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Originally posted by Gorgo,
Capitalism as we know it and politics as we know it does form a type of oligarchy. However, I'm not sure that is totally what's going on here. Not sure that it isn't, either, but not sure that it is.
You bought into a park that has rules. You don't obey those rules, you pay the consequences. What will happen should be written in those rules. Is the fact that you don't know what's going on because you didn't look at the rules, or didn't ask or are there rules that were made without your knowledge or your cooperation?
In another message in this chain I mentioned the circumstances that led to me moving in here. And they had a list of rules which I read. The idea of giving people a fine for non-conformity came into effect after the original owner sold most of the rental spaces to people living here. Because the fines go into their budget they have become more active in thier inspections which was not the case during the years preceding that "changing of the guard". The people who paid for thier spaces (property) now make the rules and those who still rent a space (me) have no say-so. These people have no real past experience when it comes to manageing a mobilehome park. And we have no on-site manager anymore, for example the street sign was busted down and the street lights went out on our street and remain unfixed for the past week, every request for repair must be written and mailed to some Real Estate Company in another town as they were hired by the "community group" do the management, but that company only has experience with apartments and not with mobilehomes. I have no idea what is going on with this new set-up.
Talking about global political solutions to this problem is fine, but that doesn't really solve your problem in the short term? Wouldn't it make more sense to get a copy of the rules and see what you can do about your problem directly?
To get back to the larger issue, again, I think it's fine to talk about how to make the world a better place, but on a daily basis, these kinds of daily problems will exist regardless of who runs things and how.
I'm a landlord, and I work for a capitalist enterprise, and I do my best with both. I don't like the fact that if people don't pay their rent I have to ask them to leave. I don't like the fact that if I come up with a better way of doing things at work, that might mean someone might lose their job.
I would rather have a better system. That doesn't exist and I didn't create this one so I have to do what I have to do to survive while doing what little I can to figure out how to make it better. |
I also was part of the management team of a apartment complex, we had a total of 300 units (hired a security guard to hand out the evictions when needed). And everyplace has rules that must be enforced, like no loud noises, no unlawful activities (like selling drugs out of your apartemnt), parking rules,
and so forth. Rules are indeed a fact of life, and sometimes they can show no mercy because you have to have the majority of the apartments rented with paying people to make ends meet and to profit off the operation, if you have a bunch of unrented or unpaid for apartments the owner would become bankrupt. So such is understandable. Most rental agreements are standard thourghout the industry and so no one has much choice but agree to the rules (which favor the landlords) if they need to rent a place to live. Everyplace has the same rules and agreements as prepared by some legal team and all owners buy the same forms from that same source. Sign it or NEVER RENT - anywhere. Right?
Like if you buy a new car you must sign an agreement and if you checked all over town you would find every dealership uses the same basic standard agreement forms. The landlords and dealers do not make them up their self but depend on forms prepared by some publishing company that prepared them with the help of a legal team. So in effect rules have become a monopoly of sorts, rather then providing the consumers with a wide choice of options.
Technosoul.