• 𝓜𝓲𝓪@quokk.au
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    5 days ago

    Revenue for repairs and sudden issue is still breaking even, the point of profit for landlords is to well generate profit on the bottom line.

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      4 days ago

      A landlord is almost always making money even if they are just “breaking even” on the mortgage.

      If the landlord is still paying for a mortgage, the profit goes into their equity gain.

      Once the mortgage is paid off, the profit goes into the landlords pocket.

      This is how many people get started being parasites on society. They have other people pay the bank while they gain the assets of their labor.

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      5 days ago

      You’ll have to have some profit if you want money to pay for the repairs and sudden issues without it being from your pocket.

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          4 days ago

          I did. Where would the money for the sudden issues come from if you didn’t make a profit from the outset?

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            4 days ago

            Landlords, when they’re organized, put some of the rent money aside for repairs, and don’t touch it until those repairs are needed. Profit, is the money they make on top of that.

            Their rent prices are large enough, to both cover the entirety of the repairs, and make sure that there is even more money left over in the end, for profit.

            “Sudden” repairs are neither unpredictable, nor chaotic. Houses, appliances, everything, can only last so long, and it’s easy to know how long the AC unit and the roof insulation is going to last, the estimates are right there when you buy the things.

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                2 days ago

                You built your property in a magical candy land where things last forever.

                (Explanation in case you’re a real human person who’s just kinda stuck up instead of another bot: you’ve been arguing semantics in bad faith instead of facing the important parts of this conversion, so honestly, take some time off, and solve the problems troubling your life. Or, otherwise, please phrase your question as a poem so I can understand it better.)

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                  2 days ago

                  I mean is it any less magical than being able to perfectly predict how much you’ll use in repairs, even sudden and unexpected ones?

                  Just silly, profit doesn’t have to be such a scary word.