Charge 'em for the lice, extra for the mice!
Two percent for looking in the mirror twice!
Here a little slice, there a little cut
Three percent for sleeping with the window shut!
Yeah, like, you aren’t legally obligated to have a job. You’re obligated to pay your rent but how isn’t their business.
People can just live somewhere and not leave regularly for work, it’s allowed. We have a huge segment of the population who does that, we call them children and old people and disabled folks and rich bastards, depending.
Generally, landlords who pull this kind of stuff do consider whether or not you have a job to be their business. As well as details like exactly how much you make, and what you have saved up.
If they think your source of rent is tenuous, such as if you are someone else's dependent, then they will hold it against you as a potential tenant.
my guess is that its a shared space that they want extra compensation for having OP there all day. They could also be anticipating extra wear and tear from the WFH especially if its furnished. I had a landlord get screwed over by a WFH who ruined the floors and furniture. But it shouldnt be a charge just an extra deposit.
Most places you need to show you have an income. It wouldn't surprise me if this place asks you about your job specifically, including if its work from home.
They ask for pay stubs... like this is easily check-able through public documents, lol you think management firms arent vetting their tenants when they ask for 2.5X the rent in net income?
What public documents could you possibly mean…? And the paystubs won’t tell you whether their role is remote or not, it just verifies their income and place of employment.
My paystubs have the corporate office address on them, which is ~1500 miles from the office I technically work out of, but I have a full remote job, and I'm 250 miles from my 'office'.
Good luck with that! There is zero obligation for HR to tell you anything about a specific person’s position and their duties in their company, including whether or not it involves any remote work.
In fact, it’s in their best interest to say nothing at all which is what they will likely do.
What? I’m not sure how you arrived at this completely unnecessary irrelevant comment, but I’m impressed that you committed to it. You really thought you ate with that.
They can ask all they want, it’s none of their business. Charging extra rent for WFH is insane behavior. Landlords will literally charge for everything that’s supposed to be included in the rent. I see places that charge an amenity fee, which is crazy because it’s not like you have the option to not pay the fee in exchange for not using amenities. The amenities are there, they should be included with rent.
Some apartments require renters to use their trash valet service, where someone literally picks up your garbage and takes it down to the dumpster for you.
The only thing I can think of for why they charge more could be is if utilities are included and if they are working from home, then their electric usage will probably be higher than any other tenant. Now is the electric bill $200 worth, probably not.
It's been a long time since I rented a place, but it used to be heat, hot water, and cooking gas. If it was an apartment building with all electric, everything was on the tenant.
But how is a single person with a WFH job any different than a couple with a small child, where one of the people stays at home to take care of the child and the other one goes to an office?
Also there are people who work from home that have lots of customers and receive daily deliveries. We had a woman with a hair styling business. Her customers took up all the visitor parking and would park in reserved spots for tenants. Another guy has an electrical mail order business. He receives and ships packages every day. USPS, UPS and FedEx are delivering and picking up bins of packages a couple of times a day from him.
Reminds me of the (very) old joke back when hotel toilets had that "sanitized for your protection" paper ribbon around the seat/bowl & some comedian once said he always carefully took those off and then replaced them before checking out just to confuse the maids…
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u/BetDry2347 1h ago
How do they even police that?