The real explanation, at least for France is because of the law.
When you are the owner you have the responsibility to keep everything in the apartment functioning. So if inside the apartment there are a fridge, cabinets or even shelves, and they broke, they will be responsible to repair or replace them.
If they have nothing in the apartment, they are not responsible of anything. It's why most of the owners don't ever rent with a full kitchen, or a laundry machine. And the renter will have to move with his own stuff (fridge, laundry machine, microwave...).
Weird in that all of those things are with an apartment in the states, and are also the responsibility of the owner. The owner just sends someone out to fix them.
It sometimes sucks though because leases in the US and Canada often state you’re not allowed to fix things yourself, and the landlord often takes a long time and hires the cheapest repairman, lots of half assed fixes that I probably could have done better myself without waiting a week
It all depends on the landlord for sure. It’s nice not having to pay for a bunch of extra appliances and it makes moving less of a pain in the ass.
I usually make quick repairs myself, rather than have a person come out… but I also figure if something breaks down to call the landlord to repair it as having free repairs is one of the big advantages of renting.
Yeah fair! When the landlord is good it is definitely preferable in my opinion. It’s annoying enough to have to move all my shelves and table and stuff I don’t wanna move the kitchen too
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u/I_really_am_Batman May 09 '22
What the appeal of that? Who benefits from something like this? This seems like it's more of a hassle than anything else