• BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    21
    10 months ago

    Landlords by and large also dont keep up on maintenence. If and when maintence is done, its usually by someone else who isn't them. They don't personally provide anything, and yet take 1/3 to half if not more of working peoples income, which is the problem we have with them.

    That's cool if the people you've rented from are different. I'm not saying that in a person to person, individual basis they are all bad people or anything, but as a class it needs to end

    • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
      hexbear
      1
      10 months ago

      Oh for sure, as a class I agree with you.
      Idk like anything you just have to be diligent I guess. I've been able to have have a positive outcome in my situation. But that's me, and obviously not every one can be that lucky.

        • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
          hexbear
          1
          edit-2
          10 months ago

          I don't agree with that. Unless you want to give me money every time something happens to my home.

          • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
            hexbear
            20
            10 months ago

            But you would save money if a landlord wasn't leeching it from you because of your basuc human need for shelter

                • Acid@startrek.website
                  hexbear
                  2
                  10 months ago

                  Because in some places renting is so much cheaper than buying it’s comical. Go look into rent vs prices of property and mortgages in London in the UK for example and then we can talk.

                  • CascadeOfLight [he/him]
                    hexbear
                    7
                    edit-2
                    10 months ago

                    Renting can literally NEVER be cheaper than buying, because the landlord's mortgage MUST be less than the rent you're paying! If you'd had the option to buy the same place for what the landlord did, you'd be paying significantly less each month.

                    So what you mean is, landlords bought up all the cheap housing and all that's left to buy is what they can't bleed a profit out of.

                  • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
                    hexbear
                    3
                    edit-2
                    10 months ago

                    I'm not telling them to buy a house. We were trying to point out that landlords are leeches who provide nothing of value and suck up large percentages of peoples income.

                    The hypothetical here is if you weren't paying your landlord, you would have more money, because you're already paying them amd now you're not.

                    I've heard the real estate situation in London is particularly awful, even compared with other major cities where its also bad for similar reasons.

                  • Venus [she/her]
                    hexbear
                    17
                    10 months ago

                    In fact, you never explained it. You've just repeatedly asserted it.