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Many baby boomers own homes that are too big. Can they be enticed to sell them?
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Posted on 04/18/2024 12:31:09 PM PDT by TigerClaws

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To: poinq

They want to put the illegals in them
Not in my neighborhood


41 posted on 04/18/2024 12:51:58 PM PDT by TStro (God created everyone equal. Samuel Colt made them polite)
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To: TigerClaws
Among the many hard truths for those trying to enter America's brutal housing market, here's one: Baby boomers continue to own many of the country's large houses, even after their households have shrunk to one or two people.

So what? It's nobody's stinking business what size house someone chooses to live in.

What about the mansions we see politicians owning? Can they be *enticed* to sell them?

42 posted on 04/18/2024 12:52:10 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: TigerClaws

Probably a website that shows them to make things easier for squatters to short list them for when the owners go on vacation.


43 posted on 04/18/2024 12:52:19 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: TigerClaws

Funny, I would have thought that if the Boomers decided their houses were too big for them, they could opt on their own to sell them into what is a favorable market.

Hadn’t realized it was up to someone else to decide whether they had too much house for themselves.


44 posted on 04/18/2024 12:52:29 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Regulator

” as he signed a bill lifting limits on occupancy of homes.”

We have two houses in our middle class neighborhood that are Mexican barracks and the city does NOTHING.


45 posted on 04/18/2024 12:53:07 PM PDT by dljordan (What do you think?)
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To: poinq
There are not too few homes. There are too many people investing in homes.

Eventually there will be a rebellion against AirBnB properties. I wouldn't want to own one for that reason.

46 posted on 04/18/2024 12:53:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TigerClaws

For $2000 or so, you can get a chairlift installed on your stairway that will make your two floor house effectively a single story.


47 posted on 04/18/2024 12:57:05 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: TigerClaws

Kick out every last illegal. The housing “crisis” will be solved!


48 posted on 04/18/2024 12:57:22 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: TigerClaws

Maybe we could force them out at gunpoint. “Your house is too big, comrade! Out you go!!”


49 posted on 04/18/2024 12:57:52 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: dfwgator
Comrade Kaprugina joins NPR....

LOL. thought the same thing. Before too long, US Marxists are going to make you declare how much sq.ft you own, and force you to "share" some of it.

50 posted on 04/18/2024 12:58:03 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: dfwgator

A used car salesman rents my sister’s midget house in the back yard for $700/mo. Stays there on the weekends. His own house goes for $750 on those weekends. Airbnb. Pretty smart.


51 posted on 04/18/2024 12:58:24 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: TigerClaws
Baby boomers continue to own many of the country's large houses, even after their households have shrunk to one or two people.

GFY, NPR.

You don't get to define what's "too big". That's for the OWNERS to decide, you communistic bastards!

52 posted on 04/18/2024 12:59:01 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: TigerClaws
A prime example of wasted space:

It's already "Public" so just move ppl in.

Equity

If they don't install more kitchens and bathrooms the govt can sue NPR to put them in.

53 posted on 04/18/2024 12:59:19 PM PDT by Justa
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To: Vigilanteman
For $2000 or so, you can get a chairlift installed on your stairway that will make your two floor house effectively a single story.

Just watch out for those Gremlins...


54 posted on 04/18/2024 1:01:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TigerClaws
What commissar decides whose house is "too big"?

To each according to his need, with the commissar making the expert determination. Right?

55 posted on 04/18/2024 1:03:01 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: TigerClaws

I’ll decide if my house is too big. No one else.


56 posted on 04/18/2024 1:05:31 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: silverleaf
"Who gets to say my house is “too big” for me?"

..... The New World Order does .... The Democrats are currently in the process of Rebuilding America ( aka: Build Back Better) to comply with the mandatory global requirements of this new Utopian World of theirs.

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57 posted on 04/18/2024 1:06:12 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: TigerClaws

euthanasia is the obvious solution

they are no longer productive members of the collective


58 posted on 04/18/2024 1:07:31 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: TigerClaws
There are seniors who would like to be able to move to a smaller house if it made sense.

The response to this article shouldn't be: What a commie!

The response to this article should be: As conservatives we realize that not all problems can be solved, and certainly not with a one-size-fits-all solution.

One potential solution for SOME people (emphasis on the SOME), is to make it easier for a house to be subdivided into a duplex or triplex. ADU's are all the rage now, where garages are being turned into separate units. This could be extended to the house itself. There would be some inconvenience as the seniors would most likely have to live out of a hotel for some period during the remodeling, but that could be paid for by the builder.

The seniors might even get a break from their mortgage since the new units would be generating property taxes.

Of course the kids won't like this, because they will feel that their parents' house (which they may have had nothing to do with its purchase) is their birthright and they want the full profits when their parents die and they get to sell the property. But again, this might work for SOME people.

59 posted on 04/18/2024 1:08:50 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: TigerClaws

I’m a widow. My house is paid for. I’m not going anywhere.


60 posted on 04/18/2024 1:08:54 PM PDT by uptowngirl
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