I don’t even blame that at this point.
Useful idiots were always proud to pay for shit they could be getting for free, why would they all of a sudden get mad about it?
Remember to pay your netflix subscription instead of using free streaming sites that require no sign up, no credit card, and have more content.
Soon you’ll have to buy a subscription to tour rental houses.
agencies: “housing is just not unaffordable enough. I wonder what else we can do to contribute?”
Nobody tell OP about rental application fees, they’ll explode.
This is 100% worse, though. Both should come with being shot in the street as punishment but at least application fees is paying for something you want and not paying to see if you even want it at all.
If we can get people to do it near landlords we might fix the system
…or we could raise our children to not be landlords.
Do the unlimited and have constant tours for all 30 days. Get friends to individually do the same. Pester the ever living fuck out of them.
r/maliciouscompliance
Oops, bad habit.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You should make a Lemmy alternative. Could become useful, you know, with all the ongoing fascism.
In some cases, arson is morally perfectly justifiable.
Why would they sell/rent when they make so much money on tours?
The idea is proably just to filter out people who aren’t serious / not gonna show up.
I can’t imgine it’s about the money
Its common to pay a down payment to hold a rental, this is just a shittier version of that.
You pay the downpayment to reserve the spot, so they cannot rent that to someone else once you pay. Touring does not apply the same restriction to the property.
I mean really just spruce up one unit, charge for tours, charge for applications, why even bother renting?
I mean places already charge just to submit an app.
People do that, its pretty clear cut fraud though so it usually doesnt work out the best in the end.
If they nickel and dime simple visitors like that, I can only imagine what they do to the people who actually rent the place.
If this weren’t such a huge red flag, I’d just knock on the door and pay the current tenant $5.
Might get a coffee out of it
This is some immo portal service, right?
Is anybody actually going to pay this? I’m limited in how mad I can get over someone deluding themselves.
They may end up having to, because the landlord will only take ‘verified renters’. So unless you’re the only one making a bid, you will never get the property.
Is anybody actually going to pay this?
I’m sure someone will. It’s a relatively small amount of money compared to, say, rent itself. And if you think you’re getting some material benefit from the service, you could be gulled into it.
I’m more curious to see if this becomes “normal”. Like, if a cartel of rental agencies all decide they’re not getting enough in referrals and need to juice their profits directly from the customer, then this pops up everywhere.
At one point I worked in a role where I helped people with tech issues, including getting printing and scanning done for documents that needed to be signed.
I regularly had people coming with letters to potential landlords for printing/signing/scanning, thanking the landlord for the opportunity to view a rental, noting the listed rent, and offering a higher rent and/or a cash gift if they were the tenant who was selected.
Very illegal and scummy, exploiting desperate people and families. This app feels like the codifying of that shady landlord behaviour.
By that logic, grocery stores exploit hungry people. The letter thing doesn’t translate, I guess, but there’s other examples where it would.
I know everyone hates landlords here, but like, why?
I sure wouldn’t. If anything it sounds like these rentals will be worse than the free to look at ones. It’s only 5 bucks, but it’s 5 bucks.
Sort of a “Cobra Problem” of rental agencies, wherein they have an economic incentive to show you a few duds before they get you anywhere near some place you’d want to live in.
Incidentally, this is already a strategy rental agencies. Exhausting your client in a run-around means they’re more likely to settle on a mediocre choice than hold out for something better. Stapling a price tag on every new visit means further disincentivizing them to keep looking after you’ve showed them a bunch of lemons.
Just people making passive income guys, nothing to see here.
We once heard of a service that would help us find a rental house. So we went there, had to pay for an appointment. Turns out they do nothing you cannot do yourself, and you pay a lot. They literally just put you in the system, which you can do yourself, and when you get a house through that system, which is free and from the government, they make you pay through the nose for that house.
Of course, since I am native in this country I have no need for a service like that. Turns out they mostly do this to people who don’t speak the language. I guess they offer a service, but their fees are excessive for what they do. They abuse the fact those people don’t know any better.
There’s lots of people making a profit from somebody else’s house finding misery and I hate it.
This reminds me of the Italian websites that resell tickets for exhibits that can be purchased much cheaper directly from the exhibit’s actual website. The exhibit sites tend to be in Italian only or are more difficult to find.
my parent went through that service, except they were trying rent out the other house, they are rich by any means. but it was the same process the agents basically did nothing, just put your house in thier database thats it.
God I love capitalism. Insert SpongeBob shouting meme
Sounds like France. There’s a whole industry of people charging a months rent or more just to make a few phone calls and assemble some basic documents. Not easy to rent a place by any means, but these providers do not offer a good value because they are not actually real estate agents.
This is why I’ll boondock until its completely illegal. Then if they don’t force me into the gray pod then I’m going feral hobo until I die in a fight with a racoon over some berries.
I’m going feral hobo until I die in a fight with a racoon over some berries.
Stop, my brother! We are not enemies! There is enough berry for all, if we but put down our differences and turn our attention to the dreaded hording bourgeois!
I know this is funny, but to anyone reading this comment, I implore you:
What’s the biggest thing you miss? The idea certainly appeals to me; you have to pay to exist as a person in a building but there’s free parking everywhere. And you can do a bit of nomadism.
A nice shitter and a bathtub. I have a toilet and do shit in the woods as much as possible. But a reliable porcelain throne feels great. I can realese some genuine horrors and its just gone in a flush or two. I also like just laying down in a nice hot bath with some bubble bath, little scented Epsom salt, drink a beer and smoke a j.
I want to shit down the neck stump of whoever came up with this
Why do we even need people to show us apartments. My best experience when looking for a my last apartment was a place that had a automated system, you scan your drivers license for verification, their app gives you the address and the time to visit, when you get there it gives you a lockbox code that will contain the keys to the apartment, you check the apartment out and return the keys to the lockbox on your way out, this should be the default for every rental apartment visit. Every agent I had to deal with was less than useful, this industry needs to die.
How do they defend against abuse? Like if someone steals a toaster on their visit how do you know if it was person 1 or person 5 who visited that day? Do they have to have someone to check after each visit? Why don’t they just do the viewing?
I’m talking about empty apartments and I assume someone comes to check up the state of the apartment once a day or more
It’s still a problem if someone leaves used needles or vomits on the carpet.
I assumed the apartments being showed were empty.
Mao did one thing right
Died?
Decrease the surplus population?
Solved the housing crisis by lowering demand! It’s cheaper and easier!
It’s weird to see people pile on Mao for a massive regional famine but blink right past the Rape of Nanjing.
Extra surreal when you know how many millions Chang-Kei Shek butchered before he was forced off the mainland.
Even more so when you consider the explosion in wealth and prosperity enjoyed by a country that ended the 1940s with 400M people and entered the 2000s with 1.3B
This, as Western nations in the current decade have engineered famines from Haiti to Libya to Gaza to Afghanistan.
Ah yes, every time someone points out how bad Mao was as an authoritarian dictator, that’s “piling on”, even when it’s only one person.
What does Nanjing have to do with a comment about Mao?
How are “Western nations” relevant to this conversation at all?
I hope you stretch before you jump into these mental gymnastics, you might strain something.
What does Nanjing have to do with a comment about Mao?
The fact that you have to ask…
