i'm going to fucking 
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.
My apartment complex does this too and I live in one of the cheapest places in town and it’s like half section 8. The worst thing is they’re “smart locks” so you have to use an app instead of a normal key. In general it works but you need to make sure your phone won’t be dead, it’s a pain to set up someone else with access, requires battery changes which we have to request, and in general just suck compared to a fucking key. And then they charge me 20 a month or whatever for it and don’t even use the shitty app because they made key fobs but don’t give those out.
The fact that we live in a society where this is allowed to happen without everyone setting everything on fire makes me want to die.
It doesn't have a keypad on the front? Keypad deadbolts are great, and being able to use an app is a nice touch (as long as it isn't WiFi connected), but if it's app only that's lame as hell.
time to start looking into whoever enforces rental regulations in their city/state because that's insane.
a landlord that charges for a lock isnt going to want tenants doing handywork on the apartment.
he's set an appointment to plead with the property manager for the right to change the lock
my plan is to be nearby with a rifle just in casehopefully it goes well!
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
This doesn't even make sense from the landlord's perspective. Like you can just charge 30 bucks extra on the rent and... not have the appearance of being a money grabbing piece of shit (you still are by virtue of being a landlord)
I FUCKING KNOW IT DOESN'T THAT'S PART OF WHY I'M LOSING MY SHIT
it's like they're fucking spitting in his face just for fun
its in moments like these that i'm ok with living in a peripheric dystopia that is not very good at capitalism
charging for the locks like wtf
This is like Edgerunners where they cut Davids apartment access.
hi i am tired of living in a dystopian hellscape now, thanks
