Comment on Rent is theft

• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why lie?

  You staying the owner is a billion times better than some company or land developer buying it

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  • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Huh? I don’t follow

    I said him owning it is better than a laege company owning it

    I mean isn’t that better??? You can reason with a guy, given that he’s reasonable, but you have no chance with a company. And his price is probably lower than that of a company looking to maximise profits with constant market data available to them

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    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I said him owning it is better than a laege company owning it

      And I asked you why, at which point you claimed you didn’t say that.

      You can reason with a guy, given that he’s reasonable, but you have no chance with a company.

      I see no reason to think you have any better chance reasoning with this guy.

      And his price is probably lower than that of a company

      I see zero reason to believe he’s renting for below market rate. Individual owners don’t general charge lower rent than companies, so your assertion that he “probably” does is completely baseless.

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      • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Look man I really don’t have anything againsnt what you’re saying, we’re both arguing for assumptions here, there’s no point

        But I guess I’ll ask this, to get to more practical things: what do you think he should do?

        I think the best thing he could do is sell to someone that needs the property to live in it. But I won’t hold it against him if he chooses to keep and rent out the property unless it’s solely for profits. Keeping a property for a while to make sure you won’t need it before selling it, is fine in my head.

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