Nothing makes me madder, folks
Lol I’ve already spent $250 in applications alone and I still don’t have a place to stay.
Mao was right.
Yes, in the wonderful USA landlords are allowed to charge a non refundable “application fee” which can range from $20+ dollars (most of mine are $45-$50) so they can run a “background check” on you and make sure you’re not in debt, have a low credit score, are not in bankruptcy and are not a felon. You don’t get this money back ever, not if someone already applied first and got it, not if you’re not qualified due to the background check, nothing.
They let a bunch of people apply without taking the listing down and just pocket the money
hahaha holy fuck i cannot wait until the streets run red with their blood
Iirc you are allowed to say we can kill landlords just not “I want to kill this specific landlord”
Im advocating for killing literally every landlord, its no personal threat to you little parasite.
in the wonderful USA landlords are allowed
(Kulak wipes a tear from its visage)
If you want an apartment put down a deposit. It's as simple as that. Cash talks. All they care about is money. Paying for a background check won't help you secure the apartment, so no need to pay the fee unless the apartment is being held for you. How do you make them hold the apartment for you? Put a deposit down.
It's works fine for me. If you see an apartment you want after seeing it just say "I like this place, I want to rent it, can I put down a deposit so you don't rent it to someone else in the meantime?" If they say no they weren't going to rent you the apartment anyway. Yeah do the app, but that won't hold the apartment for you and there's no point paying the fee if they aren't going to rent to you anyway
I've put down a deposit on a unit before just for them to say "Oh well the one you were holding went so have this one instead" and was totally bamboozled. But they told me that after I had already signed the lease and paid for everything else. Landlords are total scum.
Of course, everyone should simply use the large pile of money they have on hand to bribe a landlord.
Not the same kind of application fee, but application fees for colleges are so fuckin stupid and are a huge barrier to low-income applicants. Free college when
I work at a university and we had a complicated formula to create a fake fee waiver code that looked like a one-time code but was actually just your signature plus some meaningless numbers. We were supposed to give out a "unique" fee waiver code to each student so that they would think that they are super duper special, but at a certain point in the year we ran a report of every applicant who sent us transcripts and test scores, but whose application wouldn't be read because they didn't pay the app fee. Then we'd block-waive the fee and read them all.
Eventually, after the staff had been pushing for years to get rid of it, they let us just not pretend about the app fee anyway. We never cared about the fee, we waived half of them anyway and I think that money went straight into a dean's pocket because the number of app fees paid/waived was the one statistic about money that no higher-ups ever asked for.
App fees are stupid and I'm so glad I don't have to solicit them anymore.
edit: I still get a few hundred fee waiver requests each year, though. And it's always privileged kids, either some program they're a part of sends us a form letter or the kid sends out an email CC'd to fifteen college admission departments saying they need a fee waiver because they're applying to thirty schools.
oh don't worry, you can fill out this additional application and write a personal essay describing your struggle and you will be evaluated on whether you are eligible to have the application fee waived on a means-tested basis! /s i hope
Pretty sure there are a few "property management" companies that aren't even in the business of renting property, just advertising places at below market rates and collecting application fees while never filling vacancies. I've seen some stories on local subreddits about a couple companies notorious for this. A devious enough person could probably figure out a way to do it without even owning any property.
It's illegal in Los Angeles and it literally doesn't stop them.
Because what are you gonna do? Report them? No one cares, and then you don't get the place anyway. Maybe end up on a secret blacklist.
