• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    What do families do, that only want or need to live in a place or area for like a year or so? Buy a house, pay thousands in closing costs and inspections, lose several thousand to realtors, and then have to go through the trouble of trying to sell the place a year later?

    We very much need landlords. What’s screwing everything up is corpos doing it as a business or individuals with like 20 homes instead of one or two. Renting a house is a viable need for some people and it would actually suck if it was an option that didn’t exist at all.

    • Specal@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      There’s no reason that local governments can’t do this job, there’s no need for middle men leaching money.

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        11 months ago

        Based on the way they maintain infrastructure, I’m not certain that’s going to work out well either, but then again the status quo ain’t working either.