Seems like I struck a nerve in some way? It's 2024 and you can call a man a dog to his face or even stomp on his blue suede shoes, but as soon as an argument has a walletary impact, the response is swift and lethal.
Maintenance is just not an argument. Unless you choose – yes choose – to rent to destructive tenants, or in other ways are irresponsible with your property, maintenance cost is a tiny fraction of what you get from rent. The same for insurance, taxes, etc that you list. Nobody is unaware of these costs.
With that said, I'm not demonizing over these landlords. I'm sure they're fine people and could be worse like you say.
A renter should not be any more grateful to the landlord than a worker should be grateful to the shareholder for paying their salary. It is an exchange. I do think it is better when homeowners at least rent out their property instead of just letting it rot abandoned like many choose. The most decent thing of course would be for them to sell property they don't need and we wouldn't be living in this dystopia from the beginning.
The youth of the industrialized nations are vanishing on a grander scale than ever seen - for petty gains to a few. And those gains will be short lived when the economy folds in on itself due to the impossibility for productive people to have a home. In the end you cannot have an extremely highly skilled workforce that is needed to sustain a modern economy, while at the same time keeping them dumbed down enough to accept total life long exploitation and their own genetical extermination.
> A renter should not be any more grateful to the landlord than a worker should be grateful to the shareholder for paying their salary. It is an exchange.
All true, but there can be a lot of "quality of life" variance in how that exchange is implemented in practice. I've been a tenant a couple of times and now had a couple of tenants myself. Landlords can make things more or less difficult while offering the same agreement, and tenants can make things more or less difficult while complying fully with the same agreement.
I'm grateful whenever someone chooses to do better than the bare minimum required by the agreement. If anyone reading this takes good faith for granted, I urge you to at least read horror stories on reddit.
Maintenance is just not an argument. Unless you choose – yes choose – to rent to destructive tenants, or in other ways are irresponsible with your property, maintenance cost is a tiny fraction of what you get from rent. The same for insurance, taxes, etc that you list. Nobody is unaware of these costs.
With that said, I'm not demonizing over these landlords. I'm sure they're fine people and could be worse like you say.
A renter should not be any more grateful to the landlord than a worker should be grateful to the shareholder for paying their salary. It is an exchange. I do think it is better when homeowners at least rent out their property instead of just letting it rot abandoned like many choose. The most decent thing of course would be for them to sell property they don't need and we wouldn't be living in this dystopia from the beginning.
The youth of the industrialized nations are vanishing on a grander scale than ever seen - for petty gains to a few. And those gains will be short lived when the economy folds in on itself due to the impossibility for productive people to have a home. In the end you cannot have an extremely highly skilled workforce that is needed to sustain a modern economy, while at the same time keeping them dumbed down enough to accept total life long exploitation and their own genetical extermination.