• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Landlords also do repair and maintenance (jokes aside) to maintain the property in good working order / habitability.

    At least, they are generally required by law to do so. Your laws may vary.

    Landlords also prep the unit for habitation between tenants and handle all of the paperwork for rent and utilities (depending).

    Maintaining housing is very expensive, and many people cannot afford to just drop $25,000 to redo a kitchen or reroof a building when it is required.

    So landlords are basically the middle manager between your living at the property, and all of the maintenance and financial details. You pay rent to them for that service.

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      4 months ago

      My landlord doesn’t do that, they have a property manager that does that stuff. Ive never even seen my landlord. If the landlord does it, then they are not doing landlording, they are being a property manager and landlord, but they don’t necessarily have to, and one doesn’t require being the other.

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        4 months ago

        That’s disingenuous. The property manager very much is NOT paying $30k for a new roof. The landlord is. The property manager just executes the maintenance plan the landlord is paying for.