- Hello my dudes. My name is Tiffany
welcome back to my series Internet Analysis where I like to research and discuss things relevant
to social issues and media. This is another episode of me ranting about how housing is a human right. Today I wanna talk about renting and why it is often
such a hellish endeavor. If you can't afford to buy a
place to live or don't want to, you only have one choice,
rent a house, apartment, or room from someone else. But since everyone needs a place to live, that process is easy, right? No. In this video, I basically wanna share some of the most common complaints that we experience as renters. I'm sure it will be very relatable. I've had kind of an
unofficial series on housing. And I think it's just
that it's so cathartic to vent about these problems
that so many of us experience. Renting is hard. Ideally, we would have plenty of time to tour multiple places,
carefully consider your options, then submit an application, get approved, and sign your lease. But the housing market is
bonkers and not just for buying, but for renting as well. In many cities, apartments
can be listed and snatched up within a few hours. Gotta love the market, though. Good old supply and demand. Competition is good for everyone. So, assuming you're able
to find a decent place, can you even afford it? Rentals have minimum income requirements, a lot of times you need to make three times the rent each month. So for a $2,000 apartment,
that would be 6,000 a month, or 72,000 a year. In New York City, the usual requirement
is that you have to earn at least 40 to 50 times
your rent in a year. So for that same $2,000 rent, that would mean you need to earn at least 80 to $100,000, respectively. Plus, of course, you've
got to have good credit. So if you and your
roommates don't earn enough, how can you get a place? You might need a guarantor, who is essentially someone
who cosigns the lease with you and guarantees that your
rent will be paid on time, but guarantors often have way
higher income requirements. Like in New York, it has
to be 80 times the rent, which is 160,000, in our example. Many renters, especially young people, rely on their parents
to cosign their leases. But what if you don't
have that kind of support or your parents couldn't qualify? It's a horrible situation to be in. There's a lot to get into, this video is only a small snapshot of the ways that the housing
market, management companies, and landlords impact the lives of renters. But housing is a human right
and it should not be this hard or this expensive to have
a roof over your head. Please, may I have the landlord special? If you're a renter, I'm
sure you're well aware that the standard of living
in many rentals is pretty low. And it's kind of by design. Enter the landlord special. Things in my landlord special apartment that just makes sense. Drawers that aren't actually drawers. Popcorn ceilings that
could kill me if disturbed. A light switch that does nothing. Painted over hinges, painted over cords, painted over electrical boxes
that are not up to code. (sighs) The landlord's urge
to paint over everything. Is something dirty? Just
throw some paint on it. Some dead bugs on the window
sill? Maybe you should pick. Nah, why clean when paint exists? And I personally am really
grateful for this trend because as someone who
loves stark white paint when it's chunky. (giggles) Just so many layers. 'Cause it's not just all the
walls in my living space, but the cabinets, the hinges, the outlets, they all match too. And I know, another layer of white paint can solve just about anything. But what about those pesky
problems that paint can't solve? It is your landlord's
job as Lord of the land to come fix any problems that arise. They are the owning class,
they have the capital, this property is their investment. Surely, they would keep
everything in tip-top shape. Having a maintenance problem?
Need some plumbing work? - [Man] Leave me the fuck alone, actually. I fucking hate everything
in my fucking life. - I asked about this topic
on Instagram, as usual. And many responses noted that when they put in
maintenance requests, their landlord makes
everything they do for us seem like a favor. - Boy, you're lucky I was free to come by when your door broke. I wish I had someone that
would come by and fix things when they broke in my house. - You're not doing anyone a
favor, man. It's your job. In exchange for us paying your mortgage, your part of the deal is that you're supposed
to handle all this shit. Landlords always talk
about the intensive cost and labor of owning a property. "You renters have no idea what it takes. Being a landlord is a job." Yet, they cry when they
actually have to do anything, or more accurately, hire
someone to come do the thing. Or god forbid have to pay to replace something in their property. The truth is, sure, they own the place, or maybe they're not even the landlord, maybe they're just the property manager. Either way, they don't really care what the experience of
living there is like. They just want you to pay your rent so they can make the most money from the least work possible. Before we continue, this
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about apartment complex things, which by the way, currently
dealing with noise on all sides. My upstairs neighbors are
running around a little. Anytime somebody flushes I hear
that for a good five minutes but it's fine. No it's not they just flushed again. Filming a YouTube video is definitely not the
hardest thing in the world, but living in an apartment
and hoping for enough silence to be able to film for two
hours, is quite an ask. So basically, earlier this year, we were moving out of state and we couldn't physically
apartment hunt ourselves, so we were just reading reviews online for every apartment
complex we came across, any places we liked. And then we got scared
off from many of them because of terrible reviews,
nightmare management companies, bug infestations. So we just hoped we'd be
able to find a decent place. We did, we applied, we got approved. We didn't have any pictures
or videos of our actual unit or even a similar one, all
we had was a floor plan, so I just stared at that and tried to imagine the possibilities. Finally, move-in day comes, we're seeing the place
for the very first time and it looked pretty good. We're filling out the
move-in inspection sheets, trying to be thorough,
take photos of everything. So you don't get blamed for it later. Classic renter things. Then we noticed some
bigger things, like oh, part of our floor is lifting up. One of the toilets wasn't working. Well, at least we have in-unit laundry. After living in New York,
that is honestly a luxury. But oh, the washing machine
isn't working either. Okay, so we turned in the inspection sheet and we're talking with the office managers who were already aware that there were five or six more things that maintenance still needed to finish. And I was just like,
"We just did a big move. I'm a little tired." Why isn't a place move-in ready when you're moving in? And by the way, I don't blame
the actual maintenance staff, I think they are overbooked all the time. I blame the complex and just apartment complex
management in general. Shouldn't move-in ready mean zero remaining maintenance
issues and a clean place? So I was reading some landlord subreddits as research for this video, and I wanted to know how
they handle maintenance. And one landlord posted obviously, they don't wanna lose money with having too big of
a gap between tenants. So of course, they aim to
minimize the amount of time that the unit is empty. But then this person was saying
their usual turnaround time is less than 24 hours
between one tenant moving out and the next moving in. And you might ask, "How
could they possibly get all that maintenance and cleaning done in such a short amount of time?" They don't. Instead of taking a couple days or a week to make sure that a unit is flipped and in great condition
for the next tenant, some of these landlords,
like OP in this post, just plan to have to do all of that later, once the tenant's moved in. Which seems like an incredibly inconvenient time to do maintenance. Wouldn't it be nice if you
could do the maintenance while nobody's living in the place? Or am I just stupid? But really though, the
last thing anybody needs when they're moving into a new place, dealing with all the stress and everything else you've got to do, is have maintenance shit
to deal with right away. So anyway, that brings me back to our apartment complex story. And I know that our complex had a week in between the last tenant
moving out and us moving in. I don't know if they intentionally planned to leave some maintenance stuff for later, just to save themselves time or let the maintenance
guys go do other stuff. Maybe this was just a fluke and they just couldn't get
everything done on time. I don't know. But long story short, it ends
up taking maintenance a week to show up and the worst parts were, they didn't tell us a time. They didn't book an appointment for us. They just kept saying,
"Maintenance will come tomorrow." And then they wouldn't,
but we had to wait at home just in case they did. And the small issues all
weren't really urgent. It did suck not having our washing machine because we ended up having laundry to do. Anyway, I tell this little anecdote not because it is a nightmare
apartment story at all. It was a little frustrating, but honestly still on the good side of the rental experience spectrum. But what I hated the most, was having to call them multiple times because nobody's getting back to you. Oh, hi, it's me again, sorry. And then feeling like I'm
annoying or high maintenance, no pun intended. Or that it's an inconvenience
for me to be asking for these things to be done. But that is bullshit. Tenants have every right
to request maintenance and expect that to be
done in a timely manner. We were definitely in
a privileged position, we were able to stay home and wait. And our problems were not severe. But many tenants get guilt
tripped for needing maintenance, and they have full time
jobs outside of the house, which makes it even harder to schedule when to get that stuff done. So now let's talk a little bit about why properties are
often managed so horribly. Again, when I was reading reviews, trying to figure out where we could move, it's like looking up
a restaurant's reviews and being like, "Oh,
that looks pretty good." And then you find one horrific review that you just cannot get out of your mind. And you cannot imagine
eating at that place. Except every apartment
complex has horrible reviews. I know you should take
stuff with a grain of salt. There are just sometimes
some angry tenants who maybe are exaggerating, but also, it seems like every complex
has nightmare stories and infestations and terrible
management because spoiler, many of these complexes are all owned by a handful of the same
horrible management companies. Like with almost everything
under capitalism, it's all about the bottom line. It's not about how to make this property a great place to live for tenants. It's about how they can put
in the minimum amount of work, effort and cost, while
bringing in the highest rent. Ultimately, they know, we've
all got to live somewhere. We don't have many other choices. If it's not one shitty complex, it's going to be another one. But no matter what kind of renter you are, the dynamic between renter and landlord involves such a massive
imbalance of power and money. As a renter, you can feel
powerless in situations where your home is not maintained properly or landlords are very
unresponsive to your requests. And these companies know that
renters are very unlikely to litigate or seriously complain. Plus litigating is expensive and can take years to resolve sometimes. Therefore, these companies often get away with cutting major corners
because at the end of the day, the renter is just one missed payment or one slip up away from eviction. And here's an example. The Beleaguered Tenants of Kushnerville. I read this article years
ago about Jared Kushner being a slumlord, basically, and I think it's the perfect
example of horrible landlords and property managers
and the helpless position that many renters are put into. Kushner is Donald Trump's son in law. Both families, the Trumps and Kushner's, have made much of their
fortunes in real estate. The Kushner real estate corporations have specifically sought out
affordable housing complexes, bought out owners who were
struggling financially or in foreclosure so that
they would get a good deal. Then exploited the
majority low income tenants who have little access to legal help or awareness of their renter rights. Kushner's companies have
an endless track record of suing tenants for things like forgetting to return
a $10 laundry card, or breaking the lease
even when those tenants were given permission
from the prior owners. And why were people
breaking their leases early? One family left after black
mold in their apartment sent their son to the hospital twice. This article explains how the company went after previous tenants
who lived in these properties before the company even owned it. They were hounding low
income people for years, garnishing their pay
or their bank accounts, over a few $1,000. Their legal costs were way higher than they would be winning back, so why would a massive corporation pay their lawyers so much to
chase down such small claims? Honestly, because they can. Continuing on, this is something that became a driving force
of a lot of this script and that is security deposits. The purpose of this is to
provide security for the landlord so that they can sleep well at night knowing they've got a few hundred or even 1,000s of dollars of yours just in case you damage anything. So you've been a good tenant, you make sure the unit is clean, you may even patched some holes or fix little things before moving out. And still, it is not guaranteed that you're gonna get your deposit back. Which sucks twice as bad
because to move anywhere else, you're gonna need that
money for your next deposit. Landlords can cite a lot of reasons for withholding security deposits, including failure to pay
rent, unpaid utilities, lease breaks and property damage beyond normal wear and tear. That normal wear and tear one
can become very subjective. I've charged you $300 for
leaving dust on the baseboards, I'm gonna have to clean that. And 200 more so that I can add
to my white paint collection. The carpets are actually
in great condition, but I'm gonna replace them anyway. So you're gonna have to pay for that. And I'm keeping the rest for
the emotional damage it took to do my job for a few minutes. So to try to avoid all of
that landlord deposit fuckery, most renters will do
anything in their power to try to prevent damage to not lose too much of their deposit. So how can you best
keep your full deposit? Well, keep things clean
obviously, limit damage, especially to the walls. This means limiting decoration or personalization of your living space. Oh, you wanna hang some art
or anchor your furniture, paint a little bit or
throw up some wallpaper? Nope. And I don't really hear
this talked about that much, but I think it is a really powerful part of being a forever renter. No one wants to live in
a lifeless white box, which is what many rentals are. Hi, from my popcorn
ceilings and gray walls. I wanted to point out sometimes
white is not the worst. Clean white can be nice depending on what aesthetic you prefer. But rentals also typically
go for gray, beige, and those can be equally bleh. Making your space feel like home should not be a luxury
reserved only for homeowners. It really sucks to be limited in the ways that you can decorate. You don't need a perfectly aesthetic, trendy apartment necessarily, but especially as we all
learned through COVID lockdowns, your living situation
can make a huge impact on your comfort and your head space. Even more so the more time
that you spend at home. Landlords also have control
over how you decorate any outdoor space, be it
a yard, patio, balcony. - So my apartment complex told me that my bamboo fencing is unpresentable and I need to take it down. I'm not trying to claim it's cute, but I put it up so that the cat wouldn't
jump off the balcony. So I asked if I could do
netting or any kind of curtain. I said that I would make
it look really presentable and they said "No, there
has to be just the railing 'cause the railing looks presentable," which whatever, except the
railing doesn't look presentable. It looks like this. There is peeling, rotten paint. If I touched it, it would just flake off. I'm not gonna do that
because I don't want to get accused of property damage. - I understand wanting to
prevent obvious eyesores, but often the rules are very
strict and unreasonable. There are renter hacks
that are not really hacks, such as using command strips for anything that they can possibly hold or
thumbtacks instead of nails. Fill in any holes you
make with some spackle. P.S., I saw that people say that they use toothpaste for that. Oh, it does the job. It
looks fine. Good as new. Excuse me? I'm just thinking structurally, I don't think toothpaste does the same job as that spackle stuff. Correct me if I'm wrong. Can you imagine? Just a whole wall after
years and years of it, it's just full of toothpaste. Fuck it. It's not my house. Anyway, some renters even
risk more intensive DIYs, like peel and stick wallpaper or that peel and stick
cabinet and counter covers or the classic, fuck it
I am just gonna paint and I will repaint
everything white before I go. I admire that. As someone who has lived
in rented apartments for probably 99% of my life, it actually made me sad
writing this part of the script because I realized that
I've never been able to paint a wall in my room. Why am I crying? I need to stop crying. My tear rights are taken away. Just childhood things resurfacing. Really though, it's not that deep, but maybe it is that deep. I remember my friends who lived in houses, they got to personalize their rooms and have really ugly, (giggles) I'm sorry. The pink and brown Roxy phase, remember? Another friend had a dark
purple room or a pink room. I never even got to consider what color I would wanna paint because we couldn't paint
'cause we were renting. Anyway, gain, I think that it matters. Another completely separate thing while I have my soapbox here. While we're talking about deposits, who the hell came up with pet rent? Pets cannot work. They don't know that we live
in a capitalist society. It literally makes no sense to me. I know, some pets can
cause serious damage. But my dog for example, yes, he will destroy every toy
we give him within a week, but he has not caused any
damage to our apartment. And most cats I would assume
don't do anything either. Shouldn't my $1,000 or
whatever amount general deposit cover everything if there
were to be pet damage? Instead, I'm paying say
$1,000 refundable deposit and I'm losing my $500
non-refundable pet deposit, AKA a pet fee. Plus, I pay a few $100
more each year in pet rent. So having one pet could end up costing me an extra $1,000 a year. And it's even worse the
more often you're moving 'cause then you're just
paying those pet fees all over and over again. It's simply bullshit. The more that I thought about
this as I was writing it, the more angry I got. So next, let's talk
about move-in condition. All right, you've gone
through the application, you've paid your deposit,
you've paid your rent, you're finally moving in. As a renter, you know
that when you move out you've got to clean, clean clean. So you're expecting, I'm about to move into
a clean unit, right? Well what if move-in condition sucks? Too often, tenants end up
having to do extra work to undo or fix what their
shitty landlord did. For example, undoing or
cleaning the landlord special. Nobody should have to move into a place that is starting at that gross of a level. And this is not just about
issues that look ugly. Many of these are actually
also safety issues. Again, on my Instagram, my followers told me a lot
of their personal stories, horror stories with renting. And many people mentioned having serious problems in their place that their landlord left
for months or even years. For example, mold. Having mold is such a common problem that I think we've all just
become desensitized to it. Now, I don't want to
spread any misinformation when it comes to the
health impacts of mold. But at the very least, chronic mold exposure can
cause allergic reactions or respiratory problems, especially if you have
conditions like asthma. Mold is a tough issue as a tenant because many of us don't know what to do or how to handle it. You move in somewhere
and there are dark spots in the bathroom or on the
walls or the window sills. Is it just mildew or a stain?
Or is it possibly toxic mold? So you call your landlord and say, "Hey, I think I have mold.
Can you come fix it?" And then they send maintenance over, maybe they just wipe it off. Or, (giggles) of course paint over it. - It is covered in paint. It's dripping down the walls. It's actually covering
the bottom of the tub. It's dripping down into the shower. You might be thinking, "Hey, at least there's no mold anymore," but they just painted over
it. They didn't clean it. - Landlords are so quick
to complain about tenants. Oh, renters are dumb,
they don't understand. They don't know anything. - Mold is not this huge issue that tenants like to make it seem to be. But we run mold tests every time. I suggest to landlords go
to Home Depot and Lowe's, buy the mold test, keep them on site. So if somebody says they have mold, you can immediately nip that in the bud and shut that right down. Because they're gonna start squawking and call the building inspector,
the (indistinct) inspector. "I got mold." So you want to shut-- - Well, landlords have a history of ignoring problems like these, or literally just covering
them up with paint. And a lot of the time
they don't do the testing, that man said he did. So, that's good. But yeah, if you're not testing, you're not taking it seriously, you're not addressing
any of the root issues of why things are damp or not drying up or circulating the way
they're supposed to be. And if you're not willing to
pay for professional removal when there is indeed mold, then yeah, sorry that tenants don't
have much faith in you or aren't willing to
trust your assessment. I'm gonna read a couple more examples that were sent to me on Instagram. Our balcony is falling apart and our landlord has been saying he's gonna fix it for five years now. My water heater goes out all the time and I keep telling them and
when they check, it's fine. My bedroom ceiling collapsed due to negligence of the
apartment management. The carbon monoxide detector went off so I called the fire department. My landlord screamed
at me and threatened me to never call the fire department again because they're breaking fire codes and don't wanna get caught. All of these are serious
problems, but that one especially. So many horrendous fires, floods and other tragedies
have been caused or worsened because of dangerous conditions that are not fixed by landlords. Early this year, there was
a horrific fire in the Bronx that killed 17 people,
including eight children, Many of them of Gambian descent. The building had tons of safety violations and hundreds of complaints
that were ignored for years. These problems are all too common and they're even worse for
marginalized communities, people in poverty and immigrants. So with all this,
throughout this whole video, but especially in terms of
dangerous or harmful issues, it is so important to
know your renter's rights. And share that information
with your neighbors if you can. Again, please check your local laws, know what applies to you. But hopefully the more often
that tenants do fight back and know their rights, maybe landlords will feel
forced to be less shitty if they're fearing the consequences. And lastly, I wanna talk
about move-out condition, we are leaving. Again, if you want any chance
of getting your deposit back, it is recommended that you leave your unit in move-in condition or better. First of all, why the fuck
would I leave this place in better condition than when
I moved in? No thank you. While researching this, I was wondering and trying to find out if there's any standard for who is responsible for what cleaning between the landlord and the tenant. I've always done the
best cleaning I could. Nathan and I, we move out, we get our whole deposit
back, which is great. I know, again, it can be a
roll of the dice, honestly. But I wanna know, is there a rule? Are landlords required to
do any specific cleaning? And also I have moved into places that were definitely not perfectly clean, which leads me to
believe that the landlord did not have it cleaned between tenants. I found this on another
landlord subreddit. Is it the responsibility of the landlord to clean an apartment before moving in? The apartment I just
moved into isn't filthy, but it has some dirty spots and could definitely use a cleaning. And someone replied, "This happened to me. I told my landlord in a non dick-ish way and he just told me he'd
take $150 from the deposit of the last person and
use it to hire a cleaner." In my opinion, that is bullshit. It sounds was like this place
was just a little bit dingy, not terrible. And I don't think that
warrants taking any money out of the last person's deposit. I fully understand cleaning
before you move out, leaving things in broom-swept condition, but I don't think the previous tenant should have to deep clean for the next. That is the landlord's responsibility. Last tenant leaves the
place in good condition and the landlord hires
professional cleaners to get it up to great
condition for the next tenant. They get to move into a nice,
clean place, as you should. And for the landlord, that's the cost of doing business, baby. Landlords really do try to
get tenants to do everything upon move in and move out. It's like, again, what
work are you doing here? - [Woman] This is one of those situations where it's fun being a landlord. These tenants were fantastic. This is how they left the place. They had a professional
carpet cleaner come in there and they gave us the receipt. They left the place mostly clean, there was just a little bit
of cleaning we had to do. There was some light
bulbs we had to replace. Here's some touch up
painting we have to do. Here's some additional touch up paint. But when the place looks like this, I am not gonna complain about this. This one made me laugh. The landlord said that
they weren't complaining about the amount of work they had to do, but the way that they said
it made it sound like, "Oh no, there's still
something to do. Oh, so sad." I'm getting so snarky,
but how can you not be after thinking about landlords
for a good two weeks? I think holding the deposit
over the tenants heads is a way that landlords
can basically coerce their tenants to do everything. And then no matter what you do, again, you do everything right, you give notice, you clean, you return all the keys. And sometimes, you still don't
get your full deposit back. You could try to take that
to the small claims court, but it is a pain. And again, not everyone has the
time or capacity to do that. At the very least, it is so important that you always take lots
of pictures and videos anytime you move in or out. Protect yourself with some proof. To end this video, renting
should not be this shitty. I know you've heard it
a million times from me and Bernie Sanders, but I'll say it again, housing is a human right. And at some point, we
all have to acknowledge that we are in a system that
only a few benefit from. Here are some last takeaways
that I got from Instagram. The fact that I don't
qualify for a mortgage when I've been paying
someone else's for a year. As a renter, it feels
like you are the product, not the customer. Living in fear that you will be priced out
of your apartment every year. So again, please look
up your renter's rights, know what your rights are as a tenant. And also note to self, I wanna keep an eye out
for local renter's unions and any groups advocating
for tenants rights. Knowing who to go to when
you're being exploited is key. Also, I wanna check out some YIMBY groups. Yes, in my backyard. Not NIMBYs, YIMBYs. I hope that this video was
somewhat cathartic to listen to, or maybe it was just anger-inducing. I got a comment on my
last video of someone, I think genuinely asking how or why I write such negative videos. Like, "Oh, does it suck
to always be researching such shitty things all the time?" That was like "Hmm,
(giggles) good question." I just think that these topics
are either important or fun. And yes, some of the reality
of, especially American life, is extremely depressing. A lot of it actually, but
I'd rather talk about it than not, you know? So to all of you watching, please know that your right to a happy, safe, comfortable living space does matter and no one should tell you otherwise. Thank you so much for
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