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> “...anything that discourages customary amateur landlordism has to be a good thing.” i’m not super-sympathetic to the plight of most landlords, but that’s to
by clairity 6y ago
> “...anything that discourages customary amateur landlordism has to be a good thing.”
i’m not super-sympathetic to the plight of most landlords, but that’s too vindictive and counter-productive.
i’d rather have an escalating tax on number of units owned, with a sweet spot where landlords can make enough to be professional (have good tools and service providers), but discourage an overbearing imbalance of power over large numbers of other humans. i’d intuitively guess the sweet spot is probably in the range of 4-20 units, or 1 building with however many units, in high density zones.
- ben_w 6y agoData point (I’m a landlord): The estate agent I’m using takes x% of the rent each month (plus costs for any actual work) to do all that stuff for me. So I guess the number should be ~1?
- clairity 6y agopossibly! there are some scaling effects and diversification arguments to be made though.