owns 30,000 homes
That's a fucking Robber Baron. But also still a landlord.
actually unpopular opinion: you shouldn't be able to own more than one house
You should be given one house and be allowed to own one second property for personal use.
I can concede this point, but only if dachas are things almost or absolutely everyone has. Soviets did have a pretty good system for it.
That's what I thought the second property for personal use was!
multiple people can use it at different types of the year perhaps? I'd hate for a house to go to waste for most of the time.
I'll be there every weekend. People can come over while I'm grilling.
one poster saying the state or collective should own it.
Lmao some people on here are unreal. "Well in my imagined perfect succesful communist utopia, this is how things should be, so since you're not doing that now, you're a reactionairy"
The analogy I use is going on a road trip from NY to LA, and getting in a fight over which LA restaurant to stop at before you've even left NY state
I think at a certain point of communism whether you "own" your home or whether it's technically owned by the Housing committee with full rights devolved to you while you live there is irrelevant. The only real risk is of the collective going Home Owners Association on you because you keep a tin boat in the front yard or something.
Unpopular opinion you shouldn't be able to own 30,000 houses.
Counterpoint: Freedom
Yes, that's infringing on other people's freedom to own exactly 1 house. While that one person's freedom gains nothing beyond the first 50 or so houses, very generously speaking.
We should get rid of landlords. Just a quick thought. Spitballing here, I dunno. Could be good, could be bad, who knows?
I dunno I haven't really thought it through yet but maybe like...what if we had some sort of system that gave everyone a home?
Just spitballing.
Housing in the ussr used to cost like 5-10% of monthly income. The state can certainly regulate housing if not outright provide it.
Oh absolutely. But Investors make money off of it, so "what can we do?" Gotta protect the people on wall street that don't do anything.
I'm physically unable to keep up maintenance on a home and the land around it. Landlords do have a place in society, in my opinion
You might be physically unable, but you're not monetarily unable. Most landlords just pay someone to do it with the money you gave them.
Whatever you are paying in rent is enough to cover the costs of that property and then pay for your landlord's own lifestyle on top. You are being robbed.
It's pretty straightforward math. A landlord's income is necessarily the cost of maintenance of a property plus some extra as profit. Otherwise they're losing money and therefore wouldn't be a landlord. But since their income is the rent you pay, you are therefore paying for everything plus their own cost of living.
Correct. I'm paying him to take care of everything so I don't have to do it. Lawn. Plumbing. Damages. That's all one person for me. I'm paying that one person to take care of all of those things so I don't have to. And the price never changes.
See what I mean?
Lawn. Plumbing. Damages. That's all one person for me. I'm paying that one person to take care of all of those things so I don't have to.
No, you're paying that person to then pay other people to take care of those things. If you tell me your landlord handles the lawn, plumbing, all repairs, etc, I'll just call you a liar.
But he's charging you more than what all those things cost combined
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
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.
cool as long as we're clear that they shouldnt existI don't agree with that. Unless you want to give me money every time something happens to my home.
But you would save money if a landlord wasn't leeching it from you because of your basuc human need for shelter
Housing co-ops can very well be a thing and in rare cases they are. Rent would also be cheaper that way all considered.
I don't want to deal with hiring anyone to do anything. I pay my landlord to do all of that. That's worth it to me.
For example, when I moved in the fridge died about a year in. I told my landlord and he sent me the name and number of a repair place. I told him that's nice, but it's not my fridge and I'm not going to call anyone for it. That's his job. That's why I'm paying him. That's why I'm calling him.
I've got other things to do. He owns it, he deals with it.
Sorry, unfortunately I live in the real world and don't have an extra few hundred laying around for an unexpected new fridge. And no, owning my own home would not give me that extra money. Because, again, I live in the real world.
What real world exists where paying a massive % of your income to a landlord is cheaper than doing those things yourself????
Getting a fridge fixed is a fraction of what rents cost basically everywhere anymore. i could get a really nice new fridge for less than my monthly rent.
And remember they tried to pawn it off on you in the first place. They're parasites. They need to go. Que the quote about the Maoist uprisings against the landlords.
how do libs defend this manifestly evil shit
Death to America
or they just say "he's a good businessman"
"Housing can't be built without money and if people can't afford homes someone needs to buy them so they can be rented out. This person provides 30,000 homes"
Understandable, but when you say America in this context do you mean Canada?
It's his forum signature. Not that Lemmy has forum signatures, but that's what it is.
Death to America
Better future headline: landlord dares to show their face in television
I'm not Canadian, but do you know why they seem to blame foreign investors specifically and not just investors, period? If it's just xenophobia, then why bring up investors and risk people turning their eyes to domestic investors?
It's just racism, plain and simple. The media ran breathless pearl-clutching stories about how lots of Vancouver's real estate was owned by Chinese investors basically parking money overseas by buying properties and leaving them empty. This was then extrapolated over to Toronto.
The reason the foreign aspect is underlined is because of how dominant the idea of white replacement is in the housing discourse here. If you ask anyone who isn't Marxist about the housing crisis, you'll get two responses: it's either foreign investors buying all the properties and hoarding it so Canadians can't access it, or the Liberals/Trudeau "bringing in" a tens or hundreds of thousands of immigrants to Canada when we have "no room" (ignoring that half the country is literally empty). People here don't believe investors are the problem - just that the wrong investors are trying to ruin things.
Rather than saying what I think should happen to this parasite, I will simply post
energy.