I’m referring to both. 80% of rentals are owned by mom and pop landlords. They’re a much bigger problem than corporate landlords.

They’re fine, why would I be against them?

I changed the link, my apologies.

Haha, don’t delude yourself. I have perfect credit, no debt and more than enough savings. Walking into a bank and getting a big mortgage isn’t some special skill.

Why is it some other family’s responsibility to support your mom. Why do someone’s children have to go without because of your adult mom. Why don’t you take care of her?

Cope, anyone that isn’t a parasite like you has to have a job in the god forsaken settler colonialist hell hole

Okay bro, just keep telling yourself that anyone that doesn’t abide by your civility politics means their points are moot and that you know the real truth about things

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You don’t know how life or capitalism works if you’re never bothered reading the two seminal works on it.

Why does being mad negate my argument?

So you’re old and ignorant of Adam Smith and Marx.

This tax is targeting speculators buying crack houses and squatting on them.

Bruh, landlords write off the interest on their taxes. Plus there’s depreciation, a lot of landlords don’t pay any taxes at all. You are such a landlord shill.

If you can’t handle it, sell your property. No one asked you to be a landlord. You’re not holding up the world, you’re just a parasite.

It wouldn’t take lots of money of there were no landlords. The average home takes only 300 labor hours to build. Homes are expensive because of the rent can pull in, not because they’re expensive to build.

Because you talked about the “risk” that landlords absorb like flood and fire.

And how much your mortgage is is predicated on how much of a down payment you put down. A down payment that tenants can’t save because of the parasitic draw of landlords.

The only reason why renting is cheaper than buying now is because of rampant speculation by DUN DUN DUN LANDLORDS. You want me to be great full for a solution to a problem YOU CAUSED.

Before COVID made AirBnBs 10x money machines, and RealPage allowed landlords to fix prices, buying was actually a little cheaper than renting in all but the most desirable cities.

Regardless the Real Estate rentals making 100’s billions of dollars. All the “risk” and equity that landlords are supposedly providing is all coming from tenants fully fucking stop.

As far a solution for the people that absolutely positively can not buy, that you couldn’t give a fuck less about considering how many people you’ve kicked our onto the streets already, who previously could afford rent, it’s called public housing, ie just give them a home. We already do it in Mississippi and it works great.

If housing were cheap why wouldn’t renters just by or go into co ops.

You clearly don’t understand how profits work. Renting is profitable so all this risk you speak of paid for by the tenant along with the outsized profits landlords enjoy.

Blah blah blah, the average upkeep on a home is 3% of the home’s price. On a 400k home that’s 12 grand. That’s 1k a month for a 3br home. Rents for something like that would top 3k.

That’s why we call it RENT and not a service. No one would pay over 3 times as much for something they could do themselves.

Homes appreciate on average 1% a year so you’re really talking about 8k out of pocket or $800 per month for maintenance.

Tell me you move the goalposts without telling me you move the goalposts.

Homeowners don’t file insurance claims to hire plumbers. And sorry but filing work orders or insurance claims is never going to turn into a full time job for a individual homeowner.

If you’re talking about property management of multifamily complexes yes that’s a job but when you spread that work out among all the units it turns into minutes of work.

And like I said, all this “risk” would be easily affordable if the tenants weren’t paying rent.

You are so adorable, you really think landlords make billions because of how hard it is to pick up the phone and talk to an insurance agent.