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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 128 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

How about this:

At the apartments I recently moved out of, there were no quarter slots on the washing machines. They were an app that required a bluetooth connection to pay.

So if you lived there and didn't have a smartphone? Go fuck yourself, you don't get to do laundry.

Unless you bothered to check the laundry room when you were looking at the apartment, you wouldn't know. No warnings.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

That...

Is that not illegal where you live?

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago

America has next to no protections for tenants, only landlords.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

It’s not even required that apartment buildings have laundry services at all. There are commercial storefront laundromats in the US which serve as the ground floor for where people do their laundry. Until landlords are required to provide laundry, it will be hard to legislate what payment forms they must accept.

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 16 points 2 months ago

Tbf, my building also uses an app for laundry. However they also have a machine in the laundry rooms where you can purchase an NFC payment card and put money on it. So you can use it without the app. Is that not the case with yours? If not, that's 100% fucked

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

quarter slots on the washing machines

Thank god they decided to keep these free where I live

[–] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago

That depends a bit on if it was advertised or not to have a laundry room. At least here in NL it is more common to have your own washing machine than to use a shared one so having a laundry room would be an extra to start with.

Still sucks though

[–] boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 2 points 2 months ago

I understand its probably the norm where you are but why aren't they just free to use? You pay rent...