The type that looks up to Clarance Thomas.
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And if you do really well, you might even be able to get Clarence Thomas to look up to you!
What's weird to me is that the first one pays for their vacations and the second one pays their mortgage. If I had rental properties I would do it the other way around.
The appropriate criticism here is about corrupt markets resulting from restricted/scarce housing supply. Fair markets that encourage abundant housing supply, are ones that would lead to "perfect competition" and fair ROI on capital. The oligarchist/capital supremacy model of US/west corrupts markets against abundance, because extortionist profits fund politicians to protect extortionist profits.
UBI, not democracy, is the important freedom that can address structural corruption, but still the option to rent still needs to pay for the capital/expense investment in allowing you to rent.
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All i had to do was just buy 4 houses? Damn. I'm rich!
I don’t think just because people are landlords that makes them bastards though. We’re letting a house out and I think we treat our tenants well. We don’t rip them off, we fix stuff when it’s broken, and since we have a fixed rate mortgage our costs haven’t gone up in several years and so neither has the rent.
A few comments around saying, "not all landlords are bad; I'm a landlord and I'm pretty okay." Where are the tenants saying, I'm happy to pay rent to my landlord?
I'll be one.
I've never owned property. I'd like to, and I think there's a huge evil in the scale and manner of property/land rental that goes on, and I'd much prefer an overwhelming change toward most people being able to own their home.
But not all of us are in a position to own. Nor does everyone want the responsibility and the overhead (ownership can be expensive too!). I'm glad there have been landlords from whom I can rent a place in each of the places I've been.
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~~Tenant~~ Slave
Nobody likes a cheater.