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What didn't you understand before about why certain things are but now do because of your experience? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like why some apartments allow no tenants with pets. Living in an apartment building, some tenants around me absolutely fucking suck with owning pets. Allowing them to bark, wrestle and play loudly, letting them take dumps everywhere and not picking it up. People actually running with their pets with no leashes when leashes are required.

Yeah I side more with apartment offices that have balls to say no pets. Nobody wants the noise.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When the argument against an initiative says, "greedy developers" that is just a populist NIMBY smear spoken by even greedier, already-existing landlords.

I actually voted against a housing development one time because I got played by those words. I'm a little wiser now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We had one here this past cycle where the opposition was calling them slum lords lol. Not charged language at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Did the alleged "slum lords" lose against the actual slum lords' smear campaign?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I wouldn't be surprised if they called developers "terrorists" at some point.

NIMBY property owners are so convinced of the righteousness of their assets -- and of the evil lurking within any effort to slightly slow down their appreciating value -- that I don't think there's a level of wickedness that exceeds a threat to those assets.

Like, I wouldn't be surprised if they thought: "these developers are worse than Bin Laden. At least Bin Laden didn't decrease the worth of MY property."