Hm I don’t know man. I’m not a landlord, I don’t even own a home. But I see renting as a useful service. Do landlords and estate companies abuse people? Absolutely. But I don’t see renting as evil per se. Buying a house/flat is a huge personal investment and risk, and I’m happy to rent for the time being until I’m ready to buy.
We could have co-op’s, instead we have profits. I wish you all the luck in buying your own home. But for me, where I’m at, I will forever pay rent to never own anything. Forever a second class citizen. All these apartments I’ve lived in with rents calculated not by necessity, but by what the market will bear. I’m pissed, and I think you should be too.
Everyone is, some are just in better positions than others.
To me, this very much seems like a “don’t hate the player, hate the game” type of situation. It’s like companies not paying their “fair” share of taxes - they’re just following the laws. It’s up to us to change them if we don’t like it, just like the issue of having soulless corporations as landlords.
Hm I don’t know man. I’m not a landlord, I don’t even own a home. But I see renting as a useful service. Do landlords and estate companies abuse people? Absolutely. But I don’t see renting as evil per se. Buying a house/flat is a huge personal investment and risk, and I’m happy to rent for the time being until I’m ready to buy.
We could have co-op’s, instead we have profits. I wish you all the luck in buying your own home. But for me, where I’m at, I will forever pay rent to never own anything. Forever a second class citizen. All these apartments I’ve lived in with rents calculated not by necessity, but by what the market will bear. I’m pissed, and I think you should be too.
Your problem is with capitalism, not landlords.
The landlord would be the capitalist in this scenario, no?
Everyone is, some are just in better positions than others.
To me, this very much seems like a “don’t hate the player, hate the game” type of situation. It’s like companies not paying their “fair” share of taxes - they’re just following the laws. It’s up to us to change them if we don’t like it, just like the issue of having soulless corporations as landlords.
That’s fair