• twopi@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Don’t make your problems everyone else’s.

    You can just buy a REIT.

    Imagine the contractor that works for a REIT. Should they get full rent because they broke their the same way as you? Or hourly, just like my roommate?

    You get the rent because you’re a landlord, not because you work hard.

    If working hard on a property, instead of owning it, meant getting all of the high rents then the REITs’ contractor should be collecting rents instead of the REITs but that obviously doesn’t happen.

    Don’t defend landlording. Oppose it, you can still be one, but just oppose it.

    Would you make the same if you sank all of your money in investments and work a second job as a contractor? Same story but different results?

    If you had long term tenants and but they owned the property but contracted you? You would still work hard and be compensated for the work isn’t that enough? If the work the justification for your rental income then why not just be a contractor instead of an owner? And better yet leave the owning part to the people who live there.

    • RandomCucumber@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      So instead of buying a home that needed a lot of work and spending a lot of money locally in order to accomplish that work and making minimal (if any) profit, I should just give my money to an investment firm who will be both shittier AND more expensive to renters, while siphoning money away from that local market?

      Please explain how me investing in a REIT rather than actual real estate solves your problem.