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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by immibis on Thursday January 08, 2026 @06:35AM (#46539908)
My point is that the rent vs own model is taking over every industry and it's never good long-term. If you had to watch the same movie every day, and you knew that fact in advance, and your only option was pay-per-view, wouldn't that suck?
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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by tptacek on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:47PM (#46544824)
You're doing my job on this thread for me by trying to set rental up as some kind of second-class residency we should be skeptical of. I agree, that's the subtext of this corporate investment stuff: that renters are bad.
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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by immibis on Thursday January 08, 2026 @11:05PM (#46549920)
> renters are bad

Uh, no, don't equivocate "forced rent" with "renters". That's bad faith.

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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by tptacek on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:09PM (#46556071)
No, it isn't. This is literally the subtext behind the policy. You see it all over this thread: the idea that converting an owner-occupied unit to a rental, even though it lowers area median rent, is a bad thing. There's no other interpretation. If reading that makes you uncomfortable, recheck your priors on the policy itself!
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