• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    If the housing market goes into the shitter…

    … the renter pays less rent.

    In nearly 30 years of renting, the rent has never gone down, regardless of what the market is doing.

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      5 hours ago

      Depends on location. I had a rent drop in Knoxville once. Excess units in a bad local economy will do it.

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        2 hours ago

        Now the key question is did it drop below the price the owner would have been paying? Assuming the owner had it for at least 3 or 4 years, the rate drop was probably still not below their loan payments based on the purchase price.