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It wouldn't be an issue at all we were paying to a normal person who's got ex. To pay for their mortgage, for college debt etc. The issue is that we are paying evil corporations and not normal people. We are fueling gentrification and we can't even boycott them
Why wouldn't it be a problem paying rent to a normal person? Being a slave in Rome 2000 years ago, you were a slave regardless of whether you were owned by a small owner with just a few slaves, than one with 200.
No, the issue is rent seeking parasites in general. If anything the 'mom and pop' landlords are even fucking scummier because YOU HAVE TO LIVE WITH THEM KEEPING YOUR FUCKING HEAD DOWN AND DOING CUSTOMER SERVICE IN YOUR OWN FUCKING HOME YOU'RE FUCKING PAYING FOR
The level of fucking entitlement these people have to treat you literally however the fuck they want is unmatched.
Painting the hallway? Why bother saying anything? It's my house. Oh, you got paint all over your brand new sweater? Lol. It hasn't been 3 months yet so 'if it doesn't work out' you're out on the street same day! Haha!
What? You're upset at the pile of cat shit that's been in your bathroom for a whole day because I don't give my FIVE cats litter boxes? You're going to talk to me like that?? Pack your bags, loser! My parents were rich!
Speak, cowards. I see your sullen angry downvotes. Do you have anything to fucking say for yourselves or not?
the majority of landlords aren't corporations. 8.9 perecent of all resdential housing stock is own by corporate entities.
91.1 percent is owned by individual landlords.
the people i've known who rent corporately owned properties are typically well-off. all the corporate owning-housing in my area is largely over market rate and mostly rented out by rich people who can easily afford it.
That's such a irrelevant/misleading statistic. People aren't griping the incorporation vs soul proprietorship of landlords. More than half of those individual landlords own multiple rental properties. Thousands of them own enough rental properties (4+ in Canada) to require a property management license, that many do not possess.
Individual landlords are the ones buying up detached homes, hoarding them as extortionate rentals until selling them as land assemblies so that corporations can build overpriced breadboxes.
If you live somewhere without strong tenancy laws than corporations basically get a free pass on colluding to drive up local rental pricing. End of the day they own the apartments around universities and hospitals where demand will meet any price.