RUBs - This is a bullshit system to be added to your rent with. This is basically saying “on top of what you’re paying to use, you’re to pay what EVERYONE else in the building uses!” even if it’s divided up. I get fucked over every winter for example, because I use electric heaters in my apartment and nothing gas-related. I’m still smacked with $48 ~ $62 of usage, despite that. This raises my rent up and makes it variable.

No-Bite Management - Management who lets nearly everything go, despite them trying to sound strict. You may be in a bit of a rivalry with a neighbor who likes slamming things or having loud music, obviously breaking lease agreement, who makes you wonder why they’ve gotten away with it as long as they have. You record, you report but management does next to nothing. They tell you to your face that the only way they can move forward, is a police report. Now that kind of thing should be reserved for more escalated and involved cases, not something management could deal with when they were the ones who made up the terms of the lease agreement.

Pets - From experience, people are AWFUL with their pets. Mostly dogs, I’ve never seen anything go wrong with cats, unless the owners don’t care enough to let them run around until they’re kidnapped or ran over. But dogs, they just let them go and go with the barking. Not to mention the dog shit on the ground they refuse to pick up.

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    DO NOT have pets in a rented home, do not decorate, do not buy expensive furniture and fixtures in a rented home. It’s a RENTED HOME!!!

    People need to understand they must NOT become attached to their rented homes. Treat it as just a TEMPORARY roof over your head & live a frugal life. Remember: You cannot afford to live in that house in a way you can live in your own home.

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      13 hours ago

      My friend, a lot of people have no choice but to rent. Many will never own a home because the landlord has the tenant paying off their third mortgage.

      You’re talking like these people are privileged to be allowed to step foot in a rental property.

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        its sad, but its still true, other than it being temporary. its still not safe to think as your home about places that only tolerate you until you can satisfy the lord.

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      11 hours ago

      Surely there are non-destructive ways to decorate your place though; there’s plenty of reversible ways to hang things like artwork and pictures and stuff on the walls, and also, it’s not like thumbtacks in the walls are causing great deals of damage, thumbtack holes were so small last time I thought that you could just paint over them and it’s like they were never there.