• @EatYouWell@lemmy.world
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    -108 months ago

    Yeah, a lot of people don’t seem to understand that being a landlord means assuming a very large amount of risk.

    • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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      -18 months ago

      LOL, this is the wrong place to make a simple and truthful statement like that. Somehow, someway, everyone deserves a free home. The, uh, “plans” are a little sketchy. OK, no one really knows what that looks like, but we’ll get there! Um. Somehow.

      FFS, studies and real-life experiments, one after the other, show that we can save money by simply housing the homeless. Ask yourself why we’re not doing that. I’m all for taking a hit on NIMBY stuff, but homeless tearing up my hood and shitting on the streets is about the one thing where I’ll say, “NIMBY”.

      Part of my retirement plan is to rent this house out and go camp in an RV, or maybe make my 2.5 acres of swamp livable. Tell me lemmings, do I not deserve to make a few bucks on the deal? Shall I just let people tear my house up for free?

      Yes, we need solid renter protections, but go too far, and the good guys will drop out and leave nothing but sharks who can absorb the risk, and that absorption is going to cost. Already getting there fast.