I did 97 meth deals ($45 each).
That’s $4365 in passive income.
I don’t even have any meth and just gave them sugar crystals.
Not to be a capitalist pig but even under capitalism in the USA that is just fraud.
Most people have no ability or funds for recourse and justice. It’s just going to be a SOL moment.
My friend has a slumlord next to him doing this, he’s charging $250 per application and rejecting everyone. So my friend is renting his spare room to his last tenant and thinking about suing. Fucks up the neighborhood.
What if I could earn a passive income by scamming scammers? It would be morally correct?
Yes but they have the funds and connections to absolutely nail you to a cross.
If they can get enough of them before getting caught it could balance itself out though
I’m just giving a helpful warning. If you have a plan that will work, I think you have a duty to enact it.
Ah, so become the company that sells these background checks?
Americans be like “we’re the free-est nation in the world!” then do shit like pay application fees
They’re free to choose to pay or not to pay. You don’t have rental application fees so you don’t have a choice. Your freedom is curtailed!
Yeah, that’s straight up fraud btw
i sue landlords for fraud. passive income.
No I’m pretty sure that’s the guy that loves cocain and wants to fuck his mother
No, you’re thinking of pioneering psychologist Sigmund Freud.
Fraud is when a rope begins to break one stand at a time
No, that’s frayed. Fraud is an amphibian known for hopping.
No, that’s a fraught. Frog is when you’re beset by worry/anxiety.
Not to be confused with a frontier psychiatrist
That boy needs therapy!
It’s not fraud if you tell the applicant what the rental criteria are and what happens to the money if they are turned down.
In ancient times, I was a small time landlord. On a couple of occasions I asked for an application fee. I followed these rules, which I explained to the applicant:
- The application fee was refunded if I turned down the applicant, provided the background check did not disclose a lie on the application.
- The application fee was applied to the security deposit if I granted the rental.
- The application fee was not refunded if the background check found a lie on the application, or if I granted the rental and the applicant changed their mind and declined to rent.
It costs money to do background checks. I wasn’t going to be out of pocket if an applicant was dishonest with me.
I think you’re misunderstanding, the OP here had no intention of renting anything out, they’re just taking application fees
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“I have passive income” is literally just “I run online scams”.
This is no different from people in places like india doing phone call scams.
Yes that would be the joke.
Application fees? For renting? Man America is cooked.
Don’t forget the downpayment and the security deposit and first and last months rent. Oh and if you break the lease you have to pay 4 months rent or the remainder of the rental period, whichever is higher
Don’t forget that your landlord forces you to pay through a 3rd party company that charges a “convenience” fee of ~3% so your $600 rent is actually $620.
Ask me how I know.
Usually there’s some way around that though? Like mailing checks or something.
There might be, but he did not let us know about it if there is.
Only 3%? Lucky
Add $75 for each pet if allowed! My buddy was apartment hunting recently and was given a rental agreement that said he would have a deductible on repairs and would have to cover anything over $250. The landlord was just looking to scam and sue someone for repairs he had to do to keep up to code. America’s cooked indeed.
First and last month can make sense sometimes, so laws can go “the tenant did pay the last month so you can’t suddenly evict them, they still get to live until the month ends because they did paid for it”
Here it’s just a months rent for security deposit and you pay as normal in a rolling monthly contract. The deposit needs to be held in an independent thingie too so they can’t keep it unlawfully.
I was gonna say that in my experience the “security deposit” should just be considered money spent. Generally, if my landlords could find any reason to, they’d keep the whole thing. If they couldn’t, they’d make one up.
I had A landlord who was pretty chill, most apartments in the area had monthly or 2-weekly cleaning checks, but we only had one in the several years I lived there. We went above and beyond to show our appreciation for the relative lenience
We came back after the cleaning check, and the kitchen floor was covered in a sticky film. Then we got a cleaning fee charge. Turns out, the landlord hired someone to do the cleaning check, and offered to pay the same person to clean the apartment if we failed. So they inspected a spotless apartment, told the landlord we failed, mopped the floor with undiluted Fabulouso, and called it a day
Our landlord refunded the cleaning fee, but if they hadn’t I doubt there’s anything we could have done.
Oh yeah super common unfortunately
Lmaooo Dudes, US people have no business making fun of communist if they do things like this. What do you mean you pay for an application for rent a space to living for???
We also sometimes have to pay “pet rent”, and no this does not cover pet damages.
No fucking way this has to be a joke
You also have to prove you make 2x rent, sometimes 3x rent in order to actually qualify for an apartment (alot of us create fake paystubs for this) :)
We also will have a deposit that is usually 2-3x rent that we are supposed to get back when we move out. However every time this happens the landlords conveniently find damage to the property that didn’t exist the day you moved out so you don’t ever get that money back (or if you do, you only get 25-50% of it). :)
At the place I just moved out of, there was a roach infestation that the landlords refused to hire a pro to take care of that got entirely out of hand. They are holding my deposit for this. :)
You also aren’t allowed to have anyone stay over longer than 3 days if they aren’t on the lease without prior approval from the landlord. :)
Edit: Sometimes people have to get renters insurance too. :)
3x the rent as a revenue and 3 month deposit is also standard in Switzerland. However, the deposit is put in a special account and the bank releases it when you move out. It is not that easy for the landlord to get a part of it. About the rent not exceeding one third of the revenue, it’s of course not always easy to do, but if you exceeded it, you would risk having other financial problems which wouldn’t be good for you neither.
My cat costs me $30 per month in pet rent. And she still has the gall to lay around and complain like she pays the rent.
My cat cost my insurance company whatever they paid my doctor to write a note to tell my landlord I wouldn’t be paying a pet deposit equal to a months rent (non-refundable) and pet rent.
She seemed annoyed by the whole thing but unsurprised. Apparently part of her job is to write the landlords fuck you notes.
How does your doctor have a say in your rent agreement?
Writing a note saying this little guy is an emotional support little guy and therefore is covered by being an aspect of why you’re alive or something.
Yep. And she’s right. This little shit has actually been very good for me. It helps having a little dependent to care for.
Americans are fine with it. Extremely comfortable.
If they weren’t, they would do something about it.
Vote blue no matter yahu
Nope, 100% real. My roommate has a pet and the landlord forced them to pay a $50/month pet fee.
God I love being so free though 🦅
Sorry that’s an additional $20 service fee for loving something. Them the rules.
Can I pay a subscription instead?
Sounds good. Let’s sign you up for the $30/Month subscription.
Not a joke. I suspect the creation of pet rent contributed to the dilution of the concept of service animals (people insisting that Rex the psychotic chihuahua is an emotional support animal).
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These guys are saying $50-100 but I have seen $200 per month on a $1800 per month apartment. It’s no joke.
Yeah my cat is $50/mo….
You mean “pet tax”
And someone has the audacity to tell me these are people.
Virtue signaling is a very interesting primate trait. From lying about where you were last night to wearing clothing in the first place, manipulating your status is uniquely human. If dolphins or octopuses made a civilization, this would be unlikely to emerge.
Ever seen Orcas wearing salmon hats?
Hierarchical systems are perfectly normal in social systems. Not in the rigid way your manosphere nutters use it, but it’s still a thing!
Oo, good point. Hierarchy is everywhere in nature, obviously. I was referencing manipulating status.
Well, there’s a philosophical point that’s worthy of exploring.
Is human activity, including manipulation, a result of nature or in conflict with it?
Biology is so neat! I love animals. You should check out the velvet worm and social structures. Just fascinating that complex (and evidence suggests even more complex) social behavior arises from a ridiculously different neutral structure and evolutionary lineage. As for philosophy, may I point you to egalitarianism as the ultimate balance with the fact that mitochondria symbiosis may have started with predation. The host cell failed to digest it (maybe), and mitochondria, like your gut biome, was like, “yeah, this is chill, too.”
Click that federation button to see about a dozen people (so far) failing to recognize the most obvious ragebait bit imaginable. Probably the OP as well lmao
Why would anyone want Mao to wake up? The fuck kind of genocide denialism is this?
Why wouldn’t anyone want too? Is someone freaking out over Toonami Square?
Give same situation and environment to a landlord see how their reign goes.
Mao is very popular in the PRC, and among Marxists. The modern CPC recognizes his contributions as around 70% good, 30% bad. The Cultural Revolution in particular is a touchy subject largely seen as a misstep, but certainly not a “genocide” either. Same with famine, which was previously common in China but was only ended by the communists in power.
Mao’s popularity stems from establishing socialism in China, successfully kicking out the Japanese imperialists and then winning the civil war against the nationalist Kuomintang, and building up a robust system of socialism in early China, accomplishing metrics like a doubling in life expectancy, large (but unstable, as Deng would later stabilize with socialist market reforms) economic growth, banning footbinding, and more.
sorry mao genocided american and european opium moguls.
Sir, this is lemmy.ml. They think every bad thing you’ve heard about china is a CIA psyop
not every bad thing but quite a lot of it, yes.
Not everything bad about China is CIA propaganda. They have a long way to go, economically and socially. At the same time, there’s factually a large anti-PRC budget for US propaganda, largely stemming from the large amount of friction faced when dealing with a socialist country in the world capitalist market. It’s accelerated because the PRC is currently surpassing the US in many key metrics, and is charted to do so in other areas in the coming years.
Yeah, when I said “every” I didn’t mean that literally. But at least 3-4 of the bigger ones. Which is a lot. Especially since I’ve talked to actual Chinese people that live in China that are less delusional. But you do you.
The bigger ones literally are lmao. That’s why they’re the big ones, they’ve had a huge outpouring of resources to make them so. “Tiananment square” is a well documented psyop and so is the so called Uyghur genocide propped up almost exclusively on Adrian nonZenz
I’ve also talked to actual Chinese people that live in China, too. The Marxists are more correct about China than the liberals, by quite a laughably large margin.
Yeah, but that’s because the liberals that you’re talking about are only liberals in name only and they think that China is some autocratic hellscape. It’s easy to be closer to the truth than those people. Also you’re both wrong. As is almost always the case, the truth is somewhere in the middle. But we’re on .ml, so ofc people will disagree with me on that
Not everything bad about China is CIA propaganda. They have a long way to go, economically and socially. At the same time, there’s factually a large anti-PRC budget for US propaganda, largely stemming from the large amount of friction faced when dealing with a socialist country in the world capitalist market. It’s accelerated because the PRC is currently surpassing the US in many key metrics, and is charted to do so in other areas in the coming years.
Which part of this do you disagree with? You’re being a contrarion at this point, I outright stated that not everything bad about China is a lie, just that a huge portion of it is. You just stated that “the truth is in the middle,” but what I stated above already acknowledges that while good overall, China has a long way to go socially and economically. In fact, the fact that they largely succeed in their planning and are continuously improving both shows how far they have come and how far they have to go.
People are disagreeing with you moreso because you’re just picking fights and playing the contrarion.
I’m not picking “fights”, lol. I haven’t replied to a .ml thread in months. And I’m not getting into that because I have before and almost none of you have budged an inch.
Not on Tiananmen Square(yeah, it didn’t happen in the actual square, doesn’t mean nothing happened),
not on the Uyghur situation(just because they’re not getting genocided like the gazans doesn’t mean “education camps” is a socially acceptable thing to put someone through),
not on the fact that the metrics that you’re using to compare don’t paint the full picture(such as the whole green energy thing when in reality they’re still one of the highest CO2 emitting countries per capita)
nor on fact that you keep pretending that state capitalism = socialism, which is not. Just because a place is better than the USA doesn’t mean that it’s a good place.
Socially, yeah… Even worse xD I agree, they have tons of work ahead of them. And on certain issues (such as LGBTQ), they’re not really progressing.
Okay, so I felt I needed to reply to that for some reason. But like I said, I’ve talked about these things before, with you included, and you’ve never budged, so I’m not getting back into it. So unless you need to reply for someone else, don’t bother replying to me cause I’m not gonna respond anymore.
Which is why we are ready for war with them at a moments notice.
Why would someone with a username referencing Guy Debord be doing this? Is this leftist ragebait?
It’s a bit
And $4k is not that much. She does it to survive
Firstly, she does it because she’s a piece of shit.
Secondly, if it was about survival, like you suggest, then why is she calling it a passive income in such a gloating casual fashion?
Passive income, at least to me, means secondary and unnecessary.Thirdly, she’s a piece of shit.
Firstly, she doesn’t do it, because it’s fake.
Fair point. She does want people to think she does it, though, which makes her a piece of shit.
Yeah stealing from random people to “survive” is not okay.
This isn’t stealing food from a store this is taking money from everyday people’s trying to rent an apartment
Yeah stealing from random people to “survive” is not okay.
Never said it is.
My point was to underline that in the current system some people commit fraud not to get rich or even higher than average, but just to survive.
You have no idea how rich she is
Do I really need to?
Yes
in what world do you live in where $4k is not that much. i make a solid 6 figures and $4.3k is nearly my monthly income after taxes
/s ?
I mean per month, and assuming not taxed, that’s not bad.
This is literally fraud.
You’d be stealing from other working class people like you.
Well yeah obviously I wouldn’t actually recommend it
That’s not bad but let’s face it: this is not good either
