u/Savard-Lafleur

i've been renting this place for like 6 months and my bf stays over maybe 2-3 nights a week. he literally has his own apartment and lease elsewhere. yesterday my landlord randomly texts me a screenshot from the driveway ring camera of my bfs car and says unauthorized tenants aren't allowed.

​he claims guests can only stay 14 days max a year and is now trying to force me to add him to the lease and raise my rent. is this even legal?? i feel so violated that hes constantly watching the cameras like this. what do i even reply to him?

Five years is actually crazy to me. I feel like I can barely plan five months ahead right now with how expensive everything is: groceries, insurance, clothes. My auto repair bill was insane. I’m like fine renting right now. I don't know, maybe I'll revisit when gas isn’t $5 a gallon.

https://www.zillow.com/research/buy-vs-rent-2026-36370/?utm_campaign=utm_source%3DNewsletter%26utm_medium%3DEmail%26utm_campaign%3DTBD&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_tu5dve8VaVebh5iER_MCHlisZw1IqMJg5RxK2tYaGKie4d-k4cdsC46QmC32OLS96CXjm1MQvvOy5715f7oBNHT3U4A&_hsmi=422487575&utm_content=422487575&utm_source=hs_email

​had to break my lease early because of a new job i gave my notice and we agreed i will keep paying the rent until they find someone else or until the notice period end so i already moved out 2 weeks ago but i paid for this whole month walked past the apartment today to check the mail and saw a whole new family living inside already so he getting rent from me and them at the same time?? lol

me and my wife are literally arguing every day about this now smh. she is dead set on buying a house right now cuz she thinks renting is just throwing money away. but the market is so cooked right now and everything is way too expensive.

​if we buy now our mortgage will take up like half our income and we will have zero savings left. i told her we should just rent a cheaper place for a bit and wait until we can actually afford it comfortably but she thinks if we wait we will get priced out forever. anyone else went through this?? how do i convince her to wait lol because the financial stress is already killing me

my sink been leaking for like 2 weeks and i get left on read every time i text him to fix it. but somehow on the 30th of the month this dude is suddenly texting me bright and early reminding me rent is due tomorrow

​they literally only remember how to use a phone when they want our money. all got landlords like this too or just me

Saw this update to the housing bill. Unfortunately, WSJ articles are paywalled, so here’s a quick rundown: The House passed an updated version of the housing bill yesterday. The 7-year requirement to sell newly built rental homes is out. That provision had effectively frozen new single-family rental construction for weeks since the Senate version passed. 

The institutional investor purchase ban on single-family homes is still in, and the language reverted to the stricter Senate version after last-minute negotiations. The White House is now also pushing this version. The Bill also includes faster permitting and some manufactured housing deregulation.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/newly-passed-housing-bill-throws-lifeline-to-homebuilders-d5dec1d4

my apartment forces us to pay $30 a month for valet trash even tho the dumpster is literally a 30 second walk from my door. last night the valet guy didnt even show up to pick up my garbage. left the bin out because i was asleep n woke up today to a text from management saying im getting a $50 fine for leaving my bin out past 9am lol. so im paying a mandatory fee for a service they skipped just so they can fine me extra money for it. corporate landlords are literal parasites cant wait for my lease to end

our ac stopped working last thursday and its getting so hot inside my apartment. texted the landlord 3 times already and he just ignores them but i know he gonna spam me if rent is late on the 1st. can i legally hold back some rent until he fixes it? im in ohio btw

i just gets my renewal lease and they wants 15 percent more money they literally told me the app says that is the market price now even though three apartments on my floor is empty they doesnt care about empty units because the software tells them to do it i is so tired of this market

Buddy of mine in Phoenix just got laid off from a builder doing build-to-rent projects. Not because demand disappeared, but because financing froze while Congress argues over housing bills.

So now projects are getting paused, and people are losing jobs… while we’re supposedly trying to fix the housing shortage.

Make it make sense.

the fridge that came with my apartment completely stopped working this weekend and all my groceries went bad. i texted my landlord to get it fixed and he said appliances are the tenants responsibility and told me to just buy a new one out of pocket.

​the fridge is literally from like 2008 lol. my lease specifically checks the box that says the landlord provides the refrigerator. i pointed this out and he actually replied yeah i provided it, now u have to replace it since u broke it, i didn't break it, the thing just died of old age tbh.

​im definitely not buying this guy a free fridge. do i just withhold rent until he buys one? or do i buy a cheap used one and take it with me when i move out? so stressed right now.

rent went up $150 but they also snuck in a new clause. any time i need maintenance, i have to pay a non-refundable $75 dispatch fee just for them to send someone out. the manager literally told me it’s to encourage tenants to handle minor repairs themselves.

​im paying u thousands a month and u want me to do ur plumbing too? literal parasites tbh.

my complex just sent out renewals with another $250 increase. they call this place luxury living on the website but the gym has had 2 broken treadmills since 2022 and the pool is green half the time.

​i dont get how they can justify market rate increases when the gate has been stuck open for months and there's trash overflowing in the mailroom every weekend. they spend more money on flashy signs to attract new tenants than actually fixing stuff for the people who already live here.

​literally just paying more money for a worse experience every single year lol. the math isnt mathing anymore tbh.

just closed on my first house a few weeks ago. the hoa president saw me working on my laptop on my patio and asked what i do. told him i work from home full time.

​today i got a warning letter saying i need to pay a $50 monthly fee for running a home business. i literally just answer emails for a company, no clients ever come to my house. is this normal or are they just trying to scam me? feeling so much buyers remorse right now tbh.

just closed on my first house a few weeks ago. the hoa president saw me working on my laptop on my patio and asked what i do. told him i work from home full time.

​today i got a warning letter saying i need to pay a $50 monthly fee for running a home business. i literally just answer emails for a company, no clients ever come to my house. is this normal or are they just trying to scam me? feeling so much buyers remorse right now tbh.

​the bank says i cant afford a $1500 monthly mortgage so i guess ill just have to keep paying $2200 a month in rent instead. make it make sense. im literally buying a whole entire house, it’s just not mine. paying someone else's mortgage because the system thinks im too poor to pay my own is wild.