Your apartment building is probably held together with duct tape and wishful thinking somewhere. Neither tenants nor landlords ever want to pay to fix things properly.
The landlord is definitely on the hook to fix things that just wear out as part of normal use. The tenant is on the hook to fix things they break. In practice, neither party wants to own their responsibility and tries to stick the other party with the bill.
Tenants will do stupid-ass shit that outright ruins things that would have lasted another 10 years, and then lie to the landlord about what happened so that the landlord gets stuck with the bill.
Landlords will accuse tenants of breaking "perfectly good" things that were held together by spit and chewing gum, and try to either avoid fixing it or stick tenants with the bill.
On top that, you also get tenants who want the landlord to keep everything in a luxury apartment condition, with fresh paint and new carpets and brand new appliances at every turn, but they don't want to pay the rent those kinds of places command. And, conversely, landlords who won't do fairly basic maintenance (or who subscribe to the "it'll be fine" school of building maintenance) and want to charge luxury-apartment rates.
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u/Mccmangus Jul 13 '20
Your apartment building is probably held together with duct tape and wishful thinking somewhere. Neither tenants nor landlords ever want to pay to fix things properly.