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    1 year ago

    I have to raise rent on the single mother of 2 again…
    Inflation hits us all honey.

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      Of course, it would be terrible if you could no longer afford the lifestyle you are accustomed by profiting off of others labor

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      It must be weird to know that just dropping dead would actually make the world a tiny bit better than not. I wonder if that’s how an intestinal parasite feels?

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        I think it would make the day of my employees harder for a few months.
        I think it would make the rest of all of my wifes days really really bad.
        I think the only people who would be happy that i just died would be people on the internet with superiority complexes.

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                1 year ago

                Apparently. What’s that supposed to mean?
                Are you saying i will struggle to pay rent when I’m old?

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                    Fortunately the market is really strong for rentals, and that is unlikely to change because of people like you, so none of what you suggest will ever happen

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                    Karma for what? Who will get me? For what reason?
                    Why would the world suddenly stop renting?
                    Lots of my tenants only stay for a few years and then move to a different city or district.

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          You should buy a better life insurance policy. What kind of person doesn’t plan for the possibility of their spouse needing to be on their own?

          Wait, we already know EXACTLY that kind of person, don’t we?

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            I have one. I didn’t even mention anything financial. Funny that this is all you guys think about.
            You ever had a loved one die? Seems like you don’t know how horrible that is.
            Case closed.

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      Do you have to? or are you driving a fancy car, taking vacations, buying name brand clothing, spending money on over priced drinks… i don’t think you have to, i think you care about spending money on something that doesn’t matter more than that mother and her children.

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        “Nice” cars, taking a Vacation, and name brand clothing isn’t the demographic of rich we should all be fighting against. The actual rich wouldn’t define anything they do or buy that way. They don’t buy nice or fancy cars, they buy luxury cars. They don’t buy name brand clothes, they buy designer clothes. They don’t go on vacation, they just travel to their 10th summer home on their 3rs yacht and take a couple conference calls on the way.

        I hate seeing the definition of middle class and the lower class fighting against each other. That’s literally what the ultra rich want, they love it, it’s their other favorite hobby.

        Just because someone might barely make it out of the lower class and be able to afford a higher trim level on their Honda, and actually take a vacation doesn’t mean that’s a bad thing, what should fighting together for that be a thing for everyone in the lower class.

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        1 year ago

        Yes i have to. Every unit has to be a net positive to itself or at least stay a small net negative so other units can catch a non-scheduled repair. I’m pretty sure the tenant wouldn’t be happy to have to look for a new place just because a pipe broke.
        Yes, i drive a Taycan and my wife has an ID.5.
        Yes, i sit in my garden and enjoy whatever the weather allows me to.
        Yes, i exclusively buy clothes made from good quality natural materials. A sweater of the brand of clothes i buy costs about 160€ and lasts about 8 Years. I have not had to replace one yet and i own about 40 pieces of clothing in total. Not counting suits.
        What is an overpriced drink? I drink filtered tapwater, sometimes carbonated and at the rare occasion that i eat in a more fancier setting i drink Sprite.

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      Are you raising it proportionally to the costs you’d expect to see the next year for that unit and factoring in any expected equity were you to sell? I’m always curious how these rent hikes are calculated. Have you ever reduced rent?

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        I cannot tell you how conglomerates do it, but i can speak for myself.
        I own 10 Units that i rent out. I raise rent depending on what i think next year is gonna happen. But i also have 2 companies that generate income that i take into account a tiny bit.
        It’s been fucky since the Corona™️ though so i kept raises to the same level they were in 2019. About 4% a year.
        I raise my rent to market value whenever i have a change in tenant.
        I have never reduced rent. My costs have never gone down. If anything i didnt raise rent one year.
        I cannot keep rent the same forever because inflation and other cost increases would just eat at the foundation and if something breaks i will have to just sell the entire unit.

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            Don’t know. Don’t care. I raise wages to a percent above inflation. Not my problem other employers don’t.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe you could fall in an open grave and just never come back out? What if you did that instead?

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        1 year ago

        You really wanna know how little will change? Or was that just flamebait

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        All of them. Food, gas, petrol, property tax, car payments, electricity, water, my employees… you name it, it got more expensive.

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          Exactly the problem. You rely on other people to pay you more than a thing is worth so that you can remain in a lifestyle that is no longer sustainable. Fuck you.

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                I manage 10 employees, i drive to customers and do electrical or system administration if any of my employees are ever sick, i do many repairs on the units i rent out myself, and if I can’t because i cannot meet best practices in that specific field i work on getting someone to fix it.

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                    have you tried selling those homes.
                    No, why?
                    maybe let the mother of 2 get ahead in life. like you.
                    I am not stopping anyone from getting ahead in life lmao, what makes you think that? You think if someone cannot afford to pay rent, they will become mega rich as soon as they don’t?
                    Or is that an offensive idea? No i would love for people in my community to become successful.

                    What would you do if that mother of 2 became successful and bought you out and kept raising your rent?
                    What? I’m not a corporation you can just buy. How would anyone buy me out? And why?

                    what would you really do?
                    I would just not sell?

                    you hold the torch of rent to everyone else. what about you? without the income of 10 units. and 10 families working on your behalf to stay in a shelter lest you throw them out.
                    What? Are you dense? I have 2 businesses that pay the small tidbit of loan that is still open. All my properties are paid off. All the rent goes into a single account that i can leverage to make repairs or upgrades to the units i rent out. And what’s with the throwing people out? I can’t kick people out my guy, renters have rights.

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          Guess what… aside from property tax and employees (which are your cost of doing business), your tenants also have to shoulder all those extra costs. And now they get slugged by your rent increases as well.

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            While I agree to a point, apart from property tax and employees there’s more costs that i face so the tenant doesnt have to.
            Insurance (both from natural causes and unnatural damages), the aforementioned property tax, waste and fresh water, appliances that have to be replaced, corrosion damage, trash disposal, street cleaning etc.
            I get the slight feeling that you only ever rented? This is all part of the rent. You are paying a part of all this with your rent. I get an average of 400 before tax a month on each unit.
            You think the eingle mother of 2 could afford a mortgage of more than the rent (US centric, in Europe it’d be a loan) and all the running costs?

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              While I agree to a point, apart from property tax and employees there’s more costs that i face so the tenant doesnt have to. Insurance (both from natural causes and unnatural damages), the aforementioned property tax, waste and fresh water, appliances that have to be replaced, corrosion damage, trash disposal, street cleaning etc.

              Wherever I have rented, I paid for my electricity and water usage. So unless you’re talking about your own electricity and water usage, I’m not sure what you mean by “facing costs so the tenant doesn’t have to”. Structural insurance is not a cost the tenant would bear themselves if you didn’t, since they can’t take out insurance on a structure they don’t own. So if you weren’t bearing that cost, your property would simply be uninsured. The rest are pretty much your business costs.

              I get the slight feeling that you only ever rented?

              You’d be mistaken. I have been in the fortunate position of not having to rent for the past ten years - I’ve dealt with too many shitty landlords and middlemen to ever want to do it again. And the same way you don’t care if a tenant’s salary is going up enough to be able to afford your rent increases, I don’t care what you make on renting out a unit. You could be breaking even for all I care. Your business model is predicated on people being able to afford your rent, and if purchasing (or, if you will) renting power is reducing across the board due to ever increasing cost of living, well, then you don’t have a viable business. Nobody forced you to be a landlord, nobody ever said your investment was going to be risk-free.

              You think the eingle mother of 2 could afford a mortgage of more than the rent (US centric, in Europe it’d be a loan) and all the running costs?

              In many markets, private landlords set their rent so that the renter is pretty much paying the mortgage on the rented property, plus the running costs. The Australian market in particular is so inflated right now that many renters would actually be better off paying a mortgage on the same place they’re renting.

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                Wherever I have rented, I paid for my electricity and water usage.

                Ok, cool. My Tenants don’t.

                The Australian market in particular is so inflated right now that many…

                Cool, not Australian.

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        1 year ago

        You don’t believe changes in the supply of a good influence its value?