• Yondoza@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    How do you handle situations where people want to live temporarily in houses? An example would be a traveling nurse that doesn’t want to be in an apartment building.

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      10 months ago

      May people prefer to rent houses over owning one. Many of them I speak to tell me they want nothing to do with house maintenance and upkeep and they prefer to rent so that they don’t have to think or worry about any of the repairs. They like being able to just call the property manager when the hot water stops working or when their kiddo accidentally breaks a window.

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          10 months ago

          Why do you care so much how someone else chooses to live their life? Some people want to rent and it’s no one else’s business to make them do any different.

          If you want to own a house and a buy a maintenance contract go for it.

          I personally wouldn’t wish dealing with a home warranty company claim on my worst enemy. They are all scams geared to deny claims.

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        10 months ago

        When the kids breaks a window, they still have to pay. They just don’t have to source it, which means they might not be getting the best deal.

        Plus, most landlords leave things till the last minute or make it such hard work for the tenant to report it, they don’t bother.

        The maintenance is built into the rent, so they’re already paying for it, just not getting the best deal and losing the option to do it how they want.

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          10 months ago

          Everything you are saying is true, and even with those facts noted, some people still prefer the convenience of renting and some like the carefree aspect of not having to be responsible for the upkeep.

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        10 months ago

        I understand your sentiment, but it took all of a half second to think of one scenario that would cause problems in the proposed system.

        As frustrating as it is to hold off on a good-intentioned change, it is far more detrimental to charge headlong without considering the consequences. The systems that are in place now are there for a reason. Some of those reasons are greed and corruption, but others are because of they fulfill people’s needs. It would be stupid to build a new system to address the greed side without addressing the need side.

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          4 months ago

          But if you can’t summarize the solution to a complex societal problem with a history to it into a single simple sentence that can be used as a punchy “hot take”, clearly you just don’t want a solution! /s

          Way too many people in the world who are more willing to believe that things suck because everyone’s too stupid to try the “obvious” solution, instead of the fact that most societal issues are icebergs of complication and causes.