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Sorry to hear about what you're going through, breakups are never a good time. I truly wish you well and hope you can get back on the track you want to be on.
There would certainly have to be a system in place, and special circumstances will always happen. Bottom line, it would primarily be meant for people or corporations who buy up a house/condo/apartment complex, and let it sit vacant until the market goes up and they get the rent they want or sell it for a good profit. If it sits vacant like that for say, 6 months, fees start accruing. Ideally the fees would be high enough that keeping it vacant would be a significant deterrent, thus forcing the person or company to either sell it, maybe at a loss, or rent it lower.
For example, there's a brand new apartment building near where I live that's been majority vacant for over a year since it was built. They want $3500 a month, and no one around here can afford it. I live in a province that has a cap on rental increases, and this company clearly doesn't want to rent at the high-end of affordable rate of around $2500 a month, and only be able to increase at 5% per year. They'd rather burn the money waiting for the market to go up to sell, other rentals to match what they want, or the cap to go away.
Another example would be someone/company with a lot of money buys a house to flip. During the reno the market dips so they'd be selling at a loss. Rather than rent it and have to deal with tenant laws, they have the money to wait it out as vacant for a year or two or more until the market goes back up. There's an argument to be made to exclude the reno time (though there would need to be systems in place to prevent abuse of the timeframe), but once it's liveable they have 6 months to rent or sell it before paying a monthly vacancy fee. If after 6 months they can't afford the fee and would have to sell at a loss, that's kind of the point. Pivot away from real estate (primarily dwellings) be investment vehicles.
You don't see a problem with a few companies bending laws and bribing to create a monopoly on a human necessity making $828 million in profits period? For-profit grocery monopolies are a huge part of the problem. Food (at least basic healthy food) should be non-profit. Period.
They only made 4.2% profit. Boo-fucking-hoo. Make food access non-profit, and allow these companies to have their for-profit groceries if they want, sell stuff you can't get at the non-profits, whatever. If they bitch about not making enough money they can switch industries.
No one actively living in it. If it's vacant after x amount of time, it's priced too high. Lower the price to get someone in, or pay fees to keep it vacant. Basically, it should cost more than it's worth to keep if you're not going to rent it, creating incentive to price it affordably.
And add in an 'empty fee'. If a property sits empty for x amount of time, there's a significant fee added per month until it's sold or rented. Though people much smarter than me would have to figure out how to prevent rich assholes from just selling to each other to avoid the fee I suppose.
Bottom line, if you buy a place as an asset and the rental market dips below your liking, tough, rent it lower than you planned or get rid of it.
Ah, that makes sense. Always blows my mind when people complain about free tier limitations, especially from companies that don't make money from selling your data.
Check out @themurphy@lemmy.ml 's comment. They did contribute significantly. Also, y'know, it's in the article and on the post itself...
Nailed it. I'm really fucking frustrated and needed to vent. I have no regrets, in fact moving my PC to Linux (my work PC so it was a whole panic thing for a day or two) was the last piece to cut ties with big tech and every company who's CEO was at Trump's inauguration or has since "bent the knee". Its been a long, stressful process, the last of which turned out to be the biggest effort. Thanks for the kind words.
He didn't just "study" he has a Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering and received a Fulbright Scholoarship at MIT. Pretty spot-on casting honestly.
54% of Americans read below a sixth grade level.
Electoral reform and the NDP coming out swinging, leaning hard into social programs with a sharp and charismatic leader.
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Jack_Burton
joined 8 months ago
Correct. Google is banking on users getting withdrawl and crawling back. They all do the same thing, like Meta products. They give you 30 days before deletion because they know most people are addicted and will recover their accounts.