1y ago

Rent requirements in the US are nuts

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They wanted to DNA test my dog and keep his biometric data on file as part of the terms of the last lease I was looking at.
I uhh, didn't fucking sign. The neofeudalist movement is for real.
- This so they can fine you when you leave your dog’s shit on the ground for other people to step in. I’m here for it. I lived in a place that did not enforce picking up after your animals and it was absolutely disgusting.
  
  They don't do that at all anyway, but hey at least the professional landlord class gets to inflict upon you one more indignity for some imagined benefit.
  The park adjacent to those buildings has so much dog turd in it you'd think they were purposely producing low quality fertilizer over there.
  
  For the record I'm not actually pro "leave your dog shit everywhere" I just question both the imposition of the indignity of subjecting your tenants to pet DNA screening, and the effectiveness of it as a mechanism for preventing that.
  I actually am pro throw unbagged dog shit in a bag-containing garbage can though, and don't really understand why anyone would care about that.
  I tend to see more of the leaving it on the ground, not even the throwing it in a can.
  Edit: Alright, you guys are right, you need at least 2 layers of bags for dog shit. But then I guess triples might be safer, or even quads. Fuck it, every piece of dog shit must be wrapped in at least twenty layers of plastic before it hits the landfill! We need to preserve the remains of this dog shit forever!! It'll be our mummies!!!! Inject it with formaldehyde!!!!
  
  Guess your tenants don’t have a working dishwasher and a window that’s been broken since before they moved in that is totally gonna be fixed before they move in?
  
  That's whataboutism.
  
  https://www.pooprints.com/
  Hate to break it to you dude
  "We are the DNA dog waste management company offering a solution to pet pollution in 7,000+ communities across the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. It isn’t just a problem in your community—it’s everywhere. "
  And here I thought it was pretty common to have your children and pets DNA tested by your apartment manager. Hasn't this always been the case?
- Yeah, they do that these days to identify who lets their dogs poop around the property and don't pick it up.
  
  Nobody's DNA testing dog stool. They can't be bothered to even do routine move out cleanings in those apartments. The whole thing is a giant farcical pretendy power game played out by managers far away designing a system for the benefit of their rentier owners to simultaneously rob renters of their last scraps of dignity and every remaining dime they have in the form of bullshit fees.
  
  We are now servicing over 6,000 communities in six countries. We are currently receiving an average of 300+ pieces of poop a day.
  https://rentalhousingjournal.com/how-pet-poop-dna-testing-fixes-your-apartment-poop-problem/
  
  I'm aware that the apartment people aren't running the DNA database themselves. They have some weirdo company that does it. I'm also aware that that weirdo company (or companies) is capable of putting together a website.
  I'm saying I live in the same neighborhood (I bought a place). Nobody is going through that park and picking up the dozens of available dog stool and sending it off to some lab to be tested. They just aren't. The whole fucking thing is a wet dream had by some awful corporate bureaucrat that only succeeds in making renters lives a little more miserable and pads the pockets of some other random, doggy DNA database building weirdo somewhere else.
  
  I'm going to briefly go on a related rant here that you can feel free to ignore.
  
  Why do you think that's unique to AMERICA?
  
  I dunno maybe it isn't entirely but it's a very pervasive attitude here.
  Look at the COVID death numbers in the US versus some places that had the common sense to just use masks.
  
  Well I don't know what to tell you. We had a guy two months ago who was arrested because his dog was pooping on the premises and he did not clean it up.
  This is a half a billion dollar a year industry.
  
  Arrested? Lol
  In my area you can't even get anyone to care at all.
  Maybe if someone's dog pooped directly in the property manager's mouth... Otherwise, forget it.
  
  You think they have a lab in the apartment complex and they're doing the testing themselves? 😆
  
  You're saying the business that the other commenter provided a link to is a "conspiracy theory"?
  
  That sounds a lot like no one.
  
  You caught me, I'm complaining about DNA testing of dogs because it's actually me sneaking out at night and pooping (not even the dog, but me). I shit out there just for you, bud.
  
  You don't understand, PooPrints has got your number. They ship dog poop around SIX countries, didn't you read the site!?
  It's frustrating out there, but keep up the critical thinking fight. The ones you reach usually won't be ones replying.
  
  Or...They threaten to do this and just keep your $600
  It's really the threat that motivates people, and it's the free $600 non-refundable deposit that motivates the landlords.

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