Landlords see a bucket of white latex paint and go, “YOOOOOOOO!”

This reminds me of the weird partial cabinet around my gas meter that came with the house 18 years ago. The paint is the only thing holding it together and I’d need a real carpenter to replace it.

You're blaming landlords/homeowners? Just blame lazy humans as a given and be done.

I've bought a house nearly 80 years old and the poor girl has had so much paint put on it, if it was makeup, it would be a rubber mask.

And it was done by tennants! Not the landlords, not the owners, the tennants! The answer was putting on a fresh coat of paint every year. And preferably in different colour from the previous.

The result was a mess of a house I bought for a really low price but needing a ton of love and maintenance. With 80 years old prime woods covered with paint that never belonged there to begin with.

I have to say that I've seen this same level of effort on the left from homeowners.

So while landlords should be banned (not just from painting, but from existing, especially as they are permitted to operate today), the "paint everything" is an idiot owner problem that is not landlord exclusive.

It's not before vs after?

Might as well be tenants, of the last two places I rented one landlord redid the whole bathroom because of a few mold spots and the other one repainted everything white between tenants, making sure to remove everything they could from the walls and taping everything that shouldn't be painted...

But when you don't own the place anyway? Why bother, paint everything, not your problem.

Human parasites.

You don't have to be a landlord to be a moron or not a good caretaker of your space.

Look at your floor. Can you see dirt visibly on it? 🤷. I'm judging you way more for that than having a painted door.