Every other interaction with one of my apartment’s neighbors (I rent, he’s an owner) involves him telling me “I know that you guys are only renters and don’t care that much about the state of our building, but here’s what’s wrong with it [and then proceeds to list the stuff our building needs improving]”. It’s mildly infuriating, it’s not like I don’t care about the state the building is in, why wouldn’t I? I live in it!
But thats the crux. As an owner, you might be empiwered to directly address your buildings issues. As a tennant, both you, and even your neighbors seem somewhat helpless when the property becomes run down, excwpt to leave. That becomes a net negative to the community at large. 'Rent-seeking' is disparaged for a reason, when re-investment for the benefit of the renter, rentee, and community falter and fail.
There’s a common “building repairs” fund which gets replinished monthly by both owners and renters, so I certainly do financially invest in the building’s maintenance. And not directly mentioned but that’s also this idea that renters tend to suddenly urinate in the elevator or do similar stuff only because they do not own the place. I find that’s a crazy idea to have, like I said, we also live in the same place as the owners and “packing your stuff and move” it’s not a thing that we do lighthly, on a hunch, at least not after a certain age (I’m approaching 40, for example).
