• SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    land speculator

    Tendentious language.

    What service does the land speculator landlord provide to the tenant?

    You think providing exclusive access to a house for the renter to live in is not something that has value?

    Soon I will probably become a landlord, not because I want to but because it makes financial sense. My partner and I are pooling money to buy a place together so we can live together, she will sell her apartment and I will rent out my old apartment, which I bought with my own money and worked 20 years for to pay off. Are you suggesting I should just have to give the fruit of my 20 years of labor away to someone for free?

    You’re fucking insane.

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      Soon I will probably become a landlord

      It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it

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        It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it

        My salary? I am a wage slave just like everybody else.

        Anyway, you didn’t address the main questions:

        • Do you think providing exclusive access to a house for the renter to live in is something that has no value?
        • This house didn’t just happen to fall in my lap. I put 250k of my own money in over the course of 30 years (10 years to save for the down payment + 20 years of mortage payments). Money that I worked for, doing a job. It’s literally the fruit of my labor. By what ungodly reasoning should I have to give that to you or anyone else for free?

        It seems you are the one here who is not making any effort to be understanding.