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jadedlens00 t1_jcfd03f wrote

Shocking how many corporate apartment bootlickers there are in this sub.

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finkelbeats t1_jcflimt wrote

Absolutely. If you based your view of who lives in DC off of the commenters in this sub, you'd think the whole city is a bunch of Republicans who want police to euthanize homeless people, mandatory minimums for every crime, and corporations to be able to fuck anyone over who doesn't hire a $700 an hour attorney to read their lease.

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PM_ME_BOOTYPICS_ t1_jcfs8o9 wrote

it’s especially weird because reddit leans very strongly left as it is, and DC is also a very left leaning city. But for some reason, the DC sub is pretty conservative lol

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waldrop02 t1_jcfvh0d wrote

The sub gets brigades pretty hard by conservatives who live elsewhere because of the pervasive idea that DC is only the federal government and adjacent industries

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finkelbeats t1_jcfvadh wrote

On the crime stuff in particular, I do imagine a lot of the commenters are ostensibly Democratic voters who just have never really thought that hard about how to stop crime besides tougher enforcement. But yeah, super weird overall.

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BigMoose9000 t1_jcfu130 wrote

It's not "bootlicking" to accept the reality that they're not going to do anything about it and OP has no realistic way to make them.

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Adventurous_Cod9854 t1_jcgvlcf wrote

Can someone make a performative outrage script to ward off these “bootlicker” guys? A literal virtue signal that says “I think it’s bad that something harmful and unfair is happening. The culprit is someone Marx would be mad at” so we don’t have to see these?

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2muchcaffeine4u t1_jcffzpj wrote

There's nothing the building can do about it, like at all, and they're not going to make rent lower for that unit until they have people cancelling leases and not renewing at a greater rate than the rest of the building. That's pretty much all they can do. OP just has to decide if they want to live there and deal or not.

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Raziel66 t1_jcfiaf9 wrote

Just because someone has a different opinion than you on a situation doesn't make them a bootlicker

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Hope_Burns_Bright t1_jcfs47e wrote

No, it's because of the loud and sloppy bootlicking that makes them bootlickers.

Hope this helps!

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OnYourLonesome t1_jcfh14q wrote

It's not corporate bootlicking to expect someone to be responsible enough to do a little bit of research before they're willing to drop $2,000+ per month on an apartment.

It sucks, but unless the compactor was moved there after OP moved in (which I highly doubt), this is pretty much the equivalent of those people who complain about noise from the bar they chose to live by.

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TigerWellington t1_jcflv64 wrote

There is no REASONABLE level of due diligence that would have caught this before OP moved in. Most places won’t even let you see the actual unit you’re renting before you sign. They’ll show you a model apartment or vacant unit and then a floor plan of just the unit you’re interested in. What management company do you know of that lets you look at the blueprints so you know where the mechanics are in the building or lets you hang out in the exact unit you’ll be renting for hours to see if there are any noise issues before you sign a lease? People would normally know about a bar. Who would even think to ask if the trash room is next door? Even if they did, not every building has a compactor that goes off randomly all day vs. having to just deal with the couple times a week the dumpsters are emptied.

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AnIndecisiveFuck t1_jcfop35 wrote

Right? There’s a lot of weird things I’ve learned to consider when looking for an apartment (proximity to elevator and exit doors, amount of light switches/outlets) and I’d never think to ask about this tbh

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dynospectrum7 t1_jcfsvks wrote

The base level of due diligence is to read google reviews. And looking at the reviews online right now, OP ain’t do that shit.

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moologist t1_jcfsuwj wrote

People aren’t visiting apartments before they sign leases??? That’s absolutely insane. It is YOUR responsibility and due diligence as a tenant to ASK relevant questions PRIOR to signing a legally binding document, such as touring the property, frequency of pest control etc, where fire alarms are located etc etc. If you toured the property you’d know if you were close to a trash room like c’mon…

OP clearly didn’t think to ask before they moved in but I’ll bet they add that to the list of shit to ask a leasing agent before signing their next lease!

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waldrop02 t1_jcfvpcd wrote

It’s fully reasonable to expect that your apartment won’t have noise from a trash compactor audible through the walls.

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Excellent_Insect_270 t1_jcgd81r wrote

Right, because sales agents trying to rent out their units are going to be honest about the negative issues. Oh yeah, well, we do spray for roaches X times per month, and we have some mice problems, and this unit is near the trash chute so it’s super loud! You still want it, right?

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moologist t1_jcgdk5s wrote

Being lied to by a leasing agent about pest control is not the same as physically touring a unit to make sure it meets your needs and you know it.

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OnYourLonesome t1_jch2hm0 wrote

Thank you for proving the point. OP probably shouldn't have taken the agents' word at face value and done a little bit of research on their own into the conditions of the place they would be living in and spending a huge chunk of money on.

I'm sure they will keep that in mind for the future, and hopefully stop calling people bootlickers for telling them to use their noggin.

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Excellent_Insect_270 t1_jchpq1i wrote

Well, that's not where I was going with that lol. I agree with the main poster of the sub-thread - there was no reasonable level of due diligence that would have caught this unless you specifically asked, "Is this unit next to the trash chute?" You have 30-45 minutes maybe on your tour and you have to ask about pricing and availability, application requirements and process, move in fees, parking, etc etc. There are SO many things to cover, it's really not fair to say that OP should have known to ask about this very specific issue. Before seeing this post, I never would have known that this is something you need to ask about.

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