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Facts. There's really no excuse for being a landlord. Even the "mom and pop" ones people are sucking off in this thread are a fucking scourge who are hoarding resources and exploiting the working class. I don't care how sweet and polite they might be about it.
The only good landlord is...
Edit: Blocklist fodder itt, so many greasy bootlickers...
It's hilarious how many people are trying to defend landlords like they're actually somehow good for society.
Outside of the rare landlord-as-a-roomate to afford the mortgage scenario, landlords and renting are a solution to a problem they're creating themselves. They benefit property owners and developers, while creating housing environments that encourage the rest of us to be dependent on them until they day we die.
Yeah, it's pretty disgusting and disappointing to see that here. I just had some bootlicker write a novel about how his father in law was "one of the good ones."
Capitalism has rotted their minds.
My FiL owns a few properties that he rents out. He "retired" at 49. Now he spends most of his day, every day, either improving empty/not ready properties, or maintaining the currently rented properties. The people he rents to simply cannot afford a house, at any price, or they do not have the time and skills or maintain their own home. He's only evicted one person in his time as a landlord, literally because the tenant didn't pay for 6 months, turned the property into a drug den and went on the run when the police tried to serve a warrant.
I get that landlords on the surface level can be seen as predatory, and I agree that there are a disproportionate amount of scum and anti-humam business drones in the rental business; but its important to remember that there are genuine people who buy, maintain and rent out properties so that their community isn't rife with dangerous dilapidated buildings filled with squatters.
Anyone who buys housing to rent it out is a part of the problem. Housing is a basic human right, not an investment.
Unless your fil was providing housing for free, fuck him, and fuck off with the classist shit about squatters. I'd take a million squatters over one landlord.
Just curious, do you eat meat?