Concerned American
Diamond Member
There is a solution--buy your own home and don't pay rent. The landlords have no control over renters that trash their properties and create unnecessary expenses that have to be spread out among all renters. I had a good friend who rented out a modest home to one such lowlife. After an extended eviction process for non-payment of rent, the home was left in an atrocious state. Fifty thousand dollars in repairs later and six months with no rent, my friend was able to rent it out again. You and protectionist should avail yourself to the old movie, Pacific Heights with Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine. It is very insightful to this problem and a major reason why rents are so high.Otherwise, you would literally have real estate people buying up all the homes and then charging 50 times what the actual price should be.