Mooching off of others to fund your life style and giving nothing back in return
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What's something considered classy if you're rich, but trashy if you're poor?
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I remember looking up just the air b&b’s in the Portland metro and there were over 4,000…..
A large majority of the rest were being rented.
The wealthy are buying it all with no regulation.
There should be one home per family in the suburbs. One vacation place and your house. No one needs 10 properties, get rich another way you greedy terrible fucks.
Rich people outbid regular folks for real resources (homes), taking away any chance at intergenerational wealth building. the only (legal) answer at the moment is taxation of the rich.
Gary Stevenson has some worthwhile insights on what we can do and how to convince working class people that the rich must be stopped or else your kids and grandkids will all be homeless renters.
inequality is sharply risinh all around the world. and it's getting worse. this is arguably the most important issue of our time.
Because the only way to escape an exploitative system is to become an exploiter...
I realise they don't care, and are disingenuous about their suggestions... But these people think the solution for people not being able to afford shit is "get a, better job" or in this case specifically, "become landlord"...
How do you expect society to function if every, single, person, is a landlord? Who's building the houses, cleaning after tenants stay, growing, harvesting, preparing food... Electricity?
Like, it just blows my mind that people espouse dumb shit like this and get a pass from most people
Well this is gross. Its extremely had to buy ONE property, to exist in, if you dont have Bank of Mom and Dad to rely on.
I know people like this. They truly believe like they are doing society a favor by buying up houses and renting them out. The disconnect from reality is wild.
It's a little better than corporate real estate vultures though. If you think about it, these small landlords and renters are more alike than the people at Blackrock buying up all this shit.
Just because they aren't faceless doesn't mean they aren't as bad. In case of corporations, at the very least, anyone up to CEO could claim they were doing what their boss/investors told them/expected them to do, they have the mirage of fabricated innocence. The guilt is also spread more thinly, with many, often low paid employees contributing a small portion towards the greater legal crime.
Small landlords have none of those delusions available, though from my personal, anecdotal experience, higher management in large corporations also often personally own real estate and rent it. I'm working in IT, but I have no reason to think it would be in any different elsewhere. I was led to understand it was "normal" and "smart". So I'd say it's the same kind of people that make decisions on top of the real estate corporations, and the petite landlords. And yeah, I'm excluding from that, obviously, renting a flat you've gotten as inheritance from your grandma or something, though I have more fundamental issues with the inheritance thing itself.
Nah, corporate landlords at least tend to have minimum standards and contractors on call.
These type of small time landlords are the ones that tell you that a working refrigerator is a luxury, and water damage due to a cracked pipe in the wall is the tenant's responsibility.
How does the second tenant pay their mortgage? One apartment's rent should not be enough to cover the mortgage of four (or five - including the one they live in). My guess is that they only payed all the mortgages for these four properties and this is about the mortgage of the apartment they live in.
The cheat code to a stress-free life is to own lots of real estate to being with.
I mean... Maybe they don't have a large mortgage? Maybe they put a large sum down and got a good interest rate?
Oh, some rents are getting crazy and the buildings were purchased 10-20 years ago so the mortgage isn’t that high. It’s all a scam.
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