• @nodsocket@lemmy.world
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    112 years ago

    Landlords actually do a lot of work. Maintenance and dealing with tenants can easily become a full time job if you have multiple properties. A lot of people buy rentals thinking it’s “passive income” and then end up working twice as hard as before.

    • @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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      302 years ago

      They’re supposed to do all those things but most don’t. I’m a condo super and the owners who own and rent multiple units are the worst. Their tenants are always calling me about every issue, and I have to remind them that I deal with the common areas, not the interior of their unit unless there’s a flood. Those landlords tend to own multiple units and just assume I will deal with their issues, but I won’t. When you own, you’re the super, manager, admin, etc. But most landlords I’ve encountered just wanna collect the check

    • Brawndo
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      82 years ago

      They also assume all the risk of the property too. Tenants can leave as they please but landlords are stuck with the property if the market turns.

      • @nodsocket@lemmy.world
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        192 years ago

        Eh, I wouldn’t say the housing market on the whole is fickle in the same way as as the stock market. But for things like property damage, the risk is definitely on you

      • @rambaroo@lemmy.world
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        72 years ago

        No one forced them to be a landlord. Tenants have very little choice. Why is there even a comparison here?

        • Camelbeard
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          22 years ago

          So the 2008 economic crisis never happened? Where I live (Europe) houses are actually going down in value right now too.

      • @Landrin201@lemmy.ml
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        32 years ago

        Oh wow boo hoo, they have so much risk 😔 they have an entire house that they can sell at any time, who someone else is paying the mortgage of. Oh, the horror! If the market should crash they’ll lose the equity another person paid!

        Really the landlords are the victims here, not the tenants paying their mortgage for them plus a little extra for profits. Clearly the tenants have committed the crime of not having good enough credit for a loan, or the crime of not having enough for a down payment, so they aren’t worthy of owning property.

        No no it’s the landlord who has the real problems, because they could ein a shaky financial situation of “selling the second house iown” if the market dips!

    • @Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml
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      42 years ago

      It’s genuinely not easy, both my parents have owned rental properties at some point in their lives, as a retirement investment. I’d never consider a rental property as an investment myself as a result of what I’ve seen tenants do to a property.

    • @db2@sopuli.xyz
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      -82 years ago

      Yeah, these memes are made by kids who have never actually worked at all, much less at upkeep on a property they don’t live at. They probably whine about taking out the trash every week and beg their mom for new games while thinking they’re independent somehow.