Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

• killingspark@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In this case, your debt is the investment

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  • sploosh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For me it’s an investment in freezing my housing costs. I bought 8 years ago and since then the increases in my housing costs have been around 5% as taxes go up. In the same time period, rent for the apartment I was in previously has gone up 65% and is higher than my mortgage payment. Had I not purchased a house there’s a good chance I would have had to either move in with family or move to a much cheaper area.

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