• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    8 months ago

    If the place you’re renting gets struck by lightning and burns down, or you go to prison and it falls into disrepair, or the properties get raided and seized for some reason: you can just start over at a new place. The person who bought that building, on the other hand, loses maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars, likely plunging them deep into debt which is still accruing interest.

    • jwiggler@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      8 months ago

      That’s true; the landowner is certainly worse off losing property, especially compared to the renter, because the former owned property in the first place. The renter didn’t even have an opportunity to fall like the landowner. They don’t even have enough to lose. I’m not entirely sympathetic to a person who profits off another person’s need for shelter.

      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        8 months ago

        We have to fight for our right to be paying the bank for property that no longer exists for the next 30 years. Every human being deserves a chance to suffer this hardship. /sarcasm

        • jwiggler@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          8 months ago

          I’m not certain I understand this comment, but from the tone it sounds like we’re not on the same page. Nonetheless, I would regard property-owning a privilege rather than a hardship, and that just because a person who owns property has more to lose, doesn’t suddenly make them noble putting that property at risk for the sake of gaining more.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      8 months ago

      If the place you’re renting gets struck by lightning and burns down

      That’s what insurance is for.

      or you go to prison and it falls into disrepair, or the properties get raided and seized for some reason

      Ah, the classic “all renters are criminals” while opinioning on the “value” landlords provide.

      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        8 months ago

        Insurance isn’t a magic fix-all, mate. Also, lmao, I was implying that if any of those three things happened to the property owner it would be worse off, yet you failed to parse that and instead construed something about renters being criminals? Bro those were your words, and I think you’re wrong to think that way about renters.

        • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          8 months ago

          “I didn’t say they are criminals! I just said what if something exceedingly rare happens to them that only happens to criminals? Checkmate!”

          • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            8 months ago

            I’ll go really slow for you.

            I said if a landlord goes to prison or the property gets raided and seized then it is worse for them than if a renter has the same circuimstance.

            Do you see the part where I singled out renters? No? Then where did that come from? You said that. That was you. You stupid mf.