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(10,885 posts)The house that holds my apartment was bought from a private owner by a corporate landlord about 18 months ago, and it hasn't been the same since. It's not just single-family homes being affected. Rents go up; services go down.
PortTack
(32,760 posts)Values down too.
dchill
(38,474 posts)Samrob
(4,298 posts)Nictuku
(3,606 posts)My mom lives with me, but she has a rental house in Memphis. We get at least 5 calls a day asking to buy it. We have never had it listed. We wonder where they are even getting our phone number. It wouldn't be so bad if we were not also receiving 5 or so scammer calls a day as well.
txwhitedove
(3,928 posts)texts, postcards, letters and email. Highly invasive and annoying. Put my name on the Do Not Call List but hasn't worked so far. I think they get phone # off tax records. I checked those when buying my own home 13 years ago and saw owner with phone #.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I live near there & was getting a ton a calls on my modest 3BR brick home. I started telling them, "sure, I'll sell. $500k, 'as-is', FIRM."
The calls finally stopped. No idea how they get my phone #!
I'll be damned if I'll contribute to screwing people!
MzRappy
(13 posts)Great idea telling those corporations a really jacked-up price. Im gonna use that to make them stop! Thank you!
iemanja
(53,031 posts)When they call. I tell them I want an amount that is twice the market value. One guy asked, "Is it in that great of shape." I said no, but you're trying to buy a home that I don't want to sell. These people are relentless. They are always hassling me to sell.
live love laugh
(13,101 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Nictuku
(3,606 posts)I'm going to start using that now too! Great idea. And if they want to give us that amount, then we will take it!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Each time they start sputtering, "But, but..." as I hang up.
exboyfil
(17,862 posts)with higher homestead exemptions.
Also the housing stock needs to get expanded, and this needs to go hand in hand with better mass transit options. Another thing that can be done is make the base cost associated with building a house lower relative to the total cost. In a sense this would be subsidizing smaller homes at the expense of larger homes. For example it costs about the same to put in sewer and gas service whether it is a small house or a large house.
Initech
(100,068 posts)sunflowerseed
(273 posts)And the renters are keeping the lawn up. We have an inherited home that the taxes were behind and the city kept sending overgrown lawn notices. We also get those calls, nice guys always willing to buy the place for one dollar and fifty cents.
Bucky
(53,998 posts)The people who build the homes and sell the properties are providing homes. They're just swooping in with heavy buying power and then making a profit as an unnecessary middle man.
This is specifically anti-competitive pricing activity and needs to be regulated... ideally regulated out of existence.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He really rubbed me the wrong way. What he is doing really rubs me the wrong way.
live love laugh
(13,101 posts)2naSalit
(86,577 posts)Press their fingertips together the way he does, it's a tell that what they are saying is BS and they know it but don't respect the person(s) to whom they lie.
onethatcares
(16,167 posts)and listening to a worm whine about "heavy competition" turns my stomach.
As said upthread, "Keep current on your taxes" and if you have an HOA abide by those rules and show up at the meetings.