Submitted 1 year ago by landlordlover@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Oh, the hard, hard life of the rent-seeker who is stupidly greedy and unwilling to lose a little bit of profit to pay somebody else - like an agency - to take care of all the work and manage their assets, so instead of making money purely from having money without lifting a finger, they have to suffer the indignity of actually working a few hours a week like poor people.
The pain and suffering must be unbearable…
“Rent-seeking” as an economic concept is not when you collect rent, as a landlord does.
In Economics “rent-seeking” is seeking to receive a “rent”, but the concept of “rent” here is broader than merelly the kind of rent paid for a property (for example, when banks place themselves in the position to get a commission out of every small financial transaction out there, through “Touch To Pay” schemes, they are “rent-seeking”).
So whilst not all rent-seekers are landlords (probably not even most rent-seekers), all landlords are rent-seekers, which is exactly how I handled those definitions in my post.
Landlord struggle lmao. Must be nice living off of other peoples paycheques, ngl
All I say is that if you’re gonna get into some sort of business such as being a landowner, take the responsibility and shut up or get the hell out.
We rent our starter home out because we want to eventually move back in when we retire. We keep the rent affordable and fix anything that breaks. Only rent increases that happen are due to HOA and property tax increases.
I’m sure others will disagree but I’m fine with this, especially since it sounds like you’re being fair, not greedy, and have a reasonable exit strategy.
You aren’t hoarding wealth, buying up all the starter homes, making them into unsightly mcmanasions, and then putting them up for rent like a bunch of houses in my neighborhood. Like 7 houses on my block are owned by 2 people.
All the renter’s calling for the heads of the upper middle class property owners.
Stop coming after us. We already pay the most tax and get the least benefits from the tax.
We don’t get all the offsets the millionaires get, and we don’t get the handouts the poor get.
We just get gouged everywhere. We don’t know enough to invest in anything other than housing.
Stop coming after us. We aren’t the problem.
You had me until the handouts
Thipical landlord in my country let you live in the shit with black wall full of humidity and no heater with an high price. And then they will also have the habits to Evict you if they don’t want to pay taxes. And prefer to leave you in the street. So I think that good landlord exists but most of them are just people that want money without give to you the bare minimum to live.
Username checks out. Also fuck landlords if this was posted unironically.
dynamo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
ah, the typical landlord. A good example of a useless “jobs” that litter the world