• dangblingus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What’s a “good” landlord? Someone that upholds all of their obligations that the law says they have to do in order to make money off of the actual work of others? Still a parasite.

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      1 year ago

      ThEy PrOvIdE a SeRvIcE!

      Yes, the service of buying property so now property is unaffordable for me and I HAVE to rent if from you for more than my mortgage would have been, but you know, banks…

    • kaesaecracker@leminal.space
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      1 year ago

      There might not be a good landlord, but there might be landlords that are not bad. My rent is low (too low and the government starts adding taxes to compensate your “non-competition”) and did not get increased in the years I have been living here. Broken things get fixed in a reasonable time, there are no scammy charges and so on.

      • lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        So does the person who made your coffee this morning not deserve a place to live? What about the person who delivered your dinner? The person who delivers your mail? The one who picks up your trash? The people who built your house? The person who stocks your groceries?

        wHaT dO yOu Do FoR a LiViNg?

        What does that have to do with your right to a roof over your head?

      • Fr❄stb☃️te@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        What do you do for a living?

        I sell drugs to minors and bribe police to allow me to keep doing it.

        No, I’m a construction worker building houses and units.

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          1 year ago

          For a moment there, I thought your second sentence was going to be confessing that you were also a landlord.

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          No, I’m a construction worker building houses and units.

          So you, the mastermind behind the housing crisis, blame the victim?

          Why do people have to rent? Because they cannot buy because construction workers refuse to build enough housing.

          Why do landlords charge so much rent? Well, the biggest contributor to that is mortgage costs, driven up by out of control labor costs for construction.

          The rest of the rent goes into savings by the landlord. The reality is, most renters are not as gentle with their homes as owners are and when something breaks, they demand that the landlord fix it and threaten to withhold rent until it is fixed. Facing financial ruin if they cannot make mortgage payments, the landlords are forced to turn to greedy construction workers preying on people backed into the corner. The construction workers take all of the set aside “excess rent” and more.

          So really, we should stop blaming land lords and start blaming construction workers. They could, literally, build a free house for everyone.

          I am joking, if that was not clear.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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        What do you do for a living?

        So you have no idea and just assume they don’t “deserve” to have shelter of their own?