Honestly anyone who happens to own two to five different properties shouldn't honestly be taxed nearly as much as anyone who is going to own 50.... 200..... 1,000 + properties who should then at that point be taxed 100% on their profits.
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Landlords wanting to use AI to drive prices even more should be illegal. Landlords shouldn't exist.
I rent out my basement at well under market value to an older lady that was in the house when I bought it.
I understand the post was made as a generalization but some landlords aren't bad and some situations are better than the alternatives.
Would you rather I kick out my tenant and god knows where she would live or maybe she becomes homeless?
a better question is why are you so horny for the approval of random internet strangers??
Like you either understand what the issue is here and are pretending not to in order to fish for a reaction; or you don't and your questions along with that knee-jerk reaction of "nuh uh not ALL landlords!!!" are totally genuine... but if you truly don't understand then there are much better ways to gain understanding than inviting random unqualified lemmy users to criticize the intimate details (at least the limited amount of such details that can be shared in a lemmy thread from a single perspective) of your extremely unique situation, and then getting upset and going on about "legions of frothing idiots online" when they do exactly that.
I could ask questions like, "how did that woman's house get sold to you literally right out from under her?", "is it fair that this elderly woman is generously allowed to live in her own basement now because at least she's not homeless?", and "do you think that woman might have had the opportunity to buy her own house, and yourself to buy a separate home from hers, if speculation hadn't driven up housing prices?" but I'm also just a random dumbass on the internet with a total knowledge of jack shit on your specific situation and just enough on property/capital ownership to understand that landlording as a practice and as a system is parasitic and exploitative in nature.
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Landlord: a person who rents land, a building, or an apartment to a tenant
Renting out a room in your house does not a landlord make
Tell that to the Legion of frothing idiots online. Yes, I am a landlord in everyone's eyes.
It is a job when you’ve got dozens of shitty tenants always complaining about petty little things like heat, mold, and infestations
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Name one functional society that's big enough to have property rentals but doesn't.
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