Intro
I am normally a very calm, understanding individual, but sometimes the ineptitude of people is unbearable, and instead of subjecting those around me to a verbal assault on whatever institution brought upon my first world discomfort......I have you steemians......Sorry(:
There is a population of people around campuses across the U.S. A group of parasitic leaches sucking the money out of college students in a housing trap, and whose gluttony knows no bounds.
They are called landlords
Shurly you can't feel too bad for us college students, right? We are privileged whiney liberals mooching off our parent's money. While that may pertain to a select few, that is not at all the majority and most of us work very hard. I myself work full time to pay for my expenses, housing and to help with tuition, so when I get livid about housing.....it ain't my parents money. Even If it was, the way landlords treat tenants in college towns and the prices they charge, is first degree sodomy.
Problema one: The actual properties
Maybe college students aren’t the neatest, and maybe we haven't developed a true appreciation for keeping a property spik and span, but when we are given dumpsters to live in, what do you expect? How would it ever be acceptable for a landlord to rent out a place with holes in the walls, broken lights, outlets, appliances to normal tenants. They would laugh and think the landlord is freaking bonkers if he ever thought someone would pay for a place with so many issues. Yet they get college students fawning over the most meager of spaces, mostly because there is barely any selection and no one wants to spend another year in the dorms hiding your mixer in a Gatorade bottle. They also cram students into closet sized bedrooms, despite a description of spacious 5 bedroom. Ya, maybe spacious for midgets!
We moved in this past summer to an air conditioner that didn't work, carpet torn, roof leaking, and we thought we got away with a steal! Our friends down the block had mushrooms growing on their living room carpet that the landlord took forever to get rid of. One of them got a fricken fungal infection! Landlords are under no obligation to fix or improve anything either. They know no matter their dogshit reputation is, they will rent out all their properties, no matter what dilapidated Sri Lanka housing structure they have. College students will be thrilled to live there. The manipulative mob bosses with their monopoly death grip don't care about their tenants only their margins.
Problema #2 The Price
The area surrounding college campuses experiences a 200-300% spike in pricing houses. An offense perhaps forgivable if the properties were even close to worth the ridiculous asking price. $4000 a month for a four-bedroom apartment. Not even the most pretentious money drenched college student would opt for that place unless funneled to do so.
What other industry can charge three times the industry standard for a third of the quality while making more money!? What set me off is our landlord tried to get us to pay $800 for a new door after a drunk person kicked it in, even though they are on video and we filled a police report.
Problema # 3 The Future
This problem isn't going to change. These landlords are making hand over fist and college students are willing to shell out whatever they ask. Googly eyed for their first property and disillusioned to the debt they will pay in the future.
Is this really the worst problem to have no...., but is that a reason to let it slide....I don't think so think so.
Thanks for absorbing my rant,
Until next time steemians