• dan1101@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Refusing repairs is a dick move, but raising rent can be a consequence of rapidly rising property taxes and increasing insurance premiums. Would be nice if renters got an actual itemized invoice showing what goes into the rent cost.

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      Itemized invoice would be killer! There’d have to be an item called “pure profit”, shining some light on their greed.

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        6 days ago

        Most landlords pretend that the money that goes towards paying off the mortgage is a profit. Lots of the ones I see are always like “I make no money off of this” while the tenant pays off their loan for the house for them. Idiots.

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          You’d need proper accounts the P+L and importantly the balance sheet for full transparency At least until they start paying their accountants more for corporate fuckery - though I think many do already to dodge taxes.

          But the real fucker is in the bank loan, you probably can’t borrow at the same rate until you have as much collateral as them. Even though your rent is literally the asset, and you and the previous tenants keep buying them more collateral that puts them in a better position to borrow more and acquire more.

          Good old Free market, no barriers to entry, no first mover advantage, no congestion effects . . . /s. I’m sure rent control is terrible invention, ruins cities.

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          I see are always like “I make no money off of this” while the tenant pays off their loan for the house for them

          I took a cab ride the other day, in a car the driver probably has bought via a loan, to a pick up an item from a store in commercial space they’re probably leasing, brought in via money they borrowed short-term to finance the purchase of goods to be sold. Tell me which of these CoGS fees they were correct to collect from my payment, and which of these you would rabidly avoid because of the filthy lies.

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      So you’re saying that landlords are keeping prices down out of the goodness of their hearts, and it’s external costs causing the increase?

      That’s very anti capitalism. You’re supposed to charge as high as you can at all times, regardless of costs.

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      Property taxes and insurance premiums on what is mostly passive income. No invoice needed. For most of us, rent is the majority of our paychecks, which are earned by working.