Obligatory not legal advice or any kind of professional advice.
I came to this conclusion after having lived in apartments for the last five years, all of which were owned by corporations. (Why the fuck can corporations own homes)?
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They don't give a shit about your privacy
Make sure that you change the locks as soon as you get in. Read up on the local laws and get educated about your rights as a tenant. You may not own the apartment but, as a tenant, you have custodianship. -
Document everything wrong with the apartment.
They ALWAYS try to pin every little issue on the tenant. They will do everything in their power to keep your deposit. Don't let it happen. -
Asserting your rights means that you've gone to war with the landlord.
They will absolutely fuck you over if you assert your rights as a tenant. In many areas, you are allowed to give your landlord a 90-day notice to repair something. If they refuse you can hire a professional to repair the issue and deduct the expenses from rent. -
They only care about maximizing profit.
If you rent from an individual then your mileage may vary. Some actual human landlords aren't that bad. Remember that tenants can be shitty too. You can appeal to a human landlord's sense of humanity. You don't have a snowball's chance in hell of doing that with a corporation.
Now signing off to get some actual work done.
Be well. Take care of one another. Eat and grow medicinal mushrooms like Lion's mane. Educate yourself on health (Ray Peat, Weston A. Price, Paul Stamets) because physicians don't know anything and its too expensive.
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