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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2023
- Roger is your landlord now, and he's getting real honest about things.
CAST:
Roger Horton: Jack Hunter
Renter: Jesse Eisemann
Martin: Michael Strauss
Director: Gabrielle Williott
Director of Photography: Rob Menzer
Producer: Gabrielle Williott
Writer: Ryan Menezes
Editor: Gabrielle Williott
Sound: Max Mellman
Gaffer: Nathan Cohen
Camera Assistant: Rachel Mossberg
Production Assistant: Jesse Eisemann, Michael Strauss
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"I'm afraid there's literally nothing a landlord can do about roaches; short of addressing the problem, which I won't do." - perfect delivery.
Perfect. 😂😂😂
The problem is likely that at least one of the apartments has tenants how are messy and leave food for roaches. It would be difficult for landlords to go around making sure tenants aren't leaving food their counter.
@@edwardkuenzi5751 please landlords will lie about the last time they treated the property for termites, bats, and any other pest depending on where you live
@@edwardkuenzi5751 lackey
@@edwardkuenzi5751 Yep. The weakest link in the chain ruins the whole building.
Banks: you cannot afford the $1500 mortgage
Also banks: you can afford a $500 car payment on top of you $2300 monthly rent
@@C-Mack but they will give you a car loan on top of your higher rent.
The bank sees you as a responsible person who’ll likely pay his loans back on time. That means very little interest charges, and very little extra money to the bank. You’re not being denied because you’re a solid investment, you’re being denied because you’re not going to rack up interest charges against yourself
"You will own nothing and you will be happy. Peasants. Now let's go back to feudalism." WEF
That's if you can afford a down playment otherwise you get fucked with an FHA loan.
For a mortgage the bank has to trust you to be able to pay it for decades while rent and car are relatively short term
I remember donating to landlords without moving in. They call it an application fee.
no , it is actually a fee not to steal their time , in case you are a no fit
@@attilakohbor3360 I think it's also part of the cost for them to do a background check on you.
@attilakohbor3360 about to say it's complete bs. This coming from a guy who helps his dad manage his trailer court. The only reason for an application fee is so they don't pay shit. It isn't hard to do a back ground check or go talk to your local court house about getting one done. Trailer courts are also different cause we just rent the land not the trailer so our renters own their home, they just pay us for the dirt it's on and the land maintence.
@@attilakohbor3360 Ah right. Only rich people are allowed to waste the time and money of others. Fuck that, eat them all.
It costs money to run background checks. So... There's that.
And then on the flip-side, you've got the "mom and pop" landlords who bought a rental property to give them some income in their retirement, but have no idea how to actually manage a property. "Oh, the bathtub is cracked and leaking? Sorry, we're in Florida for the winter. We'll deal with it in April when we get back."
I had that when I accidentally rented from people who didn't mention they live in Peru until after I signed
"Oh, you're not going to fix this issue right away? Here's the account number for the escrow where I'll be placing all rental payments until you resolve the issue."
Nothing a landlord can do about it at that point until they fix it.
@@PonyGirl004 That's fucked up.
I had a mom & pop landlord and they were the most chill, laid back people. But when we first moved in we had a major problem (toilet backing up into the shower), called a plumber, and the landlord said to just have the plumber do whatever he recommends.
@@lyraserpentine894 in the UK this isn't allowed unfortunately. You have to pay rent regardless, then take them to court afterwards (assuming you can actually move, because if you can't then taking them to court is going to get you a "no fault eviction') to get back rent. Naturally no one does this as it's not a big enough threat for most landlords to take seriously.
A "productless existence fee." That's a damn good name for it. Thanks alot Roger. 👍🏼
They said it was curiosity that killed the cat, rather it was complacency that almost killed your military and countrymen so far, and they told you that while they fed you poison treats
With the minor problem that is is neither productless or an existence fee. This is just manipulative play on the ignorant entitled child mindset that's become so popular.
Or about a problem affecting many people…
@@nicholaslewis8594 Which problem is that exactly? And how does it apply here?
@@willstikken5619 It's exploitation. You should look up the word. EVERY person needs a place to live. Exploiting that need to make a profit(what is left over after all goods & services have been paid for) is just usury. Look up that one too.
"your free trial of life is over and now its time to pay for your monthly subscription" ive never laughed so hard at my own despair lolol "existence fee" omfg lolol
Yeah why isn't everything free like when we were cave men. They didn't have to pay for gas or internet 🙃
@@HorusHerotic You can get stuff for free if you start bonking people over the head with a club just like our ancestors, it works wonders
@@HorusHerotic i legit cant tell if you're making fun of me or just stating how you personally feel lol
You forgot the EVEN MORE SOULLESS Property management corporation, where the REAL landlord is 15 states away and you have to deal with layers of bureaucracy (like a website made in 2006) to get anything done.
Or when you finally find a place you can afford you realize why NOBODY would live there except for the people who could barely afford it. And you can see why the previous tenant left having to deal with disrespectful and criminal neighbors.
There's a trick for that tho. You know how every neighborhood/street/condo has that worst tenant???
Just make sure that is you! ;-) It's all uphill from there!
@@desiv1170neat. Crimes against humanity lol :)
@@desiv1170😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I miss the 2006 websites. And 1990s were even better. Now it's all cheesy disney-style animation apparently made for cellphones.
Oh its even better when u have to fight about 25 people providing references, a cosigner, proof of employment & 2 interviews for… “we understand you live on the 19th floor but the elevators will be out of service for the next 4 months so we suggest using the stairs!” & “we noticed on the cameras (as paramedics were taking you to the ER) you lightly scuffed the wall & your curtains are a prohibited colour the fine is $500” :)
Free tip: If you want to have a chance of getting your deposit back, take a lot of dated pictures of the apartment when you move in, and keep them. Things like windows, doorframes, lighting fixtures, carpets, and appliances, especially if you notice anything that might be considered damage (cracked paint, water stains, warping, etc.) Be able to prove that those damages existed when you moved in. Maybe your landlord or their managers won't be unscrupulous, but insurance doesn't hurt.
Yep. I got my deposit back. Though to be fair, I was only in the apartment for 6 months, and I was barely there to do anything more than sleep and shower.
I did this as well, gave the company a usb with a copy of all the pictures and kept my own copy. That usb had I think around 200 pictures on it. When I moved out they tried to claim I damaged the carpet, until I pointed out it was like that when I moved in, and I had given them a USB with a picture of it like that when I moved in. Got my full deposit back :)
Yeah I did that when I moved in to my last apartment and noted every tiny thing down to where I ran out of space and they were like damn. I got my deposit back.
I had a landlord move out pull up the carpet and tried to charge me for carpet replacement costs for marks on the concrete. So the only way to have documented the state of the concrete was to have the landlord pull up the carpet in move in so I could document its state. Camden was the rental group
@@stevel6660Nope. Squatting will get you sued, you'll lose and have legal costs thrown on top. That judgement can also be garnished from your paychecks. Just take pictures and don't break stuff, or fix what you break. I give my renters back their deposit minus whatever it takes to fix what they broke. If I don't have to fix anything, they get it all back. My last tenant got it all back.
I still remember the moment when i realized that my cumulative rent was over $100,000. That was a depressing moment.
Yes, but on the flip side a house 'owner', or more accurately a renter from a mortgage company for 30 years, will find mortgage interest has at least doubled the purchase price while still paying all the associated costs of maintaining the house plus the opportunity cost of missed investing opportunities.'
@@stevenporter863 If a house is being rented out, then the renter is paying all of those things. A landlord who charges less than their mortgage, insurance, any expected maintenance costs, a little extra to build up a fund for unexpected maintenance costs, and a profit margin on top won't be in the business for every long.
@@stevenporter863 The thing that keeps me a renter is just the added costs to moving. If you own a home, you have to be able to sell it, and that makes the whole process a lot more time consuming, and adds an extra layer of risk in terms of the housing market.
Almost enough for a down payment for a house... should have lived in a tent for 5 years... oh wait that's outlawed. Almost like the whole thing is rigged.
Depending on how old you are / long you‘ve been renting 100k isn’t necessarily bad. Also, the actual amount of time as well as money you need to invest in an owned home is usually overlooked or at least underestimated when comparing the two options…
OUCH! I've been saying this for a long time. And I've noticed when homes go for sale in our area, large rental corps buy them at over market prices thus out bidding regular people and then they rent the homes out for way more than the mortgage would've been. It's disgusting. Makes me sad for young people who want to start families, unless their families can help them get into a home, they're stuck.
Yep, and unfortunately in today's society we aren't getting anyone in power that will change the law to ban companies doing this, so we cannot rely on the powers that be to protect the people, which is actually what they are supposed to be doing.
It really should be illegal for people to own so many different properties, let alone companies renting places out like that.
That's what's happening in my community constantly. I got outbid 4-5 times while looking for a house by either rental corps or local slumlords.
@@bobbyellis5006same. We had some go for 50-100k over asking price in an area that's being built up
Lots of individuals that bought homes for AirBnB purposes are probably about to be yeeted out of the market. They got in over their heads buying into a market that was over saturated. Zillow got into some trouble and lost money. Rightfully so. A bit more time and the property taxes will push them to sell their empty investments, if the mortgage doesn’t force them into foreclosure. Soon it’ll be time to swoop in. At least that’s what I’m hoping for.
@@flyings.monster6845 in theory, yes.
In reality I guarantee lots of companies will buy them up for rentals, and we'll be even worse off.
Not qualifying for a mortgage but paying MORE in rent is pretty much my life. Great credit, decent job. Approved for a 2k a month apartment but not a mortgage of lower payment. Makes sense to me.
Add taxes, insurance and maintenance and you true payment is much higher.
What was the down payment? Banks also want to ensure the borrower has equity in case they can no longer afford the monthly payment.
The banks are also in on the real estate scams, so of course they'll take the excuse to make you pay more monthly in order to not own anything.
because a house is 200K debt, an apartment can be rented next month to someone
@uglytruthist9914 exactly... whatever your rent is, cut it in half and that's roughly the equivalent you can afford in mortgage.
Don't forget about not being able to even talk to the actual landlords of an apartment complex because they have underlings in the management office to do that for them. And when your rent spikes by hundreds of dollars all at once, those underlings will give you some garbage excuse about market forces.
Omg yeah, ever since covid my landlords seem like a mythological being that doesnt exist. So hard to get ahold of
@@Necro_fury because hes probably dead
“Well you know inflation and blah blah”.
I’m like wow we got 2 grand from the government one time and suddenly everything costs 500% more. crazy how it works
@@Kenny2k08 ikr that was a dumb decision on Biden all that spendng thats why
The most straight forward, yet brutal reply a landlord can slap you with...
You pay me to not be homeless... so deal with it...
Which really only matters because being homeless comes with legal issues.
The last place i was at.. honestly being homeless was seeming to be a preferable option. i probably would have encountered fewer mice living on the street.. and fewer drug addicts if that tells you anything.
@@AnalyticalReckonerwhat legal issues? If I go to Cali I get free reign
@@AnalyticalReckonerTry actually being homeless. I use to think that way until I moved to Vegas. You don't get treated the same, you have to deal with the ungodly elements, businesses won't let you in because you look disgusting, and most homeless have totally lost their humanity. Trust me you don't want to be homeless.
It's extortion
This feels like an ad to become a landlord.
A landlord is a capitalist. Hint-hint. A capitalist will benefit the most from an economic system called "capitalism".
I would never want to become a landlord because you have many laws protecting tenants that some will abuse. There are the select few that when they plan to move they will trash your place and whose on the hook to pay it? You the landlord. And if a tenant is not paying rent, it takes months with the slow court system in order to get them evicted. Meanwhile bills are coming due for the landlord while the tenant lives rent free.
That's exactly what it is
@@ImpreccablePony -- Under collectivist systems, the government is the landlord, and when tenants complain about the failures of the landlord to fix things, they get arrested and sent to prison, not merely evicted. Also, under collectivist systems there is no option to own one's own house, so everyone is stuck in the rental hole.
@@Determination212 If you are living paycheck to paycheck, sure. But...why the hell are you living paycheck to paycheck if you are a landlord? That's just plain irresponsible.
Fun part is, since landlording is a business, you can write off repairs. It's actually an incentive to hire others to do it, since keeping the invoice is easier than keeping all yours from the project and itemizing at tax time. Meaning: a landlord could do something about it. But they won't.
Using repairs as a deduction are hardly an incentive. Why pay a dollar to save a quarter? that’s what you’re suggesting.
@@tylerk.7947 Admittedly, not the only one. Time saving, depending how much your time is worth. Less hassle than having to itemize it yourself at tax time.
Now, it is true that it's cheaper to just ignore it. At least in the short term.
Long term, it's gonna cost more as bad maintenance accrues.
I'm from the perspective of a full- time working schmuck, so anything I can't knock out in a weekend or after work will usually cost me more than the possible savings.
I should have just said that trying to save money on maintenance is a very expensive habit.
Doing repairs yourself is still wayyy cheaper than hiring someone, even with the tax incentives. Here's a real world example - my income from my job and rental house each year generally touches the 12% federal tax bracket. Last month I had part of a cinder block wall get destroyed that surrounds the back yard of my rental property and I was quoted just over $1,900 for a contractor to fix it. I'm not currently living in the area that house is in so I had to hire the contractor, but if I were to repair it myself in the same manor the contractor did, the materials would have cost me about $350 and it would have taken one or two weekends worth of my time. Writing that $1900 off on taxes will save me $228 come tax time, but doing it myself would have saved me $1,550. Before dissing landlords try actually looking at the facts. Tax write offs aren't nearly as lucrative as the anti landlord crowd would have you believe
@GroundedRoots I happen to be a landlord too, so don't pop off to me about being anti-landlord.
I do have self-hatred, and I'll actually own up to that, unlike some. Just not in this category.
@@DemonicAdj then sell your rental properties if you have self hatred. Sounds like you're a bit of a hypocrite
This started out as funny, but became increasingly rage inducing as the video progressed. God job!
"Eat. Excrete. And make yourself neat..."
Roger has them bars!
"No renter has ever got their deposit back. Not once in 3,000 years." 😂
I’ve rented 10 houses in my life, I got my deposits back at 2 of them. So definitely not impossible just have to actually do a deep clean after you move out.
I an 0/8 lifetime in getting the deposit back. And I always left the place better than I found it. The best I have done is gotten half back, which is just enough to keep me from suing because the time and expenses I would be out would barely be worth it if I won. It's criminal. Deposits should be outlawed, or mandated instant refund upon move out not this 21 day bs where the landlord has time to concoct imaginary problems/excuses.
I’ve got a 100% deposit return rate on 5 places. I wonder what the difference is?
@@lows6427 Also be sure to take pictures when moving in and moving out. Document everything. That have saved my deposit several times from sketchy landlords.
I only rented twice, back in the 1990’s. Got my full deposit back both times. Steam cleaning the carpet before the move out inspection probably didn’t hurt.
You forgot to mention the landlord can raise the existence fee every year without offering any additional services. "Yesterday, occupying this amount of space cost 700/month. Today, occupying the same exact space costs 900/month."
Bro I do taxes for my dad who has rental houses. He had to raise all his rents this year. Inflation is the number one reason with higher taxes year after year being the other. All the repairs are twice as expensive as 20 years ago, and many municipalities are adding taxes into non-personal homes. Also insurance gets more expensive every year it's crazy. Many landlords raise rents for no reasons but it's not always the landlords fault.
Mine did that a week before Thanksgiving. I was notified by a text with a sad emoji.
And if you DO escape and buy a house, look into the joy of HOAs! All the benefits of paying rent on top of your mortgage, but no one to blame but yourself for buying into an HOA internment camp, er, community 😂😂😂 🤣
I rather rent an apartment than live in an hoa.
Just moved into a nicer place near work. I'd sooner pay rent here until I retire than consider moving into any one of those nightmare communities. Rule of thumb for me-if a topic has entire Reddit videos dedicated to it, it's probably one of great concern.😅😂
@@cmorris9494 Exactly and thank you.
I thank my stars everyday that my house isn't in an HOA
@@cmorris9494if you live in an apartment, who ever owns it is definitely paying an HOA. Except in a shared building an HOA makes more sense than a neighborhood hoa
I once told a landlord about mice in my apartment. Her response: "I don't want to hear about it!"
That's a terrible landlord. I don't know which country you currently live in, but I'm a small landlord and I fix things every time the guests tell me. What matters for me is that I get paid every month and that they live there happily for years or even decades. I do everything within my reach to ensure honest guests who preserve my property don't decide to move away.
Make an anonymous call the the health department.
@@no_more_spamplease5121 Imagine that! Keeping the customer happy so they happily continue to give you money!
If you were in a more tenant friendly state, you could make an in writing request to deal with the pest problem. After a certain amount of days if the problem persists, by law you can sue, with-hold rent, and make reports to HUD. Make sure to check the terms of your lease and your local laws before doing so. I successfully sued my former landlady when she rented out her grandparents’ house to me, knowing it had black mold.
@@no_more_spamplease5121You're getting paid every month for no social contribution. Money you previously had to work for is making you money. I'm sure your tenants would happily pay for their own repairs in a society where housing was a right - which is easily achievable in most places.
You pay me to not be homeless 😂😂😂 that's pretty accurate
That's literally the "service" landlords provide. If rentals were outlawed, prices might come down 50%, but everyone who doesn't have the down payment, couldn't qualify for a mortgage, or can't live with family, would be homeless.
@@djangomarine6658 Yeah the banks purposely refuse to give people loans to help landlords. It's obvious that someone paying 2k a month for rent can handle a 1500 mortgage
@@GamingSkeptic
Well, not necessarily.
Purchasing a home is a long term investment; a lot of things can happen in 15-30 years (typical mortgage period).
If something happens to affect your ability to pay rent, the owner can just evict you. (Of course there's notice and all that, but ultimately they can have you removed)
Also, if unexpected repairs are needed for the building, that will fall under the owner's responsibility to pay; Of course there are slum lords who won't do what they should, but that doesn't change the situation.
If something happens to affect your ability to pay mortgage, the bank loses out on a lot of capital/interest and have to attempt to sell the house at a rate that's usually lower than typical; Banks aren't interested in owning houses.
Also, you're responsible for replacing roofs, electrical work, pluming, etc when those maintenance issues arise, which will cut into your budget.
A lot more can be said about the differences, but the jist is that just because you can afford a higher rent, doesn't inherently mean you can afford a house; even if the mortgage is lower. Although, the obvious advantage to buying is that you actually get something in the end. But if you aren't planning to live somewhere long term, that might not be worth it.
@@djangomarine6658 there could be a middle way, I call it "rent to own shares" where each rental company has to give you 1 share for every dollar you pay in rent. Every landlord hates bad tenants, one way to help tenants be good is to reward them for being good, with ownership, the best reward capitalism has to offer, why deny that from the best tenants? Treat them like the business partners they are. Yeah, maybe what they end up owning is a tiny tiny fraction of ownership, but keeping track of that kinda thing is what computers are really good at these days, and I bet it would make a huge psychological difference.
I had a rental company, where everything was online, including our lease, and everything was saved to our profile. When our contract renewed for the year, they forgot to increase our rent on the lease for the year so they DELETED our account. Completely deleted it, lost all records of us ever being there. I never found out until the next month when I tried to get online to pay the rent and they offered to let us stay there for a 50% increase of our old rate. We left and about 4 days later their water main broke, flooded all of the apartments and they lost them all. Never felt so vindicated.
Landlords be like: "it ain't Honest but it's much"
I actually did get my security deposit back. Frankly I got crazy lucky. Huge 1bed unit, $400 less than modern buildings charged for studios, free parking, so close to work that I walked, quite neighbors. Eventually they did start raising the rent when they realized they didn't need to give such a huge discount just because the building was old.
getting your deposit back is not an uncommon occurrence. In my experience losing your deposit is much less common and usually is more of an indication of you as a tenant than of he landlord. Doesn't mean there aren't bad landlords out there but there are most definitely bad tenants out there too.
I have never had a cent deducted from the safety deposit and I have never heard about anyone who had. Just take care of stuff and that's it. Deduction from safety deposit is quite rare.
By your use of the term "Eventually", I can conclude that your anecdote is based upon out of date data and is therefore irrelevant to the modern situation millions of renters worldwide now find themselves in.
quiet
@petrmaly9087 Your comment has nothing to do with the millions of other people who get ripped off every year. So...good for you. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
In my area there are 3 types of apartments. New nice apartments for the rich, new nice apartments for the government subsidized poor, and old ratty still expensive apartments for anyone that works a middle class job.
That is very true about the nice subsidized apartments for the poor that you help pay for. Only so that those subsidized apartments can get trashed, not always of course though.
People on section 8 don’t live in nice housing gtfo with that bull.
@@leee3880The government subsidized poor can be evicted for any reason . It is supposed to be a cheaper alternative to those hotel vouchers the government hands out to vandals .
Retro Middle class does not exist : They all went extinct in 1982 . You need to make $400,000 per year to qualify for " middle class " taxation .
It takes three years to be approved for that HUD government apartment housing, And possibly three more if after the three years someone more in need shows up with children.
Funny stuff.
I was a landlord exactly once. I rented out a small house that i had lived in for 10 years and within a couple months the house was wrecked and the kitchen half burned by fire. Half the house had no power and the brand new fence I put up was torn down and tossed on the lawn. I did everything to help these people move in- not even making them give me a deposit. They paid the first month on time. Second month 3 weeks late, then didn't answer the phone or door for another 2 months until I discovered they had abandoned the place and left it ruined. The law limited how quickly I could just go in and I had to leave a notice on the door for some time, couldn't bother the neighbors to inquire about the people, etc.
They had a kitchen fire, tried to cover it up (poorly) and when they had no power to half the house, no functioning kitchen, no power to the hot water heater, etc-- they packed up and ran. Most walls had fist sized holes in them. The carpet smelled like a dumpster in the sun. Every Venetian blind was ripped down and replaced with sheets or various flags. There was 10000 cigarette butts tossed into the lava rocks of the flower bed that required being picked up one at a time because you can't rake the rocks. All that (and more) in a couple months. A pack of baboons couldn't have done worse.
Privacy laws made it difficult to try to track them down and even if I had-- they had no money and would have just declared bankruptcy and gotten away with it anyway. So in the end it was all written off to the insurance company so that EVERYONE had to pay for these people to live like animals and just move on when they destroyed someone's property.
That's all pretty accurate. My wife inherited several rental houses and taking care of them is a nightmare.
Nobody does this. Landlords ALWAYS turn a thumbtack hole in a wall into a fist sized crater in the foundation. What happened was they left a regular mess behind and your greedy ass wanted to keep the deposit instead of use it to clean the place up like it's supposed to be used for, so you claimed ridiculous amounts of damages on your insurance as a write off and 💨 ned a family's reputation in the process. THAT is what happened rich boy
@@hahano9586 Lol. funny post.
It's actually worse than the abbreviated version. There were 2 families- brothers, wives, and a bunch of kids. They all lived in one house next door, so when they saw that we put up a for sale sign, they begged my wife and I to rent it to them instead. The perfect situation for them to live next to each other. That's why they tore down the fence, trying to unite the back yards, despite the other property having a chain link fence they didn't know how to remove so it was still intact, rendering the destruction of our privacy fence pointless.
It's also why we didn't ask for a deposit-- we figured they had strong incentive to live there and frankly we felt bad for the kids all living in one tiny house (these are starter homes near the Army base I was stationed at (you know, that 'rich boy' E-5 pay I was rolling in...lol)
Both families fled in the night. Abandoned both homes and took off. I didn't see how much damage they did to the other house, but that house also went unoccupied for a long time while repair people came and went.
The house we rented was our home for over 10 years, we raised a kid in that house. Those people turned it into a dumpster in a couple months.
@@thesollylama130 If you're rich enough to afford to hoard homes and hostage them out to people, you're a rich boy. Can't even take you seriously anymore.
It's so hilariously stupid when wealthy people pretend to be poor. Reminds me of that Steve Buscemi meme, but instead it's like a dude that owns two homes and is like "Hello my fellow poor people!" 🤣
@@hahano9586 People absolutely do this. Not everyone, true, but there are plenty of people who will.
My first brush with people like this were people renting my old next door neighbor's house. I had been in the house before the tenants had moved in (I would babysit my neighbor's kids sometimes) and it was pretty pristine. By the time the tenants ran a couple years later due to non-payment and a protracted eviction process, running before the police came to get them out, the house (built only 12 years earlier) was nearly destroyed. It took months of work for them to fix the house to saleable conditions.
I'm not going to say everything they did though it sounded like thesollylama's experience with holes in the walls, ruined blinds, graffiti and feces on the wall, reeking of cigarettes and bad weed, etc. Also, those tenants broke into my car before they left (I recognized their "burning tire" weed smell when I opened the door) and stole the radio, spare tire from the trunk, the jack, steering wheel cover, and my fuzzy dice. Like, dude, I was a poor college student, not cool.
Not all landlords are bad people - or even rich - and not all tenants are being taken advantage of.
Was 1 day from being homeless, then Roger Horton came through for me. Thanks Roger! I live another month to pay my existence fee!
Martin’s a cute lil bugger compared to the neighbors I actually had to deal with before
Better be a loser and stay in my parents house until i have enough money to buy my own, than be at the mercy of some scumbag landlord just because society decided that is the mature thing to do.
Instead of a wedding my daughter & SIL asked everyone for help with a down payment so they could get a home. It took very generous gifts from both families to get them into a modest home and they'd saved for years. But rent would've cost so much more than a mortgage. It's so disgusting that that's even legal.
So sad so many parents definitely in urban hoods have kicked out kids for becoming 18. No chance at saving money for a car apartment or nothing. Crazy
@@allpraisetothemosthighyah All working as intended to isolate and weaken. Keeping them down and indebted.
Yeah the disparity between renting and owning is messed up. And it's not just a US problem. I live in the Netherlands and I rent a small 3 bedroom house and pay 575 euros a month in rent.*
Meanwhile my parents live in a house at least twice the size of mine and their mortgage is lower than my rent. And at the end of the term, they end up owning the house, which they can sell, while I can live here all my life and never owning this place, despite paying more than it's worth by that time. Which is all kinds of fucked up, if you think about it.
*I know that's a really good deal and I am grateful for this place. But it's still messed up.
@@allpraisetothemosthighyahKicked them out so they can retire.
"per month, country boy". Lmao
As someone who's still home with parents and frustrated at the current housing market, it's tempting to rent until things improve. But this convinces me to stay put.
don't do it, dude
Wow privilege, imagine having a choice 😅
Just stay home.
Help your family
Yeah same! I’m extremely grateful now and I’ll just save up and wait for the market to correct.
@@nickbrian9882The market correcting! 😂😂😂 Nice one
Wounded by the realness of these love you Roger
Look at his “If home buying were honest” video. You can’t win.
Pretty much, lol!
You missed the part where they charge you sooo much for rent its 80% of your income but they want you to make 40x the rent & have enough for 3.5 years in 1 year.
How about owning a condo that's basically an apartment, but dammit, you own that box! 😂
LOL, don't forget the condo fees and the fact it will not really appreciate like a house but just barely beat inflation.
**shudders**
@@raylopez99 It might appreciate lol, and Godamnit even with the condo fees, you still own that box. Like you can refinance and get cash for it, you can write off repairs/improvements, mortgage interest. Despite the initial stress of buying a property, I think it's still better than paying rent if you can afford it. Rent is literally just all those fees except your landlord continues to own the place. Like tell me why you can write off Mortgage interest as a deduction on taxes but not rent?
@@PeterEhik Well said, tho in the EU countries I'm familiar with, and own property in, they don't have tax writeoffs like you describe (the EU is by and large a "value add" tax country, which I wish they would do in the USA, like a flat sales tax , a lot simpler)
It worked for me. Just barely beating inflation is still beating inflation. Start on a 20% down in a cheapo condo and put enough time/money into the mortgage to break even +20% down for a nicer place. Get up, go to work, eat, sleep, and refinance to a 15 year the next time interest rates dip.
Got bedbugs from our neighbor at my first apartment, the apartment complex blamed us and said they've never heard of bedbugs being reported there even though Google Reviews had a ton of bedbug complaints. We had to pay for it and we couldnt choose our own exterminators, it HAD to be the one approved by the apartments.
On the flip side, we got most of our deposit back even though they had to repair bullet holes in our door and the unit below us after our unit got shot at (we were not the intended target).
My ex just got evicted after getting bed bugs. They even paid an exterminator to get rid of them, yet when they told the landlord they evicted both his roommate and him
@@zuglymonsterA point isn't clear in story you've told: Did the exterminator successfully get rid of your ex and his roommate? Or was the exterminator too cheap for that?
2000-2002 I did low end apt security 🏘. Orlando Florida. I lived in a 1 bed apt on property. Showed a unit to a applicant who said she had to move because her ex boyfriend had a sawed off shot gun & was trying to kill her ☠️. She didn't move in. 😬
I got bed bugs from my neighbor at my first apartment. We did everything the landlord told us but they came back. They tried to bill me but I didn't pay when I moved out. The $300 still showed up on my credit report but it didn't prevent me from buying a house 8 years later.
This was...a rollercoaster. Please remind me not to move near you😂on a more serious note, I had to get bedbugs taken care of too. Thankfully the pest control seems to have gotten them all before I moved into a much nicer place across the street last week
Thank God I qualified to become a homeowner. No more renting! Homeowning is much cheaper than renting even with property taxes included. Thanks, Roger!
You are qualified....yet.
Thank you. I’m constantly trying to explain this to people. Also you can sell your house for a profit when/if you decide to move.
That depends where you live. In urban areas of California, buying a home is radically more expensive than renting, because the property values are so inflated.
@@aluisious That's why you find a place to live that is within your comfort zone.
@@mousermind That's oversimplified because the best paying jobs are where housing values and rents are high.
I got my first apartment, or place under the pawn shop I worked for, when I was 19. The neighbors had a drug problem, they stole my checks, and my SS card out of my car, because I had left them on the dash, like a moron. Live and learn, it ended with one of them, I have my ideas, but it doesn't matter here, it was so long ago, but one of the creeps nailed my door shut. That was an amazingly grown up thing to do.
No Roaches somehow, just mold, and spiders, and no daylight, which was kind of awesome to live in a hole, but far less cool for someone to nail the door shut... If only I had done hard drugs, I may have had a chance to fit in, however, my landlord was my boss at the pawnshop upstairs, and he started accusing me, the lady I worked with, and the other lady of stealing from him.
I had to leave, he was unstable, but because I worked in the landlord's shop upstairs, rent was only $500, and it worked until crazy happened, nailed in, and accused of stealing stuff. I don't like landlords that much.
Imagine a ticket scalper who bought up all the tickets to a concert selling one back to you and expecting you to be grateful to him for "providing tickets".
That's what landlords are like, except actually they are worse because at least you still own the ticket in that scenario and you won't die if you can't afford one.
Okay, one point: our last landlord gave us our security deposit when we left years ago. Of course, we didn't damage anything and I worked on his laptops for his business (and got paid for that OR discounted some rent). This is obviously rare.
As a landlord I can say it happens, yes. But it depends on who you rent from. Some people are just greedy fucks, there's no way around it.
I'm a landlord and I always give them back.
I don't think it is that rare. Just rent from a person instead of a company. Boom, deposit recovered.
I've always received my deposit back and my friends too. My experience is it's the norm.
@@harmonicarchipelgo9351 The corporations are buying up apartments in some places of the world so it's not always possible to even know who your landlord is. US situation seems the worst.
I actually got my deposit back ones it was insane. It was from a landlord that had a total of 2 properties and from my understand those old properties was actually there homes before they moved into current home. Best landlords I ever had they actually fixed things and so forth. It is crazy the different experience you get from a smaller landlord versus the corporate owned landlords. Yes, they are technically keeping the money even from smaller landlord, but it was a good option for someone that was only going to live in an area for a couple of years.
Small business landlords: open to rent negotiation, actually helpful, don't kick you out if the rent is a day or two late
Corporate landlords:
Rich people: courteous and respectful, willing to spend money on a super, leave you alone most of the time
Everyone else: rude and disrespectful; don't give a shit if something's broken, not working, full of vermin, and/or not up to code; constantly looking for ways to evict you and bring in someone who's willing to pay more rent
I see no problem with a landlord making profite. I see a problem with that profite becoming unreasonable.
*back once, it was insane.
*and, from my understanding, those old properties were
*had, they
*crazy, the different
*someone who was
💯
my dad is like that- he has some properties but is very good to his tenants
As someone finishing my first year renting an apartment, this hits really hard
Where I live, property "investors" (vultures) buy every "affordable house" and immediately rent these out. So I'm waiting for the bubble to burst because they have been sitting empty with no renters since they brought it 6 months ago. 100+ houses in my area.
Also rent goes up each year for no reason and the air-conditioning has about a 1 in 3 chance of working through the summer. Also when something does break and the landlord actually decides to fix it. he will get the cheapest creak head to do it for a six pack and a discount on his rent.
Yes, like my apt: Orlando.gov . 2018-2023. I'm mandated to pay $82.20/mo for fees, add-ons. $35.00 is "trash" & property insurance(for outdoor items-fixtures). The trash 🗑 pick up was optional but the mgmt said "f*** it".
My rent has increased five times in less than two years. Landlord is not currently offering leases “due to Covid.”
Roger, the grandfather all children deserve
If landlords were honest, that's funny.
I'm honest.
@@Zebra_3 ok Starsky
And tenants are bigger idiots for moving out of their parents home😂😂😂
You forgot.
Renter: But I don't have to pay for repairs if I rent right?
Landlord: Wrong, if the roof or fence needs replacing or the foundation needs to be redone I'll just raise your rent to pay for it.
In the Netherlands, the government owns 60% of the market. Since they don't need to grow as far as greedy companies, they can keep rent down. The other 40% (to keep competing) has to keep their rent as low as possible. Add some regulations on how the spaces have to be maintained, and you get a living rent market.
I believe it's a similar system in Austria thanks to the extensive social housing that was built under the socialist party in the 1920's until 1934.
* the government owned apartment goes for social rent - those only go to refugees or people make low taxable income to the point they are considered poor - which pushes a lot of people to evade tax and get paid in cash, or pushes women to not go to work at all.
The more children you have the more discount you get and the bigger a house you can get, forcing the poor to keep giving birth, causing a rise in the poor population, who have to be supported by the middle class with raising taxes like the income tax to 49.5%.
* The other 40% is more expensive than it should be as they have less supply and more demand.
This also raises the price of building new houses as contractors have to give 60% of the new houses in each project to the government, making the other 40% houses more expensive - which fuels the housing shortage.
And you forgot to mention the government agreed bill to all landlords for ever and ever:
Every year, every single year for the rest of the existence of the Netherlands - land owners can and will raise the rent by 3%.
Which doesn't sounds too much, but it stacks over the years making renting extremely unaffordable as all the landlords do it at the same time, together every single year.
But that's Communism! At least in a world according to 'Murica.'
Thats f ing socialism bruh
that's evil communist talk, a true patriot gives the majority of his earnings to our benevolent corporations, and when his mental and physical health inevitably decline from being overworked he does the manly thing which is to take on crippling medical debt to pay our wonderful and totally not overpriced medical system run by doctors and nurses indebted to the educational system
Babe wake up, Horton dropped another banger
*babe wakes up but can't go back to sleep because of the ending*
Last house we rented had a rat infestation. The landlord said it was our responsibility.
We couldn't afford an exterminator, so I did my best with rat traps, which barely worked. They only catch the stupid ones. The smart ones are still in your walls. They kept eating my grits and my pet's food, as well as leaving "surprises" on the kitchen counter and making a racket at night scratching at the wall.
I'm 27 and live with my parents. We've got a good relationship. They apparently like having me around more than I expected, but this is definitely because my 4 year younger sister did move out and is getting married. So happy for her.
In case it sounds like I'm mooching off my parents I don't pay rent, but I handle all the meals and the dishes. I also enjoy talking with my family... Don't know what I'll do when they die........
These are always so realistic that I cants help but laugh
This one cut deep.
This is why I feel no shame about living with my parents. I've never wanted to be a sponge, so what we did was figure out what I'd be paying in rent for a decent apartment in our town and I pay it to them instead. I figure I'd be handing over that money to someone one way or another, so I might as well do it in a way that feels more like giving something back to the people that raised me and less like throwing it down a rat hole. I know this isn't an option for a lot of people, but I'm glad it's worked for me. One thing I've noticed is that as the housing market gets worse and worse I'm finding fewer and fewer people that act like I owe some kind of explanation for the way I've chosen to live.
Yeah couldnt be me. I like walking around my place naked, having loud sex and doing what I want without a curfew. I was ay-okay with renting (I have a house now)
Stop smooching off your parents and get your own place. Seems like a sorry excuse to not grow up. I stayed with my parents while they let me save up for a deposit on my house. We all gotta put big boy/girl pants on one day.
@@stephanieann133 In Costa Rica whole families typically live together in one communal housing complex. It's not strange at all to live like this, and you're not separated from family like most Americans are.
@@tranquilclaws8470In parts of Cali, if is common to find four families living in a house built for one.
You forgot the best part the outrageous FEES landlords and rental agencies will charge you just to APPLY to rent their property. Even if they tell you "no", they keep your fee. $100 isn't unheard of for one application. So if you put in ten applications for a home, you're already out $1000 just to hear "no" ten times for whatever reason... even if they rent to someone else instead... because. It's like they can make the cost of their mortgage by just taking a few applications a month.
Yeah they started to realize the same thing in the Netherlands and the government has slowly been introducing rules to reduce the amount of places allowed to be bought up by corporations. The fact that there are still too few houses beeing build is a different issue. But at least there is awerenes that there is an issue
*Yeah, they
*being
*built
*awareness
*issue.
@@alvallac2171 * I have no friends
You know it's scary how accurate this is I mean it's supposed to be a joke but it isn't a joke all of this is pretty much true I'm in the process of moving and it's a goddamn nightmare
I know your pain. I've moved way too many times in my life. Hang in there.
"You pay me to not be homeless"
Oof
I think the problem is this happens primarily in places of housing scarcity. I have a very affordable apartment, where the landlord promptly takes care of repairs and pests and is super respectful. Admittedly the neighbors are annoying but in less desirable neighborhoods of declining interest, the landlords need you and treat their good rent paying tenants with care.
The brand Horton will ask for water 😂😂😂😂 Nice one🎉🎉 Mr. Horton
Apartments have a purpose if you plan to live in a particular city a couple years. But the problem is in some major cities owning a home is unaffordable. So if you have enough money for an apartment, then at least consider buying a high rise condo if it's in attractable area and have a good condo association. At least then your own your personal space after 30 years. Whether good or bad, living with parents is smart. They do that in other countries. Then your money goes further. Also folks may not like it but it's okay to have a roommate/friend even if you are in your 30s or 40s. Then you can split the cost. With how much things cost, it's hard doing it on your own which is why it helps having a partner. And having a partner doesn't always have to be romantic. It could be a high school or college friend you had.
we need du tri and quad plexs this would allow families to pool their resources to purchase something they all could live in.
"Living with your parents... They do that in other countries" Well, as someone from another country, I must say that's often so on paper, but the situation is different. First, many people in poor countries are dirt poor and you need more people in the household so you can afford basic stuff. Second, the less poor people in less poor and even rich have houses built two independent families, separate entrances, separate garages, separate everything. My father-in-law built a house that allows for this, my wife's sister lives there with her boyfriend independently and it's common, it's called a "two generation house". Sometimes it's two separate houses on one property. It's quite different to living in your childhood room or in the basement.
@@petrmaly9087 its essentially a du tri or quad plex most places here in the US have laws against having two houses on the same plot but you can get up to a quad plex with a standard mortgage
It think it all depends on where you live. If I had stayed in my apartment that was close to work for an extra 7 years instead of buying a house that was too far from work I would have had more money in the bank. The extra commute, the extra expenses of owning a house, and a net loss on the sale of the house (lots of reasons) was not worth it.
@@monkeyoperator1360 A two generation house might be called a duplex, although as I learned there are different meaning of duplex in the Anglo-Saxon world. However in the USA a duplex is not that common, here in central Europe a huge amount of houses of certain size are designed as a duplexes. I'm currently renovating a house and we decided to sacrifice an entire room to move the staircase to the side so it can be used as two separate apartments. The house if from the late 19th century and even back then it was build as a small "poor man's" duplex.
Being allowed to build another house on your property - well, it is complicated, it is an issue if the garden is too small, if the mayor is a moron, or in many other cases, but there are different ways to do it. Many of these detached houses are on paper old barns that were "renovated" (meaning - torn down and a family house was build where they once stood)
"Not one renter has gotten their deposit back in over 3000 years" Truer words have never been spoken before
remember, kids: landlords provide housing as much as much as scalpers provide concert tickets or GPUs
of course we have a way of knowing that; you just told us
I was just thinking the other day about the scam of landlords and renting. Mortgages are scams, too, but you already have a video of that.
That may have been the absolutely CREEPIEST and unnerving ending to one of these ever. Excellently executed, the song choice and subtlety in the style of singing took it to another level. Kudos to the actor. Like, I'm about to rewatch "The Cell" and that is probably more unsettling than a good bit of this nightmarish movie.
The security deposit on my first apartment was $300. And it took about six months of runaround to get it back from the landlord
@thebikehippie6562 thats.. that's pretty dumb 🤷♂️
@@thebikehippie6562 bro like are you taking it as meaning 6 literal months of work to get it back? get a brain
Good. It sends a message that they can't do their c***. No matter how much they wanted to delay it.
The only thing I liked about renting was not being financially responsible for any repairs & didn't have the headache of hiring someone to do said repairs.
The money spent on repairs is a lot less then what you end up saving after you pay your house off and no longer have to pay anything every month forever.
@@lows6427 agreed but was worth peace of mind. Not my worry!
@@cindot2520 A little inside scoop for you. You actually are financially responsible for the repairs. Every month I take 10% of the rent and put it aside to cover repairs and updates. Every landlord who has a clue about how to run his business does this as well. So when the hot water heater goes out, or the furnace needs replacing, my tenants are paying for that work.
@@rowdybush1 As they should. It's interesting how the people using the item thinks someone else should cover the cost to maintain it.
My last landlord would threaten to evict me any time anything broke. In his world, everything remained in pristine working order unless the tenant was doing something wrong.
Renting sucks SO much more than it used to. Rates have skyrocketed with giant investment firms like Blackrock and others buying up EVERYTHING. I used to not mind renting at all... back when you could get a decent apartment for a few hundred bucks a month. Those days are LONG gone. 😢
I pay almost 1K for a shitty studio.
This whole video made me grin, but When Martin started singing "Time of My Life" i lost it 🤣
As a renter, I approve this video. Funny video.
oh damn a little too real and accurate. great job!
He forgot to mention how landlords buy up all the homes. This drives up the cost of all the houses making it unaffordable for regular people. Instead of providing housing, they actually take it away
I truly don’t even know if there is an ethical way to be a landlord- the only solution I can think of is renting out half of a duplex for 25% less than the average rent so that at least one more person isn’t struggling and we both get larger spaces without them worrying about trying to survive
Honestly, the way I see it, the most ethical way to be a landlord is to treat the rental costs as a means of mitigating(not eliminating, as its up to the property owner to pay for their property) the cost of property taxes and the mortgage. There needs to be active communication between the tenant and the landlord and issues need to be addressed as soon as they pop up.
Renting in most cases should be seen as a stepping stone for people, and it doesn't hurt to potentially hash out a deal between tenant and landlord where in the case of them having to stay at the house for a long while, that it can be possible to sell the property at a fair price. Transparency is tantamount and the relationship between landlord and tenant needs to be strong rather than just business.
Now, this won't happen unless corporate America sees money in property soooo... SOL for us I guess
Getting deposits back is tough but if your landlord is decent, it’s possible. Got mine back last time. But the place looked better than when I moved in frankly so she had no choice lol.
I know a couple people who rented the same place for decades and they was depressed when they moved because they realized they spent enough to buy a house on rent and they have nothing to show for it
Stay away from the cities it doesn't make sense anymore.
@@allpraisetothemosthighyah I will live in a ditch before I live in a city
@@TheSimba86
It'll still cost half your income.
@@TheSimba86 I am seeking my way out. Mind you these mortgage are now outrageous and the car loans charging 24 percent(which is illegal) since 2019. It's crazy
when a guillotine is cheaper than a bed, one starts to wonder why more landlords aren't sweating
Good god this is too accurate
He hit the nail on the head with the tenants you will be living with
Glad I own!
2:13 hit home quite literally. Renting a room at the moment and being woken up by my housemates having "fun" even if they try to be quiet (the case most of the time), I can still hear the bed moving and creaking, and wake up from that... til the movements become really fast for 30 seconds and then stop entirely. At 3 am. Job start 6 am. Can also hear yawns and basic talking at a normal voice. Currently looking to move but the prices are insane..
My first ever apartment had a MASSIVE roach problem. And they claimed i brought in the roaches. (Like seriously, there were hundreds, i stored stuff like flour in the freezer to keep them out.) And they REFUSED to do literally anything about them. That roach line really hit home.
The very first Landlord I had stole my electricity. My roommates and I only found out when we saw our bills. He also "dealt" with the mold problem by painting over it.
BEAUTIFUL! Flipping Thank You dude!!!
I've taken a few landlords to court do to their bull. Landowners ran in the family so I wasn't stupid on legalities. Being an Epileptic, I have had some Serious issues with slumlords. (and not everyone has perfect little parents or family that will actually 'help' you)
hope you ended up on a blacklist
@@MentalParadoxwell that wasn't very nice.
@@MentalParadox Honey.......grow up.
Was one of the landlords a Trump? I know that they're famous for being slumlords
Somewhere on a chat server, right now, this video has been shared so that landlords can feel camaraderie whining to each other about how they're so misunderstood before they have a verbal circle jerk over how they should get more money from their tenants while simultaneously looking down on them.
I truly love all the gifts this channel has for videos. I got my fill a long time ago - but now it's just surplus - and I'm loving every second of it!
This is the creepiest one so far. Bravo.
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lol, reminds me of when my landlord sent everyone in the property an email trying to convince us renting is so much better than owning and that they're really do us a favor for letting us give them money every month. Meanwhile I'd been waiting for a new dishwasher for 3 months.
I have gotten my entire deposit back. But as an adult, I cleaned my space well, and was not expecting the entire amount back. I had never gotten back a deposit in full prior to this. HOWEVER, the complex management group mailed it to my address at their complex, after I had supplied my new address when I gave 60 days notice, when I asked for a cleaning schedule, and when I returned my keys. Complex mgt claimed "The checks in the mail." The fact that I involved Yelp and a state agency probably had something to do with it. The "original" check never got to me. However, with the state agency, Yelp and the BBB involved, I was able to pick up a check for the entire amount at their headquarters.
isn't it awesome when the landlord only fixes repairs after you left - so you have to deal with the issues for your entire duration of your stay? Months of it!
This is the best one yet!!!!
Im binge watching all these 😅
0:40 "You get several polyhedrons of space"
The math nerd part of me loves this joke so much lol and it sounds so fancy! "Good sir, while the dining polyhedron is exquisite - and beg pardon for my pedanticism - but the miserly air circulation in the sleeping polyhedron was repugnant!"
this man is living in a world with no interest on loans, no repairs, no taxes and guessing that the house value will not fall. so much for honesty...
Loans would cost less if homes cost less. Homes would cost less if there was less demand. There'd be less demand if there were no landlords buying up entire neighborhoods.
Repairs are sometimes paid for by the landlord, if you're lucky, but that's never been my experience in 30 years of renting duplexes and apartments.
Taxes + mortgage usually
Ben is living in a world without scummy landlords, without rental insurance never actually covering anything, without rent being higher than the average mortgage. So much for being informed.
Roger rules! He is awesome!!!
Few get their deposits back but that’s only because they were lucky and had a nice landlord. Those are rare af.
Remember landlord live paycheck to paycheck too: your paycheck.
For some reason the delivery on "oh they have a business buying and selling....material" was the funniest part to me.
But they do tend to be good tenants if their rent is paid on time.
This needs to be shown to schools