1y ago

Rent requirements in the US are nuts

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They wanted to DNA test my dog and keep his biometric data on file as part of the terms of the last lease I was looking at.
I uhh, didn't fucking sign. The neofeudalist movement is for real.
- This so they can fine you when you leave your dog’s shit on the ground for other people to step in. I’m here for it. I lived in a place that did not enforce picking up after your animals and it was absolutely disgusting.
  
  They don't do that at all anyway, but hey at least the professional landlord class gets to inflict upon you one more indignity for some imagined benefit.
  The park adjacent to those buildings has so much dog turd in it you'd think they were purposely producing low quality fertilizer over there.
- Yeah, they do that these days to identify who lets their dogs poop around the property and don't pick it up.
  
  Nobody's DNA testing dog stool. They can't be bothered to even do routine move out cleanings in those apartments. The whole thing is a giant farcical pretendy power game played out by managers far away designing a system for the benefit of their rentier owners to simultaneously rob renters of their last scraps of dignity and every remaining dime they have in the form of bullshit fees.
  
  We are now servicing over 6,000 communities in six countries. We are currently receiving an average of 300+ pieces of poop a day.
  https://rentalhousingjournal.com/how-pet-poop-dna-testing-fixes-your-apartment-poop-problem/
  
  I'm aware that the apartment people aren't running the DNA database themselves. They have some weirdo company that does it. I'm also aware that that weirdo company (or companies) is capable of putting together a website.
  I'm saying I live in the same neighborhood (I bought a place). Nobody is going through that park and picking up the dozens of available dog stool and sending it off to some lab to be tested. They just aren't. The whole fucking thing is a wet dream had by some awful corporate bureaucrat that only succeeds in making renters lives a little more miserable and pads the pockets of some other random, doggy DNA database building weirdo somewhere else.
  
  I'm going to briefly go on a related rant here that you can feel free to ignore.
  
  Why do you think that's unique to AMERICA?
  
  I dunno maybe it isn't entirely but it's a very pervasive attitude here.
  Look at the COVID death numbers in the US versus some places that had the common sense to just use masks.
  
  Well I don't know what to tell you. We had a guy two months ago who was arrested because his dog was pooping on the premises and he did not clean it up.
  This is a half a billion dollar a year industry.
  
  Arrested? Lol
  In my area you can't even get anyone to care at all.
  Maybe if someone's dog pooped directly in the property manager's mouth... Otherwise, forget it.
  
  That sounds a lot like no one.
  
  Or...They threaten to do this and just keep your $600
  It's really the threat that motivates people, and it's the free $600 non-refundable deposit that motivates the landlords.

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