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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by pixelatedindex on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @07:56PM (#46535581)
Aren’t you exploiting the economic condition that housing supply is extremely low, and a lot of them vote to keep supply low and prevent new builds? I’m not trying to be facetious but I find it hard to believe that landlords don’t exploit economic conditions.
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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by throwaway2037 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:58PM (#46536154)
Most landlords are normies that happen to own one or two extra homes. How could these people meaningfully "exploit economic conditions"?
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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by pixelatedindex on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @09:45PM (#46536549)
Maybe I’m just unlucky but about a third of the places I rented had landlords who owned at least 5 homes. My realtor owns a dozen. I think owning a couple of extra homes is ok… but at some point I feel like it’s a bit excessive. People struggle to own one, let alone a dozen.
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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by sokoloff on Thursday January 08, 2026 @04:53AM (#46539230)
If you have 97 flights landing at airport with 1-3 pax each and 3 full jumbo jets and you survey passengers leaving the airport, the average person surveyed will report that their flight was packed.
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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by Hunpeter on Thursday January 08, 2026 @04:54AM (#46539237)
"Normie" and "happens to own one or two extra homes" seem a bit contradictory to me... And doesn't everyone who invests in something that makes them money exploit economic conditions?
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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by Plasmoid on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @09:01PM (#46536184)
That's too broad of a concept to be useful. If you applied it like that then quitting a job would be rent seeking for the same reason
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