• finderscult@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Just a reminder, they’re just better at being landlords. All landlords, every single one, is responsible for this, they were just too inefficient to raise rents this high this fast before becoming conglomerates.

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      1 year ago

      Just a reminder, they’re just better at being landlords.

      Having more capital to invest in numerous properties that can be listed at whatever price they want, with the ability to leave them empty if no one is willing to rent them, is not “better at being a landlord”.

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        1 year ago

        It quite literally is. That’s the purpose of being a landlord, exclusively, is to lord over land and expand your domain with the profits.

        All landlords are leeches, all landlords would rather leave homes empty than rent them as long as the line goes up, all landlords exist still lely to make money from having money.

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          It quite literally is. That’s the purpose of being a landlord, exclusively, is to lord over land and expand your domain with the profits.

          All landlords are leeches, all landlords would rather leave homes empty than rent them as long as the line goes up, all landlords exist still lely to make money from having money.

          You should work on the binary thinking pattern displayed here because “quite literally” one does not need to invest in numerous properties to be a landlord, and not all landlords are mega corporations looking to sheer every sheep they can see.

          In fact, some run Inns.

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            1 year ago

            All landlords are rich people that hoard land and then, if they’re inefficient, hold it hostage in exchange for many times its worth.

            It is literally the explicit purpose. And yes, some landlords own inns, that they rent to inn keepers and proprietors that then sublet. They do not run the inns if theyre landlords.