Look, I’m just setting my rent according to an analysis of the current market rate for similar properties.
Yes, that analysis is provided by the same company that does estimates for the other properties.
No, I’ve never heard of “price fixing”. Look, your avocado toast is super expensive and it’s cuz the government gave you $600 three years ago so PAY MY MORTGAGE ALREADY YOU EASILY REPLACEABLE COW IN A PEN.
There is no price fixing, if you dont like it, go build your own house, this is free market
yes, and if you’re homeless just buy a house
btw, it’s not a free market if it’s controlled by a hand full of companies
Holy shit you ppl actually took my comment serious lmaoo
no, you just took my reply serious ;)
Clearly they must be giving out free land in good places to live (near were all the jobs are), free materials and free time over there.
It’s either that or that house you mention is supposed to be made out of opinions and built in fantasy la-la-land, as it’s only how the materials and places to put it in would be endless and free.
I mean I get both sides here. We live in a free market economy, where the scarcity of something affects the cost of it. People want land close to the city and there’s an extremely limited amount of it. If there are n*100 people and only n parcels of land in a small area, how do you provide it to people? Do you sell it? Is it a lottery system? Is the land sold at a base value that never changes? Like, how do you envision this going?
Right now, people have to freedom to buy as much land as they want and set the pricing for that land. What we need is a property owner tax that scales up depending on the amount of property that you own. Though this will just make more land available. No one in their right mind will sell it for less than it’s worth though.
If parcel A has a property value of X
And parcel B has a property value of 2X
Then you can have the same rent on both of them if building B is twice as tall as building A.
The whole “single family residential only” zoning in the US is the issue.
The land is really the limiting factor here, the rest is very easy by comparison.
Oh so wait, so building a house isn’t free then since nobody is giving the land and materials away. So why do you expect a landlord to let you live for free if he had to pay to buy the land and build it?
Nice to see you’re getting close to the core of the problem.
Yeah, Land is owned rather than belonging to everybody as it used to be back before monarchs and as land ownership works in this system - any one individual with massive wealth can own way more Land than they need - it can be easilly hoarded by those with more money in a way that’s impossible for those with less money to overcome (short of a Revolution) and thus create cartels or even monopolies in Land in desirable places to live, a market positions from where they can extract as big a rent as they want since everybody else has no alternative.
It’s from the massive imballance thus created by Law in the main, essential and irreplaceable, “raw material” for housing that the massive house prices we see come from, and landlords usually use their priviledged position in that highly imbalanced market to extract excessive rents.
The whole situation is actually the very opposite of the “Free Market” you state it is - Land (and thus housing) ain’t like teddy bears and soap were a competitor can just enter the market and make more of it when somebody tries to corner the market, quite the opposite: it’s dependent on a naturally limited resource on top of which a trully ancient kind of legislation makes hoarding extremelly easy for those lucky enough to have lots of wealth, artificially transforming the limits of that resource into an extreme kind of scarcity.
In this Not-At-All-Free Market, most landlords will extract excessive rents far beyond the value they add. If rents were not mainly based on exploiting a dominant position in a market dominated by hoarding and artifical scarcity and only paid for the actual service being provided by landlords, they would be tiny in comparison with the current situation and very few people would be critical of landlords.
Private interests are the ultimate autocracies.
Let private interests amass huge amounts of resources and you have hugely powerful autocracies.
Let these autocracies hire so-called economists to convince everyone that they will settle into some kind of optimal state if we just let them be and you have the current situation in the USA.
Yeah, fuck the poor.
Don’t fuck them, sell them to China as cheap slaves.
Slavery is immoral
Instead, make being poor illegal (arrest people who can’t pay for the essentials), arrest them, and THEN use them as slaves, it’s fine since they’re criminals
Sounds good to me!
He took the bait boys, get’im
god, that must be so traumatizing for that landlord. landlords have it so hard these days 🥺
Yeah! Do you know some people don’t even tip anymore? Like what happened to the common decency in America?
One must bring the water to a boil slowly. Now how are you going to have your mortgage paid for? Looks like youll need to delay your Vail ski trip or, heaven forbid, combine it with your Aspen trip
Goodness, I can’t imagine only ONE vacation per year! Buy a single family home and rent it at twice the cost of the mortgage to make ends meet. It’s hard work not doing anything all year!
Perhaps this single mother should’ve tried just getting a better job, or just simply work a second hell why not even a third. Sounds like lazyness to me.
Single moms these days need to start pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. What I would do if my rent was tripled, is just reduce my avocado toast intake by 30% and go on a nice vacation with all the additional money I saved up.
I bet she didn’t even tip.
She only tipped the chair. Typical.
Hopefully she didn’t damage the ceiling fan with the rope.
I hope she didn’t drip all over the carpet!
Jesus
This man is definitely not Jesus
He is written to be Republican Jesus
If you can’t afford bread, just eat the rich
Just mail the child to Effrey Jepstein and you’ll get your lost rent money back.
A landlord getting their ass off of the couch? I’ll believe it when I see it
Good news kids! Your mom killing herself in here wrecked the property value so I can lower your rent!
“But I won’t.”
The landlord’s here to visit
They’re blasting disco down below…Single Mother
One Corpse…
Sounds like you just got yourself at least one free child laborer
Should sue her estate for loss of income and emotional trauma.
“Based landlords” hate this one weird trick!
