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Drive down the rent? The article is all about how these parasites buy the properties specifically so they can raise the rents, you mewling bootlicker.

• joshlemer 3y ago
  Yes, drive down rent. Of course, each producer in a market wants to get as much money for their product/service as they can get, just like every consumer wants to pay the cheapest price. That's why the role of competition amongst landlords is so important, so that their profit is driven to zero and they have no power to raise prices. People entering the real estate market to become landlords are that competition. Also, from the article it sounds like a lot of these would-be landlords/investors are having a tough go of things, and aren't in fact able to turn a profit which is why they have to foreclose. Your characterization of landlords as parasitic leaches taking excessive profit without doing any work or risking anything isn't super consistent with the fact that many landlords don't beat the market, or even take significant losses.
  • MereInterest 3y ago
    That assumes the landlords are competing with each other. Currently, an increasing number of landlords are pricing based on each other’s private pricing data [0]. To me, I can only describe this as price-fixing-as-a-service. [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/company-that-makes-rent-setting-software-for-landlords-sued-for-collusion/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/company-that-mak...