• iopq@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      My mom is the landlord and remodeling houses IS her work. She was a stay at home mom until I grew up, that’s what she does for a living after she divorced my dad. She lives on the rent of her properties while she does each project

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        10 months ago

        She lives on the rent of her properties

        This is exactly the thing people have issues with. The whole “I am the breadwinner of my landlord’s household.”

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          10 months ago

          That’s why I thought she should just buy stocks and live off dividends instead. I mean, any investment has a rate of return or people would not buy it

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            10 months ago

            Yup, and housing shouldn’t be an investment. It can be affordable, or an investment, not both.

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              10 months ago

              Then you should support less zoning restrictions and lower development fees to increase the availability of housing.

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                10 months ago

                I do? But I also support laws that heavily tax owning secondary properties. Building more houses is not helpful if they just get purchased by landlords.

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                  10 months ago

                  Landlords follow market pricing, so if there’s enough housing the prices go down. Landlords are not the reason rent is high

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                    10 months ago

                    Landlords are not the reason rent is high

                    If being a landlord is profitable where do you think that profit comes from? Logically landlord’s need to be making housing more expensive so they can get their cut.