You are one of thousands of people who are trying ...

You are one of thousands of people who are trying to find a place to call home, but every time an affordable home appears on the marketplace, it's suddenly gone -but don't despair!



Sarcasm aside, I have known too many who have lived in these places (and I SOMEHOW managed to survive living in one myself), and their entire company thrives on the simple principles of absurdly high rent, low maintenance, and only maintain rental properties where the renters have enough income to afford justice.

Everyone else? Sure, go ahead, break the lease because of the "pest issues" or "turf wars" -we'll get your money regardless, and let's see if you can find another place we DON'T own within sixty miles of your workplace? You won't, because between us and the other six equally-price-gouging companies, we have an... Agreement.

Totally legal, of course.

Besides, there's twenty people behind you who will HAPPILY pay what we're asking for it (particularly because they haven't experienced what "living there" is like yet). As if there wasn't enough reasons to avoid Alachua County like a Thunder Flu....

Have no doubt that they will gleefully take your money, and you'll get what they feel like providing. If you don't like having the water (that they charge you for) randomly shut off for six to ten hours a day, tough. That wasn't in the contract. Your only option will forever be "break the lease" and deal with the consequences (however you manage it) on top of everything else.

They have ridiculous amounts of power and wealth from exploiting people way better off than you (and way WAY more people who are worse off), and with the way things are divvied and buttered up in Alachua they will absolutely continue with these practices until the sun burns out, or some other corporation buys them out for a fat profit.

In short, I would sooner recommend you rent an RV and live in that than lease a dollhouse from Collier... Granted, if you work in or near Alachua County, you may not have the luxury of choice. That being the case: REALLY read that contract, make CERTAIN that your basic and fundamental expectations for the rental are actually considered -AND that you shouldn't have to accommodate a CONSTANT stream of "reasonable expectations" like...

Totally for examples-that-happened: a roof needing replacement work every other month for three weeks at a time, plumbing that requires meth-tweaking creeps to have access and randomly be in-and-out of your home while you're gone (but your daughter is home), repair-work only half completed -then you're charged by the landlord for "damaged appliances and leaving trash/debris in common areas."

You know, literally every single thing you would normally and reasonably expect from a business arrangement?

Don't.

They will laugh all the way to the bank when the psychonauts they contracted (via nepotistic hiring practices) bail, and they figure out they can simply recouperate the lost funds via the renters ill-considered trust.

Please. Do yourself a favor and give this trash-iness a "hard pass" -and if you can? Maybe do everyone else a favor, and devise a means to permanently pluck this bloated tick out of the necks of hard-working people. Life is friggin' difficult enough as it is without predatorial renters setting up (an even bigger) shop in yet another area of people's lives.