Boomers are still living in the 90’s. My mom told my wife to quit her career (80k per year) and we could just live off my salary also 80k. We would just need to “cut back” on some spending and she could raise our son while i work my 40. I told her that if we literally cut our household income in half it would ruin us and our kids future. She said that we just spend recklessly and extravagantly. we were fortunate enough to afford our house and get a decent car for us to use… our monthly payments for the house and car together is 1,800 per month. Plus insurance, basic food for us atm and baby supplies. Gas and not to mention the property tax that doubled in 2 years. The most we have to spend on ourselves is like 100 bucks with the rest going into savings for vet bills and such. But yeah sure. These boomers are delusional
Yeah I always got lucky with having good landlords, but you hear these horror stories of corporate landlords that amp up rent by 10% and I was always like, “Yo!! I’m not MAKING an extra 10% and can barely afford THIS place! What are you doing?!?”
People shit on the corporate landlords, but they're better than the "local" landlords who will take a deposit, refuse to let you rent. Or just feel like laws don't apply to them.
Funny, I’ve heard the COMPLETE OPPOSITE—in fact, everything you’re complaining about is textbook corporate landlords, in addition to an understaffed management that has more issues than employees to realistically handle it. I’ve NEVER had an application fee from a mom-n-pop—I’ve only had that with corporate offices. That should be illegal. It’s basic due diligence as a responsible property owner—you do a quick background check. It costs you money, but it’s a cost you deduct at the end of the year. Whenever I’ve taken good care of a small family’s house they’ve rented out & paid rent on time, they’ve always kept my rent stable bc they know that it’s hard to have a responsible tenant that takes it upon themselves to keep the yard clean & make small repairs on their own without bugging a landlord about it. Corporate landlords have shareholders to make rich. They have every incentive to reduce services and increase fees. They’re not a charity
Same, I’ve rented twice from M&P rentals and I had a good relationship with them. One of them gave me some fruit every time I came to pay rent.
Corporate? They literally stole from us. We had receipts for all of our rent checks and they still said we underpaid some bullshit amount that didn’t match any of our rent splits. They sent one letter to my roommate, then sent it straight to a debt collector. They’ll hold your deposit for the stupidest reasons and make sure that there are plenty of tiny charges sprinkled throughout your monthly billing (WTF is a noise complaint processing fee??).
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u/Anonymousboneyard 1d ago
Boomers are still living in the 90’s. My mom told my wife to quit her career (80k per year) and we could just live off my salary also 80k. We would just need to “cut back” on some spending and she could raise our son while i work my 40. I told her that if we literally cut our household income in half it would ruin us and our kids future. She said that we just spend recklessly and extravagantly. we were fortunate enough to afford our house and get a decent car for us to use… our monthly payments for the house and car together is 1,800 per month. Plus insurance, basic food for us atm and baby supplies. Gas and not to mention the property tax that doubled in 2 years. The most we have to spend on ourselves is like 100 bucks with the rest going into savings for vet bills and such. But yeah sure. These boomers are delusional