• Lasso1971@thelemmy.club
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      1 year ago

      I think application fees can have some use given that a person needs to spend their time reviewing it. Also without a fee someone could apply to hundreds of listings without even looking at them. But with ai, the former example doesn’t work nearly as much. $100 is too steep for the latter

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        I don’t buy it. The landlord is already extracting money via rent seeking. That’s what pays for the “work” they have to do in the applications