As a homeowner I’m more convinced this is the quality of contractors these days. For triple pre-2020 prices.
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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And that’s the primary problem with the new triple contractor rates, House quality is going to severely decline in the next 10yrs as people try to do everything themselves because professional home repair has become grossly unaffordable.
I’ve been repairing and home owning for over 25 yrs. I make more money and can no longer easily afford home repair the last 3 yrs. As such, I shudder the think of what garbage is being done in homes with no capacity to afford the new higher rates right now. Even a box of construction screws and a can of paint is crazy expensive now.
House quality is already in the shitter. Hell, not even the shitter, its down the pipe and in the septic tank.
and its not cause home owners doing repairs.
Its cause developers spinning up an LLC, buying a plot of land, shitting out a development of 300+ homes in less than 6 months that just barely meet the barest minimum of code (and anything that doesnt typically given a slide thanks to a few greased palms), just to sell all the homes in the mad housing rush before shutting down the LLC and walking away with all the money and no liability on the terrible houses they've built that arent suitable for living in.
CyFy on youtube highlights the problem a lot (and how hard the builders and bribed inspectors go after him for threatening the grift).
And I have own personal experience witnessing more well off friends struggle with newly bought houses being built like shit at best, to needing 10s, to 100s of thousands of dollars in repairs less than a year after purchase at worse.
LLCs are licensed. As such, the owner(s) is on public record which means you track this on a .gov site. Some of these guys, as in a single real estate guy, will have a page or two of the LLC flips including land purchases fof $10 between their own LLCs.
Combination, right.
Landlord wants the job done fast, meanwhile the contractors know that the landlord isn't the one actually living there so they can get away with cutting corners.
...and not cutting in corners!
Sorry.
Its done by some random dude that the landlord found in a HomeDepot Parking Lot
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That's some serious lag when you can get that close to the thing and the textures still haven't loaded. What's your ping time?
Is there an !outside yet? This is gold
Might be faulty VRAM.
Good luck buying a new GPU nowadays... I've been dealing with overheating issues for the last couple of years, might need to change the thermal paste
/s
They painted the whole house in an hour using a pressure washer, right?
my house used to be rented out and got the "landlord special" regularly.
i was sanding the walls to prepare for a coat of paint and i found a baseball sized hole they had just put painters tape over and proceeded to paint over the tape.
that is impressive laziness. it takes almost no effort, time or money to plaster. especially when you're already painting
Tbf that could have been done by tenants who figured the landlord would use that damage to argue they should lose their entire deposit despite not costing nearly that much to repair properly.
Not that it wouldn't be plausible that the landlord did it themselves or hired someone who didn't know what they were doing but were willing to do it cheap, like Ricky.
I once found a large, external hole which had been filled with carpet and painted over with masonry paint. They’d placed a garden table in front of it, so we wouldn’t notice on viewing and moving in
Is there a c/NotMyJob in the fediverse yet? This could be the inaugural post if not.
FFS.
What is that? An alarm control panel maybe?
Napco Gemini GEM-P800.
Excuse me sir, I believe that would be a GEM-RP8LCD as that is the keypad and not the control panel. /s
Epic fail. Internet ban for the rest of the day for you
obviously, it says it there
I didn't knew they sold these is fully white edition.
I swear you guys are worse than the porn aficionados.
The secret is I only know it because I have the system and recognized the panel.
My landlord spray-painted over all our cabinets with vinyl. Did a shit job and now paint flakes come off into our dishes. They said it was too expensive to fix 🤷♂️
Good chance this is illegal. Though it varies wildly, many jurisdictions have implied warranties of habitability that require your landlord fix stuff while giving you a legal path to withhold rent or pay for repairs in lieu of rent when they don't.
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This is priceless 😂
Or $4000 pcm
Still better than a guy who painted over a cockroach though. Probably.
This is almost top tier special
They even textured it.
Could be the agreement stated the painters weren't responsible for masking anything not to be painted
Which is still the landlord's fault
They call it "touch typing"
Guess the temperature! It's like the price is right with your utility bill!
The landlord wouldn't have done that because they know it'll have to be replaced. That's a low skilled idiot's work, the same thing happens to me at work. It is possible that the agreement between the landlord and the painters stated they weren't responsible for masking anything that wasn't to be painted
This, the landlord would've been pissed this happened because they'd have to replace it, most likely a lazy contractor did this.
Why does Alexa have texture now???
Ordering textured vibrator
Maybe next time, dont fuck with buttons yes?
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