severely destroy the cashflow of a small landlord
They really do phrase everything as if it’s violence, don’t they?
Everything is violence except evictions!!!
Everything is violence except actual violence, which is fine.
Anyone who thinks that capitalism isn't violence just needs to speak to a couple of landlords about their tenants.
The response should be that they’re lucky they’re making it out with only their cash flow destroyed 
And when someone gets fired or laid off, it's not violence
Please spoiler tag economic gore, think about the People of Means reading along!
i heard one time that a bunch of these scum tenants so degraded a landlord, he had to go out and get a job in order to have income. imagine the shame and humiliation of having to perform an activity for money, like an organ grinder's monkey!
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
Landlords should be grateful that's all tenants unions are doing. 
That sounds rad as fuck.
Also, imagine writing that out and not seeing the feudal roots of the word Landlord. 
Mark of the Beast 
Literal demon blood drinker opinion
Contrarian shithead confirmed
That's simply the free market working Aimee
Where are all these small landlords?! I've rented dozens of places throughout my life and only one has been a "small landlord" and even then she was just renting out her basement not hording housing.
Where are all these small landlords?!
They still exist here and there. Generally speaking, they're cheaper than the big corporate brands but also significantly less responsive because its one guy and his two sons pretending they can handyman their way through a forty unit complex that hasn't had a proper renovation since the 1980s. Because they don't have the state-of-the-art fuck-you-rent-goes-up optimization computers, they get a lot of lower income and longer term tenants. But they're also prime for buy-outs from folks with infinity borrowed-at-0% financing.
So what you'll often see is a large community of people who hate their old small landlord because they have to maintain properties they don't own double-plus hate their new big landlord even harder for jacking up rent to force them out and bulldoze the space.
she was just renting out her basement not hording housing.
Its frustrating, because a lot of this isn't an individualist "hording housing" problem nearly so much as it is an institutional "we only have ranch style housing that sells for $1000/sqft" problem. So while renting your basement is far from the worst landlordism imaginable, it is still functionally profiting from a shortage of housing that your home functionally represents.
Its not her fault. She's just in a position to glean rents off a problem she has no control over, while you are not.
The real problem is for-profit real estate development. Ranch housing is cheap to develop and flip when populations are low-but-growing, while big MFUs cost more up front and clear more slowly. But then ranch home prices inflate as MFUs come into higher demand, and you have an incentive to rent-seek and speculate rather than make way for denser development, because why would you not?
Honestly, I don't really care about people renting rooms in their home they live in. There will always be people who need transient housing for legitimate reasons; students, workers on a temporary job, etc. So long as we are letting this bullship system of private housing allocation I would prefer to see some family get help staying in their own home than see some corporate landlord vacuum more wealth out of communities. That being said the whole system of for profit housing needs to be burned down and replaced with housing allocation based on planning and need.
In Toronto a chunk of the rental supply is people buying an "investment" condo they rent out (often at a short term loss). Or in college towns usually owners of student housing units own a house or a few houses. They're strictly speaking small landlords, but in my experience they're so much worse to deal with than owners of purpose built rental units.
College town guy here and yeah, they want to rent a room to a foreign student they can rip off for a year.
I had one the last place we lived. They were a real estate agent couple who owned a pair of duplexes, and the first time we met them they happily told us that the duplexes were "their retirement". I've never forgotten how open they were about that fact. It's one of those memories from back when I was a lib that has stuck with me.
They were alright as landlords, friendly enough, maintenance got done pretty quick when necessary. It was wild though, I paid rent one day late one time because I was busy as shit and my partner was out of state for an extended period, so it just totally slipped my mind. The nastiness of the text I got was a bit of a surprise to me. I was still very much a lib at that point, so I was extremely confused as to why a seemingly extremely harmless (and easily fixable!) mistake could lead to such an instant change in personality from a person who had always been friendly to me before.
That’s a really interesting word you’ve chosen for tenants there Aimee, I’m sure there’s no dog whistle behind that
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New band name?
Whatever happened to the free market? I thought we could do whatever we wanted. Seems like a skill issue
Poor smol bean landlord denied free money from hoarding multiple apartments.
Tenants are ungrateful "removed" but also the smol landlord depends on their rent to exist
I was in a chat group that didn't allow politics and they all got pissed at me for jokingly using the expression "Fake News" about some innocuous incorrect thing we were laughing at, as that's "political". Later one of those people called a bunch of people "removed" and when I asked why that wasn't a political issue everyone acted all confused about why that would be political.
Just a funny anecdote of Americans thinking empty joking meme phrases are politics, and actual politicized slurs used to enact genocides are just silly fun names
no more half measures walter
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What market are they monopolizing? And why are you renting to people you would deem removed? Sounds like you made a bad investment. Time to accept the risk you took.
sounds great very much on board with that plan
Maybe landlords should just pull themselves up by the bootstraps and work harder so they're not living ~~my~~ paycheck to paycheck 
Someone remind them what the tenets unions are compromises for
Sign me the fuck up
This is unironically good agitprop
lmao this aussie loser is paying for twitter
When the small landlord has enough tenants that they can form a union
That's nice,please face the wall.
nice 
m8
Aimee Therese is an actual nazi, as in she supports the actual nazis. This all happened because Felix wouldn't reply to her.
If they were that small, then the union would be like, 3 households and there would be no publicity. They're usually small segments of medium, large, or blackrock-sized landlords.
Get a job
The whole point of any union is to get what you want, read the lyrics to Solidarity Forever, loser 
But when "real estate investors" buy up all available properties and raise the prices that's just sacred free market competition, right?
Almost like in a totally free market your right to collect profit is balanced by my right to find ways to not spend my money 🤔
Well... yes. Those are not the words I would have chosen, but this essentially is what I want do to. Well said, weird stranger who loves using the word "removed".
EDIT: In the most sensible policy possible, we do not print that word. Good.
Thanks for reminding me to get involved again. I help with tenants union stuff, then just burn out for 1-2 months before I got the energy to help some more. Needless to say, I'm on the gruntwork end of things.
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