I wonder if anyone is unironically supportive of littering or thinks that murder should be legal. Or they're unironically an anarcho monarchist or something. pee

    • BillyMays [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This community convinced me not to rent out my place with Airbnb. I was thinking about trying to turn that into a career 😬

        • BillyMays [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Capitalism really gets you thinking about all the ways you can game the system to make some money.

          • RNAi [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            You don't "game the system" that way, because "the game" is the system

    • OgdenTO [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I've been thinking about this a lot. I know people who, because of the housing market, have created a flat inside their house that they rent out to help to cover the insane mortgage payments.

      I see this as, yes, they are using other people's money to help to buy the house for themselves, however, if someone richer had bought the house that flat probably wouldn't exist. Also, it's not their living, they also have jobs.

      Anyway, I consider that a different category than having a strong of rental units that provide an entire income.

    • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I don't think being a landlord is fine, but it's worth pointing out that there are a non zero number of landlords who support things like social democracy and what not.

        • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          No one alive killed Rosa. Few people alive (in the U.S., certainly) know who Rosa is, or have coherent enough beliefs to be called a "social democrat," something that does not exist in any organized form in the U.S.

          Dragging someone living in the U.S. today over a murder that happened a century ago on a different continent is absurd.

    • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Renting out a spare room in your house to help pay rent/mortgage is fine, CMV.

          • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            mortgage is directly profiting from your lodger, as you get a house at the end, and the lodger gets fuck all

            rent, as long as you are only charging exactly what the room/utilities/whatever are worth, is not, as you both get fuck all at the end of it

            • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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              4 years ago

              I walk up to someone and say, "Hey, I need a roommate, $350/mo, you interested?" and you're saying I'm either harming them or not harming them depending on whether I plan on giving the money they give me to a landlord or to the bank? Makes no sense. From their perspective its all the same.

              What if I buy a house and get an arrangement where someone lives with me and contributes to the mortgage and they also build up equity, and then I buy the equity from them? Is that ok, as long as it's a seperate transaction? Why can't I just combine those two transations, so instead of higher rent + equity they just get lower rent and no equity?

              • aliases [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Quick, how do i word myself into being a good landlord

                the point isn't how well you can craft an argument to be a landlord. Landlords just end up being parasites.