• Professorozone@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    How is this different than literally any small business owner that doesn’t collect payment on the spot, like a lawn guy, for instance?

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      28 days ago

      The lawn guy is actually doing something in exchange for that payment. And him not being a lawn guy would probably not make it easier for you to enter the lawn care industry

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        26 days ago

        I think people conflate corporate and private landlords. An individual landlord is not going keep his rental empty to drive up prices because he can’t afford the rent loss. Also renters are not angels. They can create so much work and stress for a landlord that he’ll wish he was mowing lawns. That renter may be the breadwinner for his landlord but the fact is, if he doesn’t pay, the landlord will lose the rental and the renter will be on the street. The reality is, you’re not going to get free rent no matter how much you want communism to give it to you. Better to pay it to an individual that you might be able to reason with, than a corporation that will refuse to. It’s all a matter of degree. But yeah go ahead and downvote because all landlords are evil.

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          26 days ago

          Or better that not everyone and their dog that’s well off goes out and buys an ‘income property’, keeping house prices high and making it that much harder for people currently renting to get a house. I agree that big corporate landlords are worse, but most individual landlords are scum as well

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            26 days ago

            A renter will hate ANY landlord he rents from.

            I’m guessing he’ll hate ANY bank he gets a loan from as well. Not sure what the answer is other than fairer regulation.