Raising Rents at a Landlord Convention
CYBER
VICE
4 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
What do landlords talk about behind closed doors, among other landlords? Motherboard staff writer and Cyber host Matthew Gault attended in St. Louis recently. Landlords traded gossip, talked about raising rents, and tried to sell each on books and online classes. Outside of the convention, rents hit record medians, the COVID moratorium is ending, and a lot of tenants simply can’t afford to put a roof over their head.
On this week’s episode of Cyber, Motherboard editor-in-chief Jason Koebler interviews Matthew about what it’s like to attend the 21st Annual Mr. Landlord.com National Landlord Convention.
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| 0:00.0 | Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch. |
| 0:10.9 | It's a unit system. |
| 0:13.3 | I know this. |
| 0:15.3 | This is how all the files of the whole park. |
| 0:17.5 | It tells you everything. |
| 0:19.1 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
| 0:22.0 | Eagle one. |
| 0:22.7 | The package is being delivered. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello, cyber listeners. |
| 0:28.6 | This is Motherboard Editor-in-Chief, Jason Kebler, and I'm here with your normal host, Matt Galt. |
| 0:33.9 | Hi, Matt. |
| 0:34.5 | Hey, how are you doing? |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you for giving me the keys yet again. Huge mistake, as always. Typically, Matt. Hey, how are you doing? Thank you for giving me the keys yet again. |
| 0:38.7 | Huge mistake, as always. Typically, yeah. Typically, yeah, precludes disaster. But we'll see what happens. |
| 0:44.9 | Yeah, I was going to do, I was going to try to imitate you and be like, intrepid reporter Matthew |
| 0:50.8 | Galt went to the Mr. Landlord convention, but there was a twist, something, |
| 0:56.5 | something. |
| 0:57.1 | But my dramatic reading is just, it leaves a lot to be desired. |
| 1:01.8 | I made a TikTok the other day and I was reading off a script and I had to do it like 45 times. |
| 1:06.4 | And so since we're recording this live on Twitch, I figured that I would spare everyone and would just dream of consciousness it out. |
| 1:14.7 | But you are our guest today. |
| 1:17.0 | What's it like to be in the hot seat? |
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