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fckredditmodslmao t1_iufzmnm wrote

Thereā€™s no way you could get enough people on board for this to ever work. If you donā€™t pay your rent, youā€™ll be evicted, and theyā€™ll find another person within the week who needs housing and will actually pay their rent.

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sessoms09 t1_iufzn4r wrote

No Iā€™ve been paying rent for years no problem no need to accuse me of not wanting to do something you have to do especially when it comes putting a roof over my kids head. But go head and attack my free speech without properly addressing my comment with a healthy discourse.

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gurgurhh t1_iug0pb4 wrote

There are a few truthful things in your post such as ā€œjob isnā€™t keeping up with price of livingā€ but Iā€™m curious why that makes you jump to rent strike? Why not a workerā€™s strike?

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ClockworkElves69 t1_iug2fhp wrote

If I rented my house it would be for $2000 and it was built in the 30ā€™s. Itā€™s simply math not some ploy to take advantage of you. My cost + some profit to provide a cushion for unforeseen maintenance costs that would eventually arise.

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Salty_Mycologist_314 t1_iug5ub5 wrote

My wife and I rent a house for 2K a month, everything included. With the cost of electricity, heating, cooling, taxes, mortgage, mowing the lawn etc etc I bet they are barely making any profit. It is expensive but life is expensive for everyone. I know not all rentals are like this but many of them are. Everywhere. I just came from northern New England and it is the same thing there

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sessoms09 t1_iug61pa wrote

Damn didnā€™t know that stuff like this is happening outside the country as well and ainā€™t the 2k is a issue for me itā€™s what the place look like and the place look like itā€™s worth 1000.

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roid_gut t1_iug751g wrote

A more realistic strike scenario would be like if an entire building of tenants had grievances and withheld rent in escrow until the grievances were addressed. I have a soft spot for the idea of a general strike, but I don't really see that happening. I do agree with the sentiment that landlords don't really contribute much to society though, LOL.

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Givn_to_fly t1_iuhhlwx wrote

God this is just like the gas increase, compared to most places in the world our inflation is low and our currency is strong. This isnā€™t just an American problem. Itā€™s running rampant world wide. But sure make the problem exclusively about Americans!

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