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[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 118 points 1 year ago

guy who mugs people: god it’s so easy to make money

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Mugging sounds like a more difficult job tbh

[-] huf@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

mugging is not comparable, because the police arent on your side. mugging-while-being-a-cop (civil asset forfeiture) seems like a similarly easy way to make money though.

[-] wopazoo@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

new tagline

[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago

Landlords normally: "it's just so easy! My tenants pay for everything, I dont even have to work!" smuglord

Landlords after being called out by a leftist: "this is a very difficult job, I barely make a profit. Without me you would be homeless. All my money goes towards mortgages! (Equity? What's that?!)" boohoo

[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I MEAN WHO ELSE WOULD LORD THE LAND????

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Their new deck replacement fucking sucks. No attempts to even try to match the rest of the facade's color scheme, visible gaps/shit wood used for the slats, this looks like some unlicensed "contractor" who got all his knowledge of carpentry off HGTV installed this. Having installed a few fences in my time, one of which was indeed an elevated deck fence, I find this fuckin repulsive.

I'd have to run up in the house of a landlord who thought this was worth a rate hike of 1000/mo.

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Yeah I can't say for sure what kind of wood they used but it looks like fucking pine. The last place I lived was sold to a new landlord who raised the rent by $500 and all they did was put new product on the floors a day before the new tenants moved in, their furniture was apparently sticking to the floor which I found very funny because I warned everyone who came to look that the new owners were scumbags.

[-] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

HGTV and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

[-] bubbalu@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Like they repainted the wood slats elsewhere. They had the paint. They had the color picked out! And they couldn't be bothered to match it.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Socially acceptable welfare queens.

  • There is no way he laid down even a drop of paint himself.

  • This reinforces how it is cheap to just be rich in the first place. You need to have money in order to do any of that and then "earn" the money. If he gets a loan, then it's even worse because it's just his tenants paying for all of it. Real soft-hands shit.

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Showing this tweet as exhibit a at this dickheads execution trial

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Sounds like his tenets should redacted-1redacted-2

[-] WafflesTasteGood@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Not pictured: Black mold in the walls, sagging floors, questionionable electrical work.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Sounds like my first apartment minus the floor sag

[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

we're always missing him

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Cop and landlord seem to be the hot potato "professions": you get a lot of money at the expense of being hated by everyone and being acutely aware that the worse things get, the more well-deserved danger you'll be in if and when shit pops off on a large scale.

[-] Saeculum@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Do cops get a lot of money? I wasn't under the impression it's a particularly well paid job, it's not in the UK at least.

[-] da_gay_pussy_eatah@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Cops in America make a lot of money in a lot of places, especially considering the "qualifications" for the job.

[-] AlkaliMarxist@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

I think they're comparatively well paid for people with no skills or qualifications who sit down most of the day.

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

They get a shit load of benefits and special benefits just for them in many cases.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Alameda Police Department is offering new recruits a $75,000 signing bonus – the highest in the nation – on top of a $113,654 starting salary

https://www.ktvu.com/news/alameda-police-struggles-to-recruit-new-officers-despite-highest-in-nation-signing-bonus

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

In the US you can abuse the shit out of overtime.

It's why you see 12 cops at a traffic stop, if a call goes out in their neighborhood they can trundle over in their plain clothes and shoot the shit and bill 2 hours of overtime.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

I've seen old brick buildings have this happen to them. Apparently they don't know you're not supposed to paint brick, and that it's dangerous to the structural integrity of the building.

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Painting brick is an unhinged move anyway because brick is a timeless look

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

huh, TIL

If you are considering painting bricks on a building built before the 1940s please don’t do it, and I’m not just talking about design aesthetics. Historic bricks are softer than their modern counterparts and the lime mortar commonly used before the 1920s is extremely soft.

These softer masonry materials were design to breathe and if they can’t breathe you are setting yourself up for a world of hurt. When you use a sealer or paint brick of this age you often trap moisture inside which can lead to efflorescence and eventually spalling which is when the face of the brick is pushed right off the body and the brick quickly disintegrates into powder.

You may think I’m trying to scare you and you’d be right. I have restored many brick buildings where large chunks of the brick are spalling and the structure is falling apart from applying incompatible paints and coatings to the brick. Everything from masonry sealers to layers of latex or oil paints trapped moisture and the bricks slowly ate themselves up from the inside.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

This is what happened to that apartment last year, yeah?

[-] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago
[-] Mokey@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel like if your broadcasting to a ton of people potentially thousands, you should be a little more responsible with your "jokes." They're never jokes either, theyre just mad they got caught.

I also mean this for "lefties"

[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Lmao, he claims to be a 2.5 handicap golfer. I say this as someone who peaked as a scratch golfer 12 years ago, almost everyone who is single digit or better is a turbo chud.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago
[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

If there were enough supply and competition in the rental market, this would never work. This kind of post would be made to the sound of a laugh track, they'd sit on their empty apartments, their property values wouldn't go up, and they'd eventually come back down on their pricing. Instead, even if you don't get tenants, you can still make money on property values going arbitrarily upwards. At that, large real estate holdings (like apartments) are increasingly held by a handful of small players that obviously won't compete against themselves, so they just charge whatever they want, which raises the ceiling on what the little guys can charge, too. We have a trailer that family is staying at that, honestly, the fair price to rent it is $5-600/mo + utilities; like properties are going for almost twice that, and spare rooms in my city start there. It's because of how little choice and opportunity we have in housing that the system can be this exploitive. Sometimes, it's dizzying how much needs to change, but it must be done or things will just keep getting worse.

[-] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

If there were enough supply and competition in the rental market, this would never work.

Famously elastic supply, housing.

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

What is to be done? lenin-sure

[-] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Sometimes, it's dizzying how much needs to change, but it must be done or things will just keep getting worse.

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent red-sun

[-] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Zach raised our rents by $1000/month. All we did was CENSORED

CENSORED is so easy.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

minecraft apartment

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

gui-better wow housing equitability is so easy

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

The Landlord Special strikes again

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago
[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

What I dont get is why you would broadcast this

I can understand why someone would want to be selfish and make passive income on rental properties.
I can't understand why you'd smugpost about it on twitter, using your real name no less

[-] italktothewind@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

they're probably selling some course or something on How To Get Rich Quick. so these posts serve as advertising

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