• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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    24 hours ago

    I still wouldn’t say you’re a good guy in this instance.

    I have two options: either sell (to an investor/hoarder) or rent. In the latter case, I can’t afford being both the breadwinner for my family and the mortgage for the prior apartment.

    What would you suggest I should do in this situation to “be the good guy”?

    But, the real massive issue I see here is that big companies and rich douchebags use owning land and housing solely for profit. THAT should be illegal (…)

    100% agree with this and the rest.

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      23 hours ago

      Well, selling to someone who needs it would be best in my book but yea… You staying the owner is a billion times better than some company or land developer buying it… You’re right, no hard feelings

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          12 hours ago

          What? I said

          selling to someone who needs it

          As in someone that needs it to live in it

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            12 hours ago

            Why lie?

            You staying the owner is a billion times better than some company or land developer buying it

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              12 hours ago

              Huh? I don’t follow

              I said him owning it is better than a laege company owning it

              I mean isn’t that better??? You can reason with a guy, given that he’s reasonable, but you have no chance with a company. And his price is probably lower than that of a company looking to maximise profits with constant market data available to them

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                10 hours ago

                I said him owning it is better than a laege company owning it

                And I asked you why, at which point you claimed you didn’t say that.

                You can reason with a guy, given that he’s reasonable, but you have no chance with a company.

                I see no reason to think you have any better chance reasoning with this guy.

                And his price is probably lower than that of a company

                I see zero reason to believe he’s renting for below market rate. Individual owners don’t general charge lower rent than companies, so your assertion that he “probably” does is completely baseless.

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                  8 hours ago

                  Look man I really don’t have anything againsnt what you’re saying, we’re both arguing for assumptions here, there’s no point

                  But I guess I’ll ask this, to get to more practical things: what do you think he should do?

                  I think the best thing he could do is sell to someone that needs the property to live in it. But I won’t hold it against him if he chooses to keep and rent out the property unless it’s solely for profits. Keeping a property for a while to make sure you won’t need it before selling it, is fine in my head.