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You must know nothing about owning a home if you think rent just goes straight into a landlord's pocket.

Also, dealing with contractors is a service that's being provided. Having to hire a contractor is often a pain in the ass.

Having both rented and owned, renting is much less stressful. You apparently don't see any value in not having to worry about maintenance, taxes, massive debt, liability, insurance, etc. which is fine, but that doesn't mean paying for it is a scam.

[-] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My rent is 50% of my income I will never get back.

No, renting is literally incomparably more stressful than owning a home would be where I could sell it at any time and get a portion of my invested income back.

If I could opt out of my landlord calling the plumber when I need one, I sure as fuck would if it meant I could keep my money. No, my rent goes straight into his pocket every month and a fraction of a fraction ever comes out to cover upkeep. I'd happily opt out and pay it myself.

You sound like you're probably decently middle class. Which is fine and I'm not saying that you have no experience being a lower class renter. But you probably are not familiar with the same financial pressures we live under today.

Landlords should not exist. Nothing would be lost if we converted every apartment building into a co-op. We would all have much more disposable income and much more control over where we lived.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

You must know nothing about owning a home if you think rent just goes straight into a landlord's pocket.

Is the landlord making a profit? That comes from rent going into their pockets.

that doesn't mean paying for it is a scam.

Choosing to pay for it, sure. Most renters would rather own but can't because landlords have bought up a limited supply of a resource in order to profit off it. When scalpers do that they get vilified, but do that with something necessary for survival and for some reason it becomes an investment?

"People with more money than sense would rather pay someone else to do it" is not a good argument for forcing everyone else to also pay someone else to do it.

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