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With homelessness exploding due to how the asset-owning Parasite Class is jacking rents into the stratosphere, why is any residential property vacant at this time?
Vacant residential properties should be taxed out the nose - well above any rent or price appreciation - until they are occupied by legitimate tenants.
Undesirable location
Undesirable location
In many places, that just doesn’t exist. Places like most of Canada, where people are paying 60-80% of their income just to put a roof over their head. If a place is on the rental market, it will likely have people fighting tooth-and-nail over it even if it’s been condemned and it’s being illegally rented out.
Doesn’t Canada have a shitload of uninhabited wilderness?
Yup. Problem is, not too many people can effectively live hundreds of kilometres away from their jobs. And not many people want a 2-4hr daily commute. And anything that has electricity and water to the lot is already being snapped up by “investors” looking to flip the thing for a massive profit.
We have a really big problem with a lack of effective restraints on the asset-owning Parasite Class
No, a lot are vacant because they’re purchased as “investments” and just sit there empty. No work is being done on them.
Paying rates, insurance, taxes, and maintenance on an empty property isn’t an investment, it’s a liability.
This is almost certainly a myth, and I don’t know why so many people believe it.
Because when you sit on that property for 3 - 5 yrs, doing thenbare minimum to keep it functioning, you can then sell it for 20-30% more. You don’t have to anything.
That type of value increase is pretty rare, and by no means guaranteed. And even if it’s true, you could make even more money still by tenanting the property.
Not necessarily. Not only you will have to maintain the houses beyond bare minimum, you will have to deal with tenants. But if you just hold it, it will never depreciate in value, you can do all the speculation bullshit on it, taking loans using it as collateral, and billion of other slimy shit they do, and if you’re lucky it will increase in value a lot over time, meanwhile you don’t need to do shit other than pay some alcoholic to visit it once every three month to see if nothing leaks.
Because the last tenant put holes in the walls, their dog’s piss caused the floor to lift, and the shower they plugged then overflowed fucked up the bathroom?
So there are repairs to do in order to make the place livable and then time to find somebody else who won’t just wreck the place again?
Yeah there are lots of shit landlords but one of the continuing factors is the remaining good ones with a basement suite etc bailed after terrible tenants.
A vacancy tax is a good idea but there needs to be caveats for timelines especially if stuff like reasonable maintenance/repairs is taken into consideration.
Ironically my friends who bitched about “shit landlords” also happened to be the drinkin’ smokin’ big-dog-ownin’ types who were the worst type of tenants and ruined shit for everyone else
There needs to be a distinction made between somebody renting out their downstairs to make ends meet vs. those people who buy up dozens of houses.
Sorry, that’s actually already factored into the cost of the rent.
The real reason why so many properties are vacant is that even though landlords know they could fill the vacant apartments by lowering the rent, there are companies that make money by telling landlords how much to set the rent for, even if they keep the apartments vacant. showing that they will make more money with less overhead by doing so, so that the decrease in hassle will justify the decrease in profit.
There are a couple of various lawsuits and actions that are going on about these companies right now, and we have yet to see how it’s going to play out. But, the cat is out of the bag, the genie is out of the bottle, the likelihood of rents returning back to something that people can afford with minimum wage income any time soon is pretty low.
Don’t landlords dislike vacancies because empty units get broken into and vandalized, creating more cost?
Yeah, apparently, when they are using this real page software, they are able to figure out how much they can charge for an apartment and how many apartments they can leave vacant before dropping their prices, and as long as the software says they’ll make more money doing something one way, then that’s what they’re going to do.
Oh no, instead of getting money for doing nothing you will get money for paying someone to do a cosmetic repair once every several years. Should I feel sorry for you? I entered a landlord mode so I forgot what empathy is, so I need help here.
There’s cosmetic repairs and then there’s “making the place fit for Guinean habitation” repairs.
Now granted I’m a bit older and not renting now (and not a landlord, though I did share in my first place when I was a younger), but in that time a lot of better available places were people who’d bought a home, had kids, then had said kids grow up and move out. Given the free space but still wanting to keep with the family home they’d invested half their lives in, they’d rent out a basement suite or whatever (generally for a reasonable rate, at least compared to other places or the shit-show we see today). Some didn’t need the money, others found that rising property values also came with a rise in taxes and repair costs. Most were still not assholes though so if the stove or heating broke down they’d actually get a repair guy in fairly quickly or replace said appliance (often with a used but functional one).
Those are what you’d call the “mom and pop” landlords and they were a lot more prevalent. By the same token though, they weren’t making a lot - hell some were less interested in rents than not having an empty-feeling house - and all it took was one bad tenant to make it not worthwhile. It doesn’t take much either. Water damage and/or mould abatement, a kitchen fire, pet/drugs/smoking damage etc can all add up pretty quickly especially if they’re hiring somebody professional to do repair work which was certainly more than just cosmetic.
I don’t see a lot of those types now - I’d certainly not want to be one - but most I know cite that it would take them years to recoup the cost of damage from that one bad case and they just weren’t willing to deal with that plus the life-disruption anymore. So now all there pretty much is would be corporate landlords or the type that own several “rental properties” and consider painting the walls (and hinges, and light-switches, and plugs) or throwing down the cheapest carpet possible the extent of their actual “investment” in the property.
I’m not in support of this practice, I’m just sharing the info.
Don’t shoot the messenger my dude
Excuses.
If they can’t handle the responsibility, we cannot burden our society by letting them ‘own’ our housing stock.
Are you participating in the same thread that I am?
I literally said that landlords are using software to set the prices with software in collaboration with other landlords.
I also said there are lawsuits open about this action.
I was then told not to be a devil’s advocate, and my response was, I am not advocating for anything.
Now you say that I am making excuses?
What logic train are you guys all on?
Because I am not on the same logic train as you.
Ihave not supported anything, or advocated for anything, or excused anything and yet you seem to have convinced yourself that I have, and I don’t know where it’s coming from.
Like if I’m fucking up fine, you know, downvote me. If I’m saying something that’s controversial, fine, downvote me. But nothing I have said should be considered a fuck-up or controversial. So I don’t know why people are against me saying it.
same thread?
I dunno, am i?
i literally said
Yeah im not seeing that, but im getting lots of weird formatting in reply positions
also said
Not what i was replying to though
what logic train
I think people were replying to what you said here as if you were the poster a couple comments upthread, because it sounded like it, and like ypu were defemding it.
more train metaphor
Thank you. I appreciate this.
where is
Already addressed
fucking up
Well you are made of meat. Probably no adequate refridgeration. Gross. Downvoted for unrefrigerated meat.
There are some spectacularly stupid people in this thread, that are apparently refusing to accept that renovations are a thing.
It’s quite bizarre.
It’s possible that your lemmy client is doing something weird, you seem to respond or get responses to some parallel comments
Don’t be a devil’s advocate. Devils can advocate for themselves.
I’m literally not advocating for anything. I’m sharing knowledge and allowing others to come to their own conclusions.
Your arguing with someone who’s head is far too deep in their own ass to actually understand what you’re saying.
It’s frustrating, very frustrating, that this is the lowest common denominator on the Internet today. And it’s only getting worse as kids grow up under the thumb of their corporate spoon fed news feeds.
Imagine trying to understand different perspectives.
Critical thinking really is dead if this is the kind of attitude you think is acceptable.
You did ask why the property would be vacant, and that’s one answer.
“good ones” that isn’t a real thing
Yeah there are lots of shit landlords
No, being a landlord makes you shit.
Had to move for my job, but didn’t want to sell our house.
Decided to rent it. Lucked into some awesome renters.
We haven’t raised the rent on them in 7 years. We fix things when they ask. They respect the property.
If they moved or bought a house they’d be paying significantly more monthly. Instead they’re using their extra money to save for their own house and to get their business off the ground.
This feels like a win win? If we had sold, it’d probably be an AirBnB now. How does this make me shit?
I know i am going to be down voted but here goes.
You didn’t want to sell your home to a family who could have really used it, instead you wanted to keep it and make money off someone for 7 whole years.
You are keeping property you don’t need whilst talking about how you help people to get their own home, seems like a poor justification to me.
This feels like a win win? If we had sold, it’d probably be an AirBnB now. How does this make me shit?
You don’t know that it would have become an air bnb, you are just using whataboutism to make yourself look better by comparison. And if it did that’s not on you, but trying to justify renting additional properties by saying you “saved it” from becoming an air bnb instead is so shitty. Like wow you saved the house from being used in that way here is your rental payment.
You aren’t saving people money by taking rental payments, you aren’t a hero for potentially stopping someone from using the property as an airbnb, you are a landlord.
I mean I guess I could have left it empty while I myself rented from someone? I don’t see how that’d make me a better person though.
I’m not really buying your argument. You’re not making any real argument of how I hurt anyone or even caused a net negative on society. You’re speculating that because I didn’t hand the house to someone “who needed it”, that I somehow did wrong. I didn’t price gouge. I didn’t raise the rent. I repair things in a timely manner. The renter pays less than they would if they bought the house, aren’t responsible for anything major, and can leave at just about anytime. Seems like a net positive in my book? Sure, they paid me… but am I supposed to give it away for free? Selling it probably would have landed me more money. Are you pitching a world where everyone has to lock in to a 30 year loan and be stuck there? Or is this an argument where housing should be free or something? (Sure, whatever… but that’s a different topic)
You aren’t saving people money by taking rental payments, you aren’t a hero for potentially stopping someone from using the property as an airbnb, you are a landlord.
I don’t think I’m a hero. I do think I’m saving them money. They could have foregone a rental and bought a house. They chose not to to save money for a business.
They didn’t know that it would probably become an airbnb, but the likelihood of such a place becoming one or being bought by somebody else wanting to charge higher rents isn’t exactly low either.
The whole “market rates” thing is used by corporate landlords to increase prices, and controlling available properties - including by leaving vacancies - is one way that do that. By the same token, charging below “market rates” could also help of enough did it, especially if the places are decent and money re-invested in proper upkeep. Many/most though are not even investing in proper maintenance/repairs while charging over an above the cost of entire mortgages, which IMO is just greedy bullshit
Nah bro, that’s 50lbs of incense
That’s 125 lb of incense.
15lbs of incense
Empty bag storage.
7,210lbs of incense
7210lbs of nonsense
An elbow and two stone of pooridge mix
The sheer amount of it makes me think that tampering with it will get you in trouble with some bad people
I guess it depends on where you’re at? Those look like ounces not pounds, honestly not that much value even if they were pounds, especially if you’re in a place where it’s legal.
Maybe quarter pounds. Still tens of thousands of dollars in a legal state.
Usually (at least in Britain) they’d be packaged into 9 ounce bags (otherwise known as a 9 bar) for distribution to dealers. It’s sold by the kg on the international market and ounces on the British market and 9 Oz is approximately 250g so it’s a handy way to convert from metric to imperial when selling to dealers.
Thats pretty interesting, does Britain use ounces generally? I thought that was a US thing.
The drug trade is American, they also use pints for beer though
No, the drug trade is truly international. You can’t buy an 1/8 in the Netherlands for example. But dealers will always use whatever unit their clientele is comfortable with. But, dealers in the states also use the metric system if they’re buying from places like Mexico or Colombia.
The United States consumes a lot of drugs but there’s almost no export from the USA to anywhere except possibly Canada.
Replace two of the bags with oregano and tip off the police. The police report x kg of weed seized instead of x-½ because they want to look good. Dealers believe all is accounted for and you have 2 whole 9 bars to enjoy at your leisure.
Yeah, I wouldn’t mess with the kind of people who own that much, or even let on that I’d seen it.
No conflict at all in my mind. Leave no evidence of being there. Put out a few cameras to catch the faces of anyone entering. Call the cops and the DEA, and stay clear til the dust settles.
Love the taste of leather from your daddy?
Narc
It just weed u dumb fucking cop lmao
It could be a serious criminal organization that breaks into other people’s properties to store something illegal that could get you, the landlord, jailed, not even talking about other things like violence. This isn’t your friend growing a bud and sharing it with others, this shit looks morally uncomfortable.
I thought the white ones were powder and I felt a lot less conflicted. but I see now that it looks lumpy, like more weed
That looks like 50 lbs of weed.
Could you imagine just leaving 40 lbs of weed in a closet like that?
I hope they contacted the authorities about that 30 lbs of weed.
The last thing anyone needs when renting is to be responsible for 20 lbs of weed.
What weed?
Put the part about contacting the authorities about 20 lbs at the end, and you have the perfect joke.
What 20 lbs? They just caught a guy with a few ounces on him…
You can still get in trouble for just those few grams in some jurisdictions.
Most jurisdictions will try to tack on intent to distribute if you have over an ounce or two, because they know they can.
10 pounds of weed? What 5 pounds of weed? There’s no 3 pounds of weed here!
What was the conflict–he didn’t want to evict squatters? Or he didn’t know what to do once he found the stash?
I think the moral conflict is to call the police or just keep the stash.
Sprinkle in a little bit of fear of calling the police.
You can’t go and ruin a small local entrepreneur like that.
They’re just buds, and without the proper extraction equipment, there’s not much you can do with it other than make some very weak edibles. I suppose you could also smoke it, but then you’d skunk up the entire neighborhood and not even get high.
10 years ago I would be salivating over this picture, but with legalization being a thing in many parts of the world for so long now, it’s kind of hard to get excited over buds when you’re used to high-terpene concentrates that are easily 5x stronger than flower.
You’re the “I can’t get drunk off of beer” of weed, that’s concerning
My comment was missing a word. Fixed it.
without the proper extraction equipment
All you need is a a proper filter and you can shift the kief out and press it. Can get one from most fabric stores, just right micron size. Now you’ve got traditional hash.
That’s not as effective but arguably simpler equipment than this next one. Pick up acetone and a glass/metal container and bowl (oh and a metal sieve if you’ve not got one, but coffee filters will do as well) from a hardware store. Crush the bud, soak it in acetone, pour the acetone into the bowl and then let it evaporate. That’s oil. With a little tuning, you can make extremely high quality extracts this way.
So idk, you’re probably thinking of some elaborate CO2 extraction systems as “proper extraction equipment” but none of that jazz is necessary for high quality extracts. We’ve been making them for literally a few thousand years by hand, lol. Although making charas is out of the question pretty much with dry weed.
Doesn’t even look that great from the parts you can see and the fact it’s definitely been in those packs for a long time, it’s probably throat scratching med-tier over-dry weed. Meh.
This dude be dropping 8kg dabs by the sounds of it x
Not exactly. 1g of concentrate will last me almost a week. Bud just isn’t that potent unless you’re a Boomer, or someone who really doesn’t smoke weed unless you’re around people who have it. (Commonly known as the “moocher smoker”)
Not to mention that inhaling all that chlorophyll and tar is not good for your lungs, plain and simple. With a proper extract, the only things going into your lungs are terpenes and THC.
Protect your health, and say no to cannabis buds.
I almost exclusively vape, and I am a daily smoker for over 15 years at this point; but every once in a while I smoke a bowl of buds and it still gets me ripped. Sometimes even more than vaping, since there’s a better synergetic effect from smoking the whole plant and not just a concentrate that’s like 80-95% THC.
Plus it smells and tastes better unless they add flavor to the concentrate because the natural taste is affected by the process of making it.
Given what you told me, it seems to me that you’re simply buying shitty oil. I don’t blame you, a lot of cannabis oils suck, especially the 80-95% THC junk. The people producing that shit only care about making the number go up. That’s why buds still wreck your shit; cause they naturally contain the terpenes you’re not getting from your vape.
You need to be pickier with your oil, and only go with full spectrum extracts derived from fresh cannabis. None of that frozen or botanical terp shit. With the right concentrate, you won’t even miss buds.
I specifically get top-shelf live resin. A gram of which can last me 2 weeks, since I only take 1-2 hits a day. A bowl of bud will get me as high, but not last as long. That’s really the only difference I see.
No disrespect but my brother in dank, maybe take a solid T break if u can’t smoke some buds and get high.
That’s what I’m saying. I quit smoking a couple years ago and now when I do I can’t even find weed weak enough to not totally fuck me up.
My comment was missing a word. Fixed it.
Yeah i saw the clarification, everyone’s kinda piling ontop of you and I don’t think u 100% deserve it, I was just trying to offer a bit of outside refection incase u needed it. Sounds like u got it under control lol, but like maybe don’t call people boomers that just enjoy a joint or prefer to smoke. Shit effects everyone differently and different terps hit people people in varying ways based on method. Happy token
I mean unless she wanted to enter the drug trafficking business, there’s not much to do, hide away a few packages and then call the cops
What do you do with so much weed if you can’t sell it? There’s some preservation method? Like weed jam or week pickles?
My dad makes balm for his arthritis
oh, does he apply/rub it on his back or joints ? what kind of effects does this have ? I’ve never heard of it
Joints (fingers, elbows), lower back. Relieves pain and symptoms. Plus it’s just made with coconut oil so you can actually bake with it, lol.
Alright. I might try this, thanks
One thing to note is that when you make it the smell is pungent. Your neighbours will know and your house may smell for a while.
There are many websites with instructions on how to make it.
Make weed butter and leave it in the freezer. Use it to make mind blowing edibles whenever you want. Keeps for about a year.
Huh, I’ve had some for longer and it hasn’t turned yet. I guess I’m lucky (or my freezer is colder or idk)
I haven’t made weed butter, but id imagine it should keep for a really long time if there’s a layer of endistrubed butter on top. Covering stuff in fat is an age old method of preservation.
I make it in the pressure cooker so I’m pretty confident about cooking out the pathogens
Butter kept in the freezer can be kept indefinitely.
Sorta. Anything fatty tends to pick up flavors from the environment. Now, in the cold, those chemical reactions are slowed down, but they’re not stopped. If you leave it there for a while, it’ll pick up off flavors. Still generally safe to eat, but you won’t like it.
Store it in an airtight container and you won’t have that problem.
Make butter and freeze it
That was gonna be my question. So how would you offload it before it goes bad?
Does weed go bad?
Yea the cannibanoids break down in heat and make the high less fun and more zombie/sleepy after a year or two. There is also risk of mold or going too dry depending on storage conditions.
It gets dry and unpleasant to smoke, but the “quality” is actual drug doesn’t really go bad or expire.
It can go moldy, though. Always check your weed with a UV light, especially if it’s not from a legal dispensary, you don’t wanna smoke mold.
I left some weed in the balcony for a month and then tried to smoke it and fucked up my throat and gave me the shittest high I ever had.
Speak for yourself pal
That’s not true. Weed is an organic matter and it decay.
It can last for several years after harvest if preserved properly (jarred for curing and occasionally burped)
Concentrates. Easy and safe ones to make at home are bubble hash or green dragon. One of my friends used to make BHO (butane honey oil), which can be quite dangerous.
like the other person said, concentrates. That’s why concentrates are so big in the cannabis market, fresh flower doesn’t keep very long or sell at the kind of volume that edibles or pens made from concentrates do
Dried flower stays good for a VERY long time. I myself found some forgotten buds in those plastic orbit containers. Was few years old, still tasted and felt like fresh
fresh flower doesn’t keep very long
Properly dried and then shielded from light, heat and moisture, sure it will.
NGL, my boy’s lucky he didn’t get shot, much less disappeared.
People don’t shoot each other over 50lbs of weed like that. Heroin maybe. But at this level, you’re acting more professional
Source: trustmebro
By assuming this is their only site, anyone’d be walking into a world of risk that isn’t worth it. “Squatting” on multiple vacant bldgs is merely the uninformed perspective of the maint. crew that had no idea what agreements’d been in place for however long before they stumbled across them - nor any reason to think different, let’s be honest. The chance that this is not an isolated, unconnected series of sites is non-zero, and the risk to the associated organization is not something I’d wish on pretty much anyone. Be smart. Don’t underestimate the situation — especially in that industry. 🤌🏼
This reminded me of a story that happened when I was still in the Navy.
I was stationed in San Diego and I had a friend who had gotten out and became a sheriff’s deputy, in a nearby city, and he offered to let me do a ride along with him for a the day.
There were a couple of things that happened that changed my opinion of him and cops in general (I am 99% ACAB now though).
Towards the end of the day, someone made a call that someone was smoking meth in a motel room. My friend was called in to assist the cop already there.
We got there and he had me stand back until he waved me in a few minutes later.
I walked up and the OP cop had, what looked like, two skater types sitting on the curb just outside their motel room. Still teenagers.
My friend said he needed me to help toss the room, looking for drugs while the other cop questioned them.
Going into the room, my friend asked the kids to do him a favor and just tell him where the drugs were. They told him it was behind one of the nightstand drawers.
Sure enough it was there (sandwich bag of pot), but my friend said we still needed to search, just in case there really was meth, or something else illegal.
While we searched, I could hear the cop question the kids. They were from a town over and just got paid. They both lived at home and just needed a place to smoke.
In the room was a new skate board deck, some Sonic, and an Xbox with some games. No meth. They were begging for them not to call their parents and I just thought these kids were fucked.
We finished searching and came out, my friend gave the pot to the other cop.
This part is what blew my mind.
My friend looks at the kids and says, “Let me guess. You were both smoking and some guy smelled the pot, knocked on your door and asked to have some and you told him to fuck off?”
At no point did the kids say anything about someone knocking on their door.
The kids looked flabbergasted and stammered, “How did you know?”, to which my friend said that was who probably called in, saying someone was smoking meth.
They then took the handcuffs off and my friend then says, “Next time, don’t answer the door.”
The other cop then GIVES THEM THE POT BACK, and we all walk away.
I was sure those poor kids were fucked and I said as much. My friend then said, "I don’t give a shit about pot. Kids don’t break into Grandma’s house and rob her so they can get money to buy pot.
Yeah, ACAB because the “good” ones don’t stand up to the bad ones, but some do do the right thing, at least sometimes. In this case, arresting them would have created a situation where they’re much worse off, and they end up doing more crime. Meanwhile, they didn’t do any harm and just wanted to hang out peacefully by themselves. Our criminal “justice” system creates more criminals than it removes.
…were the kids white, out of curiosity?
Of course!
Yeah that’s $150k+ right there in a lot of states. These aren’t just hippies skipping rent.
Back in pre-legit days, one could get paid “in product” for a few months’ work, and even at local market rates (~$1.1k/lb) could improve those wages 10x — if you knew how to get it to NYC, etc. (something something goldfish bulk boxes are foil-lined something something overnight shipping something something “holiday” care package cough)
2 hours is enough to watch No Country for Old Men.
Idk dude that’s tough. Less I’d 100% keep, but where I’m at this much weight probably belongs to a cartel or gang, and that sounds like it would be a pretty bad idea, I might have to report it (maybe just keep a little.)
If I know it’s just some grow op of random dudes though (like, if they look like wooks), mine.
Are those all drugs? I thought they were just clothes in those vacuum pack space saver things until I saw the one with weed.
Edit: Oh I guess it’s all weed, just some of the packaging isn’t totally see through.
This is oregano.
Me too, for a second there, I’m thinking, tidiest squatters ever!
