I just don't think you'd be this hostile if I were straight. It's even apparent to other PaRD users that something is happening here:

You got me

ah yes protect yourself and limit anyone else from doing it

*LAUGH OUT LOUD*

interesting read

i have no problem with the concept of landlords and tenants per se. what i do have a problem with is when the landlords can ask for above market rents, then write it off as a loss when they dont get it, making it more worthwhile for them to leave the space empty than to rent it to someone at a lower price. thats just absurd, yet i see it all the time around here. in one case a restaurant closed and it sat for six or seven years before someone finally rented/bought it and turned it into a pharmacy. someone i was working with said he looked into renting the restaurant to open one, and the landlord wanted 14k per month. so it sat empty.

True. I build apartments and condos this housing crisis is rampant CAPITALISM not some socialist issue causing it. People have the "what" so backwards.
It gets boring to hear "socialism is causing the homeless crisis.." sorry it's unchecked capitalism that the root. I know because I'm in it.

The economy has become one where you make money by owning, not by producing. The rationale that some people make money by absorbing risk through ownership stops being convincing when it becomes rampant.

I have built over 25k apartment UNITS not the per building that number count is roughly 40 buildings. Every one of them the rent is 3.30 a sq. foot and above
every single one of them is 100% occupied now. BUT it has left NO room for people with less income.

This post was edited by theCrossbones on Jan 14 2020 09:25pm

in new York, florida, California, Washington, sure. many other places its not expensive to buy homes in a fairly strong but not overpriced market. I told someone I bought a nice house on a big lot in the country for 150k, they thought it was a junk rental property because they're from California. there's a lot in that range in my area which is a very affordable 1kish mortgage.

many people my age still rent from large complex apartments, mainly so they can avoid doing all the work a property takes. how can we glorify and spotlight the prevalence of single motherhood and vilify the landlord? my single mother couldn't find a screwdriver in a 3 tool drawer. without landlords we'd have been toast.

there is a baseline in this topic that hasn't been flushed out. the advantage of raising a family in a home rather than an apartment. a backyard, lower noise, driveway/garage, etc. apartments suck to raise kids in by comparison. this alone is a baseline service landlords serve that isn't quantified in any "they shouldn't have profits from this" math. not that much math has been applied in the topic.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Jan 14 2020 09:28pm

I wonder if the results of a poll asking if someone thought the labor of a persons work should be better compensated, and if a landlord is a parasite would yield ironic results.