Yeah, it’s a pity there isn’t a law against it I guess. If I sold that one extra house I’m hoarding the housing crisis would be pretty much over tbh.
Comment on Cold calling real estate agents - is there a law against it?
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 8 months ago
There should be a law against owning properties you don’t live in.
That said fucking with real estate agents I can get behind so do whatever on that front. Maybe consider not being a landlord though.
trk@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 8 months ago
I get what you are saying about this not being a matter of personal individual responsibility, but coming on hear and complaining about a telemarketer that you could just ignore is pretty fucking insensitive to all the unhoused folks that you could be helping by just not being a rent-seeking parasite.
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
yeah yeah, no snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
trk@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Of course not, snowflakes are inanimate objects and the cause of an avalanche are external forces not the combined desire of the snowflakes to go tumble down a mountain for personal snowflake advantage.
Nath@aussie.zone 8 months ago
There should be a law against owning properties you don’t live in.
I’m trying to picture what this looks like. Who do we rent from if we can’t afford to buy a house in this alternate vision of the future? There is no way that 20-year-old me working at servos had the capital to buy a house. I had zero savings and a low income.
I see you invoking the Maoist uprising in another comment, but I’ll be honest - the years following that uprising were hard for a huge swathe of the population (not to mention fatal for Millions more). I would not want to live through a Chairman Mao. Modern China happened despite Mao. Not because of him.
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 8 months ago
You literally cannot conceive of a reality wherein a home does not have to be rented from a parasitic landlord?
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 8 months ago
The practice of “renting” needs to die in a goddamn fire. Single family homes should never be “rented”. Temporary (6-month to 5-year) occupancy of a single family home should be done under a “land contract”.
Basically, the occupant starts making mortgage payments (principle, interest, taxes, insurance) but title stays with the landlord. The landlord receives only the “interest” part of the payment. The “principle” part of the payment is held in escrow, in an interest-bearing account. This is the occupant’s equity in the home.
If the occupant stays through the term of the contract, title transfers to the occupant, the escrowed principle payments transfer to the landlord, and the contract converts to a private mortgage. If the occupant leaves before the term of the contract, the principle payments are returned to them.
Land contracts build tenant wealth and drive people toward home ownership.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 8 months ago
To drive us toward such a system, we can provide significant property tax advantages to owner-occupants. Investors can only get those advantages by getting the occupant of a property to qualify as an “owner”. A renter would not qualify, but a tenant under a land contract would.
Basically, we phase in an increase in property taxes, and a commensurate (or greater) owner occupant credit. Current owner-occupants will pay the same (or less) than they currently do. Investors who adapt, and convert their “tenants” to “buyers”, will also pay the same (or less) than they currently do. Investors who refuse to convert will pay higher property taxes, while also serving a smaller pool of tenants with better options.
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 8 months ago
I see you invoking the Maoist uprising in another comment, but I’ll be honest - the years following that uprising were hard for a huge swathe of the population (not to mention fatal for Millions more). I would not want to live through a Chairman Mao.
If you think it was hard to live under Mao, you should see what it was like before him.
Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 8 months ago
I see you invoking the Maoist uprising in another comment, but I’ll be honest - the years following that uprising were hard for a huge swathe of the population (not to mention fatal for Millions more). I would not want to live through a Chairman Mao. Modern China happened despite Mao. Not because of him.
What was it like to live in China before 1949 compared to after 1949? Please support your assertions with relevant statistics.
Marsupial@quokk.au 8 months ago
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
get the CAV to have a peep and watch the hilarity unfold
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
not sure we go that far (in a sane system rentals have their place) but absolutely start taxing the ever loving shit out of anything over the PPR. The more houses the more tax. More. More. MOOOOOOOOOORE.
And ban corporations / companies / business entities from owning standalone housing and land.
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Literally the only way to achieve this is through some sort of revolution. Reformism is impossible under the dictatorship of capital.
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Mmm, you talking like the sexual revolution or like the Russian revolution? 'Cos you can miss me with that latter shit, change wrought of violence leaves people confused, unthinking and ends up with a new pack of cunts in charge doing the same shit in a different hat.
People who call for violent revolution in the western world tend to pull their playbook out of goddamn religious idealism. Specifically that whole weird apocalypse obsession. One big final war and then all things will be well!!!
Nope.
There is no end goal here. There is no final deciding victory. There’s just the unromantic never ending work of improvement. Deal with it.
M500@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I can think of a few exceptions. But I think owning multiple properties in the same location for more than a specified amount of time should be illegal or heavily taxed.
For example, you buy a home and are still trying to sell an old one. You might own two houses for some time. You might inherit a house and need to sell it.
You might have family in multiple parts of the country or work in multiple parts of the country/world and need a place to live.
A friend’s mom had severe asthma and was told to leave her home state during the winter and live in Florida.
But I have a friend who owns like 3 hours in the same neighborhood just as rental properties. That should be illegal/heavily taxed.
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 8 months ago
mao-aggro-shining
robinn_IV@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Laughing at the person calling Mao a dictator, guess their comment was blocked in here. Popular support and being elected mean nothing because he wasn’t white. “Authoritarian” is even better. And then they yap some nonsense about living in someone’s head when they were the ones crying because you posted a Mao emote.
Marsupial@quokk.au 8 months ago
Why’s there a murderous authoritarian dictator here?
novibe@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
HornyOnMain@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
The user you’re responding to is a long time anarchist who’s been active in various indigenous anarchist orgs for at least the last several years iirc