https://ca.news.yahoo.com/small-landlords-became-homeless-during-080000594.html
landlords are the only people I feel comfortable telling to get a job after hearing about them suffering financially
Being a landlord isn't a job and shouldn't be your only source of income. I don't know why these people think they should be able live off of owning extra houses.
For some reason they always neglect to read up on laws and to factor in risk with any investment.
Yes, investments have risks. Tenant laws (even if you think they are unfair) are a consideration in the equation, no one to blame if you took on way too much risk without assessing your risk tolerance.
if you didn't want to potentially suffer from this why didn't you just buy a REIT?
people who justify their parasitism by claiming they take on the risk are always somehow shocked when the bad thing they risked happens
Being a landlord isn’t a job and shouldn’t be
your onlyany source of incomeI don’t know why these people think they should be able live off of owning extra houses.
Because their parents did and their grandparents did and their great-grandparents did, etc, etc. Also, their richer peers told them that this would be "easy money".
Interviewing landlords about a rent crisis is like interviewing bosses about a worker shortage. The news will dive out im of their way to never talk to the people with no money and no power.
Basically, the tenants were paying the bills on her house and then some until she tried to evict them because she suddenly wanted to use the house. Trying to violate tenant law should result in a forfeiture of the property from the owner to the tenant.
lol, the only time the CBC could care to talk about homelessness during the pandemic is when it strikes a landlord because they're not un-personned by the establishment yet.
Honestly I can't help but feel kinda bad when I read these kind of stories. Like usually these people are the ones fully bought in to this neoliberal ideology that the best way to secure your own future is by exploiting others without realizing that the capitalist machine will just as quickly throw them back into the ranks of exploited workers during crisis.
they were trying to be a terrible person the fact they're bad at it is their own fault and is therefore only funny.
Also they can simply get a job
Yeah that's a good point, that's what makes this humorous to me (much like when small business owners complain).
It's the fact that they're so unsuccessful trying to be bourgeois but failing to even be petite bourgeois. It's like some shitty small business owner who desperately WANTS to be a billionaire like Bezos or Musk, but instead of being evil/smart/rich they're evil, stupid and poor.
I really hate small business owners and these crappy landlords the most. They are so insufferable and always complaining. The rich people I've known IRL are at least reasonable and don't take things for granted instead of thinking the whole world revolves around them.
Also they can simply get a job
I guess this is kinda my point. This person probably will end up just getting a job, and at that point they're in the same position as any other worker, possibly with more debt. Sure it's because they tried to exploit people, but when you're absolutely steeped in propaganda how willful is that exploitation?
I guess to kinda crib from Trotsky I think the precarity of the petit Bourgeoisie leads them to adopt the ideology of the ruling class. In this case that's neoliberalism/fascism, but in a society where the prevailing attitude is socialist and these sorts of people are actually educated I think they could be helpful, or at least not get in the way.
I don't really know where I'm going with this TBH, I guess it's just sad to see someone who experienced the detrimental effects of capitalism first hand but will probably for the rest of their life blame what are now likely their fellow workers.
no they got the police to kick the tennant out of their house.
there were no consequences because they still owned the house which is an asset more than equal to the debt as the tenant paid some of the mortgage with their rent
Yeah that's fair I fully admit I didn't read the article. I would say I don't wanna hear whinging about how bad landlords have it but I guess that's kinda what I've been doing in a slightly roundabout way :who-did-this:
Franchesca Ranger says tenant should have been the one to have to live out of a suitcase during pandemic. Here is a news story about it.
The face of a customer who will not and CANNOT learn how to operate a self checkout machine
is this article alleging that she wound up homeless and her "deadbeat" tenant didn't simply because she was attempting to own her residence rather than rent? Or did she slag off her own home before realizing she couldn't evict the tenant?
Either way...
lmao
No, she got divorced out of her own home. Wanted to move into the rental unit she owned (in addition to a restaurant she owns/operates) and couldn't make THEM homeless because they have tenants rights. The tenant stopped paying rent because she was trying to evict them and so without their rent she started accruing costs. Costs she wouldn't have been accruing if she let them live in their own home.
She was finally able to move back into her home this February, after alternating stays with friends and family every few days.
She's a fucking piece of shit. And was never in any real danger.
Why didn’t she just move into another landlord’s property and refuse to leave? Problem solved!
If we're all landlords squatting in other people's houses, we can de facto abolish rent everywhere :thinking-about-it: free housing for all
Maybe Mao was wrong, maybe we didn't need less landlords - maybe we needed way more
Everyone gets to be the landlord for exactly one place of residence where someone else lives. You can't make them move out or pay rent. Because this might hurt the landlords we should compensate them by allowing them to live somewhere owned by someone else, where they cannot be forced to move out or pay rent.
If you can squat in this apartment. Then we can squat in this complex. And maybe then we can all squat on this entire nation! :pete:
DANG MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE BOUGHT SO MANY HOUSES, ESPECIALLY IF YOU WEREN'T GONNA LIVE IN THEM
