One thing I have noticed is how prevalent the hustle culture has become among Millennials. LinkedIn is a hotbed of narcissism, and Twitter has a ton of self-proclaimed business superstars who have made money by having companies entirely dependent on using foreign labor and providing shitty service for customers. It's quite appalling how often you hear fellow Millennials go on and on boasting about their own "successes" or try to sell themselves without an ounce of honesty.
The hustle of creating "passive income" means that we are going to see a lot of sociopaths becoming landlords and doing the bare-minimum for those who rent from them, and the quality of services will continue to decline across all companies as there is no value in providing a good service, merely making money. The decline of quality we have seen from the boomer generation onward (yes, that includes you, Generation X, you aren't exempt from being self-destructive narcissists like your parents and your children) is going to ramp up significantly.
Some people will say, "blame the system, not the person," but for god's sake, eventually someone has to stand up and refuse to operate as basically a scam artist. For as many supposed "leftists" there are among Millennials, they sure have no qualms about taking the worst aspects of human greed and using that as their core business model.
Am I over-exaggerating here?
I bet if you're maintaining it properly as well people are always going to pick your property simply because it's better condition over the shit heads who are profiteering off the mass buyer's market we have currently.
Yeah hopefully so, or whenever I sell it I won't have the value of a beaten down shithole. There's not many rent houses where I live and of course I get one right by me that gets neglected. It was never even a bad house, but whoever owns it does the absolute bare minimum to maintain it. It had a decent size tree branch fall near my fence. A tree service comes out to fix it, only does the bare minimum. They could have paid the service who was already an extra $100-200 and pruned the entire obviously neglected tree. They didn't and a big branch fell on their roof and damaged it, which is still not fixed. No way is that cheaper than just fixing it the first time. It's so dumb.
Oh I've got a better story than that, there was a hole in the side of a stair wall thingy ( forgotten the name of it lol ) anyway, wall had gotten a hole in it at some point. The previous people instead of fixing it up properly by filling the hole and sanding it neatly decided for whatever reason to blodge a ton of crap in the hole and then get this, they put wallpaper over it the same grey colour as the stairs itself.
They had done this and then wallpaper over the rest of the place with a fucking horrible lilac flower pattern texture. So you had this ugly as bodged up hole with grey paper on it right as you come into the house then this awful wallpaper everywhere in the entranceway and the stairs. I'm still pretty staggered because it must have taken them more time and effort to bodge the hole in the stairs' wall that badly yet they insisted on doing it that badly.
Mind you, I would have never have been able to get the property really if it wasn't that shit. Most of our work though was removing horrible bodges the previous owners had done and then doing it to a proper standard. Which was a task but it was made worse by these lazy shit heads who owned it previously.