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Your Landlord Might Be Mocking You On This Little-Known Site AKA ‘The Worst Site On The Net’

Renters know that their number one enemy every first of the month is their landlord. Even if the place you’re renting isn’t a total crap hole, they’re still taking the biggest chunk of your income every thirty days. And let’s face it, your place probably is a crap hole. Most landlords don’t respond well to tenant complaints about repairs or bugs or turning the heat off and on. You’re an annoyance to them and they’re an annoyance to you.

That’s why there are so many laws protecting renters. Otherwise, landlords could and would do whatever the want. While you might suspect your landlord would do some awful stuff if they could get away with it, you can’t actually confirm—unless you’re reading their secret message board where they incriminate themselves.

Podcaster Tony Wagner shared screenshots of what he says is a landlord’s message board called “bigger pockets.” The things landlords are willing to say to one another are pretty shocking:

https://twitter.com/tonydwagner/status/1148442052851408897

Like this landlord who makes his requirements so high that no one can rent from him, then mocks them for not being richer:

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Or the guy looking to charge yet more fees to all of his tenants—without technically breaking the law.

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Or the rental property investor who admits to discrimination:

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And finally, the guy who is cool with a little boy being bit by spiders:

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The post has got a lot of people pretty pissed off, and sharing other examples from the board of terrible landlords. 

https://twitter.com/IllCaesar/status/1148617194793820160

For every ten people outraged by these bad landlords, there’s at least one who sees themselves as a future real estate entrepreneur who is offended by the suggestion that no one should make stacks of cash off housing. It’s a pretty contentious issue, probably because there is such a disparity in where and how people live. We also live in a culture where homelessness is treated as “normal” and there’s a general contempt for anyone living in poverty.

But here is a good point about all that:

It is true, however, that not everyone who owns an apartment building is wealthy. They’re just a lot wealthier than everyone living inside it. Rent strike for spider bites!