deuce-ish: Counterpoint: My kids both managed to buy a single family home

This needs to happen asap - villain January 7, 2026, 13:20:20

Best administration ever - AceFrehley January 8, 2026, 18:02:43
Counterpoint: My kids both managed to buy a single family home - kokomojo January 8, 2026, 12:11:29

What’s the legality of banning or limiting corporate ownership? - Potomac January 7, 2026, 16:45:06
- It’s unconstitutional as shit* - groupguy January 7, 2026, 20:09:29
  - 1st off, I don't give a single solitary fuck if a non citizen or corporation gets cut out of housing - villain January 8, 2026, 11:42:39
    - I give a fvck about the law, legal principles and precedent. - Lexillini January 8, 2026, 12:24:03
    - Amen* - Learning_and_Labor January 8, 2026, 12:12:51
  - Banning outright, yes, but the imposition of an income tax of 80% on - fratstud January 8, 2026, 8:09:07
    - You are absolutely right on how to curtail this....make the taxes so punative it ends tomorrow. - villain January 8, 2026, 11:54:00
      - I CAN'T be local. It has to be federal. Because look at why NY is doing. - AceFrehley January 8, 2026, 12:27:06
- That is exactly my concern.* - Lexillini January 7, 2026, 16:47:34
- They have an unfair advantage. They can offer all cash far more easily than a regular family. - AceFrehley January 7, 2026, 16:47:19
  - I will have a big advantage over others when I sell my boomer home - too bad* - Potomac January 7, 2026, 20:32:22
    - what is that exactly? I don't think the boomers realize that their large homes they've been - villain January 8, 2026, 12:03:29
      - This particular boomer is in a place that will likely be fine* - Potomac January 8, 2026, 12:58:10
  - That same rationale applies to two private persons bidding on a home for sale.* - Lexillini January 7, 2026, 16:48:09
    - If I'm bidding against Donald Trump I'm going to lose - AceFrehley January 7, 2026, 16:54:30
Fixing the housing stock and US birth rates is incredibly easy - villain January 7, 2026, 16:09:05
It's an understandable concern which needs to be addressed. - Lexillini January 7, 2026, 14:23:02
- Private Equity owns 3% of the single family homes in the US and investors own 20% of the SFH in the - villain January 7, 2026, 16:00:45
  - I don't disagree with any of that. But I also don't like the precedent this potentially sets. - Lexillini January 7, 2026, 16:31:32
    - The government is precisely the entitiy to decide that it's citizens get the housing stock over non - villain January 8, 2026, 12:07:06
    - In a totally free market you can't. - AceFrehley January 7, 2026, 16:55:33
      - This is most certainly true, and fixing it requires fixing it, not jamming more knives into the flat - groupguy January 7, 2026, 20:12:49
No this is bullshit thanks to narcissistic asshole Trump adopting Dem ideas. George Ryan redux - groupguy January 7, 2026, 14:14:27
- Do you want your kids to be able to own a home? Want grandkids? Want them to own a home? - villain January 7, 2026, 16:02:31
  - I want them to own or rent or do whatever makes economic sense for them - Potomac January 7, 2026, 20:35:07
    - Which is mitigated by not moving into a neighborhood in a shitty or declining area. - villain January 8, 2026, 12:22:14
  - Did you get your MBA from Kellogg? Start multiple companies? Hang with millionaires? Full-Mamdani - groupguy January 7, 2026, 20:08:55
    - I have no dog in this hunt except to state "hang with millionaires" is the funniest flex ever... - haighter January 8, 2026, 17:44:40
      - I can bench 135! - AceFrehley January 8, 2026, 17:57:14
    - I have an economics degree from UofI, an MBA from St. Louis University, and dropped out of getting a - villain January 8, 2026, 12:32:36
- You nuts? Companies like Blackstone are going to crush my home values.* - AceFrehley January 7, 2026, 14:23:22
  - What do you mean? Crush as in shrink or crush as in soar? - groupguy January 7, 2026, 14:39:42
    - Take my neighborhood for example. - AceFrehley January 7, 2026, 16:56:33
This will be hated by the left. Because they're assholes. - AceFrehley January 7, 2026, 13:32:14

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