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With homelessness exploding due to how the asset-owning Parasite Class is jacking rents into the stratosphere, why is any residential property vacant at this time?
Vacant residential properties should be taxed out the nose - well above any rent or price appreciation - until they are occupied by legitimate tenants.
Because the last tenant put holes in the walls, their dog's piss caused the floor to lift, and the shower they plugged then overflowed fucked up the bathroom?
So there are repairs to do in order to make the place livable and then time to find somebody else who won't just wreck the place again?
Yeah there are lots of shit landlords but one of the continuing factors is the remaining good ones with a basement suite etc bailed after terrible tenants.
A vacancy tax is a good idea but there needs to be caveats for timelines especially if stuff like reasonable maintenance/repairs is taken into consideration.
Ironically my friends who bitched about "shit landlords" also happened to be the drinkin' smokin' big-dog-ownin' types who were the worst type of tenants and ruined shit for everyone else
Oh no, instead of getting money for doing nothing you will get money for paying someone to do a cosmetic repair once every several years. Should I feel sorry for you? I entered a landlord mode so I forgot what empathy is, so I need help here.
I'm not in support of this practice, I'm just sharing the info.
Don't shoot the messenger my dude
Excuses.
If they can't handle the responsibility, we cannot burden our society by letting them 'own' our housing stock.
Are you participating in the same thread that I am?
I literally said that landlords are using software to set the prices with software in collaboration with other landlords.
I also said there are lawsuits open about this action.
I was then told not to be a devil's advocate, and my response was, I am not advocating for anything.
Now you say that I am making excuses?
What logic train are you guys all on?
Because I am not on the same logic train as you.
Ihave not supported anything, or advocated for anything, or excused anything and yet you seem to have convinced yourself that I have, and I don't know where it's coming from.
Like if I'm fucking up fine, you know, downvote me. If I'm saying something that's controversial, fine, downvote me. But nothing I have said should be considered a fuck-up or controversial. So I don't know why people are against me saying it.
It's possible that your lemmy client is doing something weird, you seem to respond or get responses to some parallel comments
There are some spectacularly stupid people in this thread, that are apparently refusing to accept that renovations are a thing.
It's quite bizarre.
I dunno, am i? (Edit: this was a serious question! My app is bugging!)
Yeah im not seeing that, but im getting lots of weird formatting in reply positions
Not what i was replying to though
I think people were replying to what you said here as if you were the poster a couple comments upthread, because it sounded like it, and like ypu were defemding it.
Thank you. I appreciate this.
Already addressed
Well you are made of meat. Probably no adequate refridgeration. Gross. Downvoted for unrefrigerated meat.
Don't be a devil's advocate. Devils can advocate for themselves.
Imagine trying to understand different perspectives.
Critical thinking really is dead if this is the kind of attitude you think is acceptable.
I'm literally not advocating for anything. I'm sharing knowledge and allowing others to come to their own conclusions.
Your arguing with someone who's head is far too deep in their own ass to actually understand what you're saying.
It's frustrating, very frustrating, that this is the lowest common denominator on the Internet today. And it's only getting worse as kids grow up under the thumb of their corporate spoon fed news feeds.