Justin Ward
1 min readAug 14, 2021

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Yeah, be real. How often do you actually have to do any of that? I've been renting for 20 years and I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually had a landlord come by themselves to fix or inspect anything.

In that time, I've paid easily over $150,000 in rent. Sounds like collecting a check for very little of your own labor to me.

I rarely see my landlord at all except of course the one that tried to guilt me into helping him rent out the room in a shared house after the other tenant assaulted me and I had to get a protective order to get him evicted because the landlord wouldn't do it himself. He later came to my workplace (where I was doing actual real work for a wage not landlording) and harrassed/threatened me.

So yeah, I have very little sympathy for you and the hard "work" you do.

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Justin Ward
Justin Ward

Written by Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD

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