Re:Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year
by colechristensen on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @02:42PM
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You are, just as much, competing against someone who wants to buy that home for themselves thus raising the price of it.
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Re:Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year
by googlryas on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @02:50PM
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So what? That person who wants it for themselves is competing against all the renters that would like to rent the home that OP fixes up, but who aren't privileged enough to be able to put together a down payment to buy a house. So that aspirational home buyer is driving up the price for renters. Should we be angry at the home buyer as well then?
It's not like OP is going to buy the home and let it sit vacant.
Re:Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year
by colechristensen on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @02:55PM
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OP buying reduces the hosing supply for owners and raises the price to become an owner pushing more people out of the "privileged" owners bracket. At the same time doing it to the most accessible to own property and making money in the process.
Re:Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year
by googlryas on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @03:06PM
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Likewise, the person who buys the house and lives in it takes it off the market for renters, thereby increasing costs to the "unprivileged" renters bracket.
Re:Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year
by jiveturkey on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @04:19PM
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indeed. this is why rent control, when coupled with artificial supply constraints, is a net negative