Yeah, that 4:30 mark really stops me in my tracks too. I couldn't make it past that point.

I wouldn't step in there without the right equipment.

I know people who do pretty well renting properties, but there are a lot of people who just think they can sit back and let watch the money roll in.

I never would have gone in there without something over my mouth

Who says that he survived?

I love that line. Yes, it's really sad that this woman's life unraveled into such a disastrous outcome, but this guy has the right to rip on her because he's the poor sap who has to take care of "the monument"

in this case I think it's safe to say the tenant shit on them

I've always been a renter, and I've had pretty unanimously good experiences with landlords (with the exception of when I was in college and my landlord was a violent Portuguese man who spoke very little English and threatened my roommate with a baseball bat once because he was playing music).

If it weren't for people owning rental property, I would never have been able to move to a city without being homeless.

These stars are for Binro and the impressive shit spire.

I'm with Binro, he deserved it.
(he was profiting off the fact that he had more than one house and she had 0 houses)

Problem is once you buy your own place, you have an asshole for a landlord.

Also, in response to you idiots: He makes housing more flexible for those who can't afford a down payment or don't know when they will want to move somewhere else. And we don't even know how he's financing these properties. She loses her job and can't make rent for 3 months... who's still paying the fucking mortgage?

My mom rented out the first house she ever bought (HOW DARE SHE) for a little extra income and the tenants were all always terrible. She got out of it after a few years because it just wasn't worth it.

I've had mostly good experiences with landlords (HOW DARE THEY). I was renting out the bottom floor of a house while the owners/landlords lived on the top floor (HOW DARE THEY)... the rent was only 0 (in a town where it was nearly impossible to find anything under 0) and I would have stayed there forever if they either had air conditioners or windows that allowed air conditioners.

I'm thinking about writing a book about it.

@Koda Maia:

Maybe it's different where you are, but every landlord around here comes from money. Often, they inherit houses from other family members and immediately turn them into rental properties. That, or they have rich parents who loan them money to buy and fix up properties for little or no interest.

Very often, the rental properties are a sideline for them. They often have regular day jobs and treat the rentals like money generators. They put as little as possible into their properties and wring as much as they can out of their tenants.

I have to work with a guy who rents out houses. One, he got from his mother when she moved into an assisted-living facility. He has another that his ex-wife's parents had left to her when they were both married and somehow or another he got it in the divorce settlement. He also owns a couple of other places. He works because our employer provides health insurance and a retirement plan.

All he does is bitch about his tenants and their unreasonable demands for working air conditioners and pipes that don't leak. He threatens to raise their rent to cover the costs of normal wear & tear such as carpets and paint. Most recently, he's been griping because one of his tenants lost her job and couldn't pay the full rent. He gave her a couple of months to catch up then gave her thirty days notice to move out.

Last week, he was boasting that he found out she had finally found another job working as a waitress and had her served with papers at the new job suing her for three months rent.

He's also complaining because now he's having trouble finding a new renter for the property. Our local economy has been going to shit for years and he just has to accept the fact he won't find anyone that can afford what he's asking.

Some landlords are assholes. I'm not sure why this warrants destroying the idea of rental property...which would require that everybody purchase a house? Can we think things through a bit?

I thought we were supposed to fuck banks, but if we fuck banks, we won't be able to get mortgages, so we'll be stuck with renting or living in boxes. Well, at least the boxmakers haven't pissed us off, yet.

@Potrod:

I'm not saying do away with landlords, I'm just saying FUCK THEM. They fall under the same category of "necessary evil" as pawn brokers and bail bondsmen.

So wait Binro, every time you move to a new town or new address you must take out a mortgage or buy the entire property outright? Even if you won't be there but a month or two due to a job that requires you to move a lot?

Rental property serves a very good purpose, just like renting a truck for a day is cheaper than buying one, or renting construction equipment is cheaper than buying it and selling it later, or if you're on vacation and need a car it's better to rent it for a day or two than just drop ,000 on a used car at your vacation location then be forced to either keep it or sell it before you leave.

I guess your logic applies to hotels since they are technically rental properties, so I guess the next time I go on vacation or go out of town and need a hotel I better bring 1 or 2 million to buy the hotel for a couple of nights.

Uh, you may want to read my comment right above yours, Harriet.

I do wish there was better way for people to get affordable housing. Under our current system, you have to be just about destitute to qualify for housing assistance. Middle-class families shouldn't have to pour thousands of dollars into a hole annually just because they're not quite qualified for loans with decent interest rates.

My town is chock-a-block with empty unused homes. Nearly all of them have had rental signs hanging on them for years. Many landlords can afford to let them just sit empty until someone who can afford the rent comes along.

Maybe we should make a law that says a property MUST be rented out before a certain period of time or it goes up for auction to people seeking a permanent primary residence? The property owners could either lose the property or slash the rent to attract tenants.

5 stars for Binro's insanity.

By the way, I've rented different properties for the past 16 years. I am currently renting.
So far, I have rented 6 properties. Aside minor problems with an occasional neighbor, and a few crazy landlords that were easy to spot during the house-hunting stage, everything's been fine.

Where are you getting this information that these landloards are not struggling and can afford to let those properties sit around, unoccupied?

Why should everyone own a home? Not everyone wants to own and not everyone is in a situation where they should own. Not everyone wants to or can even be stuck in the same town for an extended period of time.

some folks CAN'T fix things, and owning a home becomes a lot more expensive than renting when shit breaks.

Oh, Binro.

@spikestoyiu:

It seems to me if they couldn't afford to let the properties sit unoccupied they would be doing more to make sure the properties get rented out rather than let them sit unoccupied for years at a stretch.

And no, I don't think everyone should own a home. I acknowledged we do have a need for landlords, but you have to be kind of a prick to be one. Just like pawnbrokers, repo men, bill collectors, etc. they are necessary, but they're also assholes, so fuck them.

@Robin Kestrel:

Go choke on turd pudding.

What's the matter with pawnbrokers? I know some really nice pawnbrokers.

I'm sure they're very nice and good people to their friends, but they are kind of exploiting a lot of desperate people who don't have alternative ways of getting cash.

Landlords and pawn brokers aren't even in the same universe. Everyone needs shelter, but not everyone needs to sell their shitty guitars for a fraction of their worth.

If you want to be a bleeding heart commie and say the value of the unused property is zero and only the occupants give it value, then this video (I gagged, no joke, as I typed the word describing the above media) at first gives the impression that the occupant actually devalued the land below what it would be worth if it sat empty, owned by no one at all. Or you could see it as a place that housed a, have to be careful, any word that describes the video keeps making me gag, insane person who had to be housed somewhere. If the latter is the case, the landlord system worked perfectly, grossly, socially and this is just a statistical low point in how that relationship goes generally. If the former, then there needs to be a recognition that the system MUST take a loss to exist, or find a system that doesn't. It's hard not to feel a little bad for the person who has to clean it up in either situation, though with the recognition that they are the better off in comparison to the tenant, who was actually the necessary evil.

This guy is a saint. Fuck you more. This woman deserves to get hit by a truck.

@All. Citing this video as part of your argument immediately renders it fallacious. This particular example is an extremely rare outlier waay out on the end of the bell curve. It cannot be used to reason about or argue the general case.

Wow, there used to be a lot of shitty bootlickers here desperate to defend the rentier class, throwing housing into the pool of FREE MARKET even though, by your own admission, it's a limited and vital resource.

Every absentee landlord or company owned property should be nationalized and made public housing. Rent is the most useless form of income, rent-seeking the most useless economy, and rent-seekers the most useless people.

Just like Chocolate Jesus!

the horror

A basement floor covered in dog shit and roaches. Never finished an install so quickly.

you finished it?

For some sick reason i now want your job.

The surprise in the toilet got me

It's hard to contain my hatred for this guy.

I have no problem with people who rent out property, but this guy is an idiot. He rented this house to her for 7 years, how many times did he actually check on the property? He only came to the house when he didn't get his check. I like land lords that leave me alone, but an annual inspection isn't crazy.

People that sell false hope pseudo-science cancer cures are on the same level as pedophiles in my book.

Oh, gross. Okay so they're both fucking horrible.

Well...Maybe this video evidence will get her court-ordered help?

Yeah man, what an asshole. I mean, she only turned his property in a cat feces, human feces, urine, insect, and garbage sandwich, then left it that way for him to deal with.

How dare he make fun of her!

Firstly, lots of people are mentally ill so don't act like it's a free pass to be a source of destruction. The woman DESTROYED this guy's property and didn't even pay the bills while she did it. If this had happened to a relative who rented out a property you'd be on their side.

I'm not justifying what she did. But it seems strange to me that he makes light of both his situation as well as that she is now probably roaming the streets, having left behind everything she owned.

The guy should show some compassion instead of making snide remarks about "what's going on in her head" all the while posing as a cancer survivor/all around awesome person.

or anger. Even that would be better. What's going on in his head?

I obviously have a LONG way to go before I hit rock bottom. Very few things I own could be described as being "covered in semen".

There's still time.