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[–] freshcow 130 points 6 days ago (38 children)

Your mistake is in framing landlord as a job.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Owning a property is not a job but maintaining one can be. If you don't own the property then that'd just be called being a janitor.

[–] Censored 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Janitors are cleaners. Typically the people who maintain apartments are called maintenance workers, handymen, or (old fashioned) superintendent. Sometimes property manager, if they also handle renting it out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We often just call them janitors here, I bet the vernacular changes from place to place. But cleaners are often separate, janitors do maintenance work and cleaners do cleaning work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Definition of janitor:

one who keeps the premises of a building (such as an apartment or office) clean, tends the heating system, and makes minor repairs

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/janitor

a person employed to take care of a large building, such as a school, and who deals with the cleaning, repairs, etc.

Or

a person whose job is to clean and take care of a building

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/janitor

[–] Censored 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Janitors are only employed in large, expensive apartment buildings. Single family homes don't use them, nor do cheaper apartments. So that's not really descriptive of a landlords job at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Landlord can be the person responsible for that (depends on the agreement) and often where I'm from they contract it from bigger company

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I only disagreed with your definition of janitor.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What poor service. Definitely not going to tip him at the end of the month, that's for sure.

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[–] radicalautonomy 22 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I'm autistic and flub things up like that sometimes. I tell people that I have a photogenic memory. They'll often ask, "Don't you mean a photographic memory?" to which I reply "No, a photogenic memory. Yeah, I have a beautiful mind."

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[–] Glytch 2 points 4 days ago

For 2 seconds I was thinking "Assigned Landlord At Birth?"

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