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Support your landlord! (lemmy.bleh.au)
submitted 1 year ago by iKill101@lemmy.bleh.au to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[-] Phobusplusplus@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago
[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 22 points 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.

[-] TurboDiesel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I had a place like that in school. There was so much paint on the walls they were squishy.

This is my "I might have read the box right on the GFCI outlet I put in my shed" but this may indicate that it's wired with the hot and neutral backwards.

[-] porkins@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Are you saying that it won’t keep from tripping unless something is plugged into it and turned on or that it trips under any circumstance that something draws power from it. Have you been able to confirm all the junctions in the circuit? Sounds like something is terribly miswired or the GFCI and/or breaker is bad. I wouldn’t use it until you get it corrected.

This particular outlet was switched, and whenever I would flip the switch to ON I would hear a humming for a few seconds and then the circuit breaker would pop. The seller told me the tenant had a CNC router or something of that nature plugged into the outlet and apparently that worked without tripping the breaker. I have no idea, maybe the dude wired up the polarity wrong or something. I deleted the whole outlet (along with the wall it was in) and the rest of the outlets and lights on the circuit are working normally, so I'll never know what the exact problem was.

[-] porkins@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. That’s really bad. It sounds like it was grounding out or something equally terrible. The device probably had something capable of moderating the draw, but it was basically like electricity was escaping places it should not have been going.

Yeah, and for bonus points it was all with 80-year-old wiring.

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago

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".

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

It should have mold peeking out from the bits it missed.

[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] ReeferPirate@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

That's the same beige 1/3 of my bathroom is

[-] StalksEveryone@futurology.today 7 points 1 year ago

its the same beige 1/3 of your landlord as well

[-] uis@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] ironhydroxide@partizle.com 15 points 1 year ago

True, but have you considered the fact that they are "free" and beat the commies? /s

[-] CharlesReed@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

not enough paint drip/smear

[-] cabbagee@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

Used to be beige. Now it's gray... gray everywhere.

[-] Hoomod@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It's actually called "greige" and it's a mix between beige and gray

I wish I was joking

[-] cabbagee@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I want to thank you for the new knowledge but I also kind of wish I didn't know this.

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

The good old landlord special.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Wait, your landlords actually paint stuff? I've had a giant white plastered hole in my wall for years that mine refuses to paint. He always says he will, he just never does.

[-] Yonrak@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then in a lot of places (check your local tenancy laws to be sure), you're legally allowed to get someone in yourself to do it (or do it yourself) and deduct the expense from rent payment.

[-] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

I salute them with my middle finger

[-] Pfnic@feddit.ch 9 points 1 year ago

Okay I know about the blue stripe one but what is this meme about?

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