cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/606772/landparasites
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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I took over a property for a deceased family member and after cleaning it up my wife and I rented it out to a young family. They were excellent tenants and we never once raised their rent for almost eight years.
The meme that OP reposted for the billionth time is ridiculous and a wildly entitled generalization.
Every time something needed to be repaired in that house meant at least two months rent were gone and we had to go into personal debt until we caught up.
We sold that property because there was no way to make it break even.
"I was a landlord and I couldn't figure out how to squeeze the tenants for every cent so the meme is entitled garbage" is quite the take, and honestly hilarious given the community it's posted in.
Whoosh
No, no, there was no woosh, he nailed it.
Don't expect any sympathy. This is an anarchist community.
I didn't come here for sympathy. I just want folks to understand how they're wrong.
Would you be intetested in explaining how my summary of what you've done is wrong, incorrect?
Or are you just gonna grandstand like you're better than people who disagree with you?
Go on, explain how I'm wrong.
It's been 5 hrs since you just downvoted my understanding of what you did, with zero explanation.
You say you want people to see how they are wrong.
Show me.
I was a landlord and did not treat anyone as badly as you've been treated.
Badly?
You're saying I said you treated them badly?
All I did was reframe the facts that you stated.
I guess you think that another perspective makes you seem like a bad guy.
Oh no wait.
You've described this as my own personal scenario, unrelated to yours.
No.
I didn't.
Learn how to read.
So you provided them with a living space that needed frequent repairs, which you couldn't actually afford.
But it was cheap.
You and your wife 'cleaned it up' inadequately, you know, landlord special type shit, but it kept needing repairs you couldn't afford.
And then you eventually sold the property you could not figure out how to afford to maintain, ... probably around the point where you could have become legally liable for not providing safe and adequate housing to your tenants.
... So you were a micro slumlord, of a shoddy quality living space, that you received for free, via a will or something similar.
It took you 8 years to unsuccesfully renovate a home, with paying tenants living in it the whole time.
Those tenants lived there for 8 years.
Did you sell it to them?
Probably not, they haven't been able to save any money, thanks to paying you rent, for nearly a decade.
But, you could have just initially sold it to them at a discount and explained that it was gonna be a fixer upper of a home, saved yourself all the trouble of renovating, make a good chunk of change, and now that family would be homeowners with nearly a decade of equity.
EDIT:
Oh right, and how could I forget:
You getting a second house for essentially free?
That's not entitled.
You're not entitled.
Nope.
This meme here, thats entitled.
Yep.
Totally makes sense.
Wow. You're really focused on this. I don't care enough about you or your stupid crusade to get free rent to continue addressing your reductions. Beta wishes to you
Ok so no, you don't wanna explain shit, you were lying when you said that you were, now you don't seem to care about explaining anything.
You are in fact just grandstanding.
You can throw out a strawman of my position, but it only makes you look more disingenuous.
I'm not "really focused" on this, I'm just asking you to do the thing you said you here to do.
But its now clear that you're deceptive, and also shirk from responsibility... so yeah, you're fitting even better into the mold of a slumlord.