Comment on WeWork founder remains a billionaire even with firm’s bankruptcy | The Straits Times
Neato@kbin.social 10 months agoThey'd build them so they can sell them. You can own apartments too.
Comment on WeWork founder remains a billionaire even with firm’s bankruptcy | The Straits Times
Neato@kbin.social 10 months agoThey'd build them so they can sell them. You can own apartments too.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
So everyone needs to be able to spend the upfront capital to buy a home? What about people who want to rent? There are lots of advantages to not buying.
Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The advantages you mention are a result of inflated values. Your parents generations could much more easily buy a property and decide to sell it within a few years to move somewhere else.
Neato@kbin.social 10 months ago
Loans exist. And reduce the upfront cost in paperwork to buying a house. It shouldn't cost nearly 5 figures just to get documents signed.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
So instead of paying rent, you pay loan payments. And the bank can seize your property if you can’t pay. Sounds like six of one and a half-dozen of the other.
halowpeano@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You’re still thinking within the current broken system. The only reason the bank can seize everything unfairly no matter how much had been repaid is because the laws allow it.
Neato@kbin.social 10 months ago
Mortgage payments build equity and when you move you can sell the property and recoup nearly all of that. Rent is gone.
Foreclosure is a huge issue that needs to be addressed in legislation. All that equity should still exist for the homeowner even if they stop being able to afford payments.
Blackout@kbin.social 10 months ago
Rent keeps going up, my mortgage is the same regardless and I purchased based on what I could afford at that time.