• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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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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      2 months ago

      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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      2 months ago

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

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        2 months ago

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