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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:“Can’t do my job” and “please let me fix the problem myself” are not the same as the way you characterized it. quote:this is where they went off on us, saying that they were due for more floods and storms, are on alerts for potential evacuations, and that people are going to lose their homes, Landlord is on evacuation alert. Everyone is in this story sucks, I loving hate it.
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RoboRodent posted:Just. maybe it's just my turn in the idiot hot takes chair but: nah, gently caress em anyhow. the primary thesis that landlords use to justify themselves as being anything except extortionate parasites is that they earn their rent premium by taking on risk in place of the tenant. his tenant is literally paying him substantial amounts of money to make stuff like this his problem instead of theirs. yeah, it's a hard time for him as a landlord, but that's when you earn your loving money. he's just pissy because his easy money stopped being easy. it's possible the story is selectively edited and they're ringing his phone off the hook to bitch about the problem, but as presented their requests are pretty reasonable in quantity and scope. they're not demanding anything impossible of him, they're specifically trying to figure out a workaround that accounts for present conditions. for that matter, they're looking for a solution to a problem largely created by the landlord's poor planning in the first place.
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Dec 1, 2021 19:45
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I’m not sure if some of y’all read through the entire post or not. The landlord is being accommodating due to the current situation. He offered to reimburse for extension cords and he also did pay for an electrician to come out and identify the problem. The problem is that the fuse box is in another unit which is locked and yeah it’s understandable why the landlord doesn’t want some new tenant getting a locksmith to open some random unit up and going in there. The landlord also never said they wouldn’t fix the problem it’s just currently not feasible to fix right this second due to an ongoing natural disaster. The situation the renter is dealing with doesn’t make the house unlivable but I’m sure it’s frustrating. It’s not like the problem is never getting fixed it’s just not feasible to fix right this second.
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If a landlord can't fix a problem within a day or two the property should be given to the tenant. Don't like it? Don't be a landlord.
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if the unit was wired properly in the first place the tenant probably could have fixed it on their own without needing to hire an electrician if the landlord had the foresight to give a copy of the key to the other unit to a trusted repair person the problem would have been fixed in a single trip "I know you pay me a lot of money to do something important for you, but have you considered that I'm really bad at it" does not elicit a lot of sympathy from me 
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the holy poopacy posted:if the unit was wired properly in the first place the tenant probably could have fixed it on their own without needing to hire an electrician Yeah, the core problem is that the occupied unit is intrinsically connected to the inaccessible one. That's weird, hosed up wiring.
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yeah I'm firmly in camp 'landlord shouldn't be renting out the units when he can't fix that poo poo in a day or two' territory. the emergency situation just proves even more why landlords suck, bc frankly they're definitely never prepared for poo poo like that and likely he's not doing great by most of his tenants right now landlords seem to plan for the best and ignore the possibility of the worst, and they get what's coming to them for it
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Pookah posted:Yeah, the core problem is that the occupied unit is intrinsically connected to the inaccessible one. That's weird, hosed up wiring. if the problem involves actual fuses then the wiring is very old and back then they did things like put half the house on one fuse. if it was divided into units later on, that explains a lot The_Franz fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Dec 1, 2021 |
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Dec 1, 2021 20:19
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the holy poopacy posted:maybe it's just my turn in the idiot hot takes chair but: nah, gently caress em anyhow. Also eagerly awaiting the third act twist where we find out the landlord had two empty units because they evicted the previous tenants for lovely landlord in a pandemic reasons.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:yeah I'm firmly in camp 'landlord shouldn't be renting out the units when he can't fix that poo poo in a day or two' territory. the emergency situation just proves even more why landlords suck, bc frankly they're definitely never prepared for poo poo like that and likely he's not doing great by most of his tenants right now if u can't handle me at my worst u don't deserve to live off my rents at my best
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AITA for making a crass joke to make my Father in law uncomfortablequote:We were visiting my wife's parents. We don't visit at all. My wife doesn't have a good relationship with them.
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RoboRodent posted:Landlord is on evacuation alert. Wanting to be able to do your real actual value added job doesn’t actually suck. What is the landlord being paid for if they can’t fix poo poo?
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Wasn't the wife trying to use the room with no working outlets as her office? That's not just an inconvenience, that's impeding on her ability to earn money.
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Dazerbeams posted:Wasn't the wife trying to use the room with no working outlets as her office? That's not just an inconvenience, that's impeding on her ability to earn money.
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Dec 1, 2021 20:33
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Having your breaker box in another house for your electricity is some dumb rear end poo poo and I am not sure is even legal.
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There are tons of over the garage apartments and similar that don’t have a separate utility hookup (and breaker box) depending on the scale of the main house and apartment.
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Okay, I had to go take a moment. Deep breath.StrangersInTheNight posted:the emergency situation just proves even more why landlords suck, bc frankly they're definitely never prepared for poo poo like that The problem is that rainfall of this scale has never happened in this part of the world before. No one was prepared for it. It would have been very difficult to be prepared for it! Infrastructure that's been around for eighty years with no problems is just gone. Entire farms in the Abbotsford area are underwater, and have definitely lost their crops for the year. Vancouver is a major port city and it's been on-and-off entirely cut off from the rest of the country. This is all very, very, very bad, not only for the people who live in the affected areas (which, lets be clear, is most of the southern part of the province, a huge area). This isn't one city flooding. This is an absolutely catastrophic climate-change-related disaster caused by entirely brand new weather patterns, and there's a fair bit of evidence that this is going to be normal from now on. It is extremely bad, guys. I am not exaggerating this. And, frankly, that's more what I'm upset about than landlords or renters rights or whatever. I'm upset because I've dealt with too many people who take it extremely personally that they are minorly inconvenienced by a natural disaster of this scale, that their packages are delayed or the grocery store is out of eggs, while too many other people are losing everything they own. It's stressful. I didn't realise I was this wound up about it. I'm sorry.
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“Cannot do your job” is not a minor inconvenience. What a weird hill to die on. You also just made up them actually being in/near this disaster site. That was never actually in the OP.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:landlords seem to plan for the best and ignore the possibility of the worst, and they get what's coming to them for it Well, usually they can squeeze the tenant into just going along with it, so they get away with it. The system works!
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Dec 1, 2021 20:47
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Yeah this happens every time there's a disaster of some sort. Landlords during a disaster: We are all victims of this situation, we must put aside our normal expectations and petty legalistic interpretations of the tenancy act and come together to get through this, not as landlords or tenants, but together as human beings. Landlords immediately after a disaster: Although it hurts my heart, I've had to start eviction proceedings on 12 of my 15 tenants. I understand the recent disaster hurt many people's finances but rent is sacrosanct and agreements were signed, this is all correct in the eyes of the law.
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RoboRodent posted:And, frankly, that's more what I'm upset about than landlords or renters rights or whatever. I'm upset because I've dealt with too many people who take it extremely personally that they are minorly inconvenienced by a natural disaster of this scale, that their packages are delayed or the grocery store is out of eggs, while too many other people are losing everything they own.
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I have plenty of family members or friends that are small time landlords and I can’t imagine any of them not immediately offering to drop the rent until it was fixed or quickly arranging for someone in the area to fix it. Their failure to plan ahead is tough poo poo that’s what their getting paid for and blowing up at their
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too many people are losing everything they own, and how dare those ungrateful peons bother those who own multiple families' worth of stuff and aren't at risk of losing it with petty bullshit like "you're going to make me lose everything I own"
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:“Cannot do your job” is not a minor inconvenience. They offered to pay for extension cords as a temporary fix. So that absolutely takes care of the cannot do your job issue. They aren’t saying it won’t ever get fixed they are saying it can’t get fixed right this second and offered things to temporarily fix the issue.
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The landlord should fix it as soon as possible but I'm not going to shed any tears for someone whose greatest hardship in life is having to use an extension cord for a few days (and is refusing the landlord's offer to reimburse for cables/power bar as a temp solution). Like gently caress off that the wife can't work when they could spend $20 of the landlord's money for a power bar and Ethernet cable to immediately rectify her issues until they can get an electrician into the other suite. If it was that much of a problem, maybe they should have brought it up before the whole natural disaster thing instead of during.
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OP still wasn’t able to do their job, and the landlord refused to allow them to do the repairs and gave no timeline when it would be fixed if ever, nor offered any compensation. In case you were wondering though there’s a reason the landlord is being a poo poo and making up excuses- they never intended to help. Update! Landlord is actually even more of a greedy poo poo! quote:
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Whoops weird mobile app bug double post Anyway guess the landlord had no problem going in person to issue an eviction request lol
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:OP still wasn’t able to do their job, and the landlord refused to allow them to do the repairs and gave no timeline when it would be fixed if ever, nor offered any compensation. I don’t think that’s the same landlord friend.
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Oh lol whoops on mobile. Nv
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Oh lol whoops on mobile. If you could find the original post though because that sounds spicy lol
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Anyway enough landlord enjoy DIC theoryquote:
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Awful app is having some weird bugs sorry for posting over and over
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Anyway enough landlord enjoy DIC theory Update: My husband got fired. What next?
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RoboRodent posted:Okay, I had to go take a moment. Deep breath. I mean, on some level they should be pissed, they're largely just pissed at the wrong people. This specific disaster is unprecedented but that doesn't mean there aren't people whose job it is to plan for unprecedented contingencies, but they're not the ones delivering packages and stocking shelves. Sure, there's limits to how much disaster preparedness can do in the face of sheer physical realities but that doesn't mean that the crisis is not being exacerbated by planning failures. The landlord's situation is actually a good case in point: the issue is not that the landlord can't drive across the province due to the flooding, the issue is that the landlord decided to keep the only means of accessing the fuse box 5 hours away from the house. The landlord was loving it up regardless, the disaster just magnified the consequences of his mistakes. lidnsya posted:The landlord should fix it as soon as possible but I'm not going to shed any tears for someone whose greatest hardship in life is having to use an extension cord for a few days (and is refusing the landlord's offer to reimburse for cables/power bar as a temp solution). Like gently caress off that the wife can't work when they could spend $20 of the landlord's money for a power bar and Ethernet cable to immediately rectify her issues until they can get an electrician into the other suite. I don't think you're wrong, but if they can suck it up and use an extension cord then the landlord can suck it up and listen to their complaints without throwing a tantrum.
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the holy poopacy posted:I (M33) went on a date with my gf (F31) to makeup for transgressions of the previous weekend. Things didn't go well and I'm not sure if it's appropriate for me to think she was being somewhat unreasonable. olylifter posted:he's loving 33 acting like this. Jesus had followers and poo poo by this point and you're still loving up a concrete pad ya drunken halfwit, get your poo poo together. Nooner posted:"Sorry i got hammered and hosed up your parents driveway. Let me take you to a bar and drink until i cry to make up for it"
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Halloween Jack posted:If I dated that woman I would never, ever be sober. It sounds like that's also what she wants, it's a match made in heaven!
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From the landlord story, missing a few days of work is not a big deal, you just call your boss and say "ive been natural disastered and can't work for a couple days". It might suck to use some PTO or whatever, or maybe there's a temporary leave of absence you can use because a natural disaster hit? It's not that big a deal, unless it is and you have a terrible boss in which case you should probably find a better job anyway.
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