Speaking from the perspective of a long-time renter, and current home owner. (well, the bank actually) Maybe I'm hopelessly corrupted by the system, but I'd like to try to understand.
Let's say you wanted to live somewhere for like a year. If there were no landlords, how could you do that? Buy a house? I mean, I wouldn't have been able to afford that when I was in college. And I had different roommates each year. The paperwork would have been a nightmare. Just the closing costs and agent fees can be $10k. Maybe houses would be cheaper, and the whole realtor/title thing can be reformed too. Maybe you could flip your house ownership more like a used car. But if that's the case, where are these houses coming from? Who would build them and why? Or maybe it would be all government housing projects?
Landlords get a lot of hate. I've had a bunch of them, and most of them have been fine, basically. But like, honest question, what's the alternative?
Let's say you wanted to live somewhere for like a year. If there were no landlords, how could you do that? Buy a house? I mean, I wouldn't have been able to afford that when I was in college. And I had different roommates each year. The paperwork would have been a nightmare. Just the closing costs and agent fees can be $10k. Maybe houses would be cheaper, and the whole realtor/title thing can be reformed too. Maybe you could flip your house ownership more like a used car. But if that's the case, where are these houses coming from? Who would build them and why? Or maybe it would be all government housing projects?
Landlords get a lot of hate. I've had a bunch of them, and most of them have been fine, basically. But like, honest question, what's the alternative?