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Re: Woman Has Lived in House Rent-Free for 8 Years
by Kim (WV)
on September 28, 2014 @13:11
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Let's say she would have been paying $700 a month in rent for a 3 bedroom house. If she had saved that amount, that would have been a total of $8400 a year, and in 8 years time that would have been a total of $67,200. Down payment? Heck, she might have been able to buy the place outright.
I just checked Realtor.com and found there are 315 properties in Indianpolis for sale with a minimum of 3 bedrooms which are priced between $50,000 and $67,000. There are some that look quite nice, judging from the pictures shown.
That woman is a fool...and a fool and her money are soon parted. I don't know that I would rent to her, if she didn't have the gumption to save enough (in 8 years of living rent free) to buy her own home. And how would she pass a regular LL's screening? She's got no landlord reference and no rental history for the last 8 years!
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Re: Woman Has Lived in House Rent-Free for 8 Years
by Ronald
on September 28, 2014 @14:09
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It is a pivilege off the working class's taxes.
It is not a right.
We all have the right to earn our own home, though, not the rightto steal from someone else, but unfortunately many people don't see it that way anymore.
Morals and values have fallen by the wayside.
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Re: Woman Has Lived in House Rent-Free for 8 Years
by Anonymous
on September 28, 2014 @14:25
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it could be argued from an ethical standpoint that owning property that one does not himself use is also immoral, as landlording is essentially holding unused and excessive amounts of property for oneself for the express purpose of extracting money from those who do not own property.
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Re: Woman Has Lived in House Rent-Free for 8 Years
by Anonymous
on October 1, 2014 @11:33
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It could also be argued the greater harm, and therefore the greater unethicality, would result from no one holding such property and thus no rental property would be available for those unable or unwilling to own a home, making a large portion of society homeless, living under a bridge and at risk of physical or mental damage. Yay you, look what you accomplished.
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Re: Woman Has Lived in House Rent-Free for 8 Years
by Anonymous
on October 1, 2014 @11:38
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Same argument could be made for food. You're saying that those who earned it should hand it over to those who want it. In your scenario, where's the incentive to earn it for either party -- if you take it from me, I won't bother to earn it; if you hand it to me, I don't have to bother to earn it. As a landlord, I'm doing the homeless a favor by offering my excess property for rent; but they have to earn it, otherwise where's the incentive for either of us?
Yes, I believe in human rights -- every human has a right to make an effort. No human has a right to take from his neighbor without giving anything in return; that's a recipe for the collapse of a society.
And don't even start me on natural rights.
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Re: Woman Has Lived in House Rent-Free for 8 Years
by Anonymous
on September 28, 2014 @15:53
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On the otherside of the coin, no one was interested in following up on the the tenant eight years ago and it fell thru the cracks. You have to hand it to the tenant that for eight years had kept the property up by maintaining it. Surely she spend money in doing so. No one implied that the property was in a run down state.
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