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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by jMyles on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @02:13PM (#27451175)
If "protect its value" means maintain and strengthen it, retrofit it against likely disasters, plant gardens and craft way to preserve the products, add off-grid energey infrastructure, etc., then that's great.

If it means try to use the heavy hand of the state to prevent others from living their best life, then you aren't protecting anything; you're violently stealing the future net worth of others and making it your own.

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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by spoonjim on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @02:15PM (#27451188)
It’s all violent stealing back to the white people who took this land from its settlers at the wrong end of a gun. I got ripped off and I’m not going to be the bigger man and be the first person in this chain to say “it’s ok, I don’t mind losing a million dollars on this.”
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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by starclerk on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @02:58PM (#27451694)
Hyperbole doesn't help here. Legalizing four-plexes in your neighborhood will almost never knock a million dollars off your home's value. I bet it'd be hard to find many examples of upzoning causing SFHs to drop significantly in price anywhere.
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