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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 136 points 1 year ago (57 children)

What do families do, that only want or need to live in a place or area for like a year or so? Buy a house, pay thousands in closing costs and inspections, lose several thousand to realtors, and then have to go through the trouble of trying to sell the place a year later?

We very much need landlords. What's screwing everything up is corpos doing it as a business or individuals with like 20 homes instead of one or two. Renting a house is a viable need for some people and it would actually suck if it was an option that didn't exist at all.

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Are you taking it too literally or am I not taking it literally enough? Whenever I see stuff like this it never registered that the author is trying to say landlords shouldn't exist just that the people who call being a landlord their job are a problem. I've rented a lot throughout my short years and having a landlord who has some extra property they're trying to make a buck off are pretty decent it's the ones who treat it like their 9-5 I've had problems with.

[–] CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with you, but, it is titled "get rid of landlords".

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eat the rich doesn't mean cannibalism.

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