• GrayoxOP
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      352 years ago

      Yup! Both are leeches on society, but one is sucking from the jugular and the other is sucking from an extremity. That being said they are both sucking the same blood.

      • Tb0n3
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        92 years ago

        Then why don’t you buy your own fucking house if it’s so easy.

        • @[email protected]
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          72 years ago

          And if you own a house that is being flooded, just sell the flooded house and move you fucking idiot.

          • Forbo
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            12 years ago

            “Sell their houses to who, Ben?? Fucking Aquaman?!”

        • GrayoxOP
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          232 years ago

          Umm cause I lack generational wealth? I’m in my 30’s and almost every person I know that owns a home has done so with the help of their daddy or mommy’s money. 🥱

          • LegionEris [she/her]
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            See, this is what gives scalpers the moral edge over landlords to me. Scalpers are largely working class people using money they earned to do something arguably unethical. Is it kinda lame? Are they losers? Yeah, and again it’s arguably unethical. But are they complicit enforcers of generational wealth and power divides? Are they, as a group, one of the primary forces siphoning wealth and power from the poor and working class to those who already have wealth and power? Nah. They’re just uncreative opportunists. Scalpers create a gulf of immorality between you and recreation to their own benefit, not between you and necessity to the detriment of society at large. So yeah, scalpers>landlords in my estimation.

            • GrayoxOP
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              12 years ago

              Was just drawing parallels, i wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment that scalpers arent anywhere near as bad as landlords in the grand scheme of Capitalistic exploitation. Its just a great analogy of how you can most of the time turn a safe profit if you have the cash to flip a commodity. The issue is housing shouldnt be treated as a commodity.

        • @[email protected]
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          112 years ago

          It is easy, if you can get a mortgage.

          I currently pay less than $2k a month on my mortgage. A 1 bedroom apartment near me is about $1.8-2.5k and a 2 bedroom is $2.5-3.5k a month. People aren’t lazy and not buying houses because it’s so fun to live in an apartment, they are doing it because they can’t get a loan.

          The only difficult thing about buying a house is the hours of paperwork and surprise costs that make no sense.

      • @[email protected]
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        I really have no empathy for the scalper problem.

        Don’t go to the concert.

        If anything the artists could charge more, seeing as some people will already pay scalper price. They’re doing they’re audience a favor by charging so much less than they’re willing to pay.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 years ago

          The argument isn’t meant to make scalpers seem worse, it’s to demonstrate how illogical it is to treat houses the same way as tickets

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            Scalpers aren’t even bad.

            Just having some self-control and refusing to buy at what you see as an unreasonable price would make their entire business model invalid.

            If someone is willing to pay $3,000 for a Taylor Swift ticket, or $1,000 or more for an early PS5, that’s what they’re worth.

    • @[email protected]
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      152 years ago

      Then buy a home in a lower cost of living area. There’s government grants to assist with down payments and closing costs.

      My first house, that I bought about 5 years ago before you start calling me a boomer, was a HUD foreclosure. I was only required to do 100 dollars as a downpayment.

      • @[email protected]
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        262 years ago

        Buying in a lower cost of living area is easier when you don’t have to consider things like school districts for children, availability of public transportation to get to work, or even safe walkable areas to get groceries.

        • @[email protected]
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          92 years ago

          Yes, it turns out that high demand for real estate in certain areas leads to higher prices because of a finite supply.

          You might have to look at different areas and consider the differences. I’d love to live in a penthouse downtown, but I’ll settle for my 1600 sq foot home in the suburbs.

          • @[email protected]
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            112 years ago

            “You might have to look at different areas and consider the differences.”

            Always, but there are certain factors that aren’t so pliable. Getting a loan based on your income at a stable job means that you need to live within a reasonable area to continue to access that job. Six years ago when I was looking for a house I could have moved to a lower cost of living area, but that would have meant a 90 minute commute or changing jobs (at which time would have been an irresponsibly risky move.) Another factor was the question of changing school districts, and custody arrangements with the kids father. I wasn’t, but I know some who are restricted by custody agreements where they are required to live in certain districts or within X number of miles of the other parent. People in those situations don’t get to shop around and find other areas to live.

      • GrayoxOP
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        92 years ago

        People who buy a house today are quite literally paying double for the same house that they would have 5 years ago due to the federal reserve increasing the interests rates to ‘fight inflation’ same selling price for thr house accounted for they are paying double the mortgage because of the increased rates.

        • @[email protected]
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          82 years ago

          Mortgage rates have returned to an average range. Still lower than they were in the 90s.

          Your payment isn’t doubled because of rates, it’s because of high demand areas.

          • GrayoxOP
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            32 years ago

            Thats untrue, it isnt because of the demand (News flash there is always demand for housing) it is because of the increase in the intrest rate of the loan. Monetary policy trying to reign in inflation that isn’t actually inflation, but corporations taking profits at exorbitant levels while the average citizens can barely make ends meet.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      There it is. What a dumb argument the post has. It’s like people who get mad at people complaining about skyrocketing food prices. We all have to eat! Greedy corporations are just exploiting that…