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Re:Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake by jjav on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @03:01AM (#26886253)
> In a lot of cases when renting these are taken care of by the landlord.

Approximately never are any of those costs taken care of by the landlord! The renter is paying for them, plus a profit margin for the landlord. That's what rent is. The landlord isn't running a charity.

Only exception is if you luck into a rental by someone who paid off the property long ago and doesn't care to charge market prices for it.

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Re:Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @03:03AM (#26886271)
GP seemed to use “taken care of by rhe landlord” to mean “bundled with the rent, and not a separate fee on top”, which is relevant to cost comparisons based only on purchase/finance cost vs rent cost.
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