• Mawks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the insult and making my point, I can afford it but in my country you have to make a downpayment of 20% of the value and that ate into my savings, I want to recover some of my savings before moving to another city and eating into those savings more, plus I have to wait a year for my wife’s job, is it wrong to rent it for that year before I move?

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      1 year ago

      How am I making your point? You litteraly said that you could not afford the place, so you rented it out instead.

      Someone is paying your mortgage for you because you cannot afford it, and then you will kick that person out when you want to. That person will then have to move again in a market that gets worse by the month.

      I’d say that is pretty bad all around.

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        1 year ago

        How can I not afford the place? This is just to make my life easier I would not artificially make it harder on me if I can rent it to some europeans that will stay on a sabatical in my country.

        What is my other choice? Leave the place abandoned for a year until I move? Prices get worse every year and I found a great opportunity to buy now instead of wait until I could buy it without a bank loan. Prices doubled because I waited so this time I don’t want to wait. My mortgage is 25% of my salary that’s not bad is it?

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          You said that you rent the property you bought because that is the only way you could do it. That is litteraly your first sentence.

          Someone else is paying your mortgage right now so that you can move in later.

          I am not sure what else can be said.

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            1 year ago

            No one is paying for his mortgage. Someone is paying for a rent. If you think this is bad, then rent should be outlawed.

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              1 year ago

              The rent that pays the mortgage he couldn’t afford to pay. All rent is is paying someone else’s mortgage.

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                1 year ago

                Let’s say the mortgage is payed. Then the rent pays whatever the landlord decides to do with that money. Like literally any other transaction.

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                  1 year ago

                  Owning multiple homes for profit is a large part of the current crisis. People shouldn’t be able to withhold homes and hold them ransom.

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                    1 year ago

                    I agree, but limiting rights is not a good way to approach the issue. Raising taxation on 2+ properties is much better. And perhaps there are even better approaches, but an not an economist.

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            1 year ago

            Same not sure how I can explain myself better so let’s just disagree and move on

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              1 year ago

              This really goes to show that being a landlord requires no intelligence whatsoever.