I don't agree with all of their statements, particularly the glorified HOA bit (I didn't see that on this specific thread, probably elsewhere they posted), merely trying to point out that some of their statements are accurate.

I'm pretty sure I carved out several possibilities for non-landlord people who can fill out the same role. I'm just saying there's a bit of truth to having someone actually knowledgeable about the specific property facilitating maintenance.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I get that, my point is that nobody thinks housing doesn't need managers, despite the original commenter pretending that's the common stance of people decrying landlords.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

To be fair to the original commentor, it's pretty common for it to just be tackled piecemeal.

I rent, and just had to deal with an overflow valve leaking. There ended up being several other tangentially related things that needed to be addressed. If I was managing that, as the person who actually lives there, I'd have been able to inform the contractors of all of this stuff ahead of time. Instead I have a 255 character box to send off to some nameless person who has never seen the property in all likelihood, who will call the cheapest contractor available, and draw a 2 hour repair into a 2 week affair.

This is why I stressed that we need people INVESTED IN the properties they're trying to maintain, not just have them be another line in a spreadsheet.