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I like the discussion here n all... But , quit hating on single house land lords ๐ญ . Some did it to have a retirement, n remember during the COVID crisis, landlords didn't get bailed out, fuckin fat ass companies/ corporations/ banksters n all get bailed out .
Wanna be mad at someone / something... Look at what Boeing did , look at what George W. Bush n his administration did ... Look at what Reagan did ( ok it might be irrelevant, but I am just saying... There are landlords n there are real evil f***ers out there)
But quit hating on small mom n pop landlords. The investors that keep buying out homes all the time to flip n or rent out or what not ; ye those ppl suck. The fact that in USA You can buy land and property without being even a US citizen sucks ; you can thank Gov for that. But don't be mad at little old landlords. Some work hard only to get murdered by their tenants when eviction day comes.
Sorry ๐๐ for the rant
Are they better than the mega-corps buying up thousands of houses, sure. Are they still taking one of the basic necessities for life and commidfying it? Also yes. You can use whataboutism all you want and maybe it helps you sleep at night but that doesn't change what you're doing.
I also love to hear landlords complain about how hard their "jobs" are and how tenants are so difficult. News flash: nobody is holding a gun to your head and making you rent out a house. If it's so much work why don't you sell the house, put the money into some structured investments and work all the hours you'd work on the property at a real job? Is it because it's not actually all that much work? Is that why you say it's a good retirement supplement? Or was it because your daddy was a landlord, and his daddy was a landlord and dammit being a landlord runs in your veins? Gee, I wonder if we ever came up with a term for a family landlord business? Maybe we can come up with something really regal to describe them?