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[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 77 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Landlord said to me "property tax has gone up. This is my only form of income. Will need to increase rent"

Told him "yeah, everything has gone up and my paycheck is still the same".

Like, these types of relationships are so parasitic. This is the "nice" mom and pop style landlord too that every liberal seems to want to give a pass too.

Sure, are they less bad than the big corporate faceless landlords? Yes. But the entire relationship is the problem.

They get to justify forcing me out of my home because the value of the house that they own WENT UP.

That's why their property tax is more. They literally own something that is more valuable and making it further impossible for me to ever buy a place of my own.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they offered to let you buy it for the fair market value of the home, would you? That's the only viable way for them to extract that house value without evicting you. A fair answer could be absolutely, and perhaps that should be something renters are given some rights to do, but just pointing out that a tax assessment doesn't mean they have usable money unless they can do something to cash in.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I literally asked. He said he's not selling.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That is unfortunate.

Old guy or younger guy? If this is their retirement income, they would probably be better off selling it and putting the proceeds into a nice account.

Of course those accounts also profit off of the inconvenience of others, but with social security all messed up, some form of screwing with the active working generation is needed to model retirement of the older generation, and a financial account is less egregious than sitting on potentially available housing stock.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

I think I can answer most of your questions by saying he comes over to discuss the lease in a Mercedes Maybach. An SUV that starts at $178,000.

I don't think age or other things really matter at that point.

He owns multiple properties and houses.

But, still, my entire point is that this relationship in itself is what needs to die. It's not this individual dudes fault. It's a system that allows people like this to exist that produce nothing.