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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/606772/landparasites
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That’s why we need tqx increase for each additional living unit you own after your main one. E.g. if you have 3 apartments, one has low tax but the second one has super high taxes each year and the third one is twice expensive then the second one to keep.
We need to create a monetary incentive not to accumulate living spaces.
The prices of rent would probably be steep qt first but in the long term the mutiple homeowner will try to get rid of their additional housing and there would be more available housing in the market as a whole, so lower prices for people to buy their first own home.
I wouldn’t mind licensing out rental licenses to responsible entities whose job was to maintain those rental units. Maybe they don’t get rent money, but instead get a stipend based on the amount of rentals that they maintain while the rental units themselves stay at a fixed rate set by the city and most of the rent goes back to the city where the rentals reside to then pay for maintenance and more housing and continued development into the cities infrastructure and public transit…
wait this is socialism! Woops! I forgot we aren’t allowed to do that, sorry!
Had an ex whose parents owned a handful of properties. They referred to their tenants as “money trees”…
The mom and pop landlords aren’t the problem. Corporate landlords who buy up fucking buttloads of housing are the problem.
- Crack down on price fixing
- Don’t let corporations run AirBNBs or similar
- Don’t let corporations own any rental building under approximately 10 units.
- Don’t let rental buildings have more than a low percentage of empty units for turn around. They have to lower the rent then. If it goes to $200/month, then so be it.
There are so many things to try, but Trickle Down Housing never works.
In Australia 72% of landlords own only one investment property. They fuck us over at every chance. It’s the same grift whoever plays it, they chase the highest market rates and pay the least expenses (I.e. neglect repairs, substandard maintenance, etc.)
28% of your investment properties being more than one is a fuck ton.
It’s still the overwhelming minority.
The issue of landlords is not simply big companies buying them all up like Americans are starting to experience, it’s landlords in general being the issue.
I think the issue is many people don’t understand exactly how much renting fucks them because they’ve never owned a home.
They’ve never experienced paying the same month amount 10 years later while renters are paying twice to three times as much.
A person who owns a house, wants to downsize but can’t get themselves to sell their childhood home isn’t the problem. A grandma who can’t keep up a 4 bed house and rents it out while moving to a one-bed serviced flat (opting to gift the 4 bed to one of the grandkids once they’re old enough) isn’t the problem. If anything, these people help with the housing scarcity by opting to live in accommodations more fit for their needs while making larger (or in some cases, smaller) properties available to those who can’t buy outright. I’d even argue that larger companies who manage 30-50 properties on behalf of a landlord aren’t the problem either, since most of those properties would be in private ownership anyway.
No, it’s the bit corporate landlords who don’t just manage but buy up properties like there’s no tomorrow, often entire neighbourhoods, just to be able to increase profits and force people out to make way for “rejuvenating” projects (usually shite quality flats with exuberant rents) are the issue.
Why dont you buy the condo then to cut out the parasite?
So now i can.
Sometimes they just build a giant house and didn’t buy it tho.
Your meme has a misspelling.
Wha do you mean?
“The buy”
Whooosh
Your meme contains text. One of those words in that text is misspelled.
It’s landlord’s fault
Stop it. We understood you the first time
I took over a property for a deceased family member and after cleaning it up my wife and I rented it out to a young family. They were excellent tenants and we never once raised their rent for almost eight years.
The meme that OP reposted for the billionth time is ridiculous and a wildly entitled generalization.
Every time something needed to be repaired in that house meant at least two months rent were gone and we had to go into personal debt until we caught up.
We sold that property because there was no way to make it break even.
“I was a landlord and I couldn’t figure out how to squeeze the tenants for every cent so the meme is entitled garbage” is quite the take, and honestly hilarious given the community it’s posted in.
Whoosh
No, no, there was no woosh, he nailed it.
So you provided them with a living space that needed frequent repairs, which you couldn’t actually afford.
But it was cheap.
You and your wife ‘cleaned it up’ inadequately, you know, landlord special type shit, but it kept needing repairs you couldn’t afford.
And then you eventually sold the property you could not figure out how to afford to maintain, … probably around the point where you could have become legally liable for not providing safe and adequate housing to your tenants.
… So you were a micro slumlord, of a shoddy quality living space, that you received for free, via a will or something similar.
It took you 8 years to unsuccesfully renovate a home, with paying tenants living in it the whole time.
Those tenants lived there for 8 years.
Did you sell it to them?
Probably not, they haven’t been able to save any money, thanks to paying you rent, for nearly a decade.
But, you could have just initially sold it to them at a discount and explained that it was gonna be a fixer upper of a home, saved yourself all the trouble of renovating, make a good chunk of change, and now that family would be homeowners with nearly a decade of equity.
EDIT:
Oh right, and how could I forget:
You getting a second house for essentially free?
That’s not entitled.
You’re not entitled.
Nope.
This meme here, thats entitled.
Yep.
Totally makes sense.
Wow. You’re really focused on this. I don’t care enough about you or your stupid crusade to get free rent to continue addressing your reductions. Beta wishes to you
Ok so no, you don’t wanna explain shit, you were lying when you said that you were, now you don’t seem to care about explaining anything.
You are in fact just grandstanding.
You can throw out a strawman of my position, but it only makes you look more disingenuous.
I’m not “really focused” on this, I’m just asking you to do the thing you said you here to do.
But its now clear that you’re deceptive, and also shirk from responsibility… so yeah, you’re fitting even better into the mold of a slumlord.
Don’t expect any sympathy. This is an anarchist community.
I didn’t come here for sympathy. I just want folks to understand how they’re wrong.
Would you be intetested in explaining how my summary of what you’ve done is wrong, incorrect?
Or are you just gonna grandstand like you’re better than people who disagree with you?
Go on, explain how I’m wrong.
It’s been 5 hrs since you just downvoted my understanding of what you did, with zero explanation.
You say you want people to see how they are wrong.
Show me.
I was a landlord and did not treat anyone as badly as you’ve been treated.
Badly?
You’re saying I said you treated them badly?
All I did was reframe the facts that you stated.
I guess you think that another perspective makes you seem like a bad guy.
Oh no wait.
You’ve described this as my own personal scenario, unrelated to yours.
No.
I didn’t.
Learn how to read.
