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To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by tkk13909@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?

Please explain your reasoning as well.

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[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Does having an airbnb bikeshed get the guillotine?

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Man there's so much indiscriminate hate in here. I rent out an apartment to some tenants, and I rent myself, elsewhere. So I'm both a landlord and a tenant.

The rent I receive doesn't even cover the cost of the apartment. I'm losing money on it every year. So I'm subsidising someone's housing.

So why all the hate?

I like moving around so I'm not going sell and buy every couple of years.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's causing you to lose money on your apartment?

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[–] Macallan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if I rent to family members under market value?

[–] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I think you'd need to be renting it as a non-profit to not count. Under market value means you're still making money for basically nothing right?

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I am a reluctant landlord. If I had my way, I wouldn't have any properties other people lived in, but alas there are other factors at play. I'm a renter myself, and hope to buy a house soon, but the properties that my family has dog me still.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any useful answer to this will be very long. It pretty much never is. The guy saying it's by majority of use is the closest.

Disclaimer that I'm not in this picture; it seems like just another investment asset to me, exactly as problematic as all the rest.

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