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Leftists praise sky-high home prices and the new renter nation
American Thinker ^ | June 18, 2021 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 06/18/2021 7:47:00 AM PDT by packagingguy

Turning America from a nation of home owners into a nation of renters.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bluecityflu; housing; ownership; pollardkaren; realestate; rental
As you already know large corporations, including ones using Federal money, are buying up large parts of America's residential real estate. If you live in a "difficult" city with high crime, rental neighborhoods quickly become very unsafe areas to live. Many will devolve into enormous ghettos. Now how good of an investment is that?
1 posted on 06/18/2021 7:47:00 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

3.5 million properties in foreclosure and 2.2 seriously delinquent.

It’s going to crash in October.


2 posted on 06/18/2021 7:57:15 AM PDT by struggle
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To: packagingguy

You call that an excerpt?


3 posted on 06/18/2021 7:59:02 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: packagingguy
Uhhhhh, all property is owned by someone. If not by the citizens, then by the government, and that would be communism.
4 posted on 06/18/2021 8:14:03 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The government is the biggest criminal of them all.)
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To: Pollard

You’ll own nothing and be happy!


5 posted on 06/18/2021 8:16:20 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: packagingguy

WTF is wrong with these people? Their Leftism is making them insane.


6 posted on 06/18/2021 8:24:37 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: packagingguy

bookmark


7 posted on 06/18/2021 8:26:34 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: packagingguy

This is BS. The reason for the high home prices is the record low interest rates causing more demand from people who are currently paying high rents. Simple supply and demand.

Because of that rents are going down in many places especially the high rent districts. San Francisco rents are down almost 30%.

If interest rates start going up (and they will) the demand from buyers will decrease and prices will stabilize or drop.

The low interest rates are mainly due to the virus as both the fed and the government injectected trillions into the economy to keep it from crashing during the plague.


8 posted on 06/18/2021 8:34:23 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: qaz123

They already are insane. Leftism makes them criminally insane.


9 posted on 06/18/2021 8:37:37 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees)
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To: packagingguy

Higher property taxes for municipal projects and rental income for well-heeled retirees.


10 posted on 06/18/2021 8:39:13 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: qaz123

They HATED the American dream, a component of which was owning your own home (and raising a FAMILY).


11 posted on 06/18/2021 8:40:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: packagingguy

Council Estates for Everyone!


12 posted on 06/18/2021 8:46:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: aquila48

There is some truth to what you have said, however, and this is an anecdote, a very accomplished real estate agent told me recently companies from Asia, South America, Europe, Australia, North America, etc. are outbidding individual home buyers. He said he has never seen anything like it.

Now I would say they are doing this as a hedge against inflation, not a long-term investment. In many parts of the US one can lose money if you hold on to residential real estate for too long. In my city many neighborhoods can go south in 25 years or less. If one makes it to 50 years without houses losing value it is a miracle.

By the way rent is up 15% in my area just so far this year, so not all markets are down.


13 posted on 06/18/2021 8:47:39 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: struggle
how many rentals due to chinaflu money not going to the rent as it was supposed to?
14 posted on 06/18/2021 8:48:50 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: packagingguy

Maybe Leftists want us to develop a system like more like Council Housing, than like our poorly-regarded public housing system.

That way the Government would strengthen its control over citizens.

https://www.gov.uk/council-housing

“Councils decide who gets offered housing based on a ‘points’ or ‘banding’ system.”


15 posted on 06/18/2021 8:52:36 AM PDT by syriacus ( 2020 US Elections: "The PAUSE heard 'round the WORLD." )
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To: packagingguy

Yay for Feudalism!!!!

Who knew that we would be on the cusp of a return to sharecropping in only two generations! Yippee!!!


16 posted on 06/18/2021 8:56:41 AM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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To: packagingguy
What's the big mystery?

Did the occupants of the monolithic Soviet apartment blocks, built next to their factories OWN their homes?

The Proletariat have no right to do anything except to labor for the State.

17 posted on 06/18/2021 10:59:36 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: packagingguy

The reason some rentals go bad is due to government paying landlords Section 8 money.

Most people should be renters until they are financially ready to own and accept all the responsibilities of owning a property. Most foreclosures are due to people buying more house than they can afford.

You never really own anything anyway. You are always renting from the government in the form of property taxes.

In short, there is nothing wrong with renting, contrary to what the National Association of Realtors would have us believe.


18 posted on 06/18/2021 11:06:35 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9)
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To: packagingguy

Yep, thanks Saint Powell and Saint Yellen for turning complete sh*tboxes into $500k nightmares which China swoop in and claim like vultures!!


19 posted on 06/18/2021 11:18:39 AM PDT by millenial4freedom
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