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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on September 28, 2025, 11:42:30 AM
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Marthe48
If rent is jacked up to discourage iffy tenants
Why don't landlords reduce it after a credit check shows you are reliable?
Aside from so many people working multiple jobs to pay rent, the price to rent (or buy) is way too steep even for people with 2, 3 or more jobs.
The way things are, the working poor are disenfranchised by the naked greed of the system. And it's not getting better for anyone.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220680800
Where to begin with this pile of crap of a post..🙄
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And it's not getting better for anyone.
I'd argue that it IS getting better, generally, for folks who make good decisions.
I'd also argue that DUmmies generally aren't among those folks.
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Putting the incoherent bits and pieces into a probable scenario, Marthe48 is house/apartment hunting, is surprised by market rental rates, ASSumes they are jacked up out of greed and to ward off undesirable tenants instead of rates that provide a reasonable profit after mortgages, taxes, upkeep, regulations compliance costs, and occasional deadbeats.
If I were a landlord and knew about Marthe48's attitude, there is no way in Hades I'd rent to him/her. (S)He would all but certainly turn out to be the tenant from Hell.
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It's not a landlord's responsibility to make housing affordable for all. The market will decide if the landlord is asking too much and cause a drop in the rental price.
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It's not a landlord's responsibility to make housing affordable for all. The market will decide if the landlord is asking too much and cause a drop in the rental price.
Bingo. Thankfully I've never been in a "rent control" arrangement, but it sounds truly awful. I'm going to even borrow and agree with what Paul Krugman said (via Wikipedia):
In 2000, New York Times columnist and Princeton University economist Paul Krugman published a frequently cited column on rent control.[111] He wrote, "The analysis of rent control is among the best-understood issues in all of economics, and – among economists anyway – one of the least controversial. In 1992, a poll of the American Economic Association found 93 percent of its members agreeing that 'a ceiling on rents reduces the quality and quantity of housing."
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Sleepy Joe let in 20 million illegals and drove up the demand and therefore prices for housing.