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Your tenants say they can't afford a rent but buy an expensive new car. Would you still keep their rent the same? · Anele and the Club on 947

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  Speaker 1: Then the one lady said, no, man, but you don't
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  Speaker 1: talk a lot. Your husband talks a lot.
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  Speaker 3: There we go. But in all of this talking that
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  Speaker 3: Baza was doing on the ship, we met Nikos from Greece.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Was on there for.
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  Speaker 3: A relaxing time and then I'm hearing this conversation with
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  Speaker 3: him and Baza and I heard the word luxury about
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  Speaker 3: four or five times but it's not said in a
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  Speaker 3: loving way like luxury it's like luxury luxury luxury like
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  Speaker 3: disgusted disgusted luxury turns out Nikos rents out an apartment
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  Speaker 3: in Greece To a couple, young couple, not married, right?
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  Speaker 1: Both working. And in four years, he has not raised
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  Speaker 1: their rent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because tough times.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and that's what is.
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  Speaker 3: Every year, they're constantly pleading, please don't, we can't, tough times.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, the economy in Greece has been... Like
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  Speaker 1: receiving blows since the early 2000s, right? So he's like, no.
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  Speaker 3: And he's always been, you know, thoughtful about it. So
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  Speaker 3: four years, going on five years. He's like, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: on five years. Next thing I go fix a geyser
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  Speaker 3: at their house. So then the apartment that he rents
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  Speaker 3: out to them, the geyser blew up. And then he
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  Speaker 3: went to go fix it with like a plumber. And
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  Speaker 3: they've bought a luxury car.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Luxury, luxury. And he was upset about it.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what he was moaning about, the fact that
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  Speaker 5: he feels he's been nice because they've been in tough times,
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  Speaker 5: but now they've bought.
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  Speaker 1: A luxury car. A luxury car. Luxury car.
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  Speaker 6: Must have been what my landlord thought when I rolled
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  Speaker 6: in with my car. I may be behind on rent, darling,
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  Speaker 6: but I could sleep in this car.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the tenant side. No, that's rubbish.
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  Speaker 7: No, good on them. They've asked everybody around them. Like,
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  Speaker 7: they probably owe a whole lot of people money. They're like, oh,
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  Speaker 7: tough times, tough times. They've seen who took the bait,
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  Speaker 7: who said, okay, cool, we won't raise your rent or
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  Speaker 7: we won't increase this or we won't increase that. They've
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  Speaker 7: saved all around and they got themselves a car.
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  Speaker 1: So Nikos is.
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  Speaker 3: Asking, would he be wrong if he then, based off
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  Speaker 3: the new information that he has, for him to raise
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  Speaker 3: the rent to where it should be?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, he'd have to wait for his contract
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  Speaker 5: period to end. He can't just in the middle of
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  Speaker 5: July say, yes, now we're raising the rent.
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  Speaker 7: And then, yes, he must raise the price. So well
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  Speaker 7: done to them for getting this discounted rate for four years.
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  Speaker 7: But then he must raise it. But it's a tough one, though,
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  Speaker 7: because as we all know in this country, tenants, when
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  Speaker 7: you find a good one, you're reluctant to raise the
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  Speaker 7: rent because you're just so happy that they pay every month.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so this is the hostage situation that landlords are under.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got a place that I rent out. Lovely couple, right?
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  Speaker 5: Just had a baby as well. Oh, you can't raise
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  Speaker 5: the rent there. I haven't raised the rent in a
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  Speaker 5: long time. And I actually haven't gone to check if
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  Speaker 5: they have any luxury cars.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But what's a long time?
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  Speaker 2: Like four years.
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  Speaker 1: What? Frankie, I'll be your tenant.
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  Speaker 4: Three years, three, four years?
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  Speaker 1: I want to be your tenant as well.
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  Speaker 2: Tough times, guys.
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  Speaker 7: I think you're so nice, Frankie.
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  Speaker 5: Because if you raise it every year, because most contracts
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  Speaker 5: have that like 10% or 7% or whatever. If you
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  Speaker 5: raise it every year, then that thing becomes unaffordable. But
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  Speaker 5: I'm just like, well done to them.
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  Speaker 3: If somebody you're helping out financially, and I think this
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  Speaker 3: is the question that I think we should all weigh
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  Speaker 3: in on here this morning. If somebody you are helping
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  Speaker 3: out financially, because Nikos is helping them out financially, because
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  Speaker 3: every year they scream poverty and then he does not
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  Speaker 3: raise their rent. If somebody you helping out financially goes
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  Speaker 3: and does a luxurious thing for themselves, surely you are
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  Speaker 3: allowed to feel some type of way about it.
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  Speaker 1: You are.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, where I'm from, if you owed any other
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  Speaker 6: family on your street money and you get off the
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  Speaker 6: taxi with too many shopping bags, my mother is sending
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  Speaker 6: a note.
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  Speaker 1: Saying, hi. About that situation. About my 50 bucks. You
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  Speaker 1: can't even gain weight if you owe me money. How
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  Speaker 1: dare you?
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  Speaker 7: 011-8838-947-084-0000947.
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  Speaker 1: Frankie says it's neither here nor there. It's none of
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  Speaker 1: your business.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's none of your business. While on them, they negotiated.
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  Speaker 5: You can't be upset because another thing is, it's apples
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  Speaker 5: and pears.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just talk the rent. You agreed. They agreed. That's
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  Speaker 2: what it is. You can't nikos. Now say, ah, they're
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  Speaker 2: not allowed to buy luxury cars.
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  Speaker 3: But then you must tighten your belt everywhere. You can't
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  Speaker 3: be out in a luxury car when you don't want
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  Speaker 3: me to raise your rent.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they came into an increase.
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  Speaker 1: That's where you should have looked out for me in
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  Speaker 1: your increase.
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  Speaker 5: It's their business. Your agreement is your agreement. You can't
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  Speaker 5: now step side, step it.
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  Speaker 1: Whose side are you on?
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  Speaker 3: Are you on the tenants who do not want their
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  Speaker 3: rent to be raised ever because they're poor, but then
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  Speaker 3: they bought a luxury car? Or are you on the
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  Speaker 3: landlord's side, Nikos? Should he just be like, okay, balls
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  Speaker 3: to the wall, the rent is going up next year?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think? 011-8838-947.
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  Speaker 3: You're sending us a voice note 084-0000-947.
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  Speaker 8: I'm on the tenant side because they didn't ask him
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  Speaker 8: to not increase the rent.
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  Speaker 1: They did.
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  Speaker 8: He's the one who assumed because that he's going to
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  Speaker 8: be lenient on the increasing of the rent.
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  Speaker 1: Zee here from Western Area.
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  Speaker 3: Well, my thing is, if you've borrowed me money, how
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  Speaker 3: I spend it is none of your business.
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  Speaker 1: In life, they say you must ask and you will
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  Speaker 1: be given. The tenants have asked and they were given.
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  Speaker 1: Nico must raise that rent. Doesn't he want a luxury
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  Speaker 1: car as well? Raise that rent. Let's go to Bugsburg.
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  Speaker 3: Charles, I'm pretty sure some wisdom is coming from your end. Morning.
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  Speaker 4: How are you guys?
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  Speaker 1: We're good, Charles.
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  Speaker 7: How are you?
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't understand here. So this guy, they asked
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  Speaker 4: the tenant for four years not to increase.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, they asked the landlord every year he would want
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  Speaker 3: to increase it and then they'd be like, no, sir,
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  Speaker 3: we can't afford it. Please don't increase it. We can't
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  Speaker 3: afford it. And then he would obviously fold and not
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  Speaker 3: increase it. And then they bought a luxury car.
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  Speaker 4: Then where did they get the money to buy the
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  Speaker 4: luxury car?
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  Speaker 1: We don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's none of your business.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, no, guys.
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  Speaker 2: No, guys, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: Let's be honest. Let's just be honest. They were ripping
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  Speaker 4: this man off. You can't say to me, I can't
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  Speaker 4: afford what you pay like that car. How did you
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  Speaker 4: afford to pay like that car? How?
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  Speaker 5: No, but I mean, we made a deal, Charles. If
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  Speaker 5: you were my landlord, we made a deal and the
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  Speaker 5: deal is the deal. What I do with my extra
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  Speaker 5: money is my extra money. Maybe I've been saving for
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  Speaker 5: my car.
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  Speaker 4: You asked.
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  Speaker 2: You asked.
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  Speaker 4: Why now when we have money, don't go back to
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  Speaker 4: the landlord and say, no, now I'm fine. I can
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  Speaker 4: pay that money, can increase the rent.
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  Speaker 5: You think I must offer more money because I can afford.
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  Speaker 2: No. That's not how it.
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  Speaker 4: Works, Charles.
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  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 4: These people, they will repeat this man off.
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  Speaker 1: Aye.
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  Speaker 3: You're asking where did they get the money?
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  Speaker 1: From not paying rent. That's when they got the.
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  Speaker 3: Money.
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  Speaker 4: Rent is rent, guys. When we agree. Look, I'm just
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  Speaker 4: going to school children. I'll give you an example with me.
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  Speaker 4: Last year, I raised the transport fare with safety rent.
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  Speaker 4: There were these two couples. And then they said, pass that.
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  Speaker 4: Things are not okay. Can you please bear with us?
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  Speaker 4: We can't afford to pay for the transport this year.
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  Speaker 4: But when we are okay, we will be able to
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  Speaker 4: pay the money that you said no, we must pay.
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  Speaker 3: And they did.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they did? So they came back and said more?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they came back and they said, no, we thank
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  Speaker 4: you for being patient with us.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, guys, because that's the only thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: No, but hang on a second, Charles.
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  Speaker 5: Did they ask for relief of the full fee or
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  Speaker 5: did they ask for the 50 rand increase to not
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  Speaker 5: come through?
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  Speaker 4: For the 50 rand increase. They gave me three children.
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  Speaker 4: So when they give me three children, I put 50
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  Speaker 4: rand off on one child. I'm touching like 500 rand. So,
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  Speaker 4: and then I said, okay, you gave me three kids
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  Speaker 4: and then I cut 50 rent for one child so
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  Speaker 4: that you can ease.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: So, but now they came back and they said, no,
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  Speaker 4: thank you for being willing with us. And then they're
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  Speaker 4: paying a full amount. Because that's the honest thing to do.
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  Speaker 4: It's the honest thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's the honest thing to do.
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  Speaker 5: If I'm buying an apple from you and the apple
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  Speaker 5: costs five bucks and I say, no, I want it
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  Speaker 5: for four bucks. And you say, fine, the apple's yours.
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  Speaker 2: And then... I.
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  Speaker 1: Can't run into you eating grapes.
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  Speaker 2: No, but I.
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  Speaker 1: I can't run into you eating grapes.
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  Speaker 3: You are now eating this apple. You have four rand
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  Speaker 3: because you said you can't afford five rand. I can't
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  Speaker 3: run into you eating a nachi or a banana.
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  Speaker 2: But do you want me to come back if I
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  Speaker 2: get an extra rand?
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  Speaker 3: You only can eat an apple because you said you
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  Speaker 3: can't afford the five rand.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Morning, morning.
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  Speaker 9: Listen here. I do not agree with the landlord.
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  Speaker 6: I'm on the tenant side.
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  Speaker 1: How?
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  Speaker 9: Listen, if I say to you, I can't afford, right?
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  Speaker 3: And we sign a contract.
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  Speaker 9: We stick to.
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  Speaker 3: The contract no matter what.
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  Speaker 9: No one in their right mind is going to come
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  Speaker 9: and say, listen, I've got money now.
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  Speaker 4: Please do your thing.
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  Speaker 9: Increase there. Nobody does that. We stick to the agreement.
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  Speaker 8: We stick to the contract.
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  Speaker 9: And then if he wants to increase, he can increase.
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  Speaker 9: Not based on luxury stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Like now, that baby.
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  Speaker 9: Luxury. That baby, Frankie, is a luxury. Are you now
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  Speaker 9: going to increase because there's a baby?
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean, I just, I'm with you, Lebo. So
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 5: If you've done a deal with the landlord, the deal
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  Speaker 5: is the deal. The landlord can't come after. I can't
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  Speaker 5: go back to my friends and say, oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 5: I forgot to give you a 10%.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: I have one question.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't work like that.
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  Speaker 9: It doesn't work like that.
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  Speaker 3: For both of you, Lebo and Frankie, listen to me
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  Speaker 3: and the rest of the city who are on your side,
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  Speaker 3: listen to me.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We are going on a holiday, right? As friends, 10
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  Speaker 3: of us, right? One of you say, oh no, I
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  Speaker 3: can't afford to pay the full amount for accommodation. Then somebody,
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  Speaker 3: you Frankie say, okay, it's fine. I'll jump in and
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  Speaker 3: I'll pay like half of your accommodation.
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  Speaker 1: Great.
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  Speaker 3: Then on the holiday, when we're going shopping, when Louis Vuitton, Gucci,
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  Speaker 3: Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, every ancestor of luxury you can
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  Speaker 3: think of, you're buying those things, but you told us
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  Speaker 3: that you can't afford your accommodation, and we then paid.
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  Speaker 1: So then what happens?
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  Speaker 9: She couldn't afford the accommodation, but she can afford the luxury.
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  Speaker 9: You guys are missing the point here. Accommodation I can't afford.
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 9: But I can afford luxury clothes. There's people that sleep
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  Speaker 9: in their nice apartments, but they drive across the light.
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  Speaker 9: Because they can't afford the car, but they can afford
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  Speaker 9: beautiful hotels.
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  Speaker 4: Do you get it?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. You agreed to the discount on the accommodation. I
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  Speaker 2: did not agree to be skimping on my luxury.
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  Speaker 9: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: We are on the same page. No, I can't hate.
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  Speaker 1: I can't hate.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Okay. I come and go in peace. Back to
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  Speaker 1: making your morning. Anele and the club.
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  Speaker 4: I love this show.
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  Speaker 1: On 947.