I’ma take a wild guess - is this being posted in a college town? Because a lot of that looks like shit you would’ve needed to tell me when I was 19.
Not really? The city over is a college town though so maybe its just close enough for osmosis to happen
Yeah, that might be what’s happening. I live in the city next to a university, and there are a lot of students in certain apartment complexes here. Moreover, that was also the case where I lived when I was in college. The adjacent cities had lots of students.
The owners of this building might also be actively advertising their apartments to students.
That was my first guess, too. It seems geared towards first time renters.
Sounds like a class action lawsuit.
How? It’s pretty standard for most of that stuff to be included in a lease agreement.
Like, management is definitely an ass for how they communicated the information, but if the rules are in the lease and don’t violate your local tenant laws, then you have to follow them.
This looks to me like a flyer for a class at the local library
Ah, you’re right.
Landlords are leeches.
Landlords are just people who own property? Regular average people. Now… we can deduce that since most people kinda suck, on average, most landlords will kinda suck on average. But also, there are very kind and understanding landlords too. That said, they are like real people in the sense that they respond to how they are treated.
Treat’em like an asshole and they will probably oblige you. Treat someone pleasantly and with respect, you’ll probably be doing yourself a favor.
its probably helpful for the people it describes. not everyone understands how lease agreements work, even in the basic way the flyer talks about.
Or even acting like a human being, by the sounds of things.
the “adulting is hard” bit makes it look like a complex that’s nearby a university. having had friends in similar living situations, i can tell you: over-privileged college kids in their first not-mommy&daddys-house residence can be absolutely out of fucking control
I don’t think the people who are likely to become evicted due to poor decisions on their part, would be interested in taking a class in how not to become evicted.
This Venn diagram has no overlap.
I suspect it’s an apt building that is quick to evict - when people plead ignorance to the rules “well you should have attended the FREE LEASE VIOLATIONS TRAINING DUH!”
Doing anything > doing something. Not saying I agree
I’m a millennial and I hate the verb “adulting” more every time I hear it.
It was funny at first, but I won’t miss it if it disappears like other slang has.
I’m Gen Y, and I hate the term Millennial more every time that I hear it.
Gen X --> Gen Y --> Gen Z --> Gen Alpha
The only real difference is that millenial has a stigma that Gen Y doesn’t have.
“Gen F, Gen G, Gen H, Gen Irrelevant Historical Event that disrupts sequence, Gen J…”
Stigma as in something bad…?
Gotta love renting. Help a friend get back on their feet for a bit after life throws them through the wringer?
Too bad, so sad, your turn in the wringer.
I wonder if this is being posted around student housing.
(Edit: OP just updated. Yeah - it’s a city right next to a college town.
Given the language, adulting 101 talk, and the mention of a “community room,” this feels like it’s aimed at 18 year olds in student housing, or a city that revolves around a university.
Having people not on lease crash in student housing can lead to a lot of frustration for students using shared spaces.
I had some roommates have messy friends “crash” in their rooms for extended periods of time, and it ment that I had to effectively deal with a new shitty roommate that I didn’t sign up for. Not an uncommon thing.
Ok so what prevents everyone in the apartment doing this with a “cousin”. If you’re stuffing more people into the building then costs go up. Maintenance isn’t free.
Compared to rent, maintenance is basically free, typically about 1-2%. If we think that cost would double, for some reason, by adding another person, it still wouldn’t be that much. But it’s ridiculous to think that would even be the case, given that a sizeable portion of maintenance is not related to tenants at all.
Looks like it might be a building that has students in it. A lot of us probably had that college roommate that decided that their high school friend or the new person they were dating was going to visit and never leave.
They didn’t need sanctuary, they just had zero boundaries and respect for the other people in the home. And young people aren’t always the best at resolving those situations with candor, so they fester.
Or 11 cousins, in a 2 person studio?
I thought this is a useful campaign until I reached the row about Karen. Don’t be a snitch.
No, the Karen in that scenario is the implied snitch. That line is saying something like, “are you a young POC just minding your own fucking business in your apartment when you keep catching that damn white lady sticking her head around the balcony divider to peer into your place and listen to your conversations, trying to catch you doing something wrong? We’ll tell you what your rights to privacy are”
If you knew that’s what it meant and you were actually saying don’t snitch on the racist white lady for spying or her Black neighbors or whatever though…well we just won’t ever be friends I guess.
I took it as turning the discussion around - I.e. what to do if your neighbour behaves as above? If so, it sounds like a good way to get people to think about respectful behaviour.
i know this is ugh but irl my neighbors run a small engine repair shop with, no joke, 10 snowblowers in the alley between our houses. they rent. i own. i politely remind them their engines are, in this regard, mere feet away from my living room or bedroom depending on time of day. i dont know what to do other than that. (nothing i can do an im ok with that just ranting) they are otherwise kind, social, fine people. its just randomly “brrrrraaaaap” while im sleeping early due to a cold, or just a cozy saturday. sigh.
This feels incredibly targeted to me… one of the residents must be a pit bull owner with a deadbeat cousin and some really good Tuesday nights.
I think those are just the most common things people get evicted for or complained about
Have you ever turning up on a Tuesday like it’s a YoungBoy concert in your living room?
It says VOA at the bottom. Volunteers of America manages a ton of affordable and voucher-based properties around the country. Some of the people I’ve helped move into units with them have been on the streets for years and have zero living skills. A class like this could genuinely help someone stay housed who might otherwise lose their housing voucher and be back on the street
It genuinely seems like it could have fantastic advice. I just wish they didn’t make it so incredibly condescending.
But if it’s voluntary, it’s not smart to sound like “you are an idiot and I don’t like you”. Especially people with mental or legal problems might avoid a situation where they are being confronted about their faults.
I don’t rent and it got me curious…
I served on the board of a Section 8 housing authority for a number of years.
You would be amazed at the number of people who don’t understand that leases are legally binding contracts and there are actual, enforceable consequences for violating the conditions of it.
“You guys can’t evict me.”
“Uhhh, yeah, we can. It just so happens that hording 30 cats in your house and letting them soak every inch of the place with piss is a violation of the terms of your lease.”
It is blunt, for people who can’t understand anything else.
I used to work for a nonprof helping the homeless, ran shelters, other programs.
Some people are traumatized, some people are a bit mentally off, some people are more so just dense, stupid, cocky assholes to whom the concepts of rules and consequences just… fundamentally do not seem to register, who also continuously and obviously lie.
Now this was more shelter oriented, but we helped move people into new housing too.
If you can’t handle shelter rules, as in, you consistently violate them, we were a lot less eager to help those people into housing, because they can’t follow rules, and part of what we are supposed to be doing on our end is sending over people who can and will.
Also, trust me, if you’ve ever been homeless, you will almost certainly develop a bit thicker skin than being offended by slightly impolite and blunt phrasing on a piece of paper, you will be dealing with a lot more serious shit than that basicslly all of the time, a lot more, extremely blunt and rude people than that, basically all the time.
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Yeah, I worked in a few affordable housing sites and the OP looks like something the on-site social workers cooked up.
I see no issues with this. It’s good to know the rules and your rights, and other useful info.
…what?
