• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    9 hours ago

    Yeah, the landlord here is nothing more but another wage slave looking for a way to be less dependent on his wage/salary when the mortgage of his rental property is finally paid off. A symptom of a larger issue, maybe an asshole, but probably just trying to provide for his own family like we all are. Doesn’t sound like a millionaire.

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        8 hours ago

        I mean yeah exactly, the corporate ones are the bigger problem. This is just one guy. The corporate landlords are pricing even the private landlords out of the market, let alone first-time homebuyers.

        Blackstone’s real estate divison in particular should be disbanded and its’ assets sold at auction to private individuals ONLY. Everyone (not here, but in general) talks about Blackrock, a company that mostly focuses on providing ETFs and other financial instruments, while Blackstone is literally out there buying up America’s single family homes and people barely talk about them.

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            2 hours ago

            You are FREE to live in a homeless shelter.

            Who will build houses for FREE? Who will pay for the materials?

            It’s a nice idea in concept, but a fucking moronic when it meets real life.

            I am all for social housing and rent-controlled housing owned by towns and cities.

            But all housing being FREE is stupid…