+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@freeschool regarding the muppet picture: the landlord is still taking the whole risk of the credit, ownership, and does provide maintenance and upkeep. things the usual renter is not interested in doing. those are a very big part of the value provided for the rent.
with renters who think like the muppets a building wouldn't last a year until everything is broken. things don't fix themselves.
> things the usual renter is not interested in doing
well voluntary renters at least. with how bad a lot of markets are many people would happily do those things but are simply priced out (and yes I'm implying that they shouldn't be, which is ofc debatable but anyway)
@roboneko @freeschool
well, in a sense the renters are pricing themselves out? with a sane market prices reflect demand and supply. cf. the rents going down approximately 20% with milei cutting regulation. for example, zoning is complete bullshit here in germany. there are many empty office buildings directly in cities which could be transformed into appartements with some drywall.
it's a clusterfuck problem - mostly self inflicted. for example if you tell kids and parents that they will have no good life without going to university, many more will do that, critically impacting the housing market in some few cities. if many would just learn a trade they'd be much better off, more happy and could live somewhere with affordable housing.
these things have no easy fix. blaming landlords for not handing out free lunch which the meme does is make believe.
lastly, i had some good landlords in a pretty contested city which weren't ripping off people. it required a bunch of time to find those as well, but it payed off long term.
@bonifartius @roboneko Good to hear good stories of the past. More power to good landlords even... and always thought the way would be to have benevolent lords and cram more people in places a bit or something more in-house to squeeze the fun *and* work a bit a bit like migrants might do when working abroad... but towards social change (the pay less and making something happen together being a bit part this as being separate and all paying rent crushes any sort of progress I feel - maybe not down to when families had to huddle next to 1 wood stove and everyone bee quiet in that small space but paying and not sharing is also cause for concern and isolating.
And also lastly... probably :)... Mathematically I think we 'could' work the same leverage towards the other way instead of making them more paying them off but this whole paying the upper tiers literally sucks the life out of us and ends up as a few more boats or sitting in a banks somewhere.
Where's my mojito and bloody mary (not the Daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; wife of Philip II of Spain who when she restored Roman Catholicism to England burned many Protestants at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)...
...just the cocktail I meant, made with vodka and spicy tomato juice, I've misplaced it, back on the boat probably.
May life get better.