The REAL Reason You Can't Afford a House
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Wall Street is buying up neighborhoods and communities across the U.S. In 2022, big investors bought more than one in every four single family homes sold nationwide. It’s wrecking the housing market, driving up rents, and making it nearly impossible for working people to afford to buy a home.
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Because so many people overpaid for homes even while loan rates were low, I believe there will be a housing catastrophe because these people are in debt. If housing costs continue to drop and, for whatever reason, they can no longer afford the property and it goes into foreclosure, they have no equity since, even if they try to sell, they will not make any money. I believe that many individuals will experience this, especially given the impending mass layoffs and rapidly rising living expenses.
I advise you to invest in stocks to balance out your real estate, Even the worst recessions offer wonderful buying opportunities in the markets if you're cautious. Volatility can also result in excellent short-term buy and sell opportunities. This is not financial advice, but buy now because cash is definitely not king right now!
Soon, cheap homes won't be cheap anymore because prices today will look like dips tomorrow. I think inflation will cause panic until the Fed tightens its grip even more. You can't just pull the band-aid Off half way. Booms and busts are the ups and downs of the economy, and they will affect any investments. If you are at a crossroads or need honest advice on the best steps to take right now, it is best to get counsel from a financial expert.
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I just looked her up on the web and I would say she really has an impressive background in investing. I will write her an email shortly.
As a Canadian, the housing and health care crisis have me so disappointed and frustrated with all of our politicians. They do basically nothing, seeing these major problems develop over years. It's ridiculous.
The best description of the problem I’ve heard is that housing is a federal issue, but housing supply is mostly determined at the municipal and provincial level. So the incentive structure isn’t there to fix it.
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"worse product at higher prices" is the private equity slogan
The only innovation capitalism creates are new ways of screwing over producers, workers and consumers
Hedge funds are even ruining local veterinarian practices. They’ll give a local vet owner like 1 mil upfront, then make all of the vets cram appointments and charge crazy amounts for prescriptions.
Agree 100%
@@danparish1344 Yep, here in Canada they've done all the dentists too.
I like how someone named it "enshittification."
“This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Still as true as ever today.
With all the racism included.
@@boyblue3270 what racism ? victim!!!
That is the third time I have seen this quote today. I wonder how we can get all this information in a broadcast takeover so everyone sees it all. everyone.
I like to use the term "corporate welfare"
Way to miss the point of the quote by not including the whole quote
"The fact that is the everybody in this country lives on welfare. Suburbia was built with federally subsidized credit. And highways that take our white brothers out to the suburbs were built with federally subsidized money to the tune of 90 percent. Everybody is on welfare in this country. The problem is that we all to often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That’s the problem."
Prices are too high. With rates not subsidised in ’24 and mortgage still high , currently seeking alternatives to maximize savings without an RV move or taking a loan. I’m seriously contemplating the latter.
Affording our mortgage is tough as well. I have suggested cashing in, renting or relocating, and investing the rest in the stock market.
If you can afford to relocate, you should manage the mortgage.
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I just looked her up on the web and I would say she really has an impressive background in investing. I will write her an email shortly.
This should be federally illegal 😡
it was, till 2008
China: we told you so
@@Voidroamerfalse. REIT have been around for decades. The 2008 mortgage crash turned Wall Street heads to buying individual homes and bundling them into portfolios that are sold to individual investors, teachers unions and other institutional buyers.
Then who is going to sponsor the corrupt politicians?
Yep. Instead they bailed out the banks and the banks decided to screw the ppl to recoup and pad profits. Or at least, it seems.
Wall Street should not be allowed to do this. I get calls at least once a month from companies asking if I want to sell my house.
I get calls a few times a month and I don’t own a house 😂
I live in Europe and in my building there are sometimes leaflets encouraging selling the apartment. They are being put to every mailbox, for every apartment. The absolutely worst part those 'leaflets' are made to look like they are written by hand, sometimes they suggest, as they were made by some family looking for future home in this 'nice neighbourhood'. Absolutely disgusting...
Well, it is. And sorry to break it to you, but Wall Street makes all the rules in the US and cannot be challenged.
they are probably trying to get the whole neighborhood, then put a wall around it and say that all the houses are now worth 50% more....
@@denelson83go figure. A industry head worth billions getting told what to do by a government official who makes 200k a year. . . Doesn't compute.
It is difficult to make exact projections for the housing market as it is still unclear how quickly or to what degree the Federal Reserve will reduce inflation and borrowing costs without having a substantial negative impact on demand from consumers for anything from houses to cars.
If anything, it'll get worse. Very soon, affordable housing will no longer be affordable. So anything anyone want to do, I will advise they do it now because the prices today will look like dips tomorrow. Until the Fed clamps down even further, I think we're going to see hysteria due to rampant inflation. You can't halfway rip the band-aid off.
The new mortgage rates are crazy, add to that the recession and the fact that mortgage rules are getting more difficult, and home prices will need to fall by a minimum of 40% (more like 50%) before the market normalizes. For now, get your money (as much as you can) out of the housing market and get into the financial markets or gold. If you are at a cross roads or need honest advice on the best moves to take now, it is best to seek an independent advisor who knows about the financial markets.
How can I reach this advisers of yours? because I'm seeking for a more effective investment approach on my savings?
Sharon Ann Meny is the licensed advisor I use. Just search the name. You’d find her webpage and necessary details to work with to set up an appointment.
Thank you for the recommendation. I'll send her an email, and I hope I'm able to reach her.
Greed is not the desire for more, it's the desire for more at the expense of others.
What is mine is mine and what is yours is mine too.
@@kidcoyoteanarchy that's Adobe's ideal business model yes
Exactly! This country needs to start to comprehend this concept before it's too late
True. Mega-scale wealth has changed the very definition & nature of greed....
What is really beyond insane are the oligharchs whose objective is to quite literally own all land used for housing _AND_ all land used for food production, & eliminate all the banks so that only the federal reserve is left standing
_You will own nothing & be happy_ (or else what?)
Arrogance & grandiosity that exceeds the meaning of grandiose itself
This has gone beyond greed. Same families have been wealthy for hundreds of years, they've grown bored of being God. The focus has shifted away from them having more, to you having less.
We need to push for legislation to address this. This is a bipartisan issue. We can get this done.
It IS important. It is not bipartisan.
The ultra-rich are able to push back _orders of magnitude_ harder.
@@denelson83 If we form large enough, not even they can lobby it out.
anything that makes the rich richer is bipartisan piggy bank to be guarded from the masses interference.
@@AwesomeHairo They have ways of dividing, even atomizing, the working class.
And then they wonder why people aren't having kids. If you can't afford a home near a school or just a home in general then why even raise a kid? People associate owning a home and making a family as things that go hand in hand. Lots of people will refuse to start a family unless they have a stable home.
Especially women.
If you live in a red state, you had better hope for some real talented pullouts because after the elections Republicans will be trying to ban contraceptives. If they take power nationally they will make blue states do the same.
Which is the smart way to do it.
Already happening, the birthrates are falling.
Its OK. We can import as many people as we need.
This is where government should have stepped in a long time ago: single family homes are for single families ONLY - NO "investors"!
Oh, they have stepped in, it’s just that many on either side of the fence are profiting by it.
But they did. Reagan took away the restrictions, which is how we got to the "bubble pop" in 2008, followed by the same companies who told Reagan it was a good idea, buying all the properties up.
That is the dumbest shit I have heard today.
They have taken the silver. Now it's time they Take The Lead!
Yeah the government needs to limit the number of all buildings apartment buildings, "single family homes," etc. that any individual or business can own to a low number like 10 or less. Or maybe even 5 or less. I'd prefer the whole concept of "single family home" and especially the draconian "zoning", that's destroying America's young hardworking generations, go the way of the dinosaurs and everything become only and all about HOUSING the population in line with real wages and a genuine functioning housing market that is not controlled by horrible corrupt thieving speculators nimbies banksters and monopolists.
Homeowners selling a home can also catch an attitude and say, we aren’t selling houses to corporations we will only sell our property to families who will keep it.
And renters can avoid leasing homes that are corporate owned
You won’t know this until you move in as the process is run by another company who deeply don’t care.
Homeowners will just sell to whoever can offer the most quickest, and that will be huge companies who have whole teams employed to select new houses and also near infinite funds to do so.
@@LiusilaAnd with a LLC title, are silent partners, hiding owners identity.
Exactly.
It should be illegal for corporations to buy up single family homes, full stop.
End the zoning nonsense then
Agreed
ah but then you would be messing with the sacred cow that is the free market. Basically the arguement goes, that in trying to punish or curtail corporations from buying a property, you are infringing on the said property owners right of free association and right to conduct business with and sell to whoever he wishes to, be it a private individual or corporate entity. In all honesty, there really is no simple solution given your Constitutional Rights, especially since Corporation were granted personhood status in 1886 by the SCOTUS.
They tried this in the Netherlands. I think it ended up lowering housing prices by a small amount, but it made rents get more expensive.
so funny thing, this all happened because of deregulation of the financial industry that lead to the housing bubble in 2008. which directly lead us to our current situation.
How are they not liable? Having to do repairs is nuts.
This is basically an Anthem of why the gov should have bailed out the homeowners and not the banks.
White supremacists.....texas especially. Yall stop acting brand new and these white men will stop walking all over everyone. Or we keep this up and america collapses....
They are liable. Who's gonna sue them?
@@AkaiAzul it should not even be a civil matter.
Not the poor. So more profits can be extracted out of them@@AkaiAzul
but if they did that who would pay them off ?
My children are on their own. They are paying $2000 a month for a one bedroom apartment I hope things will change soon. Americans are getting
Fleeced
😂 have them live at home and bring your family together. Or let them rent till they die.
Americans do nothing but complain and think that will solve issues
They should live with you. Like back in the day. It was normal back then.
@@stevemuzak8526 White American baby boomers despised this. Worst gen ever. Same with older annoying gen x
Same but utilities are included. But it is still too high. It should be 1200 at most.
Corporations shouldn't be allowed to own single family homes in the first place.
It’s almost like that the Feudal System from the Middle Ages is as much as a bad idea now as it was back then. Shocking 😮
I agree. That's what I want, but would any such legislation be constitutional? I don't know the answer.
How should a family afford paying all the taxes, building materials and land, when the government keeps raising its income throug
@@TheswedishDanetaxation is theft and a corporation buying you out of life and land is also theft
@@daveg5857The States are the ones that charter corporations. The best economy would be a free market. In a free market there are no corporations because the government doesn’t charter corporations in a free market.
Property taxes should be escalating based on number of properties owned. Once you get over 2-3, the taxes should be so high that it's not worth buying more
I disagree with number of 2-3 houses, but agree with idea that property taxes should escalate the more property one owns
Yeah it makes perfect sense. and that's why captilists hate it they aren't driven by logic but by want.
A true Capitalist would know this hurts everybody in the long run, anyone defending Capitalism now either has thier head up thier bum or in the sand.
Great, now one mega corp has 10000 LLC's under them each owning 3 homes
I think that’s a great idea
That is one reason I moved out of the US! I am in a small village in a small country in Europe. I have have a duplex to myself and my cat (on a 28000sq.ft land trees all around me, no neighbors. I pay $165.00/month, (started at $50.00/month), $32.00/month for health care, $16.00/month for Internet and about $10.00/ month for an 11KG Propane/Butane container. Electricity is paid by the owner.
My retirement is only $1165.00/month and I save some of it every month!
Tell me you could do that in the US!
which country, which village? Sounds interesting
@@frostykeys4469
Hungary!
Most young people understand and speak English or German.
I only recommend the extreme west side of this country! (and only certain cities.) I get to go to Austria about 3-4 times a week.
Where are you located? I get similar amount for Social Security and I can't afford to live month to month. I am seriously considering leaving the US for somewhere cheaper. I admit that I have no idea how to do that. Please just a little more specificity as to what country or what I can do to investigate this. Thanks 😊
It needs to be illegal for businesses to buy or own homes.
But it's illegal to be homeless....
This!!!
It should also be illegal to buy homes for short-term rentals.
maybe we shouldn't treat homes like a market to speculate on and/or reap profit from, but a thing people need when like... contributing to society or whatever. But what do I know, I just clean windows.
Change the word "buy" to "own." The base unit of the economy is the household.
I make 80k a year. I pay around 1/4 of that on debt. The median cost of a home in my area is 500k. Median rent is $2500 for a two bedroom. Forget buying, I can't even afford to live alone.
Yep. Same here. Finally made it out of poverty only to have 80k become the poverty line. . .
Why would you need two bedrooms to live alone?
@@user-be1bc1nr1k because one bedroom will be to sleep and the other one to study as living room is not for studying that is for watching football and having a beer but you don't see any problem with the pricing or that the vast majority of households are being owned by traders that brought the 2008 boom and then bought them? What a coincidence!!!
@@user-be1bc1nr1k1 bedroom homes are near unheard of and if you’re going to pay that much in interest it better be towards your family home
@@user-be1bc1nr1kyea why not just live in a cardboard box
I predict a housing crash due to people buying homes over asking price, lacking equity if prices decline further. Foreclosure becomes likely if they can't afford the house, and selling won't yield profits. With anticipated layoffs and rising living costs, many individuals may face this situation.
I suggest you offset your real estate and get into stocks, A recession as bad it can be, provides good buying opportunities in the markets if you’re careful and it can also create volatility giving great short time buy and sell opportunities too
You are right! I’ve diversified my portfolio across various market with the aid of an investment coach, I have been able to generate a little bit above $830k in net profit across high dividend yield stocks, ETF and bonds.
Do you mind sharing info on the adviser who assisted you?
“Rebecca Nassar Dunne” is who i work with and she is a hot topic even among financial elitist in California. Just browse, you’d find her, thank me later.
Thanks for sharing, i did a quick search and found her web page, i hope she responds to my mail soon
Single FAMILY homes should only be available to FAMILIES. Not corporations that seek infinite profit off of the suffering of people. Once a corporation owns more than a few houses, raise the taxes on them drastically. How is it allowed for a corporation to own thousands of single family homes?
Should single people not have the right or freedom to have a home?
@@UnknownNev Don't be an idiot. You know very well what he meant.
@@UnknownNev you know what he means, he means that only real people should have homes
I agree. Where is the government - why is housing not regulated? Why is any of this allowed to happen?
(A: Greed.)
First it was predatory lending. Now it's predatory buying.
well stated !
Andrew Cuomo did that in HUD, ask Catherine Austin Fitts
Predatory renting.
Housing should not be a for profit industry. Period.
I read in 2023 44% of single family homes were purchased by investors. This angered the hell out of me. Local and federal government need to step in.
There is no legal recourse for the people anymore. This is late stage capitalism, baby. They just want to make enough money to build a bunker to hide in while the rest of us live through the purge
So stop voting the party of asset-rich corporations (R).
Start by not voting for Trump or Kamala, both lackeys to Blackrock and Blackstone.
@@pjangels609Agreed. I’m voting RFK Jr. so there’s a chance of homes becoming affordable again.
Property taxes should not be assessed to market value. Do you know how high these pricks assess houses every year? 2-10%. Heck off with that.
Near thousand increase in just 1 year 2022-2023 and you guys complain about why RENT is so HIGH? lmfao. Put 2 and 2 together.
Fix your greedy af government first
This is horrific. Thank you for bringing attention to this crushing issue. The failure to regulate capitalism will cause its collapse.
Unsustainable Greed.
capitalism without regulation is just a road to tyranny where one entity owns everything, also known as a kingdom
Capitalism ended a few decades age. This is early stage socialism.
Precisely … citizens and small business regulated to death but large private equity firms do anything they want
@user-zu5do6ri6r nah, in socialist countries, we have laws to regulate this kind of behaviour.
Companies should not be allowed to buy homes.
Hey now, isn’t it lovely knowing that Wall Street always wins. That makes me feel better to know that I have to pay more for everything from housing, gas, prescriptions, meat, internet, cable, streaming services, credit card rates and healthcare.
So happy that I can sacrifice for a couple dozen billionaires. Camel fits through the eye of the needle eventually.
Everything has a tipping point.
all you need to do is invest in those same companies and become a shareholder. That way you know your rent will come back to you in dividends. look up SRET.
Think Smarter. And by this you don't have to worry about the "cost of home ownership".
@@AwesomeHaironot this though. In 2008 even blackrock got a bailout. . .
Silly internet friend, just get a bigger needle! That’s what these people are doing by changing the rules as it applies to them. Then they muddy the waters and people move on because what can you do?
Marie Antoinette joined the chat:
@@WilcoxNotreallythere / No shit?
We gave Wall Street money for failing just so they can resell us homes for more . Great system
It's great if you get be one the owners.
Yep. Turns out that this "superior" nation made of "superior" people is.....not very good who could guess....
@@Praisethesunsonif your a private equity firm. Individuals not so much. People sell homes only to buy a new one that is much smaller, and firms also drive up property values which increase taxes and some people are forced to sell because they can't afford taxes.
#Bigfacts!!!!!!!!!
Who is wallstreet? That's how you know you're stupid. Try to answer that question and see if the same people that got bailed out 16 years ago are the same people who own Amherst (it's not).
If the landlord won’t repair issues, don’t pay rent.
This only gets worse. If you dont own a home now, you will never own a home unless you are given one via inheritance. Greed IS America.
From Day One, greed is America.
So we are just like thecrest of the world now.
that's the exact reason I went ahead and bought a house this year. Freinds and family said I was crazy but I saw the future coming.
@@thanosianthemadtitanic you bought at the top of a housing bubble. Should've waited.
@@user-zu5do6ri6rHave you even traveled? I have the privilege to have travel and worked with people of many other countries, and is not even close. The insane level of materialism. The hunger for more and more money no matter what is definitely not as present in other cultures. We have a great nation, one of the very best, but "enough" is not on our dictionary. We charge for health, we charge for education, and we would charge for oxygen if we could. Oh and we would keep raising the prices on it, to sustain the desire for infinite growth.
America, profit over people. Housing, health insurance the list goes on. All by design
The reason we cannot afford a house:
1. Out of control corrupt government spending devaluing the value of our money and savings.
2. Corrupt hedge funds buying up single family homes in mass.
3. Short term rental markets have expanded and driven prices up massively in tourist heavy markets.
Private individuals are buying up homes and renting them out in mass. BRRRR method. Creating another residential Real-estate crisis
I'm thankfully able to buy land and build my own house.
Property taxes should not be assessed to market value either. Do you know how high these pricks assess houses every year? 2-10%. Heck off with that.
Near thousand increase in just 1 year 2022-2023 and you guys complain about why RENT is so HIGH? lmfao. Put 2 and 2 together.
Fix your greedy af government first
Even that’s costly - including in time. Then there are countries where land ownership is not even an option.
Highly suggest looking into conservation easements and farm tax credits if they are available in your area. A common practice by these companies in my area is to buy surrounding properties above asking to drive up the local prices, then the tax appraiser will come 'round to inform you that the value of your land has tripled and so have your taxes, it's an unfortunate market-forcing tactic that I've seen them use to drive people out.
It's the same in Ireland. Foreign investment funds buying up new housing estates and apartment blocks in bulk to rent out at extortionate prices.
This needs to stop. Housing is a necessity not a commodity.
Yep. Unless we shake the government to actually pass laws that prevent corporations this will keep happening. We need to organise in communities and press for change.
COVID was the largest wealth transfer in history, funds will dry up as carrying costs don't keep up with the revenues.
Read Henry George, support LVT, used to be called the Single-Tax.
All schemes will fail, only LVT can fix this issue at the core.
Please promote this on social so we can amplify the message!!
They have a twitter yo.
Unfortunately the vast majority of Americans - even those affected by this will defend the right to make a business out of everything and charge as much as possible, and will call any one who opposed this a member or believer of one of the "isms".
Why in hell would any private equity or large investors even be allowed legally to BUY SINGLE family homes?! The name alone should exclude all buyers EXCEPT single families!
Remember, the same people who jumped out of windows when stocks were crashing are the same pieces of garbage now playing with your homes, either you take action or you just allow them to keep screwing you over.
It's only going to get worse. The government will run defense for these private equity pirates again and again.
Disgusting a woman spent 25k fixing issues with the house and after she brought it out they want to give her 2k and evict her. She needs to sue the heck out of them and demand full refund. Its not her responsibility to fix the house. These corporations are privatizing the profits and socializing the cost. Also the US allows anyone across the world to buy property here. Countries like Thailand have tough restrictions which is why its affordable there. America needs to learn but our politicians are corrupted.
My gf and I live in an old small house we can barely afford. It has lots of issues that I fix because I can. Lord of the Land says we're on our own. Don't bother him. Don't like it? tough shit, then leave. "The price is under market". We had to pay to have the heater fixed, and an electrical issue. We had to buy a (used) stove, and refrigerator. I have spent a couple hundred hours fixing and upgrading things. If he decides to sell, we are screwed.
@@jamespppyacek342 That is crazy man. Renting a place but need to pay for the repairs as if you own the house. This country need to put in laws to make that illegal. Landlord owns the place so they need to be responsible for repairs.
People complain about big government, but this is the type of situation that a local housing agency exists. Of course if a renter complains, they will get evicted soon after.
She absolutely needs to sue for the $25K to make herself somewhat whole. This is gross.
@easy288 Big government keeps us from dealing with the landlord the propper way.
Back in the day, when I purchased my first home to live-in; that was Miami in the early 1990s, first mortgages with rates of 8 to 9% and 9% to 10% were typical. People will have to accept the possibility that we won't ever return to 3%. If sellers must sell, home prices will have to decline, and lower evaluations will follow. Pretty sure I'm not alone in my chain of thoughts.
If anything, it'll get worse. Very soon, affordable housing will no longer be affordable. So anything anyone want to do, I will advise they do it now because the prices today will look like dips tomorrow. Until the Fed clamps down even further, I think we're going to see hysteria due to rampant inflation. You can't halfway rip the band-aid off.
I will be happy getting assistance and glad to get the help of one, but just how can one spot a reputable one?
She appears to be well-educated and well-read. I ran a Google search for her name and came across her website; thank you for sharing.
You weren't listening at all.
Median household income to median home value ratio was lower in the 90's than it is today; 4.14 in the 90's to 5.6 now. It's not just interest rates, it's also home prices out pacing income.
We have to organize ourselves because our government representatives could give a damn. We are out here fighting massive corporations while simultaneously being told to pull ourselves up by our boot straps. This is a bunch of BS.
I live in Texas and it is bad. Abbott is only in it for himself and he needs to be removed.
Ef them and there bootstraps.
We bailed out wall street from the housing crisis
They took our money and bought all the devalued homes and raised the price to rent the same properties that they caused home owners to default on ?
WTF?
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They are SOCIOPATHS
Occupy Wall Street needs a part two...
Wont happen this year, TBH too much is riding on this election.. like the ability to have a peaceful protest.
But it needs to happen soon
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You just nailed it
And now people are living miserably with multiple roommates, just to gave a roof over their heads...
Now some cities are not allowing more than 3 people to a unit. I swear they want us all homeless!
In 2008 the US basically shut down Wall St from buying/selling/trading/leveraging the mortgages...so here we are in 2023-2024 and they said "F it, we'll just buy all the houses then instead"
Always looking for ways around laws.
They still allow them to buy mortgage backed securities. They just call them by a different name - CLOs. Nothing has changed.
The moment people decided that basic shelter is a form of long-term investment and not just, well, shelter, is the moment home ownership become an unattainable luxury as opposed to a basic human right. We build these highly speculative financial games on top of the existing real estate economy that let us profit from the housing market doing hot OR when it crashes, and it’s not clear why. Why shouldn’t shelter be exempt from these machinations? Can’t the gamblers of society be content with stocks, crypto, and other meaningless shit like NFTs? This isn’t even capitalism, it’s some form of financialization of the actual economy…
Renting for a living is just an elaborate feudal wealth extraction scheme. A bank will refuse you a mortgage if you don’t have a down payment, but you could be paying the same amount as a mortgage in rent. Doesn’t that beg the question why you’re not just paying a mortgage? Why must I shell out half my wages every month to a landlord and be left owning nothing at the end of it? It’s one of the oldest ways the poor stay poor.
There’s no reason that a home should be anything more than four walls and a roof, and cost the same amount that it cost to build it. Even land is abundant… Just look at the humongous stretch of uninhabited land between any US cities. The housing crisis is a result of artificial scarcity.
Its not just hedge funds, its airbnb/vrno, the lack of new construction, and the lack of blue collar workers able to build new houses.
Plus cost of zoning, land, hooking up utilities, and inflated materials cost. I sell roofs for a living and the cost of roofing materials has gone up 20% this year. That's a real inflation rate that unfortunately we had to pass along to the customer....
@@rorycolganYes but in you case Sir you are doing what have to do in order to keep your business afloat. The problem is that we now have either small time house flippers or "entrepreneurs" as they call themselves or big corporations like the ones listed on the video, who do nothing or barely anything to the properties and "flip" them for insane prices. Unlike you, they don't lift a finger, plus they don't feel bad or have a conscience and are completely ok with forcing millions of hard working Americans to either ruin their lives by paying insane prices for properties or become permanent renters for incredibly high rates as well.
They are building new homes here like crazy, supposed to help out the housing crisis but they all are 500,000 or higher. That's way to high
Oh ya and houses are built like crap
@nickolasdugginsjr7523 same here, can't go 5 miles in any direction without a new subdivision, apartment complex or warehouse being built. The "new houses" are made of the thinest, flimsiest materials they can find. Even if someone bought one it's not designed to outlast it's mortgage, they'd likely have to refinance around the 20ish year mark for remodeling. Also they're selling people the house but they never said anything about the tiny shred of land it sits on.
I've been working fulltime for 18 years and I cannot afford to live on my own, let alone own a home...
The American dream!
Good for you
As someone who fled the red state of Florida recently after 27 years, I can attest to this. I lived in Tampa Bay, where there has been a housing crisis for years. These corporations swoop in and buy any and everything desirable for cash. In some areas they own most of the neighborhood. Of course, Florida being the regressive, corporate wh_re of a state that it is, nothing is done to provide taxpayers with any relief. The state likes to promote statistics reflecting those moving TO Florida, but the numbers of Floridians moving OUT of the state, due to unaffordable housing costs, is conveniently ignored. If the Democrats really want to ensure a win in this November’s presidential elections (because we know Republicans don’t give a flying *), Kamala Harris would make addressing this crisis a pillar of her platform, because this debilitating, and wholly preventable crisis, is being experienced nationwide to one degree or another.
I don't think the elite would want to address or really bring up any real issue, cause they would have to give up on their income from the companies their families are running.
The third party candidate rfk jr is making it a pillar of his platform. he would be good to vote for.
@@tulip5210 I think NOT
I am sooooooooo tired of this fuckn country. I am so exhausted at all the challenges we MUST hurdle JUST TO SURVIVE. something MUST change
@@mattdelany6799 Explain how the OP is entitled, please.
@@mattdelany6799 Hmm, you are correct as far as legal doctrine goes. From a moral, humanitarian standpoint I argue housing is a right. I sincerely hope I never get sick and struggle to pay my mortgage/rent. I hope you don't either.
@@mattdelany6799 lmfao
@@mattdelany6799"All problems are personal, never question the power in place, be a good little soldier".
Maybe Americans should stop voting Republican't and Devilcrat, that sell out to lobbyists and corporations.
I say it's high time we change American corporate laws. Here is a message from history ..."I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed"... Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Happening now.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there are no primary sources of Lincoln saying that. There are plenty of presidents who rightfully criticized corporations (The Roosevelts come to mind.), but Lincoln himself barely dealt with business.
corporate greed, plain and simple.....
Corporations have too many rights and no responsibility
Let's start with the government being restricted by the Constitution and then go from there.
All thanks to the Republicans
@@carnivorous_vegan Let's not turn this into the false dichotomy of left vs right. People made bad decisions, now we have to deal with the repercussions and find a way to solve it.
@@mpclepto182 I agree, but the problem is Republicans don't want to deal with repercussions or find solutions. They have consistently shown this.
It is fine for a business to buy a home, but they should be allowed to go bankrupt if they make poor decisions….no bailouts unless the average person gets a similar bailout.
Subscription services are also renting. So remember that signing a contract is just a lease and debt is basically modern morgaging
It's funny you mention subscriptions... we're losing the concept of ownership. It's pay to play with everything from movies, to features your car already has, but you have to pay to use. It's only going to get weirder...
@@voodooladyink6869 well wanna use my phd in philosophy the humans body is a subscription. you gotta pay to feed water and entertain it on a day weekly and monthly base
@voodooladyink6869 the end of the world as we know it is coming, and fast, add more technology and AI as well to the subscription mentality
It seems like billionaires are always the bad guys, because they are.
An employer who refuses to employ an unemployed breadwinner is guilty of attempted MURDER.
These are socialist talking points. They never get down to the real reasons. Between NIBY’s, agreeable people, immigration, 2008 crash, less marriages, foreign buyers, inflation, and then Wall Street as being the reason for the cost of housing. I don’t like people being manipulating into believing the rich is the only reason they are poor.
Anyone who "needs" a billion dollars is always a bad person. You don't want for that much without there being something fundamentally wrong with you (yes, that includes you, person reading this comment who dreams of being a billionaire)
@@kaijuultimax9407 So if you own a company and it increases in value to a billion dollars, you magically become a bad person? Why is a billion dollars the magic number and does this number have to be liquid or just net worth?
@@NitroscionI have worked closely with many wealthy people in my day, and I can say without a singular doubt that the vast majority of them are sadists and sociopaths. Not ALL, but most. And those were just millionaires. OP is right.
My problem isn't the fact that home prices are inflated by 3-500%. It's the fact that absolutely NO ONE is doing a damn thing about it. I can't stand watching the news and hearing about how the economy is improving.
Yeah, right. The economy is SO amazing I'll never be able to afford a home. Even if I could afford a home, I would end up being house poor. It's obscene and absolutely infuriating.
Economy/home buying have nothing to do with each other. The economy is the GPD, stock market and jobs reports. You and I are not involved in a good economy report. A good economic report means the rich are getting richer. No one gaf about working class.
I have said this. That apartments and houses are not rented homes but more like a storage unit for humans with limitations on how many guests you can have and when if you can have pets or kids. Even how many guests you may have and how often. That's not a home. It's a storage unit for humans
For instance charging for visitors parking, which was free when we first moved in 2014 in Ontario, Canada
This shouldn't be allowed to exist
The house I grew-up in was $160,000 in 2009. Now the price is $490,000
Not to mention how rent increased from $600/month to $1300.
Some people are just shameless. When they take opportunities away from people. In the name of money or pride.
Landlords live off their occupants labor. They provide nothing while they leach from society. Shelter is a human necessity. They’ve capitalized and captured this necessity for their personal gain.
Exactly. Renting used to be a mean for a "secondary" revenue source. Now landlords and house flippers are an insanely profitable "career" they can be as lazy and greedy as they can be and constantly be rewarded for it
Landlords supply accomodation in exchange for money. Just like so many many many many other transactions in the world. Money in exchange for goods or services.
Why is accomodation a human right? (A "right" is anything humans allow to freely happen)? And what standard of accomodation is acceptable? Who decides that standard? We don't A L L want the same standard. We don't A L L need the same standard. Over time our wants and needs change. Some people don't know what they want or need. Etc etc etc...
Precisely. It’s incredible how so many Americans miss the forest for the trees on this topic. Enslavement of others is the end that unaffordable house prices are the means to.
Goes hand in hand with their nature, to leach from the society that they inhabit.
This has happened in the past 5 years. The government needs to do something about this
They did. They are all in it
I watched it all happen while I was in college. Lobbying is one hell of a drug. I work in banking, Zillow and these other companies that meddle with pricing and market research are the biggest issue. Redfin would use their estimates to devalue, then purchase, overvalue, and sell homes. This type of corporate house flipping should be illegal.
@@whatevsimbulletproofyup, both aides
@@trvst5938 that's horrible, absolutely horrible.
You may have missed the part in the video where one side IS trying to do something about it. The other side is doing everything they can to stymie those efforts. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans (and a good fraction of the commenters here) continue to believe that this is GOOD for them and don't want the government to do something about it.
My grandmother lives in a starter home neighborhood from the 50s. The older people living there have been, for years, being forced out of their homes because taxes keep rising on them. When taxes rise, the corporate homebuyers come knocking, literally, door to door and buy up the neighborhood. My family and I moved in with my grandmother recently just so she wasn't forced to sell. Everything else around her is now rentals that are deteriorating yet somehow the property value on her house keeps climbing according to the town. It's sad.
Glad someone is finally talking about this. I have seen this personally legislation needs to be placed to stop it from happening.
I thought I would be slick and I purchased a mobile home... 3 years later a corporation bought out the mobile home park... My rent has increased from the day of purchase... The day they signed the contract my rent went up $75... Every two years since it has gone up an additional $50. Living on a fixed income they are pricing me out of my home... They are such nice people that they will seize my mobile home within 30 days of delinquent payment and impounded... It cost over $5,000 to move the trailer and an additional 2000 to set it up. Bamboozled
smh I saw a guy buy his own land to build a trailer on and the state tried to take that from him too over some bullcrap bureaucratic hoopla
My sister-in-law on a fixed income got evicted from her mobile home because she didn't pay her rent on time. The owner had the sheriff block her from going back into her home, and took control of her property. She couldn't move her home because it was too old and wouldn't have survived being moved. The owner is from Australia; she lives in Montana. The whole thing really pisses me off. It's ruined her life in many ways.
@@bossanova88 pisses me off also
Omg. They can seize your home within 30 days of late payment?! 30 days?! 30 days is one bad flu, pneumonia, a short hospital stay, then recovery at home. So you get pneumonia once in your life and you lose your home and all of its contents. 30 days is criminal.
Get a roommate to cover the rent. Save every penny toward land.
It's sad how difficult things have become in this recessive economy. I was wondering how to utilize some money I had. I used some of it for e-commerce business, but that sank. I'm thinking of how to protect my $150K-worth stock portfolio from decline, but haven't figured which way to go.
Very difficult indeed, but when the going gets tough, the tough gets going. You have to learn and handle finances properly. you should hire a CFP to help you diversify your assets to include ETFs/index funds/mutual funds and stocks of companies with consistent cash flows. Don't go for penny stocks.
Opting for a brokerage Adviser is currently the optimal approach for navigating the market, particularly for those nearing retirement. I've been consulting with a coach for a while, and my portfolio has surged by 300% since 2022
How can one participate in this? I sincerely aspire to establish a secure financial future and I'm eager to see it come to fruition. Who is the driving force behind your success?
Jessica Lee Horst is a hot topic even among the finance elite in America. She's just a search away(on the net)
I just curiously looked her up on the web and I would say she really has an impressive background in investing. I will write her an email shortly.
Capping rent increases is great, but it doesn't stop landlords from issuing no fault evictions and jacking the rent up well beyond %5. When will the madness end?
Capping rent increases is a duct tape over the gaping line break pouring out raw sewage. The monopolies need to be destroyed
First you cap rent increases, then you focus on unjust evictions. Like everything else, it's going to be a process of clawing back power from the ultra wealthy.
Price caps do not work lmao
And then requiring you to live with nonstop problems costing you even more money like roof problems and bad insulation then requiring you to work as their personal landscaper and exterminator.
Here in Canada we have rental caps, if I am not mistaken in my home Province, the max a landlord be they private individuals or corporations can raise you annual rent is 3.5%, so if you are paying C$2000 per month for a one year lease, they can only raise it by C$70 per month to C$2070. It should be noted that the cap was raised from 1.5% in 2023 to 3.5% in 2024, a 2% increase.
However, there have been some rather distrubing developments within the rental markets in Canada. Firstly there is an ongoing and cronic shortage of rental units right across the country, causing the cost of rents to skyrocket to where many working people are having a hard time covering their rents despite working full time. This has also lead to corporations snapping up rental housing, either single family homes or apartments from independent owners and basically cornering the market.
I mentioned that annual rent increases in Canada are capped, which mean meaning rental unit that are occupied by long term tenets are often paying well below market prices. The rental corporation of course want to get ride of these tenets so they can rent out their units to a person who will pay more money. But in order to evict these long term tenets, they need a just cause.
And this is where the recent renoviction craze comes in. Landlords can evict a tenet in order "renovate and update" their rental unit without having to allow said tenet back in at the same old rental rate. Once these "renovationos and updates" are completed, the landlord is now free to rent out the unit for whatever the market will bare.
And those "renovations and updates" can be as simple as slapping on a fresh coat of paint or just installing a new towel rail in the bathroom. Not sure what the answer is to be honest, but it does appear that renter in both the US and Canada are getting royally screwed over.
Fantastic video! I have incurred so much losses trading on my own....I trade well on demo but I think the real market is manipulated.... Can anyone help me out or at least tell me what I'm doing wrong??
Same here, My portfolio has been going down the drain while I try trading,l just don't know what I do wrong. .
Investing with an expert is the best strategy for beginners and busy investors, as most failures and losses in investment usually happen when you invest without proper guidance. I'm speaking from experience.
Wow, I'm surprised to see Janet mentioned here as well. I didn't know she had been kind to so many people
I'm also a huge beneficiary of her..
I thought myself and my family were
the only ones enjoying Janet
trade benefits
Though I started with as low as $15,000
actually because it was my first time and it was successful, she's a great personality in the state
Don’t forget that 40,000,000 people came in through our boarder in the last few years. Those people need homes to buy/rent. This created a huge swell in competition for a finite resource.
This actually has a very simple legal/political solution - a complete ban on companies/firms owning houses. They shouldn't be allowed to buy family houses or even land where those houses stand (uless they are marked for demolition when I guess it would make sense for a company to buy that land but I think it should also come with multiple asterixes). It would help SOOO much and makes a lot of sense.
Especially after we bailed them out in 2008. Stop corporate welfare, NOW!
You could ban, but lots of smaller landlords and multi-unit buildings are run as LLCs or corporations. A limit on how many residences a corporation can own just creates a shitload of shell companies. Actual business structure really isn't the issue, landlords personally owning a shitload of properties in a town is similarly problematic. It's just too profitable at larger scales, and we have a very simple tool - taxes. First home, property tax is normal. Second home, 5% higher, 3rd 15% and so on until you get to like 15th home and there's no way they can afford to hang onto the property and are forced to sell.
idk. I'm not an expert, but I'm glad this issue is being addressed because it's goddamn horrific.
@@jeromevorndran2124 don't overcomplicate things - I didn't say a "limit on how many residences a corp can own". I said a COMPLETE ban. They shouldn't even own one. Only a person should be able to buy a house. And if we want to limit the power of individual landlors, then we can discuss limits for how many houses a person can own. I think more than two is already too many for one person and should be banned as well. This would not fix the issue completely as landlords with large families would be able to buy houses under the names of their spouses/children, but with a limit of two, it would still help a lot and such legislation would force a lot of cheap sell outs of homes immediately after its effect.
@@LelekPLNyall seem to br forgetting the only real issue is demand lol, unironically build more housing and end shitty ass zoning
Every day i wonder what the last straw will be
Honestly I think it came a decade ago. We have no course of action.
Most Americans are complacent, media, video games, and social media keep people diluted from coordinating against the control
THIS ! this IS the last straw 🤔😤😠
no
One that renders life sufficiently unbearable for a large enough proportion of Americans that they deem the worst-case consequences of a bloody revolt (e.g., prison or death) preferable to the status quo.
Not only did these people take in PPP loans, the Federal Reserve also lowered interest rates to zero. So even though the rest of us were getting 3% interest rate mortgages a few years ago, these hedge funds were getting them at 1% interest. Sickening.
The fact that these companies r “targeting” certain groups of people; “white or black, affluent or poor” so they dont compete w/ each other, has to be breaking federal “equal opportunity for housing” laws. Whether ur a seller or landlord, there r discrimination laws which also include for service animals. Hope ironic that wall street can skirt around these laws. A federal lawsuit should be the next step as more and more people r becoming homeless bc of them.
Corporations shouldn't have any rights at all
Sorry, but since 1886, Corporations in the US have been granted personhood status by the SCOTUS, though challenged numberous times, each time that status has been upheld. There for Corporation are granted the full range of rights and freedoms as any individual US citizen.
Maybe everyone should just stop paying anything. Imagine if everyone just said, “Im done.”
Corporations should be required to pay taxes.
@@gumpyoldbugger6944 that's causing too many problems. Corporations never do the right thing.
@Jason-ml3vs corporations would start acknowledging where are the money comes from
I am a RE investor and I can tell you for a fact corporate buyers are not the problem, it's just inventory. Cash talks but it only takes you so far. Owner occupants Superman powers compared to someone like me, I have to buy it under market value otherwise it doesn't make money you do not have that same burden. Not to mention you have access to wildly cheaper financing.The problems are Inventory, zoning and not in my backyard people.
I bought a trailer and moved to a trailer park because rents are ridiculous and buying is a pipe dream. But now, even trailer park plots are skyrocketing as people looking for alternative housing flood the market and increase demand. The cost of my plot has increased by $250 over two years. And there aren't really any protections because its a nebulous field somewhere between a tenancy and a recreational rental.
I looked into this until I saw that plot rents near me were $750+!
How about the two privately owned home on my block that the owners won’t rent or sell that sit vacant. One for the entire 17 years I’ve lived at my home. The world is in its final rotation before it goes down the toilet bowl
Probably because individuals have what's known as property rights. As long as you don't break laws or local ordnances while doing so and pay the higher taxes generally associated with owning multiple properties, you can do with them whatever you wish.
Obviously my point soared over your head like a plane. Most people are self centered fucks, why do you think there is a housing crisis!?!?
In the Netherlands there are laws requiring that you have any home you own be occupied and if it sits empty beyond a certain period you pay much higher taxes on it, and eventually can lose ownership of it. Houses are meant to be lived in, and if you're sitting on it waiting to use it as a financial token while working class people can't afford to live, then i can't say what should happen on this platform.
Another problem with houses standing empty is that they are seldom maintained and lose value, sometimes 100% of their value. That is a loss to society. So that law in the Netherlands makes sense. Yes, you can leave a house standing empty, but if you are rich enough to do that, I guess you are rich enough to pay extra tax on it!
they legally stole the American Dream from us but will let us rent it back for a 20% margin.
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“We value money not people” well said
My family has been inadequately housed in an rv for 4 years now. Weve been waiting for an affordable home but every time an affordable home coomes available, an investment firm buys the houses. We are running out of time. The rv is breaking down little by little. We need interest rates cut and we need to be able to compete somehow. All i can do is pray to God.
Single family homes also use up a lot of our taxes for public infrastructure to set up and maintain the neighbourhoods.
These are the ones that need to be put in jail not the homeless they create.
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Real shit. One guy owns 30 houses in my neighborhood. I live in Plano Texas. The owner is from California and has never set foot in the city 😒
that is horrible.
Thank you for focusing on this!! It’s a widespread problem. It’s happening worldwide.
I am pleased to be moving out of this country and back to the country I was born, Spain. The corporate greed and corruption in this country has escalated in the last twenty-five years, the private equity firms are killing this country and the middle class.
Actually it started 45 years ago. This all started under Nixon and then Reagan completely sealed the middle class fate.
@@J.A.Z-TheMortal Absolutely I concur.
You are not the only person I know, American or Canadian, who has permanently left to Spain.
I feel this trend has ruined my neighborhood, our spineless HOA has allowed more than half the homes to be purchased by non residents, it has been devastating to watch the decline of a 25 year old neighborhood being turned into a ghetto since 2008...
Thanks for this, even if it does make me so furious that I'll have to go watch an hour of cute animal videos just to take bag my brain from this fog of rage
I thank the posters that post cute cat videos. Love Chase, Tommy and Walter Santi. Wish I owned all those cats.
I'm forgetting Waltito. How could I forget him ?? He's ones of my favorites. Tommy, Chase and Waltito ❤❤❤❤
@@djg5950 Thank you citizen! 💛🤍
I recommend puppies. Fat, roley-poley puppies. This is rough, and it effects just about everyone. Puppies.
@@voodooladyink6869 babies and fluffy dogs always helps
private property shall not be owned by corporate companies. redistribute homes and wealth
They are running out of convenience based businesses…now it’s time to take over essentials to life which is BS
I've always wanted the US to live up to its promotional materials and it's so hard to see how our country could last much longer under these policies.
Thanks you for this journalism. Also, very appreciative for the work of Taylor and Jessica.
The only people who have any business owning single family homes are those who are living in them. Houses are not a commodity to be traded on the stock market, they are for housing people.
Houses have gone up 200-300% in the last 3 years where i live.
Yeah they have about doubled in price, and home insurance is harder to get/more expensive.
Companies should not be allowed to own or rent single family homes
except for maybe a single SFH for filming, training and similar purposes
Add VRBO and Airbnb investors to the list as well. Every home sold in my neighborhood has been turned into a short term rental. These corporations need to pay higher taxes and sales tax just like a hotel/motel does.
I hope these investors lose their asses for destroying the American dream.
My bet, even worse is that these corporations will be unable to maintain these houses. American houses are easily damaged due to being built of non-durable materials. Drywall, fiberglass insulation, wood, don't stand up to water damage. So this can eventually yield an expensive to repair housing stock people won't be able to buy and then have to repair.
However, this may also be a way to deconstruct the suburbs by creating the opportunity to broadly redesign and rebuild communities with integrated commercial, residential, and office building within walking or easy biking distance.
It's an ill wind that blows no good.
That sounds likely, private companies preparing for a more dystopian look when the population growth is absurd and everything is commercialized and privately owned.
>It's an ill wind that blows no good.
It's a horrendously bad-smelling fart.
Most places don't allow anything other than low density single family homes, so wall street might just replace run down homes with new single family homes built as cheaply as possible. Sure, they won't last forever, but they'll definitely last till the end of the quarter, which is all that counts.
Riiiight, let’s build more humanoid-packed hellholes with constant noise pollution, crime and other urban virtues.
These multi-unit boxes built from same material so you can hear your neighbors farting three floors away. What a nice way to spend the life.
Corporations should not be allowed to buy existing properties. As that does not improve the housing shortage.
If the govt caps private equity firms at 100 home limit they'll just create a bunch of smaller companies and still snatch up all the homes they want.
Level the playing field!
Thanks to the 2008 crisis and the solution caused this problem. When the homes were re-sold after the foreclosures they were sold in 100 unit blocks Only corporate America could’ve bought them
Are sellers able to know who is buying their house? Can they tell the realtor not to sell to a corporation?