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    5 months ago

    Janitors are cleaners. Typically the people who maintain apartments are called maintenance workers, handymen, or (old fashioned) superintendent. Sometimes property manager, if they also handle renting it out.

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      5 months ago

      Definition of janitor:

      one who keeps the premises of a building (such as an apartment or office) clean, tends the heating system, and makes minor repairs

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/janitor

      a person employed to take care of a large building, such as a school, and who deals with the cleaning, repairs, etc.

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      a person whose job is to clean and take care of a building

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/janitor

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        5 months ago

        Janitors are only employed in large, expensive apartment buildings. Single family homes don’t use them, nor do cheaper apartments. So that’s not really descriptive of a landlords job at all.

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          5 months ago

          I only disagreed with your definition of janitor.

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          5 months ago

          Landlord can be the person responsible for that (depends on the agreement) and often where I’m from they contract it from bigger company

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      5 months ago

      We often just call them janitors here, I bet the vernacular changes from place to place. But cleaners are often separate, janitors do maintenance work and cleaners do cleaning work