This is more of a critique of private landlords than of capitalism. So it’s more of a Georgist than socialist argument.

They shouldn't be buying food st all, the should be investing in the stock market. The Dows not going to go up by itself.

At least they finally moved on from the crippling avocado toast. What an indulgence, is no one doing the math to find out - how much did rents go up en masse, by all these indulgent landlords splurging on produce on bread?

Even warming it, some say toasting, for sheer enjoyment?

Landlords need to get real and live within their means. Surely there's a purpose-built WSJ article to reference here, gimme a minute...

A gun with a single bullet?

Meanwhile the apt I've lived in for 5 years has changed ownership 3 times, each time rents raise.

They could, you know, actually do work for once?

Like improve society, instead of being a parasite?

My landlord was like this until she saw housing prices increasing. Decided to divorce her husband and take over the property we were living in. Because of the state we live in and that she had not signed a paper lease with us that year (and we did not bring it up for fear of rent increases), she kicked us out with 30 days notice, after never missing a payment for nearly 10 years. She did move in but now the place is rented out again.

We anded up buying a house by crushing all our savings and overbidding with inspection waived in a market full of house flippers and corporations at the highest prices of all time. We make high salaries and our housing costs tripled, just in time for Trump 2.0 so now all of our other costs are doubled. We are house poor and living like we used to when we had a shitty apartment right after my wife graduated college, when we made less than a third what we do now.

All the progress just to be backstabbed by a landlord. No, I don’t trust them, I don’t trust any of them. Mao was right.

Be careful thinking any landlord is a good person. We rented from a couple like 10 years ago who were as nice as you could want, and they were the best landlords I've ever had.

And yet, the two times we (slightly) threatened their bottom line, they turned into the nastiest human beings I've ever had the displeasure of meeting.

Saying we "threatened their bottom line" is actually putting it extremely, extremely strongly. The first time, I paid rent one day late because I was so busy and simply forgot. I was still a lib at this point, so I was shocked by how mean the text I got from them was. But it did teach me that landlords don't see their tenants as people, they see us as dollar signs.

The second time our landlords showed their true face, they had messed up our lease renewal. The new lease, which we'd all signed, listed our rent at about $100/month less than the verbal agreement we had with them. My partner was like "I mean, let's pay the cheaper rent that's in writing on the lease we actually signed". I was like "I'm extremely uncomfortable with that, I don't want them to sue us and I'm pretty sure they would try." So my partner gave them a call and was like "hey, the lease says this, so that's what we're paying". My partner got actually screamed at. I could hear it from across the room. They had a new lease at our door for us to sign within 2 hours. Screaming and rushing over a new lease because of less than $100 a month. Once again, tenants aren't people, we're dollar signs.

So be careful with "nice" or "good" landlords. Even the best landlord will only ever see you as a money spigot, and will do their best to ruin your life if there's so much as a suspicion that you might slightly decrease the rate of flow of money to them

if you are in that situation your "good landlord" should form a cooperative and give you a share of the property since you've both gonna lose it otherwise

What is your favorite flavor of shoe polish?

Had me in the first half...

Keep in mind having the eviction on your record will make it significantly harder to rent another place in the future

A landlord who can't pay their own mortage shouldn't be able to own.

FTFY

I've only had one decent landlord, ever. He was so decent in fact, that he stopped being a landlord, because he inherited it, but came to realize it was unethical.

I love the word "landlord", it shows, without shame, exactly what that scum is, lords of the land.

But you're right, I prefer landleech.

In German, the word prostitute is worded slightly differently from other languages I know, as "someone who is being prostituted". A passive word, similar to "enslaved person" instead of "slave". They are victims of circumstance and exploitation.

We should use a similar words for victims of rent

Not keeping a buffer that covers any upcoming bills in an account from which bills are automatically paid is deranged behaviour. I don't care how much interest you may or may not get on that money.