• kibiz0r@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Look, I’m just setting my rent according to an analysis of the current market rate for similar properties.

    Yes, that analysis is provided by the same company that does estimates for the other properties.

    No, I’ve never heard of “price fixing”. Look, your avocado toast is super expensive and it’s cuz the government gave you $600 three years ago so PAY MY MORTGAGE ALREADY YOU EASILY REPLACEABLE COW IN A PEN.

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      11 months ago

      There is no price fixing, if you dont like it, go build your own house, this is free market

      Edit: everyone taking my comment serious is 11/10

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        11 months ago

        yes, and if you’re homeless just buy a house

        btw, it’s not a free market if it’s controlled by a hand full of companies

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        11 months ago

        Clearly they must be giving out free land in good places to live (near were all the jobs are), free materials and free time over there.

        It’s either that or that house you mention is supposed to be made out of opinions and built in fantasy la-la-land, as it’s only how the materials and places to put it in would be endless and free.

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          11 months ago

          I mean I get both sides here. We live in a free market economy, where the scarcity of something affects the cost of it. People want land close to the city and there’s an extremely limited amount of it. If there are n*100 people and only n parcels of land in a small area, how do you provide it to people? Do you sell it? Is it a lottery system? Is the land sold at a base value that never changes? Like, how do you envision this going?

          Right now, people have to freedom to buy as much land as they want and set the pricing for that land. What we need is a property owner tax that scales up depending on the amount of property that you own. Though this will just make more land available. No one in their right mind will sell it for less than it’s worth though.

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            11 months ago

            If parcel A has a property value of X

            And parcel B has a property value of 2X

            Then you can have the same rent on both of them if building B is twice as tall as building A.

            The whole “single family residential only” zoning in the US is the issue.

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            11 months ago

            Slavery is immoral

            Instead, make being poor illegal (arrest people who can’t pay for the essentials), arrest them, and THEN use them as slaves, it’s fine since they’re criminals