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>Why is rental property evil? Profit margins on all inelastic essential goods are fundamentally evil. A mansion for a single person isn’t an essential inelast

by rekabis 9mo ago

>Why is rental property evil? Profit margins on all inelastic essential goods are fundamentally evil. A mansion for a single person isn’t an essential inelastic good. A Bachelor suite or basement suite for a single person _is._ Water in general isn’t an essential inelastic good. Sufficient water to keep a single person hydrated, clean, and in good health _is._ Junk food and premium-grade food isn’t an essential inelastic good. Sufficient raw foods to keep a person fed _is._ When you forcibly extract more from a person than providing the product costs you, purely because they have no other choice, you are an evil parasite, full stop. And no, going homeless is not “a choice”. Neither is dying from exposure. And there are plenty of people who work full-time jobs yet don’t earn enough to put a roof over their heads. > bringing the 2-3% of homes that are owned by institutional investors won’t make a dent in housing affordability. But dealing with the ⅓ of all rentals who are owned by parasites _will._

raw_anon_1111 9mo ago
You refuse to answer the question - do you think that everyone should own a home and their should be no rental market or do you think that landlords should rent at cost? Housing is very much elastic. There is plenty of undeveloped land in the country and there is even more air - meaning building up and not out. Personally, my wife and I sold our big 5 bedroom 3200 square foot house in the burbs that we had built in 2016 for $335K in the burbs of Atlanta in the good school system to move into a 1250 square foot condo in Florida and we couldn’t be happier. Blame the lack of supply on NIMBYism that opposes multi unit housing and zoning laws. As far as raw food, do you also think that people in the supply chain like farmers, packagers, food delivery drivers etc shouldn’t make a profit? You never did answer the question - are you also opposed to apartment complexes owned by investors? The second point you didn’t address is should my 23 year old son and his fiancé be forced to buy home or should his landlord have spent money on a property and rented to him at cost? Me personally, if I were renting a house, I would rather deal with a corporation who did it professionally than deal with an individual landlord. The management companies both times I rented an apartment in Atlanta were excellent. And it’s nonsensical that if you got rid of all of the investors who only own 2-3% of the supply, it would make a dent in housing prices. Do you think everyone who rents wants to buy no matter what their life circumstances? I definitely didn’t want to buy a home when I was single, I wanted the option of moving quickly
- rekabis 9mo ago
  > And it’s nonsensical that if you got rid of all of the investors who only own 2-3% of the supply, Either you are sealioning, or you genuinely can’t comprehend the written word. Time and time again you keep hammering on this point, which is only a tiny fraction of mine. You keep hammering on the window dressing, while I am addressing the real elephant in the room, THE OTHER ⅓ OF LANDLORDS, WHO ARE THE MAJORITY OF THE PROBLEM. I am talking about the other ≈30% of landlords ≈30%. Not 2-3%. ≈30%. That is the size of the problem. > Housing is very much elastic. For buyers and sellers, perhaps. For renters, NO. If rent was elastic, we wouldn’t have a “working poor” homeless problem. If rent was elastic, we wouldn’t have 23 empty homes for every homeless person. > are you also opposed to apartment complexes owned by investors? A single, separate, unrelated owner per apartment/unit? No. That generates genuine competition for renters. A single owner per complex? F*ck, yes. It’s an obscene concentration of economic power away from the renter and into the landlord’s hands. > As far as raw food, do you also think that people in the supply chain like farmers, packagers, food delivery drivers etc shouldn’t make a profit? My family have been orchardists for almost a half century. We know plenty of other farmers and orchardists. Most would rather let their food go to the hungry rather than let it rot on the tree or in the field. And yet, it takes capitalism and the Parasite Class to drench food in kerosine and light it aflame in order to generate artificial scarcity and keep profits high. And if you know anything about economic trends, you would know that food prices keep skyrocketing, yet the share that farmers get keeps shrinking. Where does it all go? To the middlemen, increasingly concentrated in a handful of suppliers that keep buying up all the competition, thereby concentrating profits in the hands of the ultra-wealthy Parasite Class. Even up here in Canada, it’s even getting such that the lines between middleman and retailer is blurring, with mega-corps such as Loblaws - which makes up a large majority of supermarkets - buying up distributors and processors in order to capture that middleman profit margin for themselves, denying the farmers higher returns and the consumer lower prices. Yay, capitalism? Because it’s neither the consumer nor the farmer who’s benefitting from capitalism. It’s the parasites at the top.
  - raw_anon_1111 9mo ago
    > Either you are sealioning, or you genuinely can’t comprehend the written word. Time and time again you keep hammering on this point, which is only a tiny fraction of mine. You keep hammering on the window dressing, while I am addressing the real elephant in the room, THE OTHER ⅓ OF LANDLORDS, WHO ARE THE MAJORITY OF THE PROBLEM. What exactly is your point? For single homes, if only 2% of all homes being sold are owned by investors, releasing those would at most increase the supply by 2%. But it’s even crazier that you think apartment buildings shouldn’t be owned by corporations and centrally managed. Do you think individual owners will take care of maintenance, property taxes, collecting rent, a centrally managed tenant office erc? Funny enough, I have an idea of exactly how that would conceivably work. I mentioned before that my wife and I moved into a condo. I didn’t mention that it was a unit we own in a condotel (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/condotel.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/condotel.asp). Each unit is individually owned. But the complex itself is run like a hotel (not a timeshare). All of the owners but us use there unit as some combination of a second home and an investment property. When someone stays in a unit the owner gets half the income and the property manager gets the other half. To be clear, this is in central Florida close to Disney and it is zoned and was built as a hotel. Unless you are also opposed to corporations owning hotels You have to have central management for a large apartment complex just like for the condotel we live in. As far as farmers what do you suggest? Either every farmer distributes the food themselves across the country or everyone in the distribution chain does the work for free? BTW, my grandfather raised and sold pigs and cows most of his life and my uncle (his son) still takes care of the cattle. I don’t think he’s going to be killing and processing the meat himself. Should everyone between him selling the cows and it getting to shelves do it for free?

by rekabis 9mo ago

raw_anon_1111 9mo ago

You refuse to answer the question - do you think that everyone should own a home and their should be no rental market or do you think that landlords should rent at cost? Housing is very much elastic. There is plenty of undeveloped land in the country and there is even more air - meaning building up and not out. Personally, my wife and I sold our big 5 bedroom 3200 square foot house in the burbs that we had built in 2016 for $335K in the burbs of Atlanta in the good school system to move into a 1250 square foot condo in Florida and we couldn’t be happier. Blame the lack of supply on NIMBYism that opposes multi unit housing and zoning laws. As far as raw food, do you also think that people in the supply chain like farmers, packagers, food delivery drivers etc shouldn’t make a profit? You never did answer the question - are you also opposed to apartment complexes owned by investors? The second point you didn’t address is should my 23 year old son and his fiancé be forced to buy home or should his landlord have spent money on a property and rented to him at cost? Me personally, if I were renting a house, I would rather deal with a corporation who did it professionally than deal with an individual landlord. The management companies both times I rented an apartment in Atlanta were excellent. And it’s nonsensical that if you got rid of all of the investors who only own 2-3% of the supply, it would make a dent in housing prices. Do you think everyone who rents wants to buy no matter what their life circumstances? I definitely didn’t want to buy a home when I was single, I wanted the option of moving quickly

rekabis 9mo ago
> And it’s nonsensical that if you got rid of all of the investors who only own 2-3% of the supply, Either you are sealioning, or you genuinely can’t comprehend the written word. Time and time again you keep hammering on this point, which is only a tiny fraction of mine. You keep hammering on the window dressing, while I am addressing the real elephant in the room, THE OTHER ⅓ OF LANDLORDS, WHO ARE THE MAJORITY OF THE PROBLEM. I am talking about the other ≈30% of landlords ≈30%. Not 2-3%. ≈30%. That is the size of the problem. > Housing is very much elastic. For buyers and sellers, perhaps. For renters, NO. If rent was elastic, we wouldn’t have a “working poor” homeless problem. If rent was elastic, we wouldn’t have 23 empty homes for every homeless person. > are you also opposed to apartment complexes owned by investors? A single, separate, unrelated owner per apartment/unit? No. That generates genuine competition for renters. A single owner per complex? F*ck, yes. It’s an obscene concentration of economic power away from the renter and into the landlord’s hands. > As far as raw food, do you also think that people in the supply chain like farmers, packagers, food delivery drivers etc shouldn’t make a profit? My family have been orchardists for almost a half century. We know plenty of other farmers and orchardists. Most would rather let their food go to the hungry rather than let it rot on the tree or in the field. And yet, it takes capitalism and the Parasite Class to drench food in kerosine and light it aflame in order to generate artificial scarcity and keep profits high. And if you know anything about economic trends, you would know that food prices keep skyrocketing, yet the share that farmers get keeps shrinking. Where does it all go? To the middlemen, increasingly concentrated in a handful of suppliers that keep buying up all the competition, thereby concentrating profits in the hands of the ultra-wealthy Parasite Class. Even up here in Canada, it’s even getting such that the lines between middleman and retailer is blurring, with mega-corps such as Loblaws - which makes up a large majority of supermarkets - buying up distributors and processors in order to capture that middleman profit margin for themselves, denying the farmers higher returns and the consumer lower prices. Yay, capitalism? Because it’s neither the consumer nor the farmer who’s benefitting from capitalism. It’s the parasites at the top.
- raw_anon_1111 9mo ago
  > Either you are sealioning, or you genuinely can’t comprehend the written word. Time and time again you keep hammering on this point, which is only a tiny fraction of mine. You keep hammering on the window dressing, while I am addressing the real elephant in the room, THE OTHER ⅓ OF LANDLORDS, WHO ARE THE MAJORITY OF THE PROBLEM. What exactly is your point? For single homes, if only 2% of all homes being sold are owned by investors, releasing those would at most increase the supply by 2%. But it’s even crazier that you think apartment buildings shouldn’t be owned by corporations and centrally managed. Do you think individual owners will take care of maintenance, property taxes, collecting rent, a centrally managed tenant office erc? Funny enough, I have an idea of exactly how that would conceivably work. I mentioned before that my wife and I moved into a condo. I didn’t mention that it was a unit we own in a condotel (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/condotel.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/condotel.asp). Each unit is individually owned. But the complex itself is run like a hotel (not a timeshare). All of the owners but us use there unit as some combination of a second home and an investment property. When someone stays in a unit the owner gets half the income and the property manager gets the other half. To be clear, this is in central Florida close to Disney and it is zoned and was built as a hotel. Unless you are also opposed to corporations owning hotels You have to have central management for a large apartment complex just like for the condotel we live in. As far as farmers what do you suggest? Either every farmer distributes the food themselves across the country or everyone in the distribution chain does the work for free? BTW, my grandfather raised and sold pigs and cows most of his life and my uncle (his son) still takes care of the cattle. I don’t think he’s going to be killing and processing the meat himself. Should everyone between him selling the cows and it getting to shelves do it for free?