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[–] Concave1142@lemmy.world 188 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just had to do this a few weeks ago. They have you taken a pic of your driver's license, provide your SSN & run a credit check on the spot. Then they charge you to tour the place.

A very "fuck you, I'm getting paid regardless" mentality from rental companies.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 55 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My wife and I were looking at realtors and one told us we would need to provide our credit card info to look at properties, and I just laughed and said "go fuck yourself" and hung up.

The only valid response, IMO.

The fact that people actually pay this shit is infuriating.

[–] Booboofinget@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

I had someone actually try to get me to pay to see rental property well. Mine were a little mote greedy and wanted $30.

I told them I work too hard for my money to be handing it out like party favors.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 144 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] socialsecurity@piefed.social 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Last few months... Grifting has seriously accelerated

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Companies have been accelerating their grifting at an alarming rate since the COVID days

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[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 125 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But you suuuurely tip when you look at a rental?

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 49 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Did you tip when you wrote this comment?

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Of course, but I unfortunately cannot tip you because my payment processor doesn't allow to tip NSFW comments.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Look, we're not asking for much. Just the tip.

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[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s a 20% suggested tip on the $250 non refundable application deposit?

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 10 points 1 day ago

$250 non refundable application deposit?

LMAO I'd sooner torch the rental property than pay just to APPLY to hopefully live there.

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 91 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If they nickel and dime simple visitors like that, I can only imagine what they do to the people who actually rent the place.

[–] potpotato@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If this weren’t such a huge red flag, I’d just knock on the door and pay the current tenant $5.

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[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 81 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Rents are too high for a single income to cover anymore, so I’ve been looking for roommates. Even the websites about finding roommates expect you to pay.

To be clear, they have a free tier - but unless you pay, you can’t read the messages you receive. You can read the first line, but the rest is locked. I gave up with one place because the boomer trying to rent a room refused to send me an email. I told him three times to please just email me his message because I couldn’t read it on the site, but because he could read messages fine, he thought it was a setting he had to change. He kept responding with “Okay try now” and didn’t seem to understand that he can’t “settings” other people out from behind a paywall.

All he had to do was copy/paste his message and send it a different way, but he wouldn’t do it. I eventually gave up because the thought of living with someone that’s unable to follow such simple directions sounds like more trouble than it’s worth.

Anyway, point is, even if you’re so poor that you need to seek out roommates, you’re still expected to pay a subscription. I don’t even know what to do anymore.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Sounds like a market ready for disruption

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 14 points 1 day ago
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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (10 children)

If you were replying with an email address odds are he was not getting it due to the site actively trying to keep people on their site.

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Absolutely. A site charging to read messages will most definitely censor out emails and phone numbers and will have it in their ToS that you're not allowed to take conversations outside the platform.

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[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 81 points 1 day ago
[–] mrductape@eviltoast.org 60 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Just people making passive income guys, nothing to see here.

We once heard of a service that would help us find a rental house. So we went there, had to pay for an appointment. Turns out they do nothing you cannot do yourself, and you pay a lot. They literally just put you in the system, which you can do yourself, and when you get a house through that system, which is free and from the government, they make you pay through the nose for that house.

Of course, since I am native in this country I have no need for a service like that. Turns out they mostly do this to people who don't speak the language. I guess they offer a service, but their fees are excessive for what they do. They abuse the fact those people don't know any better.

There's lots of people making a profit from somebody else's house finding misery and I hate it.

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[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This has gotta be some NYC shit

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

In a region near me the rental market is 99.3% full.

Scumbag landlords charge $200 to view these horrid places no one will ever rent, and their job is showing people the place, one after another. It's only a half-dozen a day, but that's a good wage and there's no end of hopefuls. Apparently, needing a landlord to come out to show you the place is a "call-out", even if he's just upstairs.

Of course that's the "frbo" market; the rental companies can't get away with that yet. They wish, though.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well if you have 5 vacant units artificial scarcity is pretty easy to achieve by only putting one to market at a time.

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[–] Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 35 points 1 day ago

See, you pay us for the privilege of being considered as a candidate to pay us.

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why would they sell/rent when they make so much money on tours?

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean really just spruce up one unit, charge for tours, charge for applications, why even bother renting?

I mean places already charge just to submit an app.

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[–] chowdertailz@lemmy.world 31 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Do the unlimited and have constant tours for all 30 days. Get friends to individually do the same. Pester the ever living fuck out of them.

[–] brem@sh.itjust.works 12 points 18 hours ago

r/maliciouscompliance

Oops, bad habit.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] SillyDude@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This is why I'll boondock until its completely illegal. Then if they don't force me into the gray pod then I'm going feral hobo until I die in a fight with a racoon over some berries.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m going feral hobo until I die in a fight with a racoon over some berries.

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Stop, my brother! We are not enemies! There is enough berry for all, if we but put down our differences and turn our attention to the dreaded hording bourgeois!

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

I want to shit down the neck stump of whoever came up with this

[–] brem@sh.itjust.works 21 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody tell OP about rental application fees, they'll explode.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If we can get people to do it near landlords we might fix the system

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 20 points 11 hours ago

agencies: "housing is just not unaffordable enough. I wonder what else we can do to contribute?"

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago

In some cases, arson is morally perfectly justifiable.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why do we even need people to show us apartments. My best experience when looking for a my last apartment was a place that had a automated system, you scan your drivers license for verification, their app gives you the address and the time to visit, when you get there it gives you a lockbox code that will contain the keys to the apartment, you check the apartment out and return the keys to the lockbox on your way out, this should be the default for every rental apartment visit. Every agent I had to deal with was less than useful, this industry needs to die.

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[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well I need the 24/7 phone and chat support. What if I have a question about my ability to tour a property at 2am?

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would be tempting to get that plan and call them at the stupidest hours possible. But it’s probably outsourced to India or just AI

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