• BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    This isn’t relevant to the meme at all though.

    Also if your asking me to feel bad for someone trying to make a profit off acting as a middleman to a basic human need you’re barking up the wrong tree.

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          8 months ago

          My mom is the landlord and remodeling houses IS her work. She was a stay at home mom until I grew up, that’s what she does for a living after she divorced my dad. She lives on the rent of her properties while she does each project

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            8 months ago

            She lives on the rent of her properties

            This is exactly the thing people have issues with. The whole “I am the breadwinner of my landlord’s household.”

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              8 months ago

              That’s why I thought she should just buy stocks and live off dividends instead. I mean, any investment has a rate of return or people would not buy it

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                8 months ago

                Yup, and housing shouldn’t be an investment. It can be affordable, or an investment, not both.

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                  8 months ago

                  Then you should support less zoning restrictions and lower development fees to increase the availability of housing.

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                    8 months ago

                    I do? But I also support laws that heavily tax owning secondary properties. Building more houses is not helpful if they just get purchased by landlords.