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My landlord wants my potted plant gone :( in c/houseplants@mander.xyz

[–] AstralWeekends@lemm.ee 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My fellow Lemmy-ite, let me introduce you to the concept of corporate collusion:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/fight-is-control-realpage-antitrust-litigation-2023-01-10/

Here is a recent and ongoing example of how software services can be used (allegedly) by property management companies to avoid competition for the benefit of all (property management companies).

My landlord wants my potted plant gone :( in c/houseplants@mander.xyz

[–] AstralWeekends@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

Apparently so. I was quite surprised by that as well. I imagine it's a service or something that large property management companies use, which seems rather intrusive to me. My experience after renting 6 different apartments in the US across 3 different states is that there are too few protections and options for recourse for tenants. I am a good tenant, in my opinion. I pay my rent on time and do not draw any complaints from my neighbors.

I am currently living in an apartment in Indiana, where I was recently without working plumbing for 5 days. As far as I can tell, there is no way for me to recoup related costs or break the release without involving a lawyer. I reported the details to the city health department, which is as close as I can get to getting the incident on the "permanent record" of the property management company.

My landlord wants my potted plant gone :( in c/houseplants@mander.xyz

[–] AstralWeekends@lemm.ee 104 points 2 years ago (16 children)

One time, the apartment complex I was living at said I was violating my lease for keeping a storage container on my balcony. It was a small, zip up greenhouse with plants in it, which they allowed. When I confronted them about it, they admitted that they only observed it from the ground (I was on the 3rd floor) and that it was fine after all. That "violation" still appears on my rental history today, as the next apartment I rented asked me to explain why there was a violation on my file. Fuck this system.