This Online Group Is Dedicated To Shaming Greedy And Delusional Landlords, And Here Are Their 40 Best Posts (New Pics)

A lot of large business owners forget that money works on a cycle. If you want people to buy your products, you must pay your workers enough to afford them.

To put things in perspective, in the UK at least, in 1980 ​the average house price was £19,500 (£84,517 adjusted to inflation in today's money) while the average yearly wage was £6,000 (£19,000 in today's money). Nowadays, the average house price is £265,000 while the average yearly wage is £25,000. That's 3 and 1/4 worth of yearly wages vs 12 and 1/2. Also, for anyone that would argue it's due to overpopulation - the population in 1980 was 56 million people, in 2021 it is 68 million. According to the most recent government figures released in November 2020, 268,385 homes in England had been empty for at least six months. How is this fair?

Red flags all around

That's alright, I'm English.

You can only borrow money from a bank if you can prove that you don't need it.

I guess Till is a landlord.

I wish it worked like that where I live. Here, it's perfectly legal for landlords to increase the rent however they want between tenants. However, it's not legal for them to raise the rent more than a certain amount every six months for the same tenant. That leads some landlords to care for current tenants less, so they can pressure them to leave and hike up the rent for new tenants.

A thieving snake. Some people have money sign instead of eyes

thats disgusting

Absolutely no ethics, morals or values

This had a dedicated post on BP not too long ago

To end homelessness, house people. The answer really isn't that hard. In the U.S., when you look at the amount most cities currently spend on services for unhoused residents, it's not that different than the costs of simply housing people. Accountants show that it's financially feasible. Stop making housing into a morality test. Create affordable, no barrier housing. House people.

I do not like these pills. They make me sad.

What the hell?

We can't have that now, can we. Imagine low-income people buying property OMG. /s

As a wheelchair user I would be suing!

What a trashy person

I feel you, we lived in our last apartment for 7 years and paid 64,000! We left to purchase our own home and got a loan for 86,000 that it will take us 30 years to pay off... Its painful when you think about it.

I’ve lived there! That outlet didn’t work anyway lol

Only in the USA (sorry, Americans, I am sure it's a great country, but things like these really are only possible in the USA)

Interesting analogy

Why do they become so greedy, that they no longer maintain their units/buildings

If I am reading that right, you mean a tax write off to the tenant?

*breaks out the world's smallest violin*

Well that was mean. It was just dancing trying to enjoy itself.

Eek TF?

Why are people so set on dividing people into set A and set B and saying some people in set A are bad therefore everyone in set A is bad therefore everyone in set B is automatically in the right no matter what they do? There are terrible landlords and terrible tenants and good landlords and good tenants and every shade of grey in between.

Works the same with buying stocks and shares.

I always knew monopoly was evil

London, I'm guessing.

How is a single mom a problem? Is it because the landlord was some sort of weird religious freak who thinks women MUST be with men? or what?

Then don't be a landlord if you don't like renter, problem solved

You still owe the back rent to the landlords estate you stupid woman

Actually I disagree with this one, I am loving not having a long term commitment, the amenities in the building, and not giving a rats about maintenance.

Flat out illegal where I live to discriminate based on gender identity. That's f****d up.

Because they can't afford to.

You gott get out of mom’s basement.

In my youthful naivety I rented my deceased mums house to a friend of a neighbor who “was handy” for $250/mo under market rate under the handshake agreement that he would keep the place up, including her rather impressive garden. Long story short, after 3 years I gave him the boot and had to dump $6K and hundreds of hours back into the place, including razing the lawn and ripping up a 2nd driveway they’d installed through the former garden. I live there now, and don’t have to deal with tenants or landlords, so there’s that.

The ripple effect devastates the economy, renters have no spending money to replace things or buy new. These issues impact everyone like it or not.

Well...what else are landlords supposed to do with the rent money? Of course they will spend it however they like. Sure, bragging is not nice, and they should spend some of the money for the upkeep of the property, but still, this one is kind of weird.

How would this help? The poor tenants still don't make enough to save up for a deposit or qualify for a mortgage. It will lead to an empty house that will be snatched up by another person with spare money. And that person is likely not going to live there himself because they already live in a nicer part of town.

Time to move away

wow, one good piece of news in this entire thread.

you can also be held accountable for any burglary.

Live in one of your other buildings. Get a job. Work like all your tenants do. It's how productive members of society obtain housing.

You fix the things that need fixing using the money they pay you and stop whinging. It's your responsibility as a landlord

This is colonialism.

No wonder people don't trust the judicial system.

‘The mum and dad investor story is a myth according to MBIE data, [the New Zealand equivalent of AOC] says. “Six percent of landlords in this country own over 60 percent of the rentals. “And if you're looking at the very tippy top, the top 1000 landlords, that's less than 1 percent of landlords, those people own at least 25 percent.”’ (https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/lately/audio/2018820185/chloe-swarbrick-s-concerns-for-rental-sector) And a sizeable number of the less-rich landlords are vile too.

I seriously read her name as "Hey Boo Hoo" and was like, well at least she knows. I mean yes this sucks all around, but that wasn't exactly how the story went. You still had to pay rent, you still owe the rent, you just couldn't evict. SO if the gov. had not mandated that you could not evict, you would have evicted several tenets (who most likely lost jobs during the pandemic, no one just up and decides not to pay rent for fun) . Evictions would have cost you time and money, and you would have had a difficult time coming by people who had enough stable income to cover moving costs. The pandemic hurt a lot of people, you included, but to frame a moratorium on evictions as free housing out of your pocket is a bit absurd.

Yeah look you do get disgusting tenants. I heard of a case locally (friend of friend) who had guys that stole all the fittings, made a fireplace in the lounge on the floor when the electricity was cut, basically stripped the place. So... not always unfair, just depends on tenant.

That one actually does not seem that bad. It seems like an easy legal matter. Whoever inherits that guys stuff also inherits the debts, including unpaid rent.

Wow! ONLY 1/3? I've seen where it's 2/3 at times in North America.

i get what they are saying, but a building is not a "natural resource"

If your landlord refuses to do repairs open an escrow account through the court. Pay your rent on time to the account so you can show you are doing your end. Court won't release the funds until there is proof the work was done. You'll never see a landlord get certified repair workers out there faster

I think he missed the cockroach... try again.

Where I live, it's absolutely legal to withhold rent if your landlord isn't making essential repairs. Make sure to email the repair requests so they're timestamped. It differs by place and item on how long something needs to be broken before you can withhold rent, but if you're in this situation, check your local tenant laws.

? Because landlords don't work to get the money to buy the place they are renting? where do I sign?

She is a greedy twat waffle

well none of them are renting their mansions, so how would they know? /s

I think they mean "exploitative extractive capitalism explained".

"the buy..."

Well...they could get a job, couldn't they?

you know most of the civilised world has a social housing function or department... just saying. So once you've sorted out the guns, teen pregnancy, low education standards, lack of public healthcare, have a look at this one.

would be nice to eat as well.