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Boo Hoo, why can't I raise rents however I like (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 8 months ago by 44razorsedge@lemmy.world to c/ottawa@lemmy.ca
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Half a story, told from the 1% perspective, is a trope with the CEEB these days. A manufactured crisis to elicit a singular response. Pity the poor land owner, being held hostage by the big bad tenant. Boo fucking hoo.

Anyone ever had their accommodations "renovicted" or been left idle for a year so the rapacious land owner could jack the rent up? I have and it fucking sucks.

I guess when the system works in favour of the land owners, it's all OK and just a bunch of whinging peasants. Coverage of renovictions? Puh-shaw!!!

So cry me a river, CEEB, your shilling for the land owners rings pretty hollow here.

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[-] WhimsicalSofa@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 8 months ago

Oh no, they want to buy the tenant out of a legal contract and the tenant asks for more than the landlord wants to pay! A purely voluntary agreement doesn’t have terms they like!

These fuckers love a contract when they can unilaterally dictate terms but let the other party have bargaining power, or the right to say “no,” and now it’s unfair. Fuck them.

[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

The video is just so tone deaf. Only at the VERY END do they try to bring it back to sanity. So gross.

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