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Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Not much different in Germany either. What once was needed to buy a decent house is now merely enough for a tiny apartment.
I just recently sold one of my houses for 900k. Which I bought for 300k 25yrs ago. And it even was due for major renovations. Well, could have. Actually sold to them for 500. Didn’t wanna be an idiot but also didn’t want to rip them off. I did nothing of value to justify that gain. And they were very happy. Still unfair…
The market is broken.
I just recently sold one of my houses for 900k. Which I bought for 300k 25yrs ago. And it even was due for major renovations. Well, could have. Actually sold to them for 500. Didn’t wanna be an idiot but also didn’t want to rip them off. I did nothing of value to justify that gain. And they were very happy. Still unfair…
300,000 euros in 2001 is, inflation-adjusted, 512,000 euros in 2026. If you sold at 500k euros, you sold for slightly less than you bought it for in real terms.
It was still the same sum though. I got money, they got a house way cheaper than they planned for. Everyone’s happy. I see no problem?
monkeyman76@fedinsfw.app 1 day ago
“one of my houses”
Have you considered that you are the problem?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
not everyone that has more than 1 house is a rich person. most of the time its people who had a generational house that wanted to move to another, while trying to pay off taxes or new houses by renting. its the airbnb, and corporate landlords that are the problem. Also rich nimby neighborhoods, a few years ago they blocked a low income housing in millbrae.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Why? Unless you’ve got hundreds of millions or more, you’re just another poor sobbing bastard for the elite. Just a bit less poor than the others. Insignificant in everything.
Also, I paid double market-average for employees, with come-and-go-as-you-please and profit-sharing. Everyone.
I rent the houses/apts dirt-cheap. At the legally allowed minimum but with hidden added boni or paybacks or whatever else I come up with. Free power, free water etc. I don’t want to profit of someone else’s inability to own. I want to be able to look in the mirror without disgust.
And also I work for free in a shelter-thingie for abused or broken people, I help where I can.
If everyone would do that, we’d all be better off, wouldn’t we be?
What do you do to better society with the given means? Considering I’m the problem and you’re not? Egocentrism, narcissism, missing empathy and machiavellism (so basically the dark triad) are the root sources that rot the world (while being highly rewarded), not money.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have a friend with five. He’s a traveling physician and has five practices each at least a hundred miles away from each other. I don’t entirely see him as part of the housing problem because he has a use for these houses that isn’t vacation.
Folk are mostly friends on here, so can you ease off the attack please?