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No it's absolutely not. Your comment displays a complete ignorance of the business.
It's not a business, it's a scam to take advantage of people
Not a scam. Not taking advantage of people. You're just wrong on all accounts.
Get a real job
I have a real job. It's called being a landlord.
what do you do as a landlord? Like when you come into work during your weird landlord schedule they always seem to have - what do you actually do?
Being a landlord means being self-employed. There's no set 8-5 M-F schedule like there is when working in an office.
It could mean meeting a contractor at 7:30am on a weekday or it could mean working on the weekend. Or staying at a property until 11pm painting to get it ready for a tenant.
that's why I mentioned the weird schedule they always have. My current one has some shit like Saturday 1 pm to 4 pm and then they don't reopen until Tuesday at noon then are closed again on Wednesday. Like what the fuck.
I never see my landlord doing shit like that. Just show people to new apartments usually.
I work from home and look outside. I see people move in and move out all the time. I rarely see the guy in charge doing anything other than handing over some keys.
or it could mean owning cheap apartment complex and having a building manager take care of almost everything.
Wrong.
I'd make a point, but you didn't bother. Typical landlord unwilling to put in the work.
Another person who doesn't know what they're talking about who is anti-business.
I'm sure they're not anti business, just anti exploitation
Well then it doesn't make sense because being a landlord has nothing to do with exploitation.
I mean, even the dictionary spells it out pretty clearly.
"Explotation: The act of using someone unfairly for your own advantage"
And that has nothing to do with landlords.
Whatever helps you sleep night!
it has everything to do with maximizing rents and minimizing costs at the expensive of the people living in those properties. There is a reason why there are rules about increasing rents and protests / laws against demovicitions.
Unfortunately you don't understand the business.
thanks for illuminating it for me with your vast knowledge.
What's more pro-business than wanting the people doing all the work to get paid without the leech shareholders that contribute nothing taking all the incentive for that work?
"It's not scalping, iT's A bUiSnEsS!"
Not the same thing.
Purchasing something that there is a limited amount of in order to profit off someone else wanting it. Sure sounds the same to me...
No, wait, they are different. Concert tickets are necessary for survival.
This is a textbook case of "I don't understand that thing, so I'm going to irrationally fear and hate that thing". Making a comparison of two things that are completely different displays that lack of understanding.
This is a textbook example of "I can't defend a thing, so I'm just going to say you're wrong for disliking without offering any actual arguments for it." Making no statements other than "No, your wrong!" Displays your lack of justification.