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Re:Show HN: Should you buy a house and rent it out? by kitten_mittens_ on Saturday April 20, 2019 @08:01AM (#19706069)
70% of Germans rent. Any increase in rents is broadly felt, especially compared to America, where most political power in most cities resides with homeowners (~63% of the population).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-13/berlin-ho...

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Re:Show HN: Should you buy a house and rent it out? by sokoloff on Saturday April 20, 2019 @08:40AM (#19706221)
Increases in rent are driven more by people wanting to rent in a given area (typically driven by jobs) than by an owner or landlord selling a house to a different landlord. Rental demand is much more variable over time than the change in supply from marginal landlords buying existing properties.
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Re:Show HN: Should you buy a house and rent it out? by bubblewrap on Saturday April 20, 2019 @04:52PM (#19708796)
If prices are rising, people are crying because they are not home owners. If they are falling, people are crying because they are homeowners. Weren't a lot of people in the US screwed when the last housing bubble burst (2008)?
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