What real world exists where paying a massive % of your income to a landlord is cheaper than doing those things yourself???
Getting a fridge fixed is a fraction of what rents cost basically everywhere anymore. i could get a really nice new fridge for less than my monthly rent.
And remember they tried to pawn it off on you in the first place. They’re parasites. They need to go. Que the quote about the Maoist uprisings against the landlords.
When’s the last time you bought a new refrigerator? A cheap one is at least half my rent.
What’s your living situation? There’s a couple extremely bad takes from people in this thread about other people’s situations.
Yes a cheap one is half your rent. But if you weren’t being charged rent, you would have that money - and you’d also have a fridge and still be ahead!
If you’re not being charged rent then either you live in a house you own, or you live rent-free in a house you don’t own. In the first instance then either you’re rolling in cash and own it outright, or you have a mortgage on it. In the second instance then you’re likely living in your parents’ basement.
So: if you’re living rent-free in your parents’ basement or you’re so rich you own your house outright then you have no idea what you’re talking about.
And if you have a mortgage then that means you’re making monthly payments that strictly speaking aren’t rent but might as well be. Thanks to interest rate changes in the UK my mortgage recently nearly doubled, so that’s several hundred pounds a month I’ve had to find for LITERALLY NOTHING. Owning is generally cheaper than renting which is why I do it, but you’ve still got that substantial monthly outlay that restricts your ability to buy fridges and other stuff.
I’m done with this. This is one of the most ignorant things I’ve read in a while.
