# OK, my daffy landlord is starting to scare me now **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 23, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506 "2021-12-23T00:51:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/1 "2021-12-23T00:51:03Z")
He was talking about how he’s worried they’re going to take more and more freedoms away from unvaccinated people, including the freedom to vote, and he actually said, paraphrasing here, that if he was told he wasn’t allowed to vote without getting vaccinated, he would show up to a polling place with his gun and demand his right to vote. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/2 "2021-12-23T00:53:13Z")
Move. Dan ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/3 "2021-12-23T00:53:37Z")
Did you tell him he’s a dick? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/4 "2021-12-23T01:08:11Z")
Tell him about the spy cameras in every streetlight. He probably should not go out. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/5 "2021-12-23T01:13:56Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Tell him about the spy cameras in every streetlight. He probably should not go out. - Don’t forget the tracking chips in his gun’s ammo. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/6 "2021-12-23T10:57:24Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > He was talking about how he’s worried they’re going to take more and more freedoms away from unvaccinated people, including the freedom to vote, and he actually said, paraphrasing here, that if he was told he wasn’t allowed to vote without getting vaccinated, he would show up to a polling place with his gun and demand his right to vote. > [@Dandan](#): > > Move. Well, be prepared to move… It might just be tough-guy talk, but if it becomes more than that you’ll probably want to be elsewhere when the SHTF. One advantage to being a renter is that (usually) it’s a lot easier to relocate than if you were selling your residence. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/7 "2021-12-23T13:16:53Z")
> [@Dandan](#): > > Move. > > Dan Seriously. If he gets COVID, if he goes to a Polling place with a gun, he’ll either be shot or jailed. The next place police will visit, possibly with a no-knock warrant, will be his home and his properties. It might be a bad way to start your day. > **[Imgflip](https://imgflip.com/i/5yvm61)** ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/8 "2021-12-23T18:21:26Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > He was talking about how he’s worried they’re going to take more and more freedoms away from unvaccinated people I realize it’s no use reasoning with this obsessive fantasist, but what “freedoms” does he think have been taken away from him so far? Yes, there are vaccine requirements for many jobs, for good and sufficient reasons involving transmission risk concerns. But AFAICT nobody is even suggesting that vaccination should be required to vote in an election, or to own a gun, or to hold one’s preferred religious beliefs, or to be entitled to a speedy trial, or any other of the constitutionally guaranteed rights that are generally considered fundamental “freedoms”. If he’s bitching about not having the “freedom” to go into a private venue that requires entrants to be vaccinated or something of that sort, remind him that he doesn’t even have the “freedom” to get in his car and drive to the supermarket without official government authorization giving him permission to operate a vehicle. But yeah, if it were me I would prefer to live someplace where I didn’t have to come in contact with a conspiracy theorist telling me about his fantasies of armed confrontation. I also wouldn’t be super enthused about paying rent money to help support such a person. I would be inclined to at least start looking for another place to live with a saner landlord. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/9 "2021-12-23T18:28:56Z")
Not to be dismissive, but this seems like a non issue to me. How much interaction in person does one have with their landlord? When I was renting my property, I hardly ever saw my tenants. But I had a handyman guy do all the maintenance stuff. So I guess that helped. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/10 "2021-12-23T18:33:50Z")
Just offer to do his vote instead. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/11 "2021-12-23T18:34:51Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > How much interaction in person does one have with their landlord? Could be anywhere from “none” to “daily.” If someone is renting a mother-in-law suite or an upstairs/downstairs unit in the same house, there could be regular contact whether desired or not. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/12 "2021-12-23T18:46:03Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > How much interaction in person does one have with their landlord? There’s also the issue, as I noted, that a tenant is helping to financially support a landlord with their rent payments. I personally prefer to devote my financial support to property owners in the non-militant-wackjob community. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/13 "2021-12-23T18:56:13Z")
If I remember correctly, this is a person that basically lives in the house with the landlord. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/14 "2021-12-23T19:03:11Z")
A lot of that sort of talk is just bluster and bullshit. When Obama was elected my brother told me that “I went right down to the basement and loaded up every bit of ammunition I’ve got!”. When I asked why, he just mumbled some nonsense. I guess he forgot that I wasn’t one of his righty nutcase buddies who would just say “Fuck yeah!” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/15 "2021-12-23T19:10:33Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Not to be dismissive, but this seems like a non issue to me. How much interaction in person does one have with their landlord? For **ekedolphin** ’s context: > [@I pit my conspiracy-theorist landlord](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-conspiracy-theorist-landlord/947611): > > I love him to death, I really do. He and his family have been very good to us for about 10 years. But my landlord is a major conspiracy-theorist. It was cute (albeit stupid) when it was stuff like “ancient aliens”, but now it’s The Big Lie, anti-vaxxing, alternate theories about who was responsible for January 6, and origins of the coronavirus. He said the other day that Dr. Fauci bears responsibility for 4 million people losing their lives from the coronavirus, and should be executed. His … ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/16 "2021-12-23T20:24:06Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I realize it’s no use reasoning with this obsessive fantasist, but what “freedoms” does he think have been taken away from him so far? This is a common theme from the right and they NEVER can answer this question. They have lost no freedoms. They are just being TOLD they are and they are stupid enough to buy into it. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/17 "2021-12-23T20:28:37Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > There’s also the issue, as I noted, that a tenant is helping to financially support a landlord with their rent payments. I personally prefer to devote my financial support to property owners in the non-militant-wackjob community. This. You’re contributing to the problem by allowing the moron to live a normal life. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/18 "2021-12-23T20:59:04Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Not to be dismissive, but this seems like a non issue to me. How much interaction in person does one have with their landlord? Depends on the landlord. Where I currently live I interact with the maintenance people. Maybe see the actual landlord once a year when I renew my lease and it’s all business. Before that my landlord had his business in the unit next to mine and we saw him nearly every day. Prior to that, my spouse lived in the lower unit of a two-story duplex and his landlord’s kid used to help himself to what was in the refrigerator several times a week, which my spouse tolerated for whatever reason he did so. He’d babysat the kid when he was little and was sort of an honorary uncle. Indeed, he’s the reason the kid grew up to be a professional musician as well as a Star Wars fan who is now one of the guys who dresses up in his armor and is a background extra for various Star Wars productions. So how much interaction you have with a landlord can vary enormously. Not entirely clear on which end of the spectrum the OP falls. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/19 "2021-12-23T21:06:37Z")
Not sure if I wanna hear any updates from the OP. 😬 ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506/20 "2021-12-23T21:43:32Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > They have lost no freedoms. They are pissed about losing: The freedom to harm others. The freedom to do what they want on other peole’s property. The freedom to force others to worship as they do. The freedom to control other people’s bodies. The freedom to have no consequences for their speech or actions. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506.md?page=2)