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Which country is this? Do most landlords do this? /gen
When I lived in NYC, one of my apartments had a tipping option on the website
Hollow tip are best, they spall inside the landlord and are less likely to exit out the back and damage anything of value.
Landlord: You shot me!
Tennant: Yup. Take a look. At least I didn't fuck up the paint or the carpet.
Took me a second, only heard of them as hollow points lol.
Wow. Either someone was too lazy to turn of the default settings, or figured it was appropriate to ask. Either way, that's some shocking lack-of-awareness going on.
It's called Key Money but in some places like Japan it's essentially a gratuity (in the US and other places it's just a refundable security deposit)
A what now
Touché
They are supposed to put your deposit and last month's rent in an escrow account. But the shadier US landlords never do.
That's all landlords. They never follow the law because they have significantly more power over the tenant. I don't think I've ever gotten a security deposit back in full in the dozen or so apartments I've lived in, they always have some slimy excuse for it and bank on a lawyer being more expensive
Peak Landlord Privilege
I'm sure this is the US. And this is the first time I've heard of it in 35 years of renting.
It's in canada also. My gf had to pay a rental payment fee for the system they use. Same with enwin utilities in ontario. They just installed a new tax for no reason.
Oh it's for a reason, and that reason is "capitalism".
Their investors want not just profits but profit growth. So companies have to come up with new avenues of extracting money from their consumers. It's a fundamental feature of the capitalist system.
And so long as they have private ownership over these things, there is about jack all we can do to stop them.
Insurers do this to doctors, too. They take a large "convenience fee" for electronic payment to the doctor. And they have no option to get physical checks. The relevant US regulatory agency briefly declared it illegal, but was convinced by lobbying their rule wouldn't hold up against a lawsuit, so they withdrew it. And Congress doesn't care to make the law more clear.