Re:Americans still think they can make money flipping houses
by m0llusk on Saturday July 09, 2022 @08:56AM
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Federal Housing Administration backed loans and the mortgage interest tax deduction worked together to give a big boost to a very specific demographic slice of the population.
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Re:Americans still think they can make money flipping houses
by nwatson on Saturday July 09, 2022 @11:32AM
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Plus explicit contracts in new housing developments barring current sales and future sales to specific "undesirable" demographics. This "red-lining" was widespread from post-WW2 boom through the 80s or so to keep those demographics out of some areas. Those demographics were locked out of the housing markets and in big urban areas like NYC this created an artificial demand for rental that forced these people to pay above-market rental rates for substandard housing, a double-slam on generational wealth accumulation.
Re:Americans still think they can make money flipping houses
by pibechorro on Saturday July 09, 2022 @09:03AM
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This is why we aught to never have subcidies or bailouts.
Re:Americans still think they can make money flipping houses
by ceejayoz on Saturday July 09, 2022 @09:20AM
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Perhaps, but at this point that means pulling the rope ladder up behind you so no one else can use it.
Re:Americans still think they can make money flipping houses
by LBJsPNS on Saturday July 09, 2022 @10:45AM
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No.
There is no perfect system. That doesn't mean you don't implement systems. You just police them better to make sure that kind of problem doesn't happen any more.
Re:Americans still think they can make money flipping houses
by sneak on Saturday July 09, 2022 @12:29PM
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Hard to find problems with a system that doesn't exist, so perhaps some "systems" are perfect.
Re:Americans still think they can make money flipping houses
by drewcoo on Saturday July 09, 2022 @06:35PM
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Systems, like functional code, can seem perfect in isolation. Everything is accounted for and it's provable. Beautiful!
Applied to any useful purpose, though, there are externalities and there is the unexpected. If you include those externalities in your model, you not only have a more complicated model, but you probably have an even larger surface of externalities.