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    Quote Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
    So move further away. Live in the boonies. I'm not as familiar with Canadian real estate, but in the US if you don't care to be near a megalopolis then you can get a comfy single family home for less than $1000/mo without looking too hard.
    I do live in the boonies.

    I can't even get high speed internet. My next door neighbor is half a mile away.

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    I don't know where you live pal, but you are living in a fantasy land.
    No, I don't. Maybe it's more you live in the most expensive state/city in the US in terms of rent.

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    Rent shouldn't be that high anywhere.

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    Anyone who argues that rent and mortgage payments are NOT too high to an obscene degree right now, is an ignorant moron.

    A studio apartment should not cost $2000 a month.

    When that is the norm, everything is broken.
    EXACTLY. These overpriced areas were barely propped up by people paying up to 50% of their income on rent. It's fine when you can get zillions of jobs as a server or bartender in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and make $30 bucks an hour (or even more) on tips. It's a recipe for disaster when those same governors pull the plug on that income.
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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    I do live in the boonies.

    I can't even get high speed internet. My next door neighbor is half a mile away.
    I didn't know we were talking about you. If we are--$1500/mo for a one-bedroom and bad internet--then it seems like you got a bad deal. I know people in Manhattan with better deals than that.

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    Quote Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
    I didn't know we were talking about you. If we are--$1500/mo for a one-bedroom and bad internet--then it seems like you got a bad deal. I know people in Manhattan with better deals than that.
    I'm not talking about me specifically, but I really don't understand why you're arguing that rent and mortgages are reasonable at this point in time.

    The entire real estate market is objectively broken.

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    I'm not talking about me specifically, but I really don't understand why you're arguing that rent and mortgages are reasonable at this point in time.

    The entire real estate market is objectively broken.
    I think Mr. Idiot is a property owner and trying to save face. There's lots of people on facebook right now that are doing the same "won't somebody think about the landlords waaaaahhhhhhh" when we are dealing with the biggest economic catastrophe since the great depression and (rightly or wrongly) it is through ZERO fault of their own that these people lost their jobs. They shouldn't be homeless PERIOD. I do think property owners should get some leeway through mortgages (if they don't own outright) by bringing their principle down if they have a 30/year fixed for example. But mortgages are more bendable. People refinance for cash money on the backs of their property all the time. Leases aren't (at least in California). Missing a rent payment, even if they don't get evicted, still means paying that rent sometime down the line. Worst case scenario, these people are facing a massive rent due in like June or July and as soon as the eviction moratorium is gone (which is up right now through State gov executive decree by Newsom) these people are going to get a notice that says "$6,0000 RENT DUE BY JULY 1st" and if it's not paid by July 15th they will get evicted. Thrown out on the street. Kaput. Through NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN if they lost their job from COVID-19 shut downs. I don't feel sorry for property owners w/o a mortgage. My old boss in SF owned primo downtown real estate outright right across from the Linked In global headquarters. He bought a small three story building for nothing back in the '70s. He had it appraised around 2015. Worth about $20 million dollars right now.
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    I'm not arguing rent is reasonable. I'm arguing rent doesn't have to be as unreasonable as you say, so long as one is willing to downgrade.

    Also, any smart landlord would much rather keep a great tenant and lose a month or two rent completely than have to deal with vacancy and risk signing a lease with someone who'll be a problem.

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    I think Mr. Idiot is a property owner and trying to save face.
    Why would Mr. Idiot be trying to save face--I don't even know you lol.

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    Quote Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
    Also, any smart landlord would much rather keep a great tenant and lose a month or two rent completely than have to deal with vacancy and risk signing a lease with someone who'll be a problem.
    You've clearly never rented an apartment in places like CA or NY. A small few landlords are "nice" and might wave rent for a month. The vast majority are either evil bastards who will take you to court to get blood from a stone. Or they are corporate conglomerates and you don't even know who runs them or who to talk to AND they will take you to court to get blood from a stone.
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    You've clearly never rented an apartment in places like CA or NY.
    I rented an apt in Manhattan’s Upper East Side for years. Once I sensed it was no longer financially feasible I moved somewhere cheaper.

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    Today I read someone saying (in earnest) that they think COVID-19 was created by Harvey Weinstein in cahoots with the Chinese film industry, in order to get revenge for not having his back and make room for Chinese cinema to take over the world film stage.

    I felt like RDJ in Tropic Thunder, saying that you should never go full retard.

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    So rent should be a static thing now? Always under $2k? Doesn't matter if you live in the most desirable city in the country or the woods? Love the concept.
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    I work in grocery. I have not gotten sick. My fellow employees have not gotten sick. If the virus were even remotely as contagious as its being presented as, why haven’t entire store staffs who come into contact with hundreds of people per day, thousands per week, all falling ill in mass nationwide?

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    Just move to Albuquerque:

    The average rent for an apartment in Albuquerque is $917, a 6% increase compared to the previous year.

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    I work in grocery. I have not gotten sick. My fellow employees have not gotten sick. If the virus were even remotely as contagious as its being presented as, why haven’t entire store staffs who come into contact with hundreds of people per day, thousands per week, all falling ill in mass nationwide?

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    Wish I was surprised / shocked.

    *sigh*
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    Japan's numbers are probably unreliable: Until a few days ago, the country was still planning to go forward with the Olympics and likely hasn't yet reported the full numbers, just as they tried to hide the full extent of the Fukushima catastrophe.
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    Quote Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
    So rent should be a static thing now? Always under $2k? Doesn't matter if you live in the most desirable city in the country or the woods? Love the concept.

    No, everywhere is overpriced. Everywhere.

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    No, everywhere is overpriced. Everywhere.
    In a self-correcting market that is literally impossible.

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    Japan's numbers are probably unreliable: Until a few days ago, the country was still planning to go forward with the Olympics and likely hasn't yet reported the full numbers, just as they tried to hide the full extent of the Fukushima catastrophe.
    Yeah, Japan and China's numbers are absolutely not reliable. I can vouch for Korea's though. No-one my wife and I know personally have been infected, and life has gone on relatively normally. It has helped that school has yet to start up for the year (well, public schools - I'm currently teaching online)
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    Yeah, it's kind of pointless to even consider China's numbers in anything on this.

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    I wasnt trying to be a dick. I was bragging that I have a great boss. I think all rent and mortgages should be suspended until this is over. What, is a bank gonna fail? No, they'll get bailed out by federal government.

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    I apologize for being testy and sweary, but I have lots of friends in the Bay Area & Los Angeles and I'm hearing some nightmare horror stories that are being overshadowed by the covid-19 disaster (which isn't nothing). Knowing the news cycles, when this blows over with the covid, I have a feeling that people that have cushy jobs to return to are going to assume everything is fine. It's not. I was watching someone from the national restaurant organization on CSPAN do an interview yesterday and he said 300,000 restaurants in the USA have already closed. Not "hey, let's wait this out and see what happens, then maybe we'll reopen" like they are 100% permanently closed, keys given back to the bank. Never reopening. And that's just in two weeks. That's a lot of fuckin' restaurants and a lot of jobs lost.

    1 million unemployed in California so far. I'm guessing the number of working age people (18-65) in CA is around 20 million? If this hits five million unemployed in California that means 25% unemployment. That's insane, catastrophic, beyond Great Depression levels. I don't know if it will reach that level, but brace yourselves.
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    Quote Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
    In a self-correcting market that is literally impossible.
    Apparently not, since that's literally reality.

    The majority of people live paycheck to paycheck and spend between 50 and 70% of their income on rent.

    That's not how things are supposed to be.

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