Lasty Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 At least here in the U.S.. Rent in this country is definitely a racketeering scam. Capitalism is great and all (cough sarcasm cough) but we need some rules that say people can't line their pockets for doing nothing other than owning a piece of property. A genuine contribution this does not make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poof Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Uncle Sam disagrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lasty Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 4 hours ago, Poof said: Uncle Sam disagrees. Uncle Sam is an avid abusive alcoholic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Me Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 5 hours ago, Lasty said: At least here in the U.S.. Rent in this country is definitely a racketeering scam. Capitalism is great and all (cough sarcasm cough) but we need some rules that say people can't line their pockets for doing nothing other than owning a piece of property. A genuine contribution this does not make. Well they did make rules regarding how much a property can raise rent from year to year regardless of market...I mean the apartments I’m in now we pay 756 because we were locked in at a lower rate before the boom of business came here...but people who come in now have to pay 1,200....so they can’t raise our rate to the 1,200 because that’s against the law Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornshire Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 People should be allowed to make money for whatever other people chose to pay them for, so long as the thing isn't illegal to begin with. An alternative would be to ease back vagrancy laws so as to create less artificial demand, making prices lower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lasty Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 3 hours ago, Still Me said: Well they did make rules regarding how much a property can raise rent from year to year regardless of market...I mean the apartments I’m in now we pay 756 because we were locked in at a lower rate before the boom of business came here...but people who come in now have to pay 1,200....so they can’t raise our rate to the 1,200 because that’s against the law What I'm saying is, if the 756 is what's affordable, everyone should have the opportunity to pay around that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lasty Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, Kweerie said: People should be allowed to make money for whatever other people chose to pay them for, so long as the thing isn't illegal to begin with. An alternative would be to ease back vagrancy laws so as to create less artificial demand, making prices lower. That first bit is a slippery slope. If all the landlords and real estate agents know that mutually raising their prices together will force people to pay more because there is no alternative, they don't even have to get together in a shady room to plan it out. They just raise their prices. This is the kind of thing that happens to high demand necessities in the context of capitalism; people get raped financially over them. Food, housing, medical care, education? All super expensive when they don't have to be. There's a limit to what's acceptable to charge for life necessities considering the income of the average person. There are more and more homeless people every year. Usurers are going to get chastised hard at some point or another if they don't learn what that limit is. Edited February 2, 2018 by Lasty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuggnificent Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 they arent raising wages but keep raising rent yeah thats unfair but landlords do have a lot of work and responsibity in maintaining their properties and keeping them livable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lasty Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 2 minutes ago, fuggnificent said: they arent raising wages but keep raising rent yeah thats unfair but landlords do have a lot of work and responsibity in maintaining their properties and keeping them livable Work which, by and large, is eschewed whenever possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuggnificent Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Just now, Lasty said: Work which, by and large, is eschewed whenever possible. depends on where you live i had zero problems at my 1st place 2nd place tons of issues...i got a brand new stove, dishwasher...free hotel when they needed to dig up my closet, etc. AND they gave me a student discount off my rent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quebecelegy Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 (edited) if there's people willing to pay a specific amount, there's people willing to charge them that. and then there's people more than willing to exploit this, especially when it's never met with punishment. you can argue about capitalism all you want, but the real underlying problems of it, here in america would subvert and apply to every ideology if allowed to. Edited February 2, 2018 by quebecelegy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Me Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Lasty said: What I'm saying is, if the 756 is what's affordable, everyone should have the opportunity to pay around that. No yeah I get you...I don’t like the fact that they raise prices because they know people need to move here for their jobs and they wanna get more money out of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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