• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I just bought a house from a guy who had been renting it out since the '80s and this hits especially hard. So many fucking layers of paint on everything. Couldn’t even be bothered to remove the outlet and switch covers first, to the point where I can’t find the damn screws or even the edges of the covers.

      I wish he had painted over the breaker box, though, since that might have prevented the last tenant from installing a GFCI outlet that somehow trips the circuit breaker if there’s no high-amp appliance plugged into it.

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    Should have a couple of stars missing and a corner torn off to be more accurate.

    I was just living in a house where the garage door was falling off the hinges. We asked them to fix it and they told us “you have to look at it as a carport now”.

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        I feel this in my soul. My university house had mould on the bathroom ceiling, and one of my roommates was allergic - they went into violent sneezing fits every time they showered.

        Our landlords tried everything to avoid addressing it, up to claiming that, “people couldn’t be allergic to mould like that.”

        They only “fixed” it after one of my other roommates threatened to talk to his father who was a lawyer. Their “fix” was to paste over the ceiling with vinyl plates.

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    What wierd about US is amount of rent. It seems people there own less then (post-)Soviet citizens.

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      It’s actually called “greige” and it’s a mix between beige and gray

      I wish I was joking