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With Shared Software, Landlords Are Teaming Up to Raise Rents (jacobin.com)

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[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you plan on moving out anyways, why not just sell the house? It'd give you a large up front sum of money, and you would never have to worry about maintenance or bad tenants again.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Fair question! Two reasons:

I'm not the picture of fiscal responsibility. Be much more comfortable with a predictable income, especially since I'll be too old to work.

Selling the house would be a last resort for two reasons. My wife is foreign and would be lost without me. I want to know she will always have a roof to sleep under, no matter what. Two, I really want to be able to leave it to my children, give them a jump in life when we're both gone.