Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Is Wall Street REALLY Buying Up All the Homes?" video.

  1. It IS a commodity. It's essential for life and can be bought with money
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  2. There's no correlation between land property size and rent. The myth comes from how when cities grow usually developers buy whole chunks of land at a time to build apartment blocks.
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  3. I own a duplex. I got the place cheaply because the corporate fools in New York who owned the place didn't know what it was worth. I fixed a few small things and raised the rent when I got a rentor/neighbor and everyone was happy. When you say Wall Street guys are paying well above asking price, I see fools losing money not evil villains conquering the world.
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  4. It's almost as if most people secretly don't put any faith in those reports...
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  5.  @WrekkinM  Really? Because given the timing of when this place hit the market I'm pretty sure the other guy was desperate for cash (it was a private equity firm during the summer of 2022). And I have been pretty lenient with the rentor given she hid the dog from me when the contract asked for a pet deposit and she's behind on rent. I fail to see any issue.
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  6. Most of us are better off renting a house anyway. Whether the landlord is some corporate goon or some local goon doesn't matter.
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  7.  @sebastianlucas704  I'm collecting rent money at a nice profit, apparently. Yes, I know people who want to criminalize rent but only for rich people because their parents are also amatuer landlords
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  8. Houses are just plain expensive.
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  9. Greedy people lie about rich people. Comprende?
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  10. No one would believe that it's him
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  11. It's really a matter of how crowded the cities are
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  12. They're simply the biggest. Conspiracy theories are a reverse popularity contest because they are envy driven
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  13. More often just a dumb investment.
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  14. Warren Buffet himself says he doesn't even do rental properties because it tends to be a fair trade and he wants to be rich. Also, most of us are better off renting. Whether the landlord is a local asshole or a rich asshole makes no difference
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  15. Put that back up your butt where you got it
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  16. Dude, learn how to spot when greedy bastards are bullshitting.
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  17. Greedy bastards refuse to hear anything nice about rich people
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  18. Found the shoplifter
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  19. Except there's nowhere in the world where that is so simply because lots of people own their own home. And I'm no lawyer but that might actually be an illegal monopoly anyway and any civil court would force the breakup of it. Even so, the existence of a monopoly generally doesn't effect the price, it simply makes the corporation more like a government who does as it pleases even if they're generally honest
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  20. Yes, it's a fiction in all the above
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  21. Why would it matter if he was?
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  22. Surprise, targeted ads mean finance firms are advertised on finace videos.
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  23. Apparently not if they're buying above asking...
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  24. Lying about a dead guy does nothing for no one. Now pay your bills or be thrown out into the cold.
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  25. Being a landlord is a lot of work. In fact, if you owned enough houses that you didn't need a regular job, you would be putting in 40 hours a week managing the houses. And since most people don't stay in one place for more than a decade.... @Redactedlllllllllllll 
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  26.  @Redactedlllllllllllll  Shelter is like food. You must pay for it one way or another
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  27. There are certainly ethical ways to buy houses at that price the same way deep value investors buy companies for more than their liquidation value. What exactly is this predatory practice?
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  28. Who?
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  29. It literally isn't
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  30. Ha.
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  31. That's silly. All these landlords will sell if you offer them enough money and there are millions of people who would buy their homes from their landlords.
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  32. Dude, market volumes change month to month. THe idiot buyers are paying more for less because they all think they can beat the other guy to the punch. The winners are the sellers, and next spring there will be some new get rich quick scheme.
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  33. What if YOU'RE doing it too?
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  34. Private equity or big companies?
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  35. So?
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  36. Or we could just draft you
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  37. Glazing?
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  38. I'm the smallest kind of landlord possible (I own a duplex). How is this a problem?
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  39. Who the fuck cares even if that were actually true? You're clearly jealous of their money
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