LPT: Try to catch your landlord doing tours with potential new tenants and mention things they refuse to fix or improve. (sh.itjust.works)

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Every single time whatever I needed fixed was done within the week!

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[-] scytale@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I was really tempted to do this whenever I was grabbing coffee at the leasing office (my rent pays for that machine, I'm using it as much as I can), and there are potential tenants waiting in the receiving area. I unfortunately didn't have the balls to talk to them while the employees are sitting within earshot.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

It's the employees/landlord that you're supposed to be talking to, not the prospective tenants.

You see them with prospective tenants and bring up the leaky roof, or bad ac, in the prospective tenants hearing. It puts the landlord in a bad light, right when they're trying to show only the good.

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Ah right, I misread the post. Unfortunately (or fortunately?), I didn't really have any major issues back then and the only thing I didn't like was the expensive rent and refusal to negotiate. Either way, I was already on my way out from that complex.

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