...day, owning someone else's home is not a job. Arguments that you're paying the property taxes and shouldering the burden of maintenance don't change that because those are aspects of owning a property regardless of whether or not you're renting it out.
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Look it may be a tangent to the wider point of whether landlords are good or bad for society but I am not a fan of the American Dream of home ownership and the many extremely damaging false promises made to Americans that owning a home means financial security
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That's an industry that has as many rent seeking parasites as landlords - realtors, mortgage lenders, etc - which is all down to the fact that a house is a really big and expensive thing to own and a massive costly commitment
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It pays off for a lot fewer people than is advertised, because no one thinks in terms of inflation or opportunity costs, they just compare the lump sum when they sell to the lump sum when they bought
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