Landlords Are Bad Everybody

Avast Maties it's me slime beard today I'd like to talk about landlords and why they're a problem these guys am i right first of all they come on board you think they're gonna be good crewmates they don't know how to tie up the jib and when it's time to swab the poop deck where are they furthermore I'm the one that it's got scurvy why do I have to carry around these big heavy treasures that's what what Jeremy what is so important that you had to ruin my take you're talking about landlubbers no it's a video about land Lords actually okay what do you think a landlord is mr. slime it's like the opposite of a salty sea dog you know the guys pirates don't like cuz they're always going around loving the land you know what actually when I say it out loud I see your point okay so I'm gonna have to cut a lot of this probably don't need the part about proper care for parrots the part about how they don't know any good sea shanties that can go I think I can keep the part about them not being able to fight off Corsairs I really feel like what you're describing is still more of the landlubber thing I don't think it's really relevant yeah yo let's just start out let's start the video over start it cut this cut all this out hello I'm table slop today we're talking about land Lords landlords are bad socialists have always been against rent-seeking now let me get three things out of the way right out the jump because I can hear you tippity-tap typing up all your little comments number one I don't think all landlords are bad people like I said about cops it does not matter to me if an individual landlord is a good person who will go to heaven the institution that they take part in by being a landlord is what I take issue with specifically I'm not making a judgment on anyone's entire moral character I'm making a judgment on this particular action that they're taking and it's not because I'm just bitter about some bad landlord experience I've had in the past I mean I've certainly had my fair share like I'm sure all of you have done my current landlords kind of own like they charge me well below market price like a quarter of market price and they're friendly and helpful and all-around Pleasant and decent people who have real jobs in addition to renting to me that doesn't change the fact that the institution of rent seeking is fundamentally immoral and just as exploitative as siphoning the surplus value of a workers labor number too often people will say that rent seeking is justified because the landlord does their part by paying for the mortgage and paying for repairs which is not true tenants pay for both of those things because the money that the landlord uses to pay for those things was collected from their tenants the landlord is not paying for Jack they're spending their tenants money furthermore that money that they spent to pay off their mortgage generates equity for them and diddly-squat for the tenant if I took a thousand dollars from you and used 400 of it to buy you a Nintendo switch am i doing you a favor is it okay for me to do that because I bought you a Nintendo switch and number three for the brain geniuses in the comments telling me just buy a home if I don't like it gee wish I'd thought of that let me just check on computer yep looks like the whole housing market has become completely turbo fucked because it's more profitable for global investment firms to charges all rent then sell us a permanent home yet dang dongs now for posterity I want to mention that I'm recording this video in the middle of the 2020 quarantine because of kovat 19 and there's a lot of talk going around about a rent strike or the state mandating a rent moratorium not gonna hold my breath for the ladder while these discussions certainly inspired me to talk about this subject because it turns out that a lot of my fellow leftists have some wild ideas on the subject it is not simply during times of crisis where this institution becomes immoral these types of crises bring it into sharper relief but it's always immoral to practice rent-seeking people need a place to live all of the time it is a physiological need it is at the bottom of the pyramid of Maslow's hierarchy of needs there should not ever be homeless people particularly when there are more homes than people the idea that we should pay to be housed or to have any of our basic human needs met without which we will almost certainly die is unfathomably cruel there's absolutely no moral justification for this and the only reason that we as a society tall it is because the people who owned most of the homes also tend to make the laws and dictate the boundaries of acceptable public discourse every person who dies of exposure on the street has been murdered by an economic system that prioritizes someone's right to make a meager profit on Airbnb over the lives of its most vulnerable people every hotel with an empty room has killed that person for the price of about a hundred and thirty seven dollars a night that's all a human life is worth if you're against homelessness and since you're presumably not some sort of evil Hobgoblin you should be then you are against the institution of rent seeking you are against landlords homelessness could not exist without landlords homelessness could not exist if we as a society to stop treating homes as something it was permissible to profit from the ownership or sale of suddenly the parasitic class of venture capitalists who buy up thousands of vacant homes and let them languish unused so they can use them as collateral in an enormous speculation shell game would be eliminated you wouldn't have foreign multinational corporations purchasing thousands of homes in your town and making them unlivable for working people in cases like this I firmly believe that these homes should be seized and zero compensation should be given to the previous owners zilch you tried to profit for making the price of living in our community skyrocket you deserve to lose that investment you deserve to go broke you scumbags but it's one thing to complain about the big mega corporations that are most of the landlord's it's quite another to complain about Joe Jane or Jean Schmo regular folk who rent out a little bit on the side to make ends meet and while people like that may be less contemptible on the surface they're no less exploitative they are as a class of people holding you hostage you need a place to live and sure you don't have to pay any of them individually but you got to pay one of them that makes the interests of the small landlord align with those of the big mega corporation and against you any legislation that protects tenants is deleterious to the bottom line of landlords big and small alike and they'll fight tooth and nail against any legislation or regulation that eats into their bottom lines even if it means keeping you safe the more profit can extract from you the better and the more red tape and precautions they have to take the less profit they can suck out of you that is the nature of this relationship it does not matter how kind or empathetic a person is once they step into that role they are aligning their interests with capital against their tenants if you think your landlord could resist this pressure if you think they're too kind or too good of a person ask yourself how kind they would be if you stopped paying them your relationship with them is a negotiation in which they will do everything they're legally able to do and anything they're not really legally able to do but they're confident they can get away with to get as much money as they can out of you and in theory you'd do everything you're able to do to fight back against them and make sure that you can keep as much of your money as possible but in reality you need to live somewhere they have leverage over you it is not an equal power dynamic it is a lot easier to go a month without one rent check than it is to go a week without a home landlords absolutely understand how to act as one body to protect their interests they know how to form advocacy groups to protect their interests all the while working to make sure you can't do the same they know how to lobby policymakers and they know that in any bargain with you they have all the chips and the full weight of the state at their back and they can and will use that to put the squeeze on you or to toss you from your home onto the street if you fight back even a little bit think about some of the nutso provisions we just accept is par for the course you have to give your current landlord two months notice before moving out but no landlord renting to you is under any obligation to hold the property for two months so that you can get that settled what was the last time a landlord did a credit check on you when was the last time you did a credit check on a landlord when was the last time you had the time or ability to investigate a landlord's financial reliability to ask for references from them if you signed a contract with someone because they held a gun to your head that contract would be null and void what is the lease if not a contract that you sign under threat of being tossed out onto the street that is extortion I have some experience with contracts like that I signed a contract once thought they were offering me salvation but they and me god damn them goddamn then they condemned me to an intro and welcome to the eyeball zone here in the eyeball zone we absorb the life essence of small leftist projects to fuel our unspeakable thirsts there is no human being who's ever lived whose ideas have been so thoroughly weaponized against the things they actually stood for as Martin Luther King jr. if you're sick of people using dr. 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slime editor at gmail.com with the word eyeballs somewhere in the description please include pertinent details like your pronouns and perhaps you will find yourself trapped here in the eyeball Zone in the wake of the covered 19 pandemic we have seen quick action on deferring mortgages for homeowners by large banks in Toronto major banks have granted up to eight months deferral on mortgage payments no such equivalent relief has been offered to renters who must make do with the temporary freeze on evictions homeowners get a payment deferral renters get a homelessness deferral there have been international calls for a rent strike on April 1st which I absolutely believe people should take part in through organization with one another tenants unions and tenant advocacy groups simply keeping your rent on April 1st is not enough you need to build a network of people with which to defend yourself and one another in the description to this video I've included a guide from Parkdale organize a local tenant advocacy group in Toronto that has fought some pretty hardcore battles against big rental companies and has organized small successful rent strikes in the past they know what they're talking about and they're a perfect model for how we should all be organizing in the days to come because you bet your ass that your landlords are don't take my word for it listen to the way that media outlets talk about the possibility of a rent strike the very first Google result I got for the words rent strike was this article from some real estate publication I've never heard of called Toronto stories but with an ey because it's a real estate magazine is the joke the whole article is about how scary a timeless is for landlords because their tenants might take advantage of them quote the Landlord and Tenant board is currently closed until further notice and is not hearing any cases related to eviction while the kovat 19 outbreak continues even in a relatively smooth scenario it can already take months or even a year for an Ontario landlord to properly evict a tenant and the current situation is far from smooth all those poor babies it can take months to kick someone out under the street and it's even harder to kick them out during the biggest pandemic in modern history for some reason all the while those tenants could be doing damage to their investment portfolio where's the justice the article continues in short while the government's in this country have addressed a lot of new issues arising from the current pandemic they have failed to so far properly inform and/or reassure landlords and businesses that their own mortgages and loss of income will be protected to some degree and while they are a great deal of people who now find themselves unable to pay rent in the coming months and this number will only grow moving forward there are surely a subset of renters who will also take advantage of not having to pay rent without any consequences the goal on these people not paying rent just because the economy is imploding and potentially 30% of people might lose their jobs it could take months to make them homeless where the consequences when they don't give me the money I should have domani they don't get the money an average approximation for the cost of maintenance fees at a downtown Toronto condo is 80 cents per square foot so a 600 square foot condo is looking at about $400 a month and fees multiply that by the number of units that may not be able to afford to pay the monthly fees and you can quickly see a crisis forming in some buildings even if a plan for rent has been formed but what about the maintenance fees I shouldn't have to pay those maintenance fees just because I own the property and profit from the equity it generates that's why I should be allowed to charge them for the maintenance fees plus it a little something on the side for daddy the average maintenance fees are $400 a month and the average cost of rent is a measly $2,500 a month I'm barely scraping by here what do you expect me to do sell one of my properties eat the cost from the decades of stolen wealth I've hoarded fat chance I need that too because of the revenue that I get from it it's unreasonable to suggest I would give up something surely it makes more sense that the people losing their jobs should continue handing me gobs of money from nowhere because I own something they need so that I can have the money I want the money the second Google result was this article from CTV which both sides of the issue pretty hard it opens with a brief explanation about the goals of a rent strike and talks to some tenant advocacy groups and then we get some quotes from material landlords watch a landlord advocacy group with a suspicious amount of sponsors hey that's weird that's a lot of sponsors because they also quote the federation of metro tenants association in this article but when you go to their website they didn't even talk about their sponsors it's weird isn't it it's like it's almost like there's a lot of money on one side and the other side is trying to protect people with less money anywho the Ontario landlords watch CEO Kayla Andrade had this to say there are a growing number of tenants who are planning a rent strike this could be catastrophic for landlords who need that money to be able to make their payments she said look if you stop making payments just because you can't make payments I won't be able to make payments that's the real catastrophe the third Google result is from The Globe and Mail it contains some choice nugs and it opens like this residential landlords are facing mounting pressure to ease or defer rental charges as the kovat 19 pandemic results in widespread layoffs and loss of income leaving some tenants to consider withholding payments as part of a rent strike due to start next month you know who's really feeling the pressure here it's the landlords who are being bullied by all the people who can't afford to pay rent cuz they got laid off just listen to the way they framed it it opens with the phrase residential landlords are facing mounting pressure it seems like the people facing the pressure are the people losing their jobs to me a spokesperson for tender Greek community said the company would work with tenants who quote demonstrate a financial hardship with their rent payment end quote it will also temporarily suspend rent increases starting in April our hero's hey we know you're going through a tough time right now and that's why we've talked about it and we're going to temporarily stop making this time substantially harder for you next month you're welcome here comes another quote from our old friend Kayla Andrade Kayla and Raiden their husband owned several units in Cambridge Ontario one of her tenants works in retail and it's temporarily out of work this article also doesn't mention that she's the head of a landlord advocacy group which I feel is kind of relevant information kind of demonstrates that this source has a bias in one particular direction miss Andrade has told her tenant to pay whatever you can based on what comes in but that she can only do that with so many of her tenants again look at the framing forget the tenants position that's unfortunate I guess how is she supposed to survive off the tenant only giving her as much as she's able to that's not fair they should have to give more than they're able to miss Andrade said she expects to eventually be paid the full rent from all her tenants and if they refuse to pay she will file an eviction order rent is the rent for many reasons no one is lowering my mortgage payments and no one is lowering my water bill she said actually the rent is the rent for one reason Kayla because you're charging people to live in their home because you bought a home so that you could charge people money that's the reason it's the only reason but if you want to stop paying those mortgage payments and water bills I actually have a suggestion and and and try this it's a real simple trick you can use sell the home do you see the problem that you have the problem of having to pay the bills in this home that you don't live in only exists because you bought a home to charge people to live in like if you didn't own it if you didn't own a second home specifically to make money from people someone else would pay for it someone who lived there did you see what you see that most tenants don't have the option of selling off their properties when times get tough and if they do that means their landlords themselves so you see how that you kind of created this problem for yourself and it's not really equivalent to the problem that your tenants are facing you kind of created your own problem here by wanting free money because you own a place I could go on look at any news story about a potential rent strike that isn't from an explicitly leftist source and you'll see the same framing here's what's happening here's why and here's why it would cause problems for the poor innocent little landlords so you shouldn't take part the reason for this is clear it's because the class of people that owned the newspapers and media companies also owned property that they don't want to lose the profits from the rich know how to come together and fight as one to protect their interests and we have to do the same there's nothing you as an individual can do to stand up to the property owning class this is not a David versus Goliath problem it's a David versus several thousand goliaths and also the police work for Goliath problem the odds are insurmountable stacked against you as an individual if you act alone the only hope we have of fighting back is by organizing advocacy groups tenants unions rent strikes mutual aid this is a topic we're going to be returning to as kovat 19 sweeps the globe as the working class bears the brunt of the economic devastation left in its wake I've included some places to get started in the description including an FAQ for how and why to rent strike from Montreal counter information go there and read those things would be a good thing you could do today you got time what do you get it will you guys somewhere to be you can't quit you can't go nowhere can't go to the movies everybody thanks for during this video I hope everybody who's watching this is safe and is practicing proper social distancing I hope that does of you who still have to go to work you know have to go out there into the world I hope that you're keeping safe and and and I really sympathize with that position if you like this video please press the like button if you'd like to see more videos like this then subscribe and hit the little bell so that you'll be notified when I release new videos which I do every Friday at 12 p.m. I get a lot of people saying oh you have a new video out this week because yeah but a video out every week that's my thing that's what I do here I'd like to thank all of my supporters 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Published: Fri Mar 27 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/NuclearOops]

I just realized, I run a table top roleplaying game about vampires and the #1 way vampires make money in my games is through real estate investments. I've been subconsciously making the association between landlords and vampires for years.

[u/monsantobreath]

Ever since this pandemic lockdown started my landloard has been an asshole. He was probably triggered by the notice of both an indefinite rent freeze taking effect when our rent should have done up and a moratorium on evictions.

I think landlords must have a perment snowflake mentality because he literally said "its unfair to the landlords" at one point. In all the time I've been a renter maybe one landlord has been a genuine human being at all times and hasn't leveraged bullshit against us. The rest are assholes and most seem to really resent the idea of any laws or rules or tenant rights limiting what they can do with their land.

[u/Cummunizn]

I can’t wait for the not all landlords post....

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: we demand landlords stop existing!
Woke: we demand this particular apartment building be converted into a cooperative, and we won't pay until that is done; once it is made a housing cooperative, the undersigned will take part in weekly and/or monthly meetings to determine the needs and tasks of co-owners etc etc

[u/Golden_Rule_rules]

In India, they have housing societies which are sometimes downright discriminatory towards bachelors, non-vegetarians and muslims. These people are not allowed to stay in apartments as tenants. I have not been exploited much by such housing societies but I have heard many cases in which individual landlord was okay in giving rented space but housing society intervened and expelled the tenant.

As housing societies are also made up of landlords democratic vote this video speaks to my heart. They perform worst kind of adultism, islamophobia and vegeterian supremacy. Currently during COVID-19 outbreak a landlord expelled a doctor tenant because she was treating the COVID-19 patients. May these landlords get reborn as Fungii

[u/Coier]

But guys...they REALLY want the maney :( :(

[u/v0idness]

Hello breadtube hivemind: I love the point the video is making. I have some acquaintances who are not familiar with breadtube, not leftists, but typically when I bring up lefty ideas without labeling them as such and just making a reasonable argument (such as "hey people need shelter and you shouldn't be profiting off that basic need") they can go along with that. Sadly some of them are also really into "investing into real estate". Haven't been able to argue them out of that. I feel this video here uses too much "inside terminology" and there's a lot normies would get lost on - can you recommend some resource that makes a similar point in an accessible manner?

[u/johntheduncan]

If anyone's interested in the Eyeball Zone in this, this is a related video on capitalism and white supremacist ideology https://youtu.be/bBn2i52cucQ

[u/TankieSappho]

“Landlords ain’t shit”- Chairman Mao probably