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Re:Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy by hellisothers on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:21PM (#22679157)
The parent comment is proposing a system where nobody is punished, everything is deferred. Not all landlords are fat cats in a mansion, if you remove the flow of cash to only some people, those people will be crushed if they depend on that flow to send it further upstream.
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Re:Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy by nybble41 on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:37PM (#22679285)
Deferring payment without interest is punishment. Goods in the future are worth less than the same goods in the present.
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Re:Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy by Scoundreller on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:09PM (#22679603)
And where's someone unemployed going to get 3 month's of rent if they only work in 0 or 1 of the next 3 months?
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Re:Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy by marcofatica on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:13PM (#22679645)
That's why you're supposed to have savings, but it seems these days people prefer to spend frivolously
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Re:Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy by 6510 on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @08:02PM (#22680426)
But we've increased rent to rule out savings.
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Re:Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy by Scoundreller on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:26PM (#22679751)
Landlords and tenants alike it seems.
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Re:Covid-19: Landlords will kill our economy by Scoundreller on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:15PM (#22679661)
I mean, by definition, landlords own more homes than they need. Worst case scenario, the asset doesn't disappear, it just gets put to auction for someone that can afford it to buy it.

Possibly the government could restrict that auction to non-property owners to help sort out the first-sentence problem.

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