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the "adulting is hard" bit makes it look like a complex that's nearby a university. having had friends in similar living situations, i can tell you: over-privileged college kids in their first not-mommy&daddys-house residence can be absolutely out of fucking control
You say that, but...
I just got an email from my building saying that someone has been smoking weed in the hallways and in apartments (with shared HVAC); it reeks. It's a smoke-free lease.
The first floor is a daycare center for kids with special needs.
I guess some people really need to be told that these things are not okay.
When I smoked, I lived in a house that the family owned and still never did it inside
I don't think the people who are likely to become evicted due to poor decisions on their part, would be interested in taking a class in how not to become evicted.
This Venn diagram has no overlap.
I suspect it's an apt building that is quick to evict - when people plead ignorance to the rules "well you should have attended the FREE LEASE VIOLATIONS TRAINING DUH!"
Doing anything > doing something. Not saying I agree
It says VOA at the bottom. Volunteers of America manages a ton of affordable and voucher-based properties around the country. Some of the people I've helped move into units with them have been on the streets for years and have zero living skills. A class like this could genuinely help someone stay housed who might otherwise lose their housing voucher and be back on the street
It genuinely seems like it could have fantastic advice. I just wish they didn't make it so incredibly condescending.
It is blunt, for people who can't understand anything else.
I used to work for a nonprof helping the homeless, ran shelters, other programs.
Some people are traumatized, some people are a bit mentally off, some people are more so just dense, stupid, cocky assholes to whom the concepts of rules and consequences just... fundamentally do not seem to register, who also continuously and obviously lie.
Now this was more shelter oriented, but we helped move people into new housing too.
If you can't handle shelter rules, as in, you consistently violate them, we were a lot less eager to help those people into housing, because they can't follow rules, and part of what we are supposed to be doing on our end is sending over people who can and will.
Also, trust me, if you've ever been homeless, you will almost certainly develop a bit thicker skin than being offended by slightly impolite and blunt phrasing on a piece of paper, you will be dealing with a lot more serious shit than that basicslly all of the time, a lot more, extremely blunt and rude people than that, basically all the time.
I served on the board of a Section 8 housing authority for a number of years.
You would be amazed at the number of people who don't understand that leases are legally binding contracts and there are actual, enforceable consequences for violating the conditions of it.
"You guys can't evict me."
"Uhhh, yeah, we can. It just so happens that hording 30 cats in your house and letting them soak every inch of the place with piss is a violation of the terms of your lease."
Yeah, I worked in a few affordable housing sites and the OP looks like something the on-site social workers cooked up.
Sounds cool. Pretty thoughtful
I'm a millennial and I hate the verb "adulting" more every time I hear it.
It was funny at first, but I won’t miss it if it disappears like other slang has.
its probably helpful for the people it describes. not everyone understands how lease agreements work, even in the basic way the flyer talks about.
Or even acting like a human being, by the sounds of things.
All of a sudden I can see, more clearly, how "landlord" is a form of controlling the poor, like low wages is, it's not just an imbalance in the current system where they've accidentally made the system entirely too heavy with investors and not rebalanced the system to be fair, that's no accident. It's a system and purposeful tool of oppression. They aren't going to make housing more affordable or do anything about the fact "landlords" (landlords, corporations, Airbnb, owning houses) hold too much power. That's by design. Capitalism creates slavery in insidious ways, until suddenly it's not insidious, but by then it's too late.
You got that from this post?
This and a few other key pieces floating around. History, capitalisms usual trajectory, current happenings. The fact that it's so bad and no politicians are doing anything, but like multiple places in the world. The levels of fascism popping up everywhere. Capitalism is a pyramid scheme where the people at the top want exponential growth, with a finite amount they can take from. The genocides going on, are to increase profits and control world shipping corridors. If they take all of our land, they have the majority of the populous in the world, as a slave work force, we would work just to pay them for the roof over our heads. The rules around renting are getting so extreme, and nothing is being done about regulating this, to protect the renters rights. Without renters, the house they live in falls into rot, and they go out of business overnight. But renters aren't treated like the customer, we're gaslight into believing renters are subservient to landlords and landlords are doing renters a favor (by letting them pay off the landlords property, and or lining their pockets) the trajectory we're currently on, and the pace at which the rules and laws are becoming a tighter noose around the renters neck, tells me it's getting a lot worse, very fast. I don't know, now I'm rambling. I'm tired. I don't even know if I'm making sense right now.
You make enough sense in the points you make.
Responding these things to the post at hand is what makes no sense. It sure looks like either you've got an idea in the chamber waiting for a soapbox at best and shilling at worst. I kind of doubt the shill line, but everything you wrote is stereotypical Lemmy and landlords which is unusually asymmetric commentary for a post about how not to get evicted.
This tastes weird. I don't disagree with you, but I feel like I'm in an advertisement and I don't like it.
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. Yeah, I could really work on my delivery. I feel like it's probably coming across that way because I'm mostly angry venting into the wild, rather than speaking to people, and I really need to work on that. I'm just so angry about all that I see, and I don't expect people to actually listen to anything I say, that's probably a byproduct of being a mum for the last, well, it's been over 30 years now. So I feel like I'm probably doing more screaming into a pillow, than proper adult discourse. I just want to vent my anger, I just want someone to say, yeah, shits fucked up, back to me.
Just to clarify, It's not that I think landlords, individually are evil, I just see how they're being weaponised. I just read a few lines and it clicked some things together.
I've been consuming too much history stuff, lately. It's making me really angry.
Totally reasonable like I said, just very punchy so it's hard to tell if I just walked into something.
Edit: I will add, my hatred for landlording (which is of course Lemmy standard) has been tamped by the fact that my parents had a 900 sq ft house they rented to truckers in our hometown, and I've often considered buying a house to rent out in the college town where I live. There are lots of people who only want to live in a place for 1 to 4 years near me and buying a house makes no sense for them. What is so bad about giving a nice place to stay for short term and putting enough money in my pocket to take a vacation once a year? Idk, it doesn't feel the same as slumlording a building of people who can't afford anywhere else to go.
I don't think capitalists think much beyond "I need more money and I don't give a shit about anything else". Sure, some are super fucking competent and scary as shit, but most are Zuckerbergs, Musks, and Bezos. Incompetent weirdos that managed to sit their ass on a somewhat stable asset and had others do all the labor for them.
That seems fairly reasonable. No one should have to put up with noisy neighbours stomping around all night or throwing house parties packing like sardines into overcrowded flats like it's a bus in India or constantly emitted smells of dogshit, weed and asian food or be harassed for no reason or feel unsafe or otherwise disrupted in their own home or the surrounding infrastructure that they need to use as part of daily life like exits/entrances/walkways etc.
It's called the social contract.
Asian food. Oh, so you're racist?
asian food
god forbid people season their fucking food. all foodstuffs must be boiled until grey and served with ketchup right?
jfc
What the fuck is your problem with Asian food?
Go microwave some squid at your office and see how well that goes down.
You mean like calamari? I didn't know Italy was in Asia. Anyway, no thanks, that would make it all rubbery.
The advice given isnt the issue. Its the attitude its all spoken in...
Stuff like "Free (unlike your late fee that you keep racking up)" for example
I like the tone actually. Hate landlords and yeah it's a bit nasty when you think of the social dynamics but honestly sometimes you just have to reach people, because the kinds of people who become an issue also don't tend to read the dry legal document that is their rental agreement, I guarantee you.
It reads like an attempt at joviality that comes off as condescending. College students see this shit all the time.
I’m an old fart. I know better than to try to be hip. I’m not, and never have been. I get along just fine.
This feels incredibly targeted to me... one of the residents must be a pit bull owner with a deadbeat cousin and some really good Tuesday nights.
Have you ever turning up on a Tuesday like it's a YoungBoy concert in your living room?
I’ma take a wild guess - is this being posted in a college town? Because a lot of that looks like shit you would’ve needed to tell me when I was 19.
Gotta love renting. Help a friend get back on their feet for a bit after life throws them through the wringer?
Too bad, so sad, your turn in the wringer.
I wonder if this is being posted around student housing.
(Edit: OP just updated. Yeah - it’s a city right next to a college town.
Given the language, adulting 101 talk, and the mention of a “community room,” this feels like it’s aimed at 18 year olds in student housing, or a city that revolves around a university.
Having people not on lease crash in student housing can lead to a lot of frustration for students using shared spaces.
I had some roommates have messy friends “crash” in their rooms for extended periods of time, and it ment that I had to effectively deal with a new shitty roommate that I didn’t sign up for. Not an uncommon thing.