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With homelessness exploding due to how the asset-owning Parasite Class is jacking rents into the stratosphere, why is any residential property vacant at this time?
Vacant residential properties should be taxed out the nose - well above any rent or price appreciation - until they are occupied by legitimate tenants.
Undesirable location
Undesirable location
In many places, that just doesn’t exist. Places like most of Canada, where people are paying 60-80% of their income just to put a roof over their head. If a place is on the rental market, it will likely have people fighting tooth-and-nail over it even if it’s been condemned and it’s being illegally rented out.
Doesn’t Canada have a shitload of uninhabited wilderness?
Yup. Problem is, not too many people can effectively live hundreds of kilometres away from their jobs. And not many people want a 2-4hr daily commute. And anything that has electricity and water to the lot is already being snapped up by “investors” looking to flip the thing for a massive profit.
We have a really big problem with a lack of effective restraints on the asset-owning Parasite Class
Because the last tenant put holes in the walls, their dog’s piss caused the floor to lift, and the shower they plugged then overflowed fucked up the bathroom?
So there are repairs to do in order to make the place livable and then time to find somebody else who won’t just wreck the place again?
Yeah there are lots of shit landlords but one of the continuing factors is the remaining good ones with a basement suite etc bailed after terrible tenants.
A vacancy tax is a good idea but there needs to be caveats for timelines especially if stuff like reasonable maintenance/repairs is taken into consideration.
Ironically my friends who bitched about “shit landlords” also happened to be the drinkin’ smokin’ big-dog-ownin’ types who were the worst type of tenants and ruined shit for everyone else
Yeah there are lots of shit landlords
No, being a landlord makes you shit.
Had to move for my job, but didn’t want to sell our house.
Decided to rent it. Lucked into some awesome renters.
We haven’t raised the rent on them in 7 years. We fix things when they ask. They respect the property.
If they moved or bought a house they’d be paying significantly more monthly. Instead they’re using their extra money to save for their own house and to get their business off the ground.
This feels like a win win? If we had sold, it’d probably be an AirBnB now. How does this make me shit?
I know i am going to be down voted but here goes.
You didn’t want to sell your home to a family who could have really used it, instead you wanted to keep it and make money off someone for 7 whole years.
You are keeping property you don’t need whilst talking about how you help people to get their own home, seems like a poor justification to me.
This feels like a win win? If we had sold, it’d probably be an AirBnB now. How does this make me shit?
You don’t know that it would have become an air bnb, you are just using whataboutism to make yourself look better by comparison. And if it did that’s not on you, but trying to justify renting additional properties by saying you “saved it” from becoming an air bnb instead is so shitty. Like wow you saved the house from being used in that way here is your rental payment.
You aren’t saving people money by taking rental payments, you aren’t a hero for potentially stopping someone from using the property as an airbnb, you are a landlord.
I mean I guess I could have left it empty while I myself rented from someone? I don’t see how that’d make me a better person though.
I’m not really buying your argument. You’re not making any real argument of how I hurt anyone or even caused a net negative on society. You’re speculating that because I didn’t hand the house to someone “who needed it”, that I somehow did wrong. I didn’t price gouge. I didn’t raise the rent. I repair things in a timely manner. The renter pays less than they would if they bought the house, aren’t responsible for anything major, and can leave at just about anytime. Seems like a net positive in my book? Sure, they paid me… but am I supposed to give it away for free? Selling it probably would have landed me more money. Are you pitching a world where everyone has to lock in to a 30 year loan and be stuck there? Or is this an argument where housing should be free or something? (Sure, whatever… but that’s a different topic)
You aren’t saving people money by taking rental payments, you aren’t a hero for potentially stopping someone from using the property as an airbnb, you are a landlord.
I don’t think I’m a hero. I do think I’m saving them money. They could have foregone a rental and bought a house. They chose not to to save money for a business.
They didn’t know that it would probably become an airbnb, but the likelihood of such a place becoming one or being bought by somebody else wanting to charge higher rents isn’t exactly low either.
The whole “market rates” thing is used by corporate landlords to increase prices, and controlling available properties - including by leaving vacancies - is one way that do that. By the same token, charging below “market rates” could also help of enough did it, especially if the places are decent and money re-invested in proper upkeep. Many/most though are not even investing in proper maintenance/repairs while charging over an above the cost of entire mortgages, which IMO is just greedy bullshit
That looks like 50 lbs of weed.
Could you imagine just leaving 40 lbs of weed in a closet like that?
I hope they contacted the authorities about that 30 lbs of weed.
The last thing anyone needs when renting is to be responsible for 20 lbs of weed.
10 pounds of weed? What 5 pounds of weed? There’s no 3 pounds of weed here!
What would I do? Contemplate where the fuck I went so ethically wrong in my life that I became a landlord, that’s what.
I mean, you’ll need to test one bag just to confirm what it is right?
NGL, my boy’s lucky he didn’t get shot, much less disappeared.
People don’t shoot each other over 50lbs of weed like that. Heroin maybe. But at this level, you’re acting more professional
Source: trustmebro
By assuming this is their only site, anyone’d be walking into a world of risk that isn’t worth it. “Squatting” on multiple vacant bldgs is merely the uninformed perspective of the maint. crew that had no idea what agreements’d been in place for however long before they stumbled across them - nor any reason to think different, let’s be honest. The chance that this is not an isolated, unconnected series of sites is non-zero, and the risk to the associated organization is not something I’d wish on pretty much anyone. Be smart. Don’t underestimate the situation — especially in that industry. 🤌🏼
This reminded me of a story that happened when I was still in the Navy.
I was stationed in San Diego and I had a friend who had gotten out and became a sheriff’s deputy, in a nearby city, and he offered to let me do a ride along with him for a the day.
There were a couple of things that happened that changed my opinion of him and cops in general (I am 99% ACAB now though).
Towards the end of the day, someone made a call that someone was smoking meth in a motel room. My friend was called in to assist the cop already there.
We got there and he had me stand back until he waved me in a few minutes later.
I walked up and the OP cop had, what looked like, two skater types sitting on the curb just outside their motel room. Still teenagers.
My friend said he needed me to help toss the room, looking for drugs while the other cop questioned them.
Going into the room, my friend asked the kids to do him a favor and just tell him where the drugs were. They told him it was behind one of the nightstand drawers.
Sure enough it was there (sandwich bag of pot), but my friend said we still needed to search, just in case there really was meth, or something else illegal.
While we searched, I could hear the cop question the kids. They were from a town over and just got paid. They both lived at home and just needed a place to smoke.
In the room was a new skate board deck, some Sonic, and an Xbox with some games. No meth. They were begging for them not to call their parents and I just thought these kids were fucked.
We finished searching and came out, my friend gave the pot to the other cop.
This part is what blew my mind.
My friend looks at the kids and says, “Let me guess. You were both smoking and some guy smelled the pot, knocked on your door and asked to have some and you told him to fuck off?”
At no point did the kids say anything about someone knocking on their door.
The kids looked flabbergasted and stammered, “How did you know?”, to which my friend said that was who probably called in, saying someone was smoking meth.
They then took the handcuffs off and my friend then says, “Next time, don’t answer the door.”
The other cop then GIVES THEM THE POT BACK, and we all walk away.
I was sure those poor kids were fucked and I said as much. My friend then said, "I don’t give a shit about pot. Kids don’t break into Grandma’s house and rob her so they can get money to buy pot.
…were the kids white, out of curiosity?
Of course!
They’re just buds, and without the proper extraction equipment, there’s not much you can do with it other than make some very weak edibles. I suppose you could also smoke it, but then you’d skunk up the entire neighborhood and not even get that* high.
10 years ago I would be salivating over this picture, but with legalization being a thing in many parts of the world for so long now, it’s kind of hard to get excited over buds when you’re used to high-terpene concentrates that are easily 5x stronger than flower.
without the proper extraction equipment
All you need is a a proper filter and you can shift the kief out and press it. Can get one from most fabric stores, just right micron size. Now you’ve got traditional hash.
That’s not as effective but arguably simpler equipment than this next one. Pick up acetone and a glass/metal container and bowl (oh and a metal sieve if you’ve not got one, but coffee filters will do as well) from a hardware store. Crush the bud, soak it in acetone, pour the acetone into the bowl and then let it evaporate. That’s oil. With a little tuning, you can make extremely high quality extracts this way.
So idk, you’re probably thinking of some elaborate CO2 extraction systems as “proper extraction equipment” but none of that jazz is necessary for high quality extracts. We’ve been making them for literally a few thousand years by hand, lol. Although making charas is out of the question pretty much with dry weed.
Doesn’t even look that great from the parts you can see and the fact it’s definitely been in those packs for a long time, it’s probably throat scratching med-tier over-dry weed. Meh.
No disrespect but my brother in dank, maybe take a solid T break if u can’t smoke some buds and get high.
The sheer amount of it makes me think that tampering with it will get you in trouble with some bad people
Replace two of the bags with oregano and tip off the police. The police report x kg of weed seized instead of x-½ because they want to look good. Dealers believe all is accounted for and you have 2 whole 9 bars to enjoy at your leisure.
I guess it depends on where you’re at? Those look like ounces not pounds, honestly not that much value even if they were pounds, especially if you’re in a place where it’s legal.
Maybe quarter pounds. Still tens of thousands of dollars in a legal state.
Usually (at least in Britain) they’d be packaged into 9 ounce bags (otherwise known as a 9 bar) for distribution to dealers. It’s sold by the kg on the international market and ounces on the British market and 9 Oz is approximately 250g so it’s a handy way to convert from metric to imperial when selling to dealers.
Thats pretty interesting, does Britain use ounces generally? I thought that was a US thing.
Until 1971 our currency was not decimal. Britain has undergone an extremely lengthy process of metrication that lasted from the 60s to the 90s and to this day people still use imperial units for measuring driving distance, beer and cider, body weight/height, horse height. It should be pointed out that imperial units are not the same as American units.
The drug trade is American, they also use pints for beer though
No, the drug trade is truly international. You can’t buy an 1/8 in the Netherlands for example. But dealers will always use whatever unit their clientele is comfortable with. But, dealers in the states also use the metric system if they’re buying from places like Mexico or Colombia.
The United States consumes a lot of drugs but there’s almost no export from the USA to anywhere except possibly Canada.
