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Why is it you prefer renting to students—who trash your apartments and leave you eight months in to find new tenants, year after year—and cats—who piss and shit inside—over dogs? —Good Dog Owner
This article appears in Jun 18-24, 2015.
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Because dogs piss and shit outside.
FOUR POINTS
(1) Incoherence: Students are the tenants so to claim that they leave in eight months to find new tenants is incoherent. They ARE the tenants.
(2) Profit: The landlord is a landlord for one reason, to make a profit. He can jack up the rent after each student departure to cover the cost of repairs after they trashed the place. (In any case, you can’t trash trash, the standard quality of furnishing of the student slum.) To increase his profits still further the landlord can require that the students sign a lease requiring them to repay the costs of all damages done to the premises. Failure to do so will result in an action at law.
(3) Class: As one possessing property for the purposes of extortionate profit, the landlord belongs to the owner/managerial class while the student is little more than an insignificant disposable, a faceless member of an army of wandering indigents. In addition therefore to seizing his pound of flesh the landlord ensures thereby that the distinction between the owner/managerial class and the tenant/disposable class remain firmly enshrined in that rapacious, profit-driven capitalist society.
(4) The landlord prefers his subjects to have cats rather than dogs not because the former piss and shit inside in their kitty litter boxes – no problem there – but rather to deprive the students of a possible source of protein during those cyclical periods of famine.
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If you own a dog and leave that poor creature all day alone in an apartment, you’re a fucking thoughtless moron with the brain of a housefly. Dogs need stimulation and exercise as boredom can lead to destructive behavior and lots of piss & shit on the floor. The dog may bark or whimper in his/her loneliness, distressing other animal lovin’ tenants. Most dogs do not belong in apartments unless they are small breeds with stay-at-home moms or dads.
Get a house hippo
They don’t leave 8 months in… new leases are a year.
If they have to pay for the extra 4 months with people not living there, that’s their problem.
Subletting is a bitch.
There is never a crumb of peanut butter toast on my floors, thanks to my house hippos…
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Doesn’t scan. The landlord is not supposed to be a great guy for not allowing dogs since they suffer when left alone. He’s supposed to be a creep. You’ve got to stay with the program.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
Why?
The next time you walk past a yellow grass and piles of dog shit in Point Pleasant, is why.
Walk past “a yellow grass?” Just one blade? Are things that bad in Point Pleasant?