Many Canadians are totally on board with this. "Everyone should be renting!" and "No one needs half an acer of grass!" are fully indoctrinated into them. They don't even seem to realize that they are advocating for either total corporate, or total government ownership of all land, all because they think a man who owns four houses and rents three of them is the devil incarnate.
The "all landlords are evil" deal is kinda funny to me. Mostly because almost all of their complaints have nothing to do with the single person/family owning extra homes and renting, but the big corporations that are just going to replace the small people. Getting rid of landlords won't suddenly make these people able to achieve home ownership, they'll just have to go to a larger, less accessible entity for the same thing.
Yeah they think they hate the landlord now, wait until it's all corporate. I have a property manager because they are out of state and I really don't want to deal with phone calls and rent collection. Still, it's my business and I do all the business side. Rent increases? I prefer to go easier on that if the tenant isn't a pain in the ass. It's easier for me that way. Property manager doesn't always agree (they get paid in percentages), but they don't have the final say. Maintenance? These are my houses and I'm kinda picky.
A megacorp it's just another balance sheet line. Rent will follow market exactly. Maintenance the bare minimum garbage. It will be like a home warranty company managing that stuff, my current personal house had some prior home warranty repairs. They were beyond shit. Not to mention things like if you own enough of the market you can manipulate prices more. It's just more fuel to bitch about evil landlords, and guess what it won't work, because the evil landlord corporation funds your politicians.
Its funny they dont go after bankers but go after landlords even though bankers are far more powerful. I wonder who has historically hated land owners cause they couldnt be one....
The same people who hate landlords are the ones that have fucked their credit so badly with unpaid maxed out credit cards and repossessed cars a bank would never give them a mortgage. The people they hate so much are the only ones willing to provide their asses with housing.
Many Canadians are totally on board with this. "Everyone should be renting!" and "No one needs half an acer of grass!" are fully indoctrinated into them. They don't even seem to realize that they are advocating for either total corporate, or total government ownership of all land, all because they think a man who owns four houses and rents three of them is the devil incarnate.
The "all landlords are evil" deal is kinda funny to me. Mostly because almost all of their complaints have nothing to do with the single person/family owning extra homes and renting, but the big corporations that are just going to replace the small people. Getting rid of landlords won't suddenly make these people able to achieve home ownership, they'll just have to go to a larger, less accessible entity for the same thing.
Yeah they think they hate the landlord now, wait until it's all corporate. I have a property manager because they are out of state and I really don't want to deal with phone calls and rent collection. Still, it's my business and I do all the business side. Rent increases? I prefer to go easier on that if the tenant isn't a pain in the ass. It's easier for me that way. Property manager doesn't always agree (they get paid in percentages), but they don't have the final say. Maintenance? These are my houses and I'm kinda picky.
A megacorp it's just another balance sheet line. Rent will follow market exactly. Maintenance the bare minimum garbage. It will be like a home warranty company managing that stuff, my current personal house had some prior home warranty repairs. They were beyond shit. Not to mention things like if you own enough of the market you can manipulate prices more. It's just more fuel to bitch about evil landlords, and guess what it won't work, because the evil landlord corporation funds your politicians.
Its funny they dont go after bankers but go after landlords even though bankers are far more powerful. I wonder who has historically hated land owners cause they couldnt be one....
The same people who hate landlords are the ones that have fucked their credit so badly with unpaid maxed out credit cards and repossessed cars a bank would never give them a mortgage. The people they hate so much are the only ones willing to provide their asses with housing.
I mean to be fair the credit is the biggest hurdle and you have to waste money on stupid shit for a few years to build enough credit to be considered.
You'd think the socialists would have figured it out by now.