Flippanarchy

I wouldn't mind licensing out rental licenses to responsible entities whose job was to maintain those rental units. Maybe they don't get rent money, but instead get a stipend based on the amount of rentals that they maintain while the rental units themselves stay at a fixed rate set by the city and most of the rent goes back to the city where the rentals reside to then pay for maintenance and more housing and continued development into the cities infrastructure and public transit......

wait this is socialism! Woops! I forgot we aren't allowed to do that, sorry!

In Australia 72% of landlords own only one investment property. They fuck us over at every chance. It’s the same grift whoever plays it, they chase the highest market rates and pay the least expenses (I.e. neglect repairs, substandard maintenance, etc.)

A person who owns a house, wants to downsize but can't get themselves to sell their childhood home isn't the problem. A grandma who can't keep up a 4 bed house and rents it out while moving to a one-bed serviced flat (opting to gift the 4 bed to one of the grandkids once they're old enough) isn't the problem. If anything, these people help with the housing scarcity by opting to live in accommodations more fit for their needs while making larger (or in some cases, smaller) properties available to those who can't buy outright. I'd even argue that larger companies who manage 30-50 properties on behalf of a landlord aren't the problem either, since most of those properties would be in private ownership anyway.

No, it's the bit corporate landlords who don't just manage but buy up properties like there's no tomorrow, often entire neighbourhoods, just to be able to increase profits and force people out to make way for "rejuvenating" projects (usually shite quality flats with exuberant rents) are the issue.

Wha do you mean?

It's landlord's fault

So you provided them with a living space that needed frequent repairs, which you couldn't actually afford.

But it was cheap.

You and your wife 'cleaned it up' inadequately, you know, landlord special type shit, but it kept needing repairs you couldn't afford.

And then you eventually sold the property you could not figure out how to afford to maintain, ... probably around the point where you could have become legally liable for not providing safe and adequate housing to your tenants.

... So you were a micro slumlord, of a shoddy quality living space, that you received for free, via a will or something similar.

It took you 8 years to unsuccesfully renovate a home, with paying tenants living in it the whole time.

Those tenants lived there for 8 years.

Did you sell it to them?

Probably not, they haven't been able to save any money, thanks to paying you rent, for nearly a decade.

But, you could have just initially sold it to them at a discount and explained that it was gonna be a fixer upper of a home, saved yourself all the trouble of renovating, make a good chunk of change, and now that family would be homeowners with nearly a decade of equity.

EDIT:

Oh right, and how could I forget:

You getting a second house for essentially free?

That's not entitled.

You're not entitled.

Nope.

This meme here, thats entitled.

Yep.

Totally makes sense.

"I was a landlord and I couldn't figure out how to squeeze the tenants for every cent so the meme is entitled garbage" is quite the take, and honestly hilarious given the community it's posted in.

Don't expect any sympathy. This is an anarchist community.