• entwine413@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    What do regular home owners have to do with it? Most regular home owners only own one home.

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      2 months ago

      I’ve made a million dollars in appreciation on my home in the last 15 years.

      Are you telling me just because I own one home, that I’m not part of the problem?

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        You’re not really even in the same category as the idle rich. Like sure, you can sell your house and get a profit but you have to live somewhere. If you bought again a similar house in the same area you’d break even.

        I’ve got a quarter million dollars in appreciated wealth from my home in five years, but that’s only useful to me if I want to take out a HELOC (with shitty ass rates) or move to someplace that sucks a lot worse.

        Every other option would require me to become a landlord, in which case I would be part of the problem.

        I’m looking to buy a better place and sure my place went up in value, but unless I want to also change locales I’m gonna have to fork over another wad of bills to get one.

        It’s definitely not as bad as being a new market entrant with no capital and no existing investment, but it certainly isn’t the lighting up cigars with hundreds type of wealth you’re pretending it is.

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        Correct. I’m telling you that individuals owning a single home aren’t part of the problem.

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          Individuals voting to keep the value of their home from dropping down to reasonable levels ARE the problem. That’s almost all home owners.

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      2 months ago

      No one mentioned regular home owners. Why are you making devisive comments not related to any point that were made?

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        The billionaire fortunes pale in comparison to the trillions of dollars of unearned appreciation owned by regular home owners.

        Yes they did.

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          You’ll notice it wasn’t me though, so why am I being asked what somebody I’m actively disagreeing with means by “regular homeowners”?

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          Bollocks, billionaire propaganda. Less that 3,000 people collectively control more than 90% of the World’s wealth. It doesn’t pale in comparison to anything. You’re just a bootlicker, or contrarian, makes no difference. You’re still wrong.

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              What am I wrong about? You think the equity held by private honeowners is worth more than an infinite line of credit from JP Morgan and Chase Bank? You’re a moron.

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                There’s that pesky reading comprehension again.

                No one but the TLC was supporting corporate ownership of residential property.