RE: Landlords killed the economy. End of story.9 Aug 2023 10:56
Carltt,
I am an accidental landlord, following a breakdown of marriage, I got to keep the house I bought prior to marriage. I am in the RAF and that house through renting out has given 2 families, constantly let since 2015, a roof over their heads. I have made a small amount of profit each year and luckily for the second family, because I haven't been greedy, they have been able to save up, as I kept the rent cheap and at a steep discount to the rent for similiar houses in the area and they have been able to save up a deposit for their own house. Now, the bit I don't get is how that I am so many others like me are destroying the economy. Yes, there are unscrupulous landlords everywhere and the vast majority of those unscrupulous landlords put money over people, but please don't tar us all with that brush. As for the rest of your points:
1. Landlord numbers up. Yes, as single people enter relationships with individual houses and want the fallback of having a house togo to, if their relationship breaks down
2. Immigrants up. Yep, immigration has happened for over a 1000 years. Get over it.
3. Crimes up/most goes unreported. Prisons full up. No police. Landlords definitely caused this problem.
4. Rentards up. People spend thousands on new texh, holidays, tattoos, etc, then cant afford the thousands for a deposit. Definitely a landlord caused problem.
5. Instability up. More people, more problems. Definitely caused by landlords
6. Shoplifting up. See point 3.
7. Stabbings up. See point 3.
8. Cars/traffic jams up. See point 5.
9. Drugs up. See point 3.
10. Cost of living up. A war and a pandemic will do this.
11. Own home ownership down. Nothing to do with homebuilders buying land and selving it for years. Nothing to do with lack of tradesmen to build said houses. Nothing to do with builders/tradesmen buying up dilapidated houses and doing them up and selling them on at a premium. Definitely a landlord caused problem.
12. Economy down. Landlords crashed the world economy, definitely nothing to do with a war and a pandemic and trade wars, etc.
13. Home affordability down. See point 4.
14. Business leadership down. Yeah, I forgot landlords run every business.
15. Ability to afford a car down. But you state cars and traffic is up in point 8, so which is it?
16. Respect for authority down. No visible police around, the inability to discipline your own child. Yep, definitely caused by landlords
17. Mental health down. Yep, landlords definitely cause this.
18. Safety of women/children down. I need to see some proof of this, but point 5 stands.
19. Traditional values down. No church anymore, as the faith in the church has eroded. Nothing to do with historic cases in the church and point 16. Yep, everything to do with landlords there.
20. Safety walking streets down. See point 16.
…. it’s a long list.
21. Landlord Lloyd’s SP down. Yep, instability in the UK economy where LLoyds are base