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To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?

Please explain your reasoning as well.

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[–] arthur 25 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Someone who hords houses.

If you have an beach house that you uses every year, and rents it when it's not using or you have one second house that you got from a deceased family member... If you need to work to maintain this second house...

That's fine. It will not cause a inflation on the house market, it's not just an investment.

In my city (not in US), there are a booming market of very small apartments that rich people buy just to protect their money from inflation. As result, higher prices, less units available for the general public, and the new units that are available are terrible.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (9 children)

We really need to make investing in property less lucrative than other means.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is the key problem of the housing market. For generations we've been told the only way to wealth is home ownership - so nobody will ever support more housing because you don't live in a house, or a neighborhood, you live in an investment and you've put all your retirement eggs into this single investment instead of diversifying. So, if new housing pushes value down you don't see "Hey new neighbors" you see "there goes my retirement."

Now, of course, institutional investors are involved and we're just all fucked.

[–] arthur 1 points 8 months ago

Institutional investors should not be permitted to buy residencial properties.

(Well, I would say that they should not be permitted to exists, but we are not there yet.)

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