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Jeff Bezos and Amazon joining Blackrock and other Hedge Funds Buying Up Single Family Homes Making us a Rental Nation
Yahoo Finance ^ | August 19, 2022 | Kevin Vandenboss

Posted on 08/20/2022 5:34:55 AM PDT by PK1991

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To: PK1991

Purposeful


61 posted on 08/20/2022 6:31:40 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Sirius Lee

They’re probably buying both for the land and homes.


62 posted on 08/20/2022 6:31:44 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: JudyinCanada

Fiancee and I just bought a house. Rent in Amish apts was $2600 mtg payment $1800. Fortunately we had both sold houses so we had the down payment which many and now many more will never have.


63 posted on 08/20/2022 6:32:38 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: JudyinCanada
Many (most) new home developments attach HOA contracts to all sales. After the mortgage is paid, how is this
different from a perpetual rental agreement?
64 posted on 08/20/2022 6:32:56 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: entropy12
True. That’s why I put “vacant” in quotes. There are lots of reasons why homes are scare even with 20 million more homes than households in existence.

I’m contributing to the “problem” by occupying two homes temporarily (one owned, one rental) while I am in the process of moving my business from one state to another.

65 posted on 08/20/2022 6:34:00 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: PK1991

The weak spot in that “plan” is with more and more jobs being able to be done from home/remotely, the folks can buy land or houses farther away from the cities.

This crushes the plans to get as many folks to move into the cities.

Back in the early 2000s, in Seattle for instance, they had a stated goal of adding 50% more people to the city’s population.


66 posted on 08/20/2022 6:34:38 AM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (To you all, my loyal spell checkers....nothing but prospect and admiral nation.)
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To: devane617
You can throw Berkshire Hathaway in the mix. I haven't received anything from BR, but BH continues to send me emails and junk mail wanting to buy my house.

There are a couple of other companies wanting to buy my house.

Not gonna happen: my 3 kids all live within 30 miles of my house, along with 3 grandkids. I have a ten mile commute to work, so we're locked in for the immediate future.

We just qualified for a HELOC, as our property value has jumped about 50% in the last 18 months. We're going with the fixed rate, we can see where interest rates are headed.

67 posted on 08/20/2022 6:35:24 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
You’re living in a hot market.

For every place like Atlanta where homes sell fast, you have a dump like Detroit or Cleveland where homes are listed for $10,000 and sit on the market for months.

68 posted on 08/20/2022 6:35:53 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: Sirius Lee

Because they think they’re immune from all of the repercussions of these actions. And for now, they are.

Time will tell.

I will say this, anyone who laughed at or made fun of the folks that were talking about the Illuminati and secret groups conspiring for this and that, maybe shouldn’t be laughing. They don’t hide it anymore. They have their Bilderberg meetings, WEF, meet in Aspen, it’s right in our faces.

The one and ONLY person that did and tried to do anything about it, had his house raided by the Fed’s two weeks ago.


69 posted on 08/20/2022 6:36:13 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: entropy12

An entry level job where the entry level salary hasn’t gone up all that much. Rents to the point where they’re unaffordable. Inflation raising the price of everything. Hard to save the 10 or 20% needed for the down payment. Anything less than that and the mortgage is unaffordable.

This isn’t capitalism. This is corporatism. Stossell did a great show on it when he had his show on Fox


70 posted on 08/20/2022 6:40:14 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: PK1991; All

Talking to a co-worker who had a side hustle as a real estate agent. He was telling me that this started in 2014-2015. Hedge funds and other large funds buying up entire inventories of foreclosures from the banks.


71 posted on 08/20/2022 6:42:50 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Jolla
This notion that young people can’t afford a down payment on a home is ludicrous in most cases. There are plenty of government programs available for first-time home buyers that reduce the minimum down payment dramatically.

For many of these people the mortgage payment AND PROPERTY TAXES are the problem, not the down payment.

72 posted on 08/20/2022 6:44:37 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: Alberta's Child

The mtg and property payment is half what the rent was, you consider that the problem?


73 posted on 08/20/2022 6:46:25 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: entropy12

How do you know that?

Top WEF Advisor: ‘We Just Don’t Need the Vast Majority of the Population’

https://americanfaith.com/top-wef-advisor-we-just-dont-need-the-vast-majority-of-the-population/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3pXLylHRLyk


74 posted on 08/20/2022 6:47:26 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: PK1991

These illegals (future Democrat voters) will need to be housed somewhere.
They have no money, so the gov will pay them for ‘housing’.
The ‘housing’ will come from the new landlords Globalist owners (Blackrock, Amazon, etc..).
Me and You (taxes) will foot the bill.
Govmt gets the votes, and Globalists make the profits.


75 posted on 08/20/2022 6:49:13 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: Jolla

Let me guess: You probably live in a semi-rural area outside a large city where an interesting combination of factors comes into play.


76 posted on 08/20/2022 6:50:10 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: TexasFreeper2009

How do you view this.?

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4086990/posts


77 posted on 08/20/2022 6:50:54 AM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Are you serious?

These aren’t section 8 homes being passed from one investor to another. These are single family homes that are being purchased for prices that a buyer can’t afford, gobbled up by a hedge fund or bezos and then rented out.

And now Bezos wants to gobble up a gigantic health care provider.


78 posted on 08/20/2022 6:51:18 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Jolla

And the major employers in your area are: (1) government, (2) colleges, and (3) health care facilities.


79 posted on 08/20/2022 6:52:01 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: PK1991

The problem with this is tying up that much capital in speculative single family housing can decimate a balance sheet.

Zillow had tons of faith In the cumulative components of their Zestimate they thought they could scale it to make hundreds of millions flipping houses at scale. Instead they wrote down nearly a billion dollars.

You may have $100 billion at your disposal but when you’ve bought up the hot markets by default you’re your own worst enemy being out of bargains. Then You have destroyed the market you’re trying to monopolize.


80 posted on 08/20/2022 6:54:56 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (There is no one more racist than a white liberal.)
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