ll never be able to rent it for that much. Mortgaging an ugly house to rent doesn’t work most of the time because you need to remodel it “nice” and you need to find a tenant willing to pay a premium for a pig wearing lipstick. Most times, even when the house is done up, the neighborhood isn’t. Next up, if you want to mortgage a derelict house that you plan to bring back from the dead, wether to rent or live in, YOU CAN’T. The only way to buy those homes is cash. In other words, neither homebuyers nor wannabe landlords have access to the only homes that might provide a good value. Wanna guess who can? Investment funds. They are the ones raping renters, not the poor schmuck that’s trying to play the game the way they were told it was supposed to work. That schmuck is fucked, they just don’t know it.
My wife and I owe the current life we lead in great part to a lady that decided to rent her duplex to two college students for $275 twenty years ago. She died and her daughter sold all the houses the lady owned (she owned the entire street in that ghetto) to a fund. Each duplex (meaning, half a house) now goes for $1200 (still a ghetto) and now requires a credit check and two months deposit.
Get mad at the rigged system, not at the other suckers stuck in it. Don’t be a crab in the bucket.
EDIT: There are good independent landlords and there are bad ones. There is no such thing as a good real estate investment funds.
My landlord is a farmer. He’s out on the fields everyday. Comes to fix our boiler with his hands covered in fresh chicken shit. The rent is expensive, but it could be much worse considering.
My landlord was a single mother and she provided for me for years before becoming my landlord. She had me paying rent since I was 7 and that’s when I learned to appreciate landlords.
Bro you’re killing it in this comment section. Bravo
I hope so, people need to learn to sympathize with their lords.
While they are landlords, i prefer to refer to them as Kings
This is me.
Bought a nearly 100 year old house earlier this year, 1.5 hours away from where I live. I work full time.
I’ve spent nearly every weekend and ALL of my free cash (plus credit that I’ll likely be paying off for a few years) to replace the sewer lines, insulate the crawlspace and basement, replace the roof, replace the siding, replace the leaking windows, update the electrical, update the plumbing, replace old appliances, replace corroded cabinet hardware, seal holes around the house from rodents, paint the walls, ceiling, and cabinetry inside the house, remove and clean up a dilapidated wood shed, empty an incredible amount of rotten and corroded junk from the basement, CLEAN the basement, replace the broken door to the basement, fill in and repair cracked and broken concrete, replace the rotten hot tub, and ongoing efforts to prevent water from flooding the basement every time it rains.
And I’m not finished. Not even close. There is so much to be done to make this place work and make sure it stays in good condition for years to come.
The initial priority was pest control, deep cleaning, painting, and furnishing. Once that was done the place was listed on AirBnB. It’s helped to offset the costs, but will take decades to break even. After utilities, taxes, supplies, and expenses for cleaning between guests I’m pulling in maybe a couple hundred dollars a month. But it helps.
AirBnB is also a big part of the problem. If you want to rent your fully furnished apartment for $1300 (net to you), by the time AirBnB is done with fees to you and the tenant, the tenant is being charged $2200. It’s obscene. AirBnB and VRBO were originally meant to help homeowners offset there cost of their homes by renting a room or the entire place while they were away. Now they are these monstrosities that do nothing but syphon money from homeowners and tenants.
I’m glad you’re fixing up the place and keeping it off the hands of investment funds. Once it’s fixed up, if possible, I’d recommend renting it directly to a tenant for a bit under market rate. Management companies tend to price gouge tenants (and owners), and they con you into raising rent every year. They don’t care if the tenant can’t afford it or if the place stays empty for months. If you can find a tenant that is decent and treats your property well, stick with them, even if you make less than maximum on a monthly basis by charging less than market. Pass the savings of not having a middle man to your tenant and everyone (except the middle man) wins.
renting a room or the entire place while they were away
We need solid legislation getting us back to this. It’s a great idea, but now it’s abused to hell and back.
OTOH, aren’t renters and owners alike leaving AirBnB in droves?
We are actually fixing it up for family to live in. We have overseas relatives who visit for 6 months a year. When they are not here, we might use it for ourselves as well - but more likely we will rent to traveling nurses.
I’m not interested in being a long term landlord. I’ve lived with enough self-entitled roommates to want to never have to be on the other side of that relationship as a landlord.
> Spends loads of time and money on fixing up an old house
> Rents it out to offset costs
> Gets downvoted for being a landlord> Spends money buying microshares of a ruthless real estate fund on Robinhood
> Gets upvoted for gaming the system
Landlords, can’t do anything right
Why AirBnB and not the usual lease agreement?
Guessing so they can continue the work in between guests. Probably not in a state to lease out as then they are under a lot more obligations to quickly fix bigger issues
I knew this guy years ago that bought up basically free property during the housing crisis. Houses were so undesirable in Detroit at the peak of the housing crisis, you could buy a house for $100, as they were considered a liability. His goal was to fix them up himself and then provide them to the community as extremely low rent residences, if anyone wanted to buy them after they were fixed up he would give priority to his renters at slightly above cost (cost of materials) as a rent to own system (not one of the scummy ones but a real system in their favor). He had no intention of making money, he just believed it was the right thing to do. Dude was just a good person through and through.
Nah man. The dude was a saint. It takes a special kind of selflessness to do something like that.
How about not hording property? Did she have a house? Did she need to own a entire ghetto? I have no pity or empathy to people who own multiple houses and rent them.
She and her husband literally restored an entire street that had been derelict since the Louisiana oil crash by using her husband’s pension and disability after having destroyed his body working on the rigs. Literally abandoned homes that they fixed, made livable and rented, without credit check or any other bullshit, for affordable prices. Our street was the only safe street in the entire neighborhood, and also the only one where the homes were in good condition. Nobody wanted this homes. Nobody had the means or desire to fix them. Stop trying to manufacturer villains around the narrative you’re being fed. People can’t afford homes because of funds and companies specifically designed to hoard shit. That’s why prices are skyrocketing.
NOPE SHE’S A PIECE OF SHIT LANDLORD SCUM
signed,
the internet
Who the fuck tips a landlord?
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Look at all these rocks I just bought from desperate people! Pay me and you can sleep under them.
Landparasites am I right
Edit: damn someone loves landlords
You can’t see the tenants rocks because they’re so big
The tenants are chained to the earth
There are ten ants!?
The origin of the word tenants is from the fact that it takes ten human sized ants to carry their rocks.
The more you know 🌈
It’s a shame all the ants were killed, now the poor landlords have to do the lifting
Then don’t be a landlord if it is such a terrible job.
Exactly, if you’ve got money lying around, invest in something that doesn’t require you to get off your ass and ensure the singular person/family selling their labour for your dividends isn’t forced to shelter in a mold infested leaky death trap.
You’re profiting of someone else’s undeniable need for shelter and housing. You can at least fix the broken extraction fan above the gas cooker and not winge about the loss your precious rental income for that week.
The stock market is way easier to invest in than the property market. I genuinely don’t understand why landlords take it on, then bitch about it.
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Yeah, fuck him, he’s a real hemorrhoid!
Eat shit die is what I say. We keep fighting among ourselves for fucking scraps and we thing is a meal.
Nah fuck those big investment companies, fuck the humongously wealthy.
(I don’t think most celebrities are rich, because people like musk, bezzos and certain corporations, stole the money of an entire generation)
I think it was the 400 richest people own more assets then the poorest 60%
That literally means we just need to focus on the titans of the industry. Not my landlord gary
Lol. It’s hilarious you said Gary. I worked for a contractor who son (he and everyone knows his daddy gave him everything) had a couple rent houses. His name was Gary. He’s alright.
Idk why it’s a landlord thing to be called Gary, in my family betweent me my parents and my brother we all had at least one landlord called Gary at some point in our lives 😂😂😂
Those aren’t rocks they’re bags of money
Hemorrhoids are a pain in the ass.
Why is he carrying a rock labelled hard work? Is that what he calls your rent check or something? I work hard, my land lord does not. That’s literally the entire relationship.
He’s weak, which is why he deserves a tip
If he’s short on cash, he should get a job, like the rest of us, rather than leeching off of others.
The landleech bootlicking in the comment section is real
Ikr they fucking love their betters
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Dude I hate them more than anyone but I’m working in a jurisdiction where the legal term has been changed to “rent provider” and it’s a total fucking shitshow. A name is what you make it.
I thought the tenant was the rent provider.
The landlord is the rent demander.
rent eater
The scientific term is rentier.
That’s what microsof
This is peasent thinking, not lord thinking. This is why you won’t rise up the ranks.
Yes, it’s a lordship.
Hahaha the only one to blame for your bad pay is yourself, my guy. You could try getting a real job if being a landlord isn’t the gig you thought it would be.
Hahahaha yes very true
