• TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Seriously, tho…

    Most people are decent and so don’t consider the potential problems with renting out a room.

    There’s a lot more to being a landlord than just throwing an ad up and taking anyone who wants to rent. Background checks only tell you some of what they did in the past, not what they will do. There are no guarantees.

    I have two rooms in my decent house I’d be willing to rent out for $400/mo. But, there’s the risk of taking on renters and then being legally liable for all the issues they bring with them. You never know what they’re going to do, and you can get stuck with them for months while you try to evict them. It can be a real fucking nightmare, to the point that I could lose my house in the most extreme situations.

    So, no, thank you. I won’t be renting out rooms for an affordable amount, no matter how much I’d like to try to help.

  • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    In theory as they die off over the next 20 years there should be a housing glut and prices should come way down. Then we will see if it was really boomers or black rock.

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Majority of the people who inherit them will most likely sell because they won’t know what to do with it. It will most likely be sold to the person quickest to make an offer and that will most likely be a company thats trying to buy up property. We won’t see a drop because they won’t let it happen. We need stricter rules about who is allowed to purchase property to drive down cost.

    • the_q@piefed.socialEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      They won’t. Real estate is too lucrative and people involved are greedy pieces of human garbage.

      • Jesusaurus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        14 hours ago

        Japan’s reality market is a terrible comparison. They approach housing completely differently. Modern housing is treated as temporary, only expected to last for a couple generations before being demoed and rebuilt. As a result of this, their houses hold little value, maybe 10% of the equivalent property value in the US.

        • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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          14 hours ago

          What that has to do with anything? The claim is that as population shrinks there’s higher supply so prices will fall. Japan shows that shrinking population doesn’t lead to increased supply. The way houses are build doesn’t matter. The surplus should still be there.

          My guess is the same will happen in US. There will be more old, empty houses no one wants to buy and renovate (because there will be no demand for it) but new houses will stay expensive.

          • blackberry28@sh.itjust.works
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            13 hours ago

            A population can shrink and the housing market can still suck, because it depends where the population loss happens. I can imagine that we are seeing a centralization to the big metropolitan areas, so the rural areas are dying out, but the metropolitan areas keep growing because people from rural areas keep moving to the big cities cos in rural areas ever fewer jobs are to be found. And I am pretty sure we this in a lot of countries, not just Japan.