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  • This is simply not true. Most of the single family dwellings rentals are owned by regular people. If you think the average person can throw down on a $800,000 mortgage at 6% and pay $8000 a year in property tax plus other expenses just to hedge inflation, you are as delusional as most of the people I’ve run into on this site. Just do the simple math on how much rent you would have to charge to break even on a rental if you wanted to be a land lord tomorrow, then see if you could just sit on a $50,000 loss per year. Jesus. I’m about done with Lemmy. People here are dumb as shit




  • Rental income is taxed at 100%, FYI.

    I think carrot works better than stick. Instead of punishing everyone who made an investment, and spending god knows how much money to enforce it, just offer a one time capital gains exemption on any investment single family dwelling that has rental income for more than a year. But make that exemption dependent on the sale going to someone who doesn’t already own a home. (No landlords scooping up extra properties) this puts sellers in connection with buyers and since the seller is getting a big payout they can do the extra leg work. I bet many of the properties get sold to existing tenants.

    The government gets an easy cost effective way to free up supply, and it doesn’t actually take money out of their pocket. (Just removes future tax income). Limit the program to no more than 3 years. Anyone who is a casual landlord will jump to get out. Boomers in retirement will jump at it as they will have owned these properties for years. This will free up supply in months, not years. Everyone I know who owns rentals that I discussed this with said they would sell if they could avoid capital gains.

    That’s my $0.02. FWIW








  • It’s unfortunate that the higher up your go in wealth the more access you have to loop holes. While this tax law does benefit corporations, it also massively helps middle class investors to keep more of their money. If the capital gains were revoked across the board a substantial money is middle class would find retirement harder to achieve. Capital gauge should be prorated like income tax. Allow the middle class to invest and drive the stock market but prevent corporations from behaving badly in the name of wealth accumulation.