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Landlords start nickel-and-diming tenants with fees
Ktla ^ | 09/05/2023 | David Lazarus

Posted on 09/07/2023 2:01:50 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

It’s already very expensive to rent in a hot housing market like Southern California. Now landlords have found a way to make things even worse.

A growing number of property owners and managers are hitting tenants with extra fees each month — a nickel-and-diming of people that the airlines, for one, have made a core aspect of their business model.

It’s been common for years for landlords to charge more for a parking space or having a pet.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: extrafees; fees; housing; landlords; nickelanddiming; rent; rentals; renting; tenants
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Its California. Boo hoo. 🙄
1 posted on 09/07/2023 2:01:50 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Demonizing landlords is all part of the plan to make being a landlord not worth the hassle, and allow the rich pals of government bigwigs to scoop up the properties on the cheap.


2 posted on 09/07/2023 2:05:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Rents rose by 25% from early 2021 to summer of 2022 as landlords sought to make up for pandemic losses.

Did they think these Property Owners were going to just forget about the money the STATE STOLE FROM THEM on behalf of these renters?
3 posted on 09/07/2023 2:07:37 PM PDT by eyeamok
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Sooner than later, landlords won’t own anything and that is their plan.


4 posted on 09/07/2023 2:08:43 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Can’t hardly find a rental here that will take pets.

$1000/mo for a 2 bedroom upstairs unit in a 100+ yo building. No paid utilities . Small rural town.

Young couples have no chance in the Biden economy


5 posted on 09/07/2023 2:09:31 PM PDT by digger48
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To: digger48

Since you are in Indiana, that sounds about the norm. Can you blame the landlords? I am in Indiana in a rural area and that doesn’t sound bad.


6 posted on 09/07/2023 2:25:46 PM PDT by caver
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

7 posted on 09/07/2023 2:27:07 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, if the Deadbeats don’t like the fees, they can find some other desperate landlord to rent to them.


8 posted on 09/07/2023 2:37:09 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Landlords.


9 posted on 09/07/2023 2:37:38 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The feemania of the airlines started when price comparison websites became popular. The airlines moved a large part of the cost away from the comparison amount. The smart websites then tracked those down and in them in the real price. Then more fees were added... etc. etc.

Are there rental comparison sites that are in the same fight?

10 posted on 09/07/2023 2:43:29 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They think it’s bad now, wait until they have to rent an ethnically diverse, multi-family unit from Vanguard or Black Rock.


11 posted on 09/07/2023 2:43:33 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m guessing landlords do this partly to circumvent rent control laws.


12 posted on 09/07/2023 2:45:25 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”)
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To: BobL
I don't like required and unavoidable fees added to hide the real price. My pet peeve is with garages advertising $19.99 oil changes, but they add an EPA fee, shop fee and disposal fee. Suddenly the $20 oil change is over $30. I asked one in a smartass manner if I could bring my old oil home to avoid a couple of the fees.

Just be honest and tell the real price.

13 posted on 09/07/2023 2:48:53 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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Young couples have no chance in the Biden economy

That's why education is still very important for the young. Get properly educated and land a good-paying job. So you can pay expensive rent and live in a nice place.

In my neighborhood, a couple homes were fixed up and sold. The new landlords are renting them out. Two on the opposite side of my back yard. Asking $6500/month. I thought the $5000/month for homes at the end of the block last year was excessive.

Young couples have to be well-paid techies to afford that.

Damn Biden, hyper-inflation is coming soon and it will destroy hope for young couples.

14 posted on 09/07/2023 2:52:00 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: dfwgator
Demonizing landlords is all part of the plan to make being a landlord not worth the hassle, and allow the rich pals of government bigwigs to scoop up the properties on the cheap.

I get texts and calls almost daily wanting to make a cash purchase of my free and clear 2nd house. I routinely say, "No. Go away". My wife accidentally answer a voice call and well less diplomatic...a quick "F*** Off" and hangup.

I arranged my investment such that the rent of my 2nd house would cover taxes on both that house, my principal residence and sufficient money for maintenance of the 2nd house. When I retire, that takes the property tax monkey off my back.

15 posted on 09/07/2023 2:55:52 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: KarlInOhio

Absolutely, and if you did get off for $30 or so, you did well! But I agree, I mean, after all, you don’t get a ‘janitor fee’ added to your bill at Walmart when you buy stuff (not that I’d ever shop there, by the way).

So, definitely, if a price is advertised, it has to be a price that the joint intends to honor.


16 posted on 09/07/2023 2:57:51 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: dfwgator

Landlord by title is the Lord of the land and deserves to be treated as royalty.

/s


17 posted on 09/07/2023 3:07:49 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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Now here we have a unit that is among the lowest prices in the area. Even pets are free. And for just a nominal fee we can include doors, windows and running water.


18 posted on 09/07/2023 3:12:30 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: caver

I don’t blame the landlords

But the farmers tire of renting out the old farmhouses after they get destroyed after 2 or 3 times, so they pay people like our family business to dig big holes, burn and and bury them

Dozens and dozens of them over the years


19 posted on 09/07/2023 3:58:16 PM PDT by digger48
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To: ChicagoConservative27

With what they blue states have done to landlords then I don’t see any reason why landlords would continue to be landlords. Not being able to timely evict bad tenants is one huge issue. But depending on the state then there are many other laws that cause serious injury to landlords in an unjustified way.


20 posted on 09/07/2023 4:07:34 PM PDT by Revel
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