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As if a single mother of 4 could ever get close to affording a house
Yes, that's what the meme is about.
Maybe she won the lottery or sold the 5th one she never liked anyway? 🤷
You can afford a house in most states on about $100k. She's just a single mom, don't assume she doesn't have a solid education.
Sexists in here, smh.
$100k is almost double the average income of single mothers (of ANY education level) though, and, again on average, more than a third of their income go towards childcare.
Add the fact that someone with 4 children would pay MORE than average in childcare and other expenses including ridiculously high rent and there REALLY isn't enough left over to ever afford a house anywhere but the least desirable parts of the least desirable states.
I'm not being sexist, you're downplaying the ongoing national emergency of deep systemic poverty.
You’re feeding a troll or an idiot, either way it’s not worth it
True.
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Person 1: "She couldn't get this much money"
Person 2: "Here are ways she actually could"
Person 3: "SEXIST!"
This is so ridiculous conversation
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Empty rental properties should be taxed at their rental rates, regardless of if there is a tenant in them or not. Wanna rent out slums for 1700 a month, well, you aren't going to pay taxes on that property like the 90k shithole that it is.
To go a little further, if you're listing a house, you should pay taxes on it monthly based on the list price. Seen way too many shithole with a fresh coat of paint hiked 150k above their actual value.
I personally believe taxes should be a mechanism of negating bad behavior or preventing harm to communities/the people.
I don't personally think taxes should be used for punishment, but I think the rules of a system should be setup to achieve the desired outcome. The rules right now are setup to benefit a few entities owning most of the real estate, and we need to build a system that makes it more expensive to own homes if you already own a home, and it should scale based on how many you already have. Also, there should be penalties for gouging people. All the pharma bros who have been hiking the price of medications through the roof have revealed that most of the people in the USA are vulnerable to captive markets.
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You had me until the selling of the house. Plenty of normal people's only path to any kind of wealth is selling their property. Hurting them more is not the way to go.
Multi home owners, apartment rental owners, sure tax the shit out of them.
Is it more important that a tiny percentage of "normal people" get a chance to be millionaires just before they die, or that they all get to have a place to live without spending their entire lives scraping by?
Normal people selling their normal house at a normal price would not be affected. Only people trying to sell/rent trash for a premium would suffer, as they should, since they are gouging people and artificially inflating the market.
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Maybe she should close her legs
- Every Republican male.
And when people opt for abortion or refuse to procreate, those republicans will go ape.
Maybe she should open her legs
- The other Republican half
its not my fault she got pregnant after we had sex—but if she refuses to birth my child, she should go to prison.
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As if that hypothetical person ever had a chance post 2008.
This is just restating the joke.
Wife and I both bought houses in 2009. Feds were literally giving out tax credits to encourage people to buy. Homes were dirt cheap then.
Going off your comment it sounds like you are too young to remember this.
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Back when we were house hunting, we experienced several sales where the house was sold for cash at 10-30k over the asking price before offers were even open. If we do sell, I'm sure as hell only selling to a family (not that I'd advertise as much, I'm sure they would and have made fake families to purchase houses.)
My sister just inherited a house and sold it for $20k below market to a young family for exactly the reasons you state. I respect her for that.
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Well done, my minions. The mortals' courage begins to wane! Now, let's see how they contend with the true Lord of Blackrock Spire!
I have to raise rent on the single mother of 2 again...
Inflation hits us all honey.
Of course, it would be terrible if you could no longer afford the lifestyle you are accustomed by profiting off of others labor
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It must be weird to know that just dropping dead would actually make the world a tiny bit better than not. I wonder if that's how an intestinal parasite feels?
I think it would make the day of my employees harder for a few months.
I think it would make the rest of all of my wifes days really really bad.
I think the only people who would be happy that i just died would be people on the internet with superiority complexes.
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Maybe you could fall in an open grave and just never come back out? What if you did that instead?
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Are you raising it proportionally to the costs you'd expect to see the next year for that unit and factoring in any expected equity were you to sell? I'm always curious how these rent hikes are calculated. Have you ever reduced rent?
I cannot tell you how conglomerates do it, but i can speak for myself.
I own 10 Units that i rent out. I raise rent depending on what i think next year is gonna happen. But i also have 2 companies that generate income that i take into account a tiny bit.
It's been fucky since the Corona™️ though so i kept raises to the same level they were in 2019. About 4% a year.
I raise my rent to market value whenever i have a change in tenant.
I have never reduced rent. My costs have never gone down. If anything i didnt raise rent one year.
I cannot keep rent the same forever because inflation and other cost increases would just eat at the foundation and if something breaks i will have to just sell the entire unit.
When last did any of your tenants have a 4% annual income increase?
Don't know. Don't care. I raise wages to a percent above inflation. Not my problem other employers don't.
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What part of your expenses went up. Your own or the cost of owning the home?
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Satire is apparently dead
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