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And this will kill all small landlords, and we will end-up in situation like UK where single company can own all rental in a city. Dare to say something they do not like, you have to move.
In a housing crisis, there shouldn't be any landlords.
If there were no landlords, who would pay for these houses? As has been stated many times, people cannot afford to buy a house with their own money. Landlords give them a chance to get a place to live by investing their money. The problem is that the housing crisis is mostly a creation of current policies. Too many restrictions, policies, and commissions. All of these are sucking money. It is hard to afford to build a house, even if you already own the land. Building something cheaper is not possible because it will not comply with current regulations. F$%it, Australia is not same as it was before, we can't afford licensed plumbers, and shit build by the code. We need to give people a chance to build houses, and then the crisis will go away. (But this will drive property prices down, so the government will never allow that.)
The building codes are less stringent than they were decades ago, hence the drop in quality of housing compared to those built many decades earlier. It's never been easier to get a home built. There's a significant rise in remodeling homes at the moment because those who can afford it are doing it. I know because I do work with architects for these very people.
The hurdle is equity imbalance. The more houses you own, the more you can borrow. The more you own, the more you can rent or put on Airbnb and run as a hotel without having to pay corporate tax.
That and a lack of protection against people who do decide to build because if you get shafted by a builder, there is literally no one, no authority to turn to I'm order to get any deposits back. Much safer to build it yourself but can't if you're working to pay off your loans etc.
If we weren't competing with Landlords driving the cost of houses up to astronomical levels by buying up stock and living on the speculative investment value who would be buying houses... Hmm that's a toughy we might need to get back to you.
Bullshit.
My previous landlord shutdown his Electrical business because it makes less sense to funnel money into keeping a business operational than to just use it to buy more property. When we have small businesses shutting down so people can join the landlord class is it at least worth considering that something is askew in our economy?
If the political will existed then we could tackle monopolistic property ownership through regulation anyway. In the event we get politicians to legislate against their own cashcow then having them legislate against lobbyists shouldn't be that hard.
That's very optimistic of you to think that because this electrician did it, it must be a rational financial decision.
I'll touch base with him next time he is back in town from sailing on his yacht and ask if he is better off.
He is my go to example, not the only former business owner I know who has outright stated working for a living is dumb. It's almost always people working in trades who evangelise the benefits of being a landlord to me, and who can blame them?
Work 20-30 years and be physically broken for whatever time you have left, or work for long enough to get the first 2 or 3 properties bought and then use that as a platform to become a full time landlord.
One of those options is definitely the less physically impactful. This is also the route to personal wealth for a whole lot of politicians, so they are far less likely to close the loopholes they themselves are using for personal enrichment.