The simplest answer for why Los Angeles landlords don’t provide refrigerators is that they don’t have to.
California law does not require refrigerators to be included in rental units, instead classifying them as “amenities” that aren’t necessary to meet habitability standards. “It’s like a hot tub,” Maloney said, incredulously.
Buying and maintaining a refrigerator became an extra expense that landlords just didn’t want, said Deena Eberly, managing director of the Eberly Company, which manages 4,200 apartments in L.A. County. When they broke, Eberly said, tenants would complain that they had just gone to the grocery store and demand reimbursement.
California and New York competing for who needs a maoist revolution more
i lived in la for a bit and didnt realize this was a thing until later on... like when i was looking at apartments i came across one that didnt have a fridge but assumed they were just replacing it or something and eventually got an apartment with one by pure accident i guess. Anyway some of my friends would move to a new apartment and have to figure out how to move the damn fridge. Also I guess at that point you're exclusively looking for an apartment without a fridge cause you have this 5 1/2 foot coffin following you around now...
Weird that Texas and Florida also have such laws, and yet tenants get fridges when they move in. And it's a California law, and yet the rest of California doesn't have that problem.
I think it's that people from LA are just pricks. Source: lived in LA.
California is uniquely evil about housing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw
Kinda random here. I've moved into duplexes that have no space for a Fridge, so it's just awkwardly deployed in the living room.
Current place came with a fridge, and my fridge is too big for the alcove anyway, so one of my friends is using it.
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