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severely destroy the cashflow of a small landlord

They really do phrase everything as if it’s violence, don’t they?

[-] Sephitard9001@hexbear.net 62 points 11 months ago

Everything is violence except evictions!!!

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 53 points 11 months ago

Everything is violence except actual violence, which is fine.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 11 months ago

Anyone who thinks that capitalism isn't violence just needs to speak to a couple of landlords about their tenants.

[-] RustyVenture@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

The response should be that they’re lucky they’re making it out with only their cash flow destroyed mao-aggro-shining

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

And when someone gets fired or laid off, it's not violence

[-] NPa@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

porky-scared-flipped Please spoiler tag economic gore, think about the People of Means reading along!

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[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 85 points 11 months ago

i heard one time that a bunch of these scum tenants so degraded a landlord, he had to go out and get a job in order to have income. imagine the shame and humiliation of having to perform an activity for money, like an organ grinder's monkey!

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 83 points 11 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

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 66 points 11 months ago

Landlords should be grateful that's all tenants unions are doing. mao-shining

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 61 points 11 months ago

That sounds rad as fuck.

Also, imagine writing that out and not seeing the feudal roots of the word Landlord. gui-better

[-] Timberknave@hexbear.net 60 points 11 months ago

Mark of the Beast blue-check

Literal demon blood drinker opinion blue-check

Contrarian shithead confirmed blue-check blue-check

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 53 points 11 months ago

That's simply the free market working Aimee

[-] Ithorian@hexbear.net 50 points 11 months ago

Where are all these small landlords?! I've rented dozens of places throughout my life and only one has been a "small landlord" and even then she was just renting out her basement not hording housing.

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Where are all these small landlords?!

They still exist here and there. Generally speaking, they're cheaper than the big corporate brands but also significantly less responsive because its one guy and his two sons pretending they can handyman their way through a forty unit complex that hasn't had a proper renovation since the 1980s. Because they don't have the state-of-the-art fuck-you-rent-goes-up optimization computers, they get a lot of lower income and longer term tenants. But they're also prime for buy-outs from folks with infinity borrowed-at-0% financing.

So what you'll often see is a large community of people who hate their old small landlord because they have to maintain properties they don't own double-plus hate their new big landlord even harder for jacking up rent to force them out and bulldoze the space.

she was just renting out her basement not hording housing.

Its frustrating, because a lot of this isn't an individualist "hording housing" problem nearly so much as it is an institutional "we only have ranch style housing that sells for $1000/sqft" problem. So while renting your basement is far from the worst landlordism imaginable, it is still functionally profiting from a shortage of housing that your home functionally represents.

Its not her fault. She's just in a position to glean rents off a problem she has no control over, while you are not.

The real problem is for-profit real estate development. Ranch housing is cheap to develop and flip when populations are low-but-growing, while big MFUs cost more up front and clear more slowly. But then ranch home prices inflate as MFUs come into higher demand, and you have an incentive to rent-seek and speculate rather than make way for denser development, because why would you not?

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago

In Toronto a chunk of the rental supply is people buying an "investment" condo they rent out (often at a short term loss). Or in college towns usually owners of student housing units own a house or a few houses. They're strictly speaking small landlords, but in my experience they're so much worse to deal with than owners of purpose built rental units.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

College town guy here and yeah, they want to rent a room to a foreign student they can rip off for a year.

[-] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

I had one the last place we lived. They were a real estate agent couple who owned a pair of duplexes, and the first time we met them they happily told us that the duplexes were "their retirement". I've never forgotten how open they were about that fact. It's one of those memories from back when I was a lib that has stuck with me.

They were alright as landlords, friendly enough, maintenance got done pretty quick when necessary. It was wild though, I paid rent one day late one time because I was busy as shit and my partner was out of state for an extended period, so it just totally slipped my mind. The nastiness of the text I got was a bit of a surprise to me. I was still very much a lib at that point, so I was extremely confused as to why a seemingly extremely harmless (and easily fixable!) mistake could lead to such an instant change in personality from a person who had always been friendly to me before.

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[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 43 points 11 months ago

That’s a really interesting word you’ve chosen for tenants there Aimee, I’m sure there’s no dog whistle behind that

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[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 41 points 11 months ago

Cartel of removed

New band name?

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 41 points 11 months ago

Whatever happened to the free market? I thought we could do whatever we wanted. Seems like a skill issue

[-] Tommasi@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago

sadness

Poor smol bean landlord denied free money from hoarding multiple apartments.

[-] DrCrustacean@hexbear.net 35 points 11 months ago

Tenants are ungrateful "removed" but also the smol landlord depends on their rent to exist

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

I was in a chat group that didn't allow politics and they all got pissed at me for jokingly using the expression "Fake News" about some innocuous incorrect thing we were laughing at, as that's "political". Later one of those people called a bunch of people "removed" and when I asked why that wasn't a political issue everyone acted all confused about why that would be political.

Just a funny anecdote of Americans thinking empty joking meme phrases are politics, and actual politicized slurs used to enact genocides are just silly fun names

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[-] Finger@hexbear.net 34 points 11 months ago

no more half measures walter

[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

aka a cartel of removed

hitler-detector

cartel of removed

What market are they monopolizing? And why are you renting to people you would deem removed? Sounds like you made a bad investment. Time to accept the risk you took.

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago
[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

sounds great very much on board with that plan

[-] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Maybe landlords should just pull themselves up by the bootstraps and work harder so they're not living ~~my~~ paycheck to paycheck che-smile

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

Someone remind them what the tenets unions are compromises for gui-better

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

Sign me the fuck up

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago

This is unironically good agitprop

[-] ajorge@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago

lmao this aussie loser is paying for twitter

[-] ksynwa_from_lemmygrad@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago

When the small landlord has enough tenants that they can form a union

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[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago

Aimee Therese is an actual nazi, as in she supports the actual nazis. This all happened because Felix wouldn't reply to her.

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[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

If they were that small, then the union would be like, 3 households and there would be no publicity. They're usually small segments of medium, large, or blackrock-sized landlords.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The whole point of any union is to get what you want, read the lyrics to Solidarity Forever, loser iww

[-] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago

But when "real estate investors" buy up all available properties and raise the prices that's just sacred free market competition, right?

Almost like in a totally free market your right to collect profit is balanced by my right to find ways to not spend my money 🤔

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Thanks for reminding me to get involved again. I help with tenants union stuff, then just burn out for 1-2 months before I got the energy to help some more. Needless to say, I'm on the gruntwork end of things.

[-] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well... yes. Those are not the words I would have chosen, but this essentially is what I want do to. Well said, weird stranger who loves using the word "removed".

EDIT: In the most sensible policy possible, we do not print that word. Good.

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago
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[-] borlax@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

Very funny too see them almost understand.

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