Your landlord should be legally required to say "thank you" when you pay rent
Summary
A straphanger in London drops an audacious proposal: landlords should be legally required to visit their tenants every month and say thank you when rent is paid. She's paying 70% of her income to someone who doesn't even know her bra size. Kareem agrees it's absurd. The conversation spirals from there: what if tenants got 60-day payment terms like freelancers? What if the invoice accidentally went to spam? The rider wants the person spending her money, buying loafers and paying school fees with her cash, to look her in the eye. They used to collect rent in person. Now management companies handle the dirty work while landlords stay invisible, extracting wealth without acknowledgment.
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So, what's your take? It should be a legal requirement for your landlord to come and say thank you every time you pay rent.
What? I think your landlord should come and say thank you every month when you pay them rent.
100% agree. Thank you.
That is so true. You are giving them money. I'm giving them 70% of my income every month.
How do you send the money? Do you send a check or Oh, it just comes out while I'm sleeping. This is the second part of my take is I think they should have to send me an invoice every month
and then you pay rent and it's a 60 days payment terms and sometimes I'm just going to miss it
like a freelancer. Yeah. But some—oh, sorry. It went to my spam and then I just don't pay.
When you pay rent, are you paying for the month that you live there or are you paying for the month that's coming? I actually don't know. I actually just am paying.
I have no idea. It's so intimate. This man is like in my bank. We basically share a bank account, right? I'm buying him whatever. I'm buying him loafers. I'm paying his kids school fees. He doesn't even know what bra size I am. You're literally his sugar daddy.
Yeah. And he never thanks you.
No.
Do you even know his name? I do not know his name.
I think that you should also, if your landlord is doing an exceptional job, you should tip them.
Oh my god. No. No. No. No. They're receiving so much money every month. They are literally doing nothing. If they had to visit every single property and say thank you, at least they would like come face to face with the people that they are extracting wealth from.
Do they have to do it in person? Yes, in person.
Well, they used to. They used to collect the rent. That's Scrooge. Yeah, he's a rent collector. But now what happens is they have these like management teams and lackeys and estate agents that do all the like dirty work for them. I want the man who's spending my rent money to come to my flat and say thank you. And then I can say you're welcome.