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I don’t think just because people are landlords that makes them bastards though. We’re letting a house out and I think we treat our tenants well. We don’t rip them off, we fix stuff when it’s broken, and since we have a fixed rate mortgage our costs haven’t gone up in several years and so neither has the rent.

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commander@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Why do you have an extra house when others don’t even have 1?

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- amorpheus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Why do you have an extra house when others don’t even have 1?
  
  Unless you are from an impoverished area of the world and could barely afford the ten year old phone you’re posting this on, I don’t think you want to go down this path.
  
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  - commander@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Not really. If we’re living at or below a standard that is attainable for us all, then we’re not part of the problem.
    
    We don’t have to go off into the woods or subsistence farm. That’s a distraction put by the ruling class for useful idiots to believe so they think it’s all-or-nothing.
    
    Magnitude matters. Just because you have more doesn’t mean you need to spend more, and that’s what the people you’re defending are doing.
    
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starshipHighwayman69@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
A.l.a.b.

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milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
A few comments around saying, “not all landlords are bad; I’m a landlord and I’m pretty okay.” Where are the tenants saying, I’m happy to pay rent to my landlord?

I’ll be one.

I’ve never owned property. I’d like to, and I think there’s a huge evil in the scale and manner of property/land rental that goes on, and I’d much prefer an overwhelming change toward most people being able to own their home.

But not all of us are in a position to own. Nor does everyone want the responsibility and the overhead (ownership can be expensive too!). I’m glad there have been landlords from whom I can rent a place in each of the places I’ve been.

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