: Ran across this while out on #walkies🐾 the other day. It's a rental property that the city was forcing the landlord to fix and get up to code. Some work had been done, but this happened.
For context, there's been an odd spike in dumpy rental properties going up in smoke since the county and several towns began forcing residential building code and proper basic maintenance as required by state and local law in rental dwellings.
Most rentals locally are locally owned by locals.
@janallmac: Affirmative.
It's what HGTV and others got us to since the early '00s, not to mention the likes of Carlton Sheets and other grifters, getting "ordinary people" to believe they could "buy investment properties and generate wealth". Loads of people who often can't afford good upkeep/maintenance on their own homes bought houses to rent and learned that shit's actual work and costs money. The bust in 2008, I reckon predictably, got more people into doing it, and they wound up selling...
@janallmac: ...to the landlord corporations owned by private equity firms.
Fuck.
@thedisasterautist Wow. Nice. 😡 What a shame, for so many reasons.