Apartments are a fucking scam, I'm sick of these scumbag landlords
I live in a place where it's really hard to find a good deal on an apartment, and anywhere you live they will make it a requirement that you tell them you're moving out a month before you move out, so this means you have to find an apartment to move into a month before you move out, and in order to do this you have to buy it early to avoid it being taken by someone else to avoid having to buy an even more expensive apartment during the even more busy mid-summer season instead of the early-summer season
It's bullshit. A fucking meme. We need more consumer protection in this area, landlords should not be able to require you to tell them a month early that you're moving out unless they want to waive any overlap rental fees as well when you move out.
What stops you from moving out without telling them? If it's only your morals, get rid of them. People don't go far with morals.
Dominic Green
>he fell for the serving lordship meme.
dude. buy a house in a state with very few people. like maine, or somewhere in the south or northwest.
Landon Martin
The fact that they will charge me a 70%+ inflated rental fee for the difference in time regardless of whether I let them and send collections agents after me if I don't pay...?
Yeah there's definitely good jobs in Maine
Liam Ross
Lol thank you for this comment user I guess you're right, I'm not going to die from wasting a thousand dollars in extra rental fees, it's just a part of life. FPBP.
Adam Young
It's EXTREMELY c u c k e d to wanna live in an apartment. It's almost as bad to not want to, but still be "content" with looking for apartments and then getting one and living in it. Man up and get a fucking house on your own property. Even if your economic situation is shit and all you can affort is a small shitty house, it's infinitely better to live like that than in ANY apartment.
You realize even small, shitty, empty lots full of garbage and hobos where I live, cost at least $400,000, right?
Blake Richardson
>bumfuck flyover calling others cucks Lol. Lemme guess, you own a house in arkansas?
Robert Reed
You don't have to tell them jack shit unless its a contingency to break the lease. If your lease runs out you can leave without any notice.
Kayden Foster
>We need more consumer protection in this area, landlords should not be able to require you to tell them a month early that you're moving out unless they want to waive any overlap rental fees as well when you move out. So you want apartments to be less available than they are now? Retard.
Anthony Reyes
Please justify your claim that this would make apartments less available
Julian Nelson
Empty lots in my area earn more money a day than I do.
Isaac Rivera
Might as well buy if you need a month to move out anyways
Evan Fisher
Not sure where you live, but I've worked for numerous REITs. The standard in the industry is a 60 day move out notice. The language in the lease specifically states if you do not renew your lease you can be billed at a month to month rate.
If it's two weeks before your lease is over, and you notify them that you're moving out? You're on the hook for a month and a half of month to month rent (even if you're physically out of the apartment).
Liam Taylor
I guess I'm sitting here saying "apartments are a scam" when I should be saying "why am I not getting in on this scam...?"
Is there money in being a landlord? My dad's friend owns like 5 houses in a flyover state, it's apparently his only "job" now. Is it profitable? Is it a hassle? What's the ROI?
Owen Diaz
It's a racket. I worked for a company that told me specifically to "charge until a judge said no." We engaged in insurance fraud on a daily basis. Shit was insane. I would literally drop a $3000 move out bill on people who were Section 8 and had no money. It just went to collections and ruined their credit, they never paid anyway, but it got me bonuses.
There is money to be made as a landlord. Keep in mind once you get over a certain number of tenants and properties (I can't remember, I think it's like 2-3) you are subject to Federal Fair Housing Act. It is REALLY easy to get sued under it if you steer someone.
After expenses and everything else, most housing ROI is around 10-20% depending on how high you can go on your rent.
Joshua Gray
That's only if you have a month to month option after the lease.
Julian Gutierrez
Of course they’re a scam. That’s why you get a condo instead.
Blake Baker
There are actually states with good rent laws. In MA for example your landlord has to keep your security deposit in a separate interest baring account and mail you statements every month. If they don't do this you are entitled to full refund of your security deposit at any time and if they don't comply you are entitled to triple the deposit in damages. I had 4 different land lords before I bought a house and none of them did this. So at the end of the lease when they tried to charge me for BS repairs and fees I sent them a demand letter citing the law and they all instantly folded. I never paid a dime in repairs even though one of the houses I trashed due to water damage.
Although I heard some states have almost no protections from this shit, so people actually just consider their deposit "gone" and have to pay all sorts of hidden fees.
James Butler
Every REIT (that I know of, national level ones, not regional) has month to month options. It's ridiculously expensive and designed to trap you into it as a result of not giving sufficient notice of move out.
Evan Kelly
>competing >for an apartment
Carson James
Wasn't there a thread a few weeks ago about an user who lost his job and had to move out of state, and when he told his landlord that he had to break the lease, the landlord sued him?
William Davis
>falling for the rental jew i live with mommy and daddy and I can even pay rent with the good boy points I accumulate for doing the chores
Jaxon Taylor
K Y S Don't you think it's hard to fuck while you are home?
Anthony Morgan
I've been a part of those before. We charged a lease break fee (one month rent) plus 60 days notice. They can choose to pay or not, but if they don't it'll go on their credit.
The only thing that we allowed lease breaks for was military moves. And that had to be a signed order.
Brayden Smith
Was that option listed in the lease that your tenant signed? Or did you decide to show some humanity?
Levi Carter
It's specifically listed in the lease. We used NAA standard lease documents.
Oliver Long
You can thank landlords for that. Buying a single family house in any major city costs and arm and a leg nowadays because the supply keeps shrinking. They keep buying up homes intended for single families and turn them into multi-unit rentals. And of course there are no zoning or consumer protections in place to control this.
John Young
Do you have an example? I've never heard of that people
